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
I’ve emailed their customer service explaining why I’ll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.
As bad as the “Nazi bar” problem seems to be in FOSS at the moment, it is definitely heartening to consistently see how immediate and overwhelming the pushback has been. I think it says a lot about the community, and it’s a good thing.
I never expected a mid hyprland preconfig to be tied to a person with Nazi views and cause this much issues.
I wouldn’t have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.
Controversy? Never.
Sick thing is, you can say the most outrageous shit, and since you have a direct pipeline to billions of people online, you’ll always find some fumb ducks to pay you.
Welcome to the post-MLM economy! You don’t even influence people, you just say what they want to hear, and they’ll influence others for you! Jesus christ.
popular? among who?
never heard of it.
“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.
makes me think of Orchi *perhaps NSFW depending on your workplace
I know about omarchy and seen that guy interviewed a couple of times. How the fuck am I just now aware he is a nazi? He seemed egotistical for sure, and his contribution to open source is … basically his personal dotfiles? I think that this shit was still completely devoid of extermination of minorities manifestos and hatespeech. But seriously how do you know if someone wants to kill refugees? why doesn’t he say so in the interviews or in the source code so we can know? This is fucked up. A faschist idea would be to keep a list. But omg, if you want to exterminate children that fled from war, please just say so in your dotfiles! Idk why this bothers me so… I really do care if my config was made by a hateful hand even if it doesn’t show
I partially blame people with big audiences that keep hyping him up and platforming him. Primeagen interviewed him on YouTube and was worshipping him the entire video. Embarrassing display.
Completely agreed. Unfortunately he was also the “Ruby on Rails” guy, so for a long time he had serious developer cred. It is really sad to see.
It’s like one of the founders of Mullvad VPN (very very rich OG Swedish hacker from way back when) came out as supporting a serious right wing nationalist party in Sweden a couple months back, he paid them like $500K to make sure they stayed in politics and won.
They are the best VPN, but I’m not coming back once my subscription expires.
What is even happening? Are we seeing something like a return to lead poisoning, but there some chemical in our environment that’s rotting people’s brains the same way but we don’t know about it just like we didn’t know about lead at first?
It’s the corrosive force of capital
We have too many people gaining power divorced from consequences
My mullvad account has only 15 days left, but i already switch to windscribe vpn. Did my research so far so good… https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships#vpn-company-relationships
All right windscribe.
Thing is with Mullvad is that I know for a fact that they don’t keep logs. The cops raided their place twice and they learned after that that there’s no point. They let them in and do whatever they wanted- they knew they wouldn’t find anything.
That type of trust is hard to come by.
Fuck nazis man, they infect the best of us. Such a copout. I suppose it’s something about… They get sentimental in their old years and remember a country that is no longer there- I feel that shit too, but I don’t get caught up in nationalist cosplay and LARP parties about it, shit changes, we need to fight for it without being fucking nazis. There’s a middle road here I feel.
Sorry, I just got rambling, didn’t mean to, but damn.
Nah no rant at all. I’m with you, feels like running away from nazis, ai slop, enshittification… Now days.
It’s overwhelming and keeps me up at night.
I’m more than prepared to fight it. Just awaiting orders.
Meh I’m being dramatic. Sort of. I fight, we all fight.
What is that quote, under tyranny every democratic act is an act of rebellion? I paraphrase.
PSA please stop using Archive.Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
I vaguely remember hearing about that, but when I searched the community to see what other people use the first link I found was archive.is. Replacing that archive doesn’t really seem to have taken off.
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/
alr thanks
???
For some reason it’s including the period at the end as part of the link, which breaks it.
ohhh
I literally didn’t know this, but I’ve switched from 1Password to KeePassXC few days ago because its Android client stopped working. Wth?
shouldn’t you have switched to Bitwarden?
i am on bitwarden, and i want to switch to keepass, but i am dreading syncing the database between my phone and my PC.
but i am dreading syncing the database between my phone and my PC.
Fair, but many of us here have a homelab to help with that. Once I had my next cloud running getting other things going was easy.
Unfortunately Bitwarden might not be as super of a choice as it was https://howmation.com/en_US/blog/article/bitwarden-2026-what-really-changes they’re slipping into private equity.
At some point they’ll stop supporting Vaultwarden, at that point anyone with skin in the game should 100% get out.
Vaultwarden can probably keep going without BW. The main issue is maintaining the clients.
100%
And FOSS clients wouldn’t be a showstopper, but they are going to be absolute upkeep hogs.
You can use Syncthing to synchronize the database file between your devices. It’s kinda neat tbh.
Note, this works super well for single-tenant Obsidian as well.
i never heard about it. but i will definitely look into it, thanks ❤️
No, he shouldn’t have switched to Bitwarden. Why the fuck do people keep recommending cloud shit instead of Keepass?
I don’t know where this weird trope of thinking Keepass is somehow obsolete or inferior came from, because it isn’t.
Keepass is great it if’s just you. If you’re sharing with a family, it’s ill-equipped.
Sharing = putting the file on shared storage (Syncthing, Nextcloud, SMB, Git, etc.)
No per‑item permissions
No audit logs
No user roles
No built‑in conflict resolution
Don’t fear it. Syncing is easy. Keepass, in its various forms, has great merging support.
Can’t you just do an export from BitWarden and import into KeePass?
what i meant was syncing my phone and my pcs keepass databases.
i used to use google drive for that (storing the database on the drive), but i didn’t like it.
I’ve had success on android with Syncthing. I had it installed on every device I needed the DB on and then a server that was always online to make sure each device had the latest version.
I have an iPhone now and Möbius Sync does not work as well (I think iOS limits background activity). My solution was to access access my DB via ssh (Strongbox has an option for this, Strongbox is KeepassXC but for Apple).
I already wasn’t gonna use either, but now I’m not gonna use either even harder.
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!
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.
“popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”
I’ve literally never heard of it.
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.
Don’t forget that’s “macOS inspired”.
Meanwhile actually good distros are drowning at the bottom of the ocean.
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.
I’ve heard the name but have not spent the time to find out what it is. I thought it was some immutable distro. I think the same about bazzite and catchy (sp?) which are other distros I see mentioned from time to time and believe are immutable and flatpak-y and that’s all I know. I realise I’m just one data point but I never see a lot about these sorts of distros in my general browsing.
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
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.
Oh well if you’ve never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?
Popular for Linux, not popular for Marvel movies.
Still not convinced it’s very popular.
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.
I think it’s time to start a company that produces excellent mice named rm -rf / --no-preserve-root then
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
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.
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 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 isn’t this in the article? That’s literally a journalist’s job to provide that kind of context.
