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.
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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
Why I use KeyPass instead of entrusting everything to a 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.
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.
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?
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.
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
To me it isn’t pretty, just kitsch.
So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?
Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.
Always has been. 🌍🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
And hoo boy, you should see the bearded influencer chuds pushing this slopfest.
Like NetworkChuck.
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.
It also has a few native apps now.
Which are slop.
morals should stay out of software,the ability to use the software to do anything is one of the benefits of open source licenses even if the creator doesn’t approve of using it to bombpesky former land occupiers.
Make a fork.
“popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”
I’ve literally never heard of it.
Oh well if you’ve never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?
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
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.
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.
But could you recreate it with $30mil and AI‽
/s
Touche.
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…
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
But seriously what is the actual reason for the donation
Per @GreenBeard@lemmy.ca’s comment
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.
Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a “mission-driven” position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says “the scale and growth of [Omarchy’s] use among our customers is significant - Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users."
I didn’t know Omarchy existed until, like, yesterday, so this is surprising. Do 1Password users just tend not to use Linux, so second place isn’t many users?
Probably because Omarchy is preinstalling 1password.
Isn’t that a commercial product for which great open source alternatives exist? What kind of distro does that?
And don’t they also preinstall Basecamp, DHH’s own company’s product?
Maybe it’s all just a vehicle for product placement.
I feel like this has to be made up, downstream repack distros almost never show up on the top 10 usage stats. You will always see Ubuntu way ahead of Kubuntu.
Not to mention 1Password is a pretty popular enterprise app and I have yet to see some insane sysadmin actually roll with arch as their distro of choice. Most are probably on RHEL or some other enterprise derivative.
It’s probably not made up because 1Password is pre-installed and bound to a hotkey in Omarchy. Linux users making informed decisions about what to use for password management probably don’t pick 1Password most of the time due to its terrible security record.
Terrible security record?
Of the items listed in your link, only the second one seems problematic, in that I wish they had discovered the (non-password but still privacy related) issues first. Even that section acknowledges all of the issues are fixed. The only section that makes it sound like there is still a problem is the last one, which states that version X still contains the vulnerabilities, but in reality that’s just how versions work. Patching a vulnerability creates a new version.
Is there ANY record of passwords being leaked from 1password because of their own lack of security??
That piece of information seems like key context. 1Password didn’t just give money simply because they like the product. More or less, it’s product placement in return for funding.
I’m on the fence if that’s better or worse.
Ah didn’t realize it came preinstalled lol.
spoiler
Prepackaged “superior” arch distro and the best they could come up with was 1Password? seriously lol?
1Password is the best they could come up with when “best” is measured in dollars contributed.
lol what. 1Password literally has one of the best security records out there. They’re the ones actually inventing new more secure ways of doing things. The fact that those are all of the issues over the years and they’re one of the most popular pw managers on the planet is pretty indicative of how strong their security actually is. And they’ve never had a password breach, unlike lastpass.
They are nonfree.
I said somewhere else that giving money to a distro won’t even have an ROI, but I didn’t know about this. If the distro is promoting their product that’s a whole other thing.
I haven’t checked but I would guess that 1password comes pre-installed in Oligarchy and they’re counting every user that loads the client as a “user.”
I’m so glad I switched to Bitwarden. Even without the whole extreme-right angle, the distro, that I’ve never heard of before today, seems like total slop.
Yeah but Bitwarden is forkable
There is also Vaultwarden which is basically a drop in for Bitwarden
I must be confusing vaultwarden with another bitwarden compatible thing and thought this is the one I have to host a server myself.
Probably better that I do that tbh
Its not even a distro. Its arch with dotfiles. Literally.
No repos, no custom packages, etc. Just arch with sloppy dotfiles.
They have repos now, but nothing in them is too advanced, and they absolutely do not deserve the money. GNU/Linux Mint offers THREE great desktop experiences, which are not kitsch slop (even if you don’t like them, they’re very high-quality) and have a much smaller budget.
