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- daytonah@lemmy.mlEnglish1 month
Why don’t they give to Linux Foundation? Or Debian/void or other projects…
- anhydrous@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
So pissed; just found out about this Saturday, so I spent Saturday evening checking out the VPS providers, and Sunday moving everything over, re-importing data, dealing with DNS caching delays, etc. I had other plans this weekend. I was a fan of DO, even have DOCN shares, which I’m going to dump.
Well, at least, if everything works out with OVH, I’ll have double the RAM and be paying less than half of DO.
- droopy4096@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
From reading about Omarchy and community reactions it sounds like DHH is a successful grifter, milking money from corps with pictures of agentic promised land. HOWEVER grift will go bust at some point: does anyone remember SaaSpocalipse that did not materialize,along with numerous articles from people with degrees pointing out that there’s no data supporting claim that AI is actually making money for it’s peddlers or consumers. AI grifts will continue until “market” will finally acknowledge it for what it is (it’s just a new shiny tool, no more) and all the myths go bust and investors will want their money back. So - yes money got “stolen” from actual OSS projects that keep world’s lights on, yes vibecoding has not been proven to scale or endure multiple decades like Debian, Gentoo, Fedora etc. so it’ll collapse from technical standpoint, but it WILL collapse unless DHH will start applying those grants towards hiring engineers. Token money are not worth paper they are printed on so everybody just chill and let this trainwreck go off the cliff on it’s own. Shame DO got into it though… but for all the major cloud platforms who isn’t supporting fascism? What differs is the scale.
- sturlabragason@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Lemmy is gonna love that the whole thing is vibe coded
https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-secures-tokens-from-leading-labs/
- Sunkblake@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I’m out of the loop, what’s going on? Why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?
2 monthsBesides DHH being problematic. It’s really weird that a vibe-coded OS that is
less thanabout a year old is getting millions of dollars of funding while other critical FLOSS software is constantly underfunded.
- kablez@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Honestly that may be the entire point of this. The right wingers are trying to carve out their own corner in the world of FOSS. Understandable given the spirit of open source is literally the antithesis of what they believe in, however they also can’t ignore it now cause it’s vital infrastructure.
- deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish2 months
Okay I’m seeing further chicanery. Their GitHub repo gives the license as MIT but many of the components are not Omarchy originals but derivatives of other products under different licences. Quickshell is LGPL 3, for example, and of course the Linux kernel is GPL 2.
But then there’s a guy working on the “Omarchy Kernel”, which I guess is a derivative like Ubuntu does…
Personalities aside this is still weird, and I wish people would focus on that.
- deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish2 months
The nix package(?) system, sure, but the eponymous OS of course has parts under a diversity of licenses, including a GPL kernel.
What I don’t get/trust if how Omarchy just slaps an MIT label on its GitHub even when I can see software in there that I know use different licenses.
- deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish2 months
I am not an Omarchy or DHH hater but…why? It’s Arch with Hyperland, why are people fawning over it? Is it just because he keeps saying “agentic”?
I’m agentic too, how about throwing me a million bucks?
It’s not about being a “hater” or not. DHH is basically a white supremacist and it should be basic human decency to oppose that
- deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish2 months
Most of the people going on about him take a lot of umbrage with his racist ideology, but all he seems to do with it is blog. If there are more material concerns (like with Proton) then I’m not seeing them be raised.
- abc@suppo.fiEnglish2 months
People who have raised money before are better at raising money. Not that I fully understand why they throw so much at this project. But I don’t also quite understand why some projects get billions just like that.
- justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 months
networking plays a big roll in such things. the more connections you have, the more possibilities. in my job that is normal as well ( not for donations, but it’s important to get a job)
- justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 months
that makes me want to set up a DO account just so i can delete it!
- potatopeeler@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
There goes my weekend migrating off of DO. I should have left sooner but supporting this crap is lighting a fire under me.
- erayerdin@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
im not very knowledgeable about the current situation. can you enlighten me? why the sudden surge on digitalocean hate?
- abc@suppo.fiEnglish2 months
Left-of-center people hate DHH and by extension everything he does and everyone he networks with because “he’s a fascist”.
- Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish1 month
Maayyyyybe because he is?
I mean, if far-left radicals call someone a fascist, that’s debatable. But everyone left of center? Maaaaaybe they’re onto something here?
- Pika@hikki.teamEnglish2 months
Precisely because of what is described in the post.
Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.
He doesn’t have “questionable” political views, unless you consider open xenophobia and fascism no more than questionable. He went beyond questionable a while ago and into being truly unpleasant and promoting harmful ideas.
- nullptr@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
but why? its a shitty distro made by an amateur. there are real who needs support
