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Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by grey-area »

rfgplk wrote: post #33
Hugsbox wrote: 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's a shame because DHH seems to be going fully agentic (or at least that's his public stance), so no idea why he isn't rolling a proper distro. Looking at his repo it's just pure shell scripts (why?) and using prebuilt software. He could have rolled a custom renderer + pipeline + other software needed to make a distro work (ie a modern KDE).

Yes he could have, if agents were capable of it. Why didn’t he? Why didn’t you?

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by nisegami »

rvz wrote: post #49
Retr0id wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a political statement disguised as a FOSS project (which itself is fine, all software is political). The funders are not funding the development of a Linux distro, they are co-signing the political statement.

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>So a "hello world" program is now political?

There's an implicit political statement in being able to write a simple one line hello world program and run it, using free software and information. Consider the counterfactual world where to even begin programming you have to pay for certification and training or specialized equipment/software. I know paid compilers, proprietary languages and closed specifications exist, but we can still just save print('hello world') to a file and run it using python which is freely available, or even better we can open devtools in our browser and jump into the console and run console.log('hello world') without even installing anything.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by ricardobeat »

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 use Mac. I like the terminal-focused system tools. Installing software is easy and lightning-fast.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by IshKebab »

vends wrote: post #27
Hugsbox wrote: 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 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).

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by pessimizer »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #34
pessimizer wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> doesn't talk about security holes at all Literally the first sentence in the post has links to two security holes lol

That's not talking about security holes, that's linking to talk about security holes lol

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by embedding-shape »

illithid0 wrote: post #48
ngcazz wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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?

I'm guessing taking a stance like the one below kind of does put you in the direction of more hardline perspectives:

> You have to act. You have to protect the sheep. Standing idly by while your livestock is devoured by predators or your neighborhood is taken over by migrants is a pathetic abdication of any functioning society's most basic duty to its citizens.

> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by well_ackshually »

noir_lord wrote: post #75
petesergeant wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OP could well be referring to DHH's recent blog post comparing Roma in Copenhagen to a predatory species that needed to be culled.

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.

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by HumansEatHumans »

Hugsbox wrote: 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?

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Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by tao_oat »

brightball wrote: post #78
noir_lord wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Among some, for others (including me) him been attached to it is very much a counter signal.

Why? I watched all of the supposed controversies around him happen in real time and they were all non stories. “Hey, you can be political on social media but don’t bring it into our work chats. We are here to do a job. If that is a problem, here’s a generous 6 month severance package.” That was what politically blew him up and he was unwilling to apologize for a completely reasonable take. Now he’s giving his time an…

You're skipping his recent blog posts; I think that's where the bulk of people's complaints come from. See for example https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

Re: Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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Post by MSFT_Edging »

brightball wrote: post #43
Hugsbox wrote: 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’s a really strong UX that’s rapidly improving without a profit motive and people are excited about it. Closest thing to the “it just works” experience that Mac was always known for and it runs great on older hardware. Even goes so far as to optimize the install time down to about 1 minute. I was running i3 when an Ubuntu update borked my entire setup so I made the switch. The difference is night and day in the lev…

Are all the updates still handled by clobbering bash scripts?

Last time I looked into it, the technical approach was equivalent to throwing a bunch of things at a gas fire. It's just a pre-configured arch install that introduces a metric ton of tech debt.

It's a slop-linux with a racism-linux hat on.

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