1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
Archive: https://archive.is/osNh3
“popular distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
Whatever it is, it’s a stupid name, it sounds kinda like an STD.
PSA please stop using Archive.Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance.
Your link is broken btw
I’ll just copy-paste the first paragraph in case you or anyone else can’t open it:
The English Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today and its related websites. This decision was agreed on after a request for comment with more than 200 participants concluded in February 2026, and is due to multiple concerns, including the site using editors’ and readers’ computers to run a denial-of-service attack and evidence that the website has tampered with some archived pages.
And the story on the DoS script itself:
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
???
For some reason it’s including the period at the end as part of the link, which breaks it.
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Aw man, I use them because they’re Canadian but fuck them, I guess. I wonder how hard it is to switch to another password manager. I’m especially concerned with how passkeys work.
Very easy. You should be able to export your passwords as .csv and import it into a new manager.
This should help: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes/passwords
Yay, thanks!
I already wasn’t gonna use either, but now I’m not gonna use either even harder.
1Password says “Our contribution is made to the Omacom Foundation, not to an individual” but there are many instances of their VP of product praising DHH https://x.com/jmeller/status/1971530423030387081 https://x.com/jmeller/status/2094132068342964671
How the fuck is Omarchy “popular”? I’ve been on Linux going on a decade, give or take, and I first knew about it when someone here in Lemmy mentioned that Dell and some other shit companies were proton a few millions on it.
It’s popular to a lot of the non Foss tech job devs that want to try Linux after mostly using macOS for Dev work. It comes with keybinds they are familiar woth has a pretty UI by default and is arch base. They probably work for companies that are also right wing so it’s something they don’t care about as much as people in alignment with the Foss ideology.
Compared to today’s mask off fascism in the states the guy behind Omarchy is pretty tame and probably less mask off evil than the people they work for
And is being promoted by other fascists - Lex Fridman - and youtube sloppers like Primeagen. All channels highly consumed by non-techs or techs that follow the hype
To me it isn’t pretty, just kitsch.
Why I use KeyPass – which is FOSS – instead of entrusting everything to a privately-run paid website which can turn against everyone at anytime.
edit: to that wiseacre below, do you think it’s better to go back to passwords in a notepad? 🤣
It’s funny you don’t think that could happen to them too. Such confidence.
1Password is a paid service. The money given to for the service can go to organizations the user doesn’t agree with.
KeePass is free.
How is it the same?
You know keepass is a local keystore, right? There is no “them”.
Unless you’re the one literally writing the program. It is being developed by other people who at any point in time could have issues. Just saying not saying they do now but it can certainly happen.
You think if the developer bails out, the software will magically disappear from everywhere, leaving you with no way of recovery whatsoever?
Let’s say they decide to pull the plug. Everything you have that’s already running will keep running. Code can be forked (in fact with keepass, it already happened). Data can be exported after the fact. Other software can actually open keepass database file.
You really don’t see the difference between this and “the server stopped sending you your own data, oops”?
Well you better not use any software ever then, never know what ‘can certainly happen’. Get a grip.
Its GPL licensed, there’ll be a dozen different forks before you know it.
there’ll be a dozen different forks before you know it.
Aren’t there already?
The passwords are saved into a vault file. You can choose a different software that is capable of opening the vault. I use keepassXC for example. there’s some variety of programs that can open this filetype, on many different platforms.
You can fork it
You don’t auto update it, and you store the keys locally, and if you need passwords on a device you use a VPN to access them, I’m not to concerned about updating my manager I’m more concerned about my VPN 😂
But I get what your saying.
They distrust anyone to keep their passwords except to write their own program to manage theirs, or happen to take blind pride in supposed eidetic memory.
So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?
Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.
Lex Fridman, The Primeagen and friends are also to blame
Always has been. 🌍🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
And hoo boy, you should see the bearded influencer chuds pushing this slopfest.
Like NetworkChuck.
“popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”
I’ve literally never heard of it.
It’s yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.
The fact that it’s being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.
I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol
Oh well if you’ve never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?
yeah this is like a bunch of other internet things where I kinda hate it even seeing it. for me its not a thing of interest.
Popular for Linux, not popular for Marvel movies.
Still not convinced it’s very popular.
I’ve seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There’s definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.
It’s just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that’s been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they’re familiar with Arch.
It’s not even a fork or an actual distribution or anything. It’s just Arch Linux with a bunch of dotfiles made using AI and some pre-installed packages.
But could you recreate it with $30mil and AI‽
/s
Touche.
Wasn’t Omarchy literally just a couple of dotfiles for Arch and a easy Installer?
It is currently more than that, and it even has its own repos/mirrors, but the fact that basically every rich person is throwing money at this project should be a huge warning sign to everyone to avoid this.
But at the end of the day, it’s nothing revolutionary. It’s customized Linux with a tiling window manager, all funded by billionaires and developed by a turbo racist.
Except for the very last part (I hope…), it’s the case of most “funky crazy distro” out there.
It also has a few native apps now.
“Beautiful, fun and agentic linux” I bet they vibe coded all of them lol, this is a HUGE red flag
Which are slop.
Why does this shit distro deserve all this funding and support? There’s many better options doing a lot more for the ecosystem yet this gets the attention. It’s don’t understand.
Very seldom is something funded that “deserves” it. The answer is that its’ creator (DHH) is very wealthy and connected.
It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.
to fix issues and errors
and create more issues and errors, like executing USB device names as root.
it’s the circle of slop
Look! There’s a lion! Oh my god!
But seriously what is the actual reason for the donation
Per @GreenBeard@lemmy.ca’s comment
They aren’t just racist, They also hate the poors and basically anyone that isn’t them.
I agree, but I suggest you direct your replies directly to the source comment. I’m just the messenger here.
Billionaires like racists?
I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.
This is what I think it is.
1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.
Except… ya just did. Big 'ol cashy money endorsement.
Or did you forget about that already? Because we didn’t.
Art / artist.
Youtube has been feeding me Omarchy video lately, it seems like every single one I tried to watch brought up using Grok. I don’t know anything about Omarchy, but it was enough to give me the feeling something wasn’t right.
But there is something right. The far right.
I’ll see myself out
It’s Arch Linux by and for white supremacists.
I don’t understand all the hype for Omarchy. It’s not really that groundbreaking or awesome.
AFAIK it’s just Arch with Hyprland and some configs. Don’t get the hype at all…
