Time to find a new VPS host.
There goes my weekend migrating off of DO. I should have left sooner but supporting this crap is lighting a fire under me.
im not very knowledgeable about the current situation. can you enlighten me? why the sudden surge on digitalocean hate?
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.
perpetuating arch on society is the biggest crime
but also the racism and white supremacy
Left-of-center people hate DHH and by extension everything he does and everyone he networks with because “he’s a fascist”.
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?
You guys! You guys! I heard of this computer program named Wayland and there’s this Linux dis-trib-u-tion of it with a sick vampire-looking intro screen. AI! AI YOU GUYS! The same AI that makes flyers for my youtube tech channel. Use it too so we can collectively change the world.
You know Albert the artist?
Omacom Foundation launches with $18.5 million
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly available and fundamentally change how people relate to their computers for the first time in what seems like forever.
To do just that, I’m incorporating the Omacom Foundation to ensure that this mission is fully funded, durable, and ready to accelerate.
This nonprofit foundation will hold the trademarks, fund the infrastructure, promote the work, and support the open-source projects and developers Omarchy depends on.
These twelve Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:
- Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
- Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
- Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
- Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
- Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
- Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
- Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
- Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
- Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
- Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
- Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
- Yours truly
These Founding Corporate Patrons are each contributing $1 million a year for three years or $1.5 million in tokens, with renewal by mutual agreement:
- DigitalOcean
- Meta Superintelligence Labs
It’s like a condensed list of the shittiest of tech people, Sans Google
yeah, google have two OSes they’re already holding people captive on.
I can’t even get to a boot screen on a family member’s chromebook to see if I can replace it with a different OS to ChromeOS. Android is getting demolished as we speak too.
If that many evil people/corpos are involved, run as fast as you can the other direction.
Give me community-based distros like Debian, Arch, Mint, etc. I like my Linux democratic, anti-corpo, and inclusive.
Multiple people mentioned there are on the Epstein list. They probably misheard “kitty exploit” as “kiddy exploit”.
For anyone who is struggling to figure out how to delete their DigitalOcean account (it’s not obvious):
- In Account Settings, delete all of your teams
- This redirected me to a different setting page with an option to deactivate my account
- Click Deactivate Account
- Select the checkbox to purge your account data
- Confirm that you’d like to deactivate and purge your account
- (Optional but recommended) Fill out the exit survey and tell them that they’re supporting a neo-Nazi
5 - Thanks for your input casually puts paper in bin, it was great having you…
- In Account Settings, delete all of your teams
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
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.
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.
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)
wtf is even happening
arch people can’t catch a break it’s tragic
Shame. I liked digital ocean
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Bye Felicia.
But why? Why is everybody funding this piece of shit? Besides being shit politically it’s also shit technically. I don’t get it.
Have you seen GoPros stock price in the 30 days?
I’m so lost. What does GoPro stock have to do with Omarchy and DO?
GoPro was kinda washed… They had huge success early but they thoroughly over-saturated their own market and then stagnated in the face of competition. Maybe about a week ago announced they were now an AI/datacenter company…
Point is, if you slap an AI label on just about anything someone out there will give you money
Oh it’s like that shoe company declaring they are an AI company.
A youtuber with a large following bought a substantial share in GoPro. I think it is is a comment on how immature stans are subservient to their para-social relationships and throw their money at men they idealise instead of working to improve themselves. Comparing Markiplier with DHH is really unfair to Markiplier but its all the same weak minded exploitable herd behaviour. It doesn’t matter if you are a preacher, politician, con artist, influencer or OF model - manipulating fools seems to be part of the human condition.
@statelesz @selfhosted @bretton.dev
You just explain why…Guy who made a popular thing once announces revolution in efficiency, looks impressive on the surface but is just desktop riding for the uninitiated.
I’m more flabbergasted
how littlewhat you have to do to get 3 millionEDIT: Changing this up as I’m sure a lot of people work hard on this thing and perhaps more did before this guy outed himself as a douche
Did you mean ricing?
Well, you see, it’s somehow using AI and it’s run by a dick.
What’s not to love about it?
Temu Elon?
It’s not about the software. It’s about creating a far right pipeline. Like they did with gamers and anime. Billionaires pay for users.
This makes users try Omarchy. Users learn about the author and move to a different Linux distribution. All good?
I like the positivity!
I am just trying to understand where the problem is. To me it looks like a way to lure Windows users to Linux. Yes, we all have different opinions but that is exactly what all Linux distros are for. Since Omarchy is open source I don’t see a big problem. It is not backed by Google or someone else so there is no monopol here that cant be won.
I just see it as a experiment, showcase, of what can be done and what people actually want. That other distributions can copy and take the good parts from.
Why don’t they give to Linux Foundation? Or Debian/void or other projects…
Sooo, are the tech bros just oozing over from the AI bubble (not enough empty promises available anymore?) or is that a symptom for their realization, that the current scam might get busted in the foreseeable future and they want to get in on the next Blockchain / AI / metaverse schmutz, to keep leeching in VC / tax money?
I will get some popcorn…
Seems like everything is being run over by fascists these days.
“Fascism in your technology is inevitable”
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.
Did you not get the mail about them having built in grok?
