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Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#131

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I thought he was referring to his "London that I used to know" posts, wasn't aware he'd been at it again.

"When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces you deport them" is how his last post ends. It's not even a dogwhistle anymore.

It's disappointing more than anything, I never agreed with him on everything but he was at least somewhat interesting/relevant to listen to at the peak of the RoR days and mostly harmless.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#132
post #39

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Is it? What's the statement?

That OSS has become too entangled with political activism and ideological gatekeeping, when it should be about making great software, giving people control over their computers, and rediscovering the joy of computing. I don't think Omarchy is anti-political so much as an attempt to revive the enthusiast/hacker ethos of the OSS community.

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Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#134

“Full of security holes" - and two examples in the article have been swiftly addressed, ignoring that there is a whole dedicated security team https://omarchy.org/teams/ What kind of blogging is this?

> What kind of blogging is this?

Happy to explain: it's personal blogging, for writing down what's on my mind.

The fact that it was addressed swiftly doesn't affect the claims in the post at all: I'm worried about development practices which produce code like that.

Also, the "full of security holes" is not my framing, someone else choose this submission title.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#135

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I would characterize them as "links." As opposed to a discussion of security holes.

I think I would argue that linking to the security problem(s) and then writing about their style and how they probably came to be counts as discussion, but to each their own.

I didn't know security holes had a "style." I suppose their style is "literal Nazi" judging by this thread.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#136

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Care to elaborate on "fascist agitator" or are you just going to smear a person with a truly serious epithet without anything to back it up?

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Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#137

The two linked issues are for the same bug report. A friend has been urging me to install Omarchy for months. I’ve finally caved in after a horrible experience with highly-praised CachyOS. All I can say is, I understand the hype. It works. The install is uncomplicated, no selecting from five legacy bootloaders, choosing versions or selecting a window manager. The tiled window manager works pretty much how I already u…

Isn't Omarchy very, very similar to cachyos?

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#138
post #10

I'm somewhat out of the loop, and it's not really mentioned in the article, but what's with Omarchy getting this crazy amount of financial support from this list of fairly prominent individuals? Until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it, then what I did hear is that it's being made by a very... uhh, eccentric(?) individual, and now it's suddenly got a crazy amount of funding. What am I missing?

It is going to be marketed to the AI bros. Possibly to Shopify customers as an "advanced AI distro" to create shops with. The openclaw guy just sponsored Omarchy.

It's a vibe coding distro, so of course there is no security to begin with.

DHH is also on the Slopify board, so AI is mandatory.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#139
post #27

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DHH effect. He has a very strong following, and there's a certain amount of trust/prestige attached to his name in the tech/startup world. For a lot of these people, DHH building something is probably enough to get them interested and willing to throw money at it.

I wonder if that will change now he's gone from edgy opinions that rile up woke people (e.g. immigration is too high in the UK) to actually advocating ethnic cleansing (not the murdery kind but still...). https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so... I think that crosses a line for even normal politically centrist (by European standards at least).

His rhetoric has crossed into the murdery kind, actually:

> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.

You don't get to make this contrast and pretend you didn't. The only way his rhetoric could be more clear is if he bought a gun and shot them himself.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

#140

Yo, why is my blog post title editorialised? It should've said "Merchants of Insecurity". Rude!

No offense but your title is not informative at all.

It wasn't supposed to be, I found it amusing. Also, the current title is not what I wanted people to take away from the post.
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