Just gonna shamelessly leave these two paragraphs out of the website of my own distro here.
seema like concentrated effort to steer linux desktop in a certain direction
Not gonna happen with torvalds at the wheel (pun intended)
But once the penguin caretaker goes to another userland, then who knows?
I hate the phrase “X$ in compute” so much. What does that even mean? It could mean a 1.5 million dollar value worth of donated time on one of their servers, or it could mean a hardware donation, or it could be a cash donation that is earmarked for server upgrades/chip purchases. Ever since AI took off it’s become such a common turn of phrase to use “compute” like this. As if the amount of money spent tells you anything useful about the amount of things they can “compute” now. Costs are so variable and spread out across many different areas that it changes day by day, and by which vendor you use, or what part of the world you are in, or all kinds of other things.
Maybe I’m just behind the times and it has some specific meaning now I’m not aware of. Either way it annoys me.
How much compute does dot-files actually need…? /shrug
Its almost as if DHH and those transphobes over at Hyprland(not to mention Lunduke, Luke Smith, Distrotube, and the various cadre of right wing little bissh boys on YouTube) all forgot about Linus Torvalds.
As far as I’m concerned Linux is for the left. But heck when an ideology like fascism is born out of grifting off left wing ideology (i.e. See Mussolini’s socialist/anarchist father), the right can just appropriate whatever they want…but they’ll still always be little bissh boys to me.
Probably the coolest comment Linus ever made
Based af
Sounds like he may be a socially progressive liberal.
He’s not american, so no.
wouldn’t even go that far, the examples he mentioned are pretty uncontroversial at this point
isn’t it SpaceXSI now 🤣
That confirms it, Omarchy is the official operating system of bigots.
Always has been
*fascists
fucking called it when the first batch of millions started rolling in. not that it was too difficult to see. disappointing to see many open source folks being like “who cares?”, which is just the head-in-sand reaction i’m used to encountering when talking about fascist politics with locals. it seems to me that the users who are ready to welcome large amounts of institutional capital into open source projects don’t understand that it comes with strings attached. maybe they think more money = more eye candy = growing userbase = better video game support on linux? idk, hate to see fascism creep into every aspect of my personal interests
Let’s check the Venn diagram…
God fucking damit, so many open source projects struggle for money and yet, that fascist jackass’ dot file distro gets all the support. That’s maddening…
Considering where the support is coming from… Are you surprised?
Nazis doing Nazi things.
Seriously though… I wouldn’t want fascists’ money anywhere near my pet distros, regardless of volume. As they say: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.”
It’s money laundering. Thats all.
Because of course it would.
I swear the move to replace the GNU ecosystem with Rust tooling has more to do with a corporate EEE push to remove all libre licensing than with memory safety or anything else.
I swear the move to replace the GNU ecosystem with Rust tooling has more to do with a corporate EEE push to remove all libre licensing than with memory safety or anything else.
Nailed it here, imo
Suddenly it makes sense
Which is very frustrating, because retiring C & C++ is long overdue IMO, but for reasons unknown to me, the Rust community is strongly against copyleft licensing.
Remember when under biden they passed this memory safety thingy? Which it implicitly, discreetly advocated for the use of rust nonetheless
Rust might be a psyop hahaha
Always has been
$1.5 million in compute = actual expense for Elmo is zero as Elmo’s datacenter is massively overprovisioned and is currently leasing compute to all their competitors
But of course Elmo needs to send a message to the world: “please avoid this distro”
There’s obviously history here that I have missed. Can someone tell me about this distro and what makes it controversial?
Some Nazi nut took arch and made it worse by adding exploits like “any user process can escalate to root” or “web app notifications can execute any binary”
Somehow the other Nazis are loving this mess and he’s getting millions in sponsorships from companies that want to be boycotted
In fact it is surprisingly unimpressive on a technical level. An Arch-based Linux distribution with the Hyprland tiling window manager. That’s it. The developer has grovelled to Musk and friends leading to rivers of gold flowing in. It’s everything that’s wrong with the US and tech billionaire oligarch class in general.
Someone took Arch added some packages & configs and is now making $$$$
Actually, it’s also the someone that makes the distro controversial. (Spoiler: poorly veiled bigotry in link.)
“Hey, Omarchy! Uninstall Omarchy.”
