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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

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You’re deliberately bringing up irrelevant minimal counter examples in bad faith.

Then you should be able to say where the political statement in omarchy resides, and what it is

It's right there, it's the guy who started it and can't help but share his politics unprompted

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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See links further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448069

Nothing in that linked comment points to where DHH specifically takes a stand against the "freedom to exist."

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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"Freedom to compute" cannot be separated from "Freedom to exist" as it explicitly depends on it. The authors of Omarchy pay lip service to the former while taking a stance against the latter.

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Literally any post on his personal blog in the past few years, for a start.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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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.

"Freedom to compute" cannot be separated from "Freedom to exist" as it explicitly depends on it. The authors of Omarchy pay lip service to the former while taking a stance against the latter.

No, it is definitely possible to make great software without inserting messaging on irrelevant issues into it. Whatever the quality of Omarchy, DHH is right about parts of the free software world becoming entangled worth various irrelevant causes.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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He literally calls openly for the ethnic cleansing of undesirable populations from Europe. Just read his blog. There's no subtlety or nuance.

You're using the word "literally" very liberally here. Sending migrants back to their home countries is not ethnically cleansing.

> Sending migrants back to their home countries is not ethnically cleansing

About that.... Yeah...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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post #132

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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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He's not a "massive racist," but I guess if you repeat it enough of becomes true to you.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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omarchy is the new "i use arch, btw". I'm too altruistic (or dumb) to understand why you would pump money into a riced arch install. In some way I feel people just try to buy into "street cred" on the other hand omarchy could be a great launchpad for a distro that is customizable, easy enough to use and may provide a great MDM solution at some point.

What mean rice in this context ?

It's a verb, "to rice" means to deeply customize your system to suite your needs and/or preferences. Install a desktop environment, setup it however you like it, add panels with system information, etc etc.

The more h4xx0r-like and minimalistic, the more street cred you get.

See https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn (or https://reddit.com/r/unixporn without an account).

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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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?

1. To help linux take over desktop (vs macOS and windows)

2. As an apolitical refuge, since contributors like DHH and Tobi Lütke [along with possibly the silent majority], want to focus on commonalities (love of hacking and computing) rather than the things that drive us apart (political views)

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Thank you, this is exactly my experience with reporting on Omarchy. There is a small vocal group that is very determined to pull politics into it somehow, but to most (a more silent, big majority) this is not even known. I.e., when Omarchy is reported on in my country (on local blogs) nobody ever replies with anything political, it's just about the tech. But in some circles this is very different, somehow.

> There is a small vocal group that is very determined to pull politics into it somehow I'd suggest you go look at DHH's own account, own tweets and then delete this embarrassing comment.

Do you have examples? With Nitter and Xcancel down I can't even access twitter anymore, and it's not my habit to looking into the political views of developers. I don't really care. I liked FOSS because it was apolitical. Imagine Linus taking a political stance against all parties he doesn't agree with that use Linux. Imho this obsession with people's politics just has to stop. Omarchy. NixOS, LLMs. All interesting tech, and then a lot of shouting parties around it, sometimes both sides call each other nazis. I try to ignore them.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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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?

DHH is a massive racist who thinks immigrants are diluting the national character of the UK. DHH himself is danish and hasn’t been to the UK in like 10 years. Maybe he should look in the mirror sometime
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