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Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by jasonvorhe »

bigyabai wrote: post #132
jasonvorhe wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keep in mind that this is a blog post by someone who obviously doesn't like dhh very much, going so far as to prime everyone into reading exactly what he wants them to read instead of just linking to his posts. Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I would never publish something like this on community infrastructure that I'm contributing to. Shameful.

> Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I don't really get that impression. A lot of DHH's blogposts are simply delusion, and have no bearing on reality whatsoever. Posts like his Calling someone a "nazi" is a permission slip for violence is simply untrue no matter who you are or where you live. Discrediting that type of opinion doesn't require you to disagree at all,…

I don't know man, when I lived in a rather big city, I saw lots of stickers everywhere inciting violence towards Nazis, the people I used to hang around with adopted that lingo over the years and just scrolling through Mastodon I see a lot of foamy mouths whenever some masked dude attacks someone they perceive to be a nazi. Another example is some "nobody " (as in not some influencer or something) whom I don't know personally but he probably didn't throw a stone into his own window after he was interviewed in some live stream about his critical views on migration at a public protest. You have a lot of crazy people on all sides and the more you devalue certain terminology until it applies to a broad spectrum of people, it becomes a way to dehumanize them in the eyes of a certain group and all it needs for violence to erupt is one loose canon in a mental health crisis.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by whalesalad »

heymaikol wrote: post #74

I came to Omarchy from Arch. The value for me is that the whole keyboard-first environment comes assembled as one simple system instead of being a weekend of choosing and wiring together individual pieces. Omarchy is interesting because it treats the defaults themselves as the product.

the rails way™

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by jasonvorhe »

huslage wrote: post #143
jasonvorhe wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's a cheap, why hasn't someone else done this at this consistency? Where are the other distros easily applying a theme to basically everything on your system for example? It ships a custom theme builder Aether, Quickshell to build desktop ui elements, a new launcher and its own cli.

Your straw man is rather weak. Would you like to try again? This isn't a distro. Distros build software, maintain packages, fix bugs, support kernel versions. The $8m would have been better spent on giving it to Arch directly than this grifty pretty face.

Talking a out the definition of a Linux distro is like debating whether or not to say GNU/Linux. If that's what you're into, more power to you. Not into that myself.

I'd appreciated them becoming regular supporters to Arch via donations though. Hope that'll happen.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by jasonvorhe »

fnoef wrote: post #135
jasonvorhe wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keep in mind that this is a blog post by someone who obviously doesn't like dhh very much, going so far as to prime everyone into reading exactly what he wants them to read instead of just linking to his posts. Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I would never publish something like this on community infrastructure that I'm contributing to. Shameful.

Yeah, it's not like fully agree with the guy or the fact that he posted it, but it is kind of stupid to call this piece of writing "shameful" while trying to defend someone who bring andrew tate as a positive example to convey his message. At least be fair and label both as shameful.

Nah, if you're fine with people getting debanked for having opinions you disagree with, that's shameful.

DHH on Andrew Tate btw:

> You don't have to like any of Andrew Tate's takes on men, women, wealth, or the world to see that this modern, coordinated unperson campaign against his "wicked words" is crazy. It's also likely to be counterproductive. I'd literally never heard of Andrew Tate until he got banned. Now he's everywhere, and has a credible martyr role to drape his spiel in.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by ilikehurdles »

xavdid wrote: post #69

I would not personally sign onto (or put money) behind a DHH-run project because of his frankly abhorrent political views: - https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-i... - https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...

But you do. You're a tech lead at Stripe and your CEO is a founding contributor to this foundation. This is what you fund with your labor.

And if you weren't afraid of people coming to their own conclusion about DHH you could just link to his blog[1] rather than some literal marxist's opinions about his blog. Why not be intellectually honest and curious enough to state what someone says and point out what you disagree with directly rather than mimetically echo someone else's outrage?

[1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh

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Post by Striving7340 »

throwawaypath wrote: post #137
Striving7340 wrote: post #136

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Lol, so you went from "this guy is a pedo" to "this guy is loosely associated with something that's associated with something else that a felon volunteers on"

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that guy is a debian developer first and foremost from reading his contributions that ends up volunteering to do other projects releases to ease up debian. He was/is hired by ubuntu to maintain packages on the desktop.

So according to you, all debian developers and contributions are pedos. Take your meds.

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by slig »

bastawhiz wrote: post #63

I have a really hard time getting excited by this. I'm a Hey customer, and it's one of my biggest regrets. DHH promises a lot, then gets sidetracked with killing DEI or spending years migrating off AWS (for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any) or bending over backwards to have a framework to avoid front end frameworks or whatever the hot new flavor of the month is. Meanwhile, my Android app email c…

>for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any

Did you really expect them to decrease the prices of the subscriptions given the massive amount of money they had to pay upfront for all that nvme storage?

Re: Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

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Post by JamesSwift »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #120
huslage wrote: post #7

"what the malleable computer of the future looks like" ??? Excuse me? This is just a linux shell script repository. What is the point of having $8m to maintain a shell script?

If it's a cheap, why hasn't someone else done this at this consistency? Where are the other distros easily applying a theme to basically everything on your system for example? It ships a custom theme builder Aether, Quickshell to build desktop ui elements, a new launcher and its own cli.

I assure you there are legions of nixos users doing similar things but getting fully custom configs on the other end
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