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
Maybe I should sell my dotfiles? 🤔
of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
popular?! According to whom?
From Omarchy’s site:
malleable OS for the age of agents. Where you can vibe your way through every alteration, tweak, and desire. Be the Omarch and command your agent!
Wtf
All seven users.
I can see why the left is so messed up now.
When/how/why did DHH fall off so bad? There was a time when he was (at least vocally) shitting on Jeff Bezos, Chamath, and a few other “friends”
Probably around the time he started writing blog posts about how there’s too many brown people in London, or comparing Romani to invasive predator species?
Being against a few horrible people doesn’t automatically make you a good guy…
He got a recent interview with one of the YouTubers I follow and I’m must say I’m a bit sad to not see people calling him out https://youtu.be/_CuibYl_Fh0?is=f6p3aQv4iPmdqiH1
It was probably a condition of the interview. :(
Keep in mind that internal fights among community discourage users from shifting and benefit Microsoft. I would not be surprised if the smear campaign is a big tech initative.
DHH is bell end, maybe a good developer, but a bad human being. And there are other distros out there.
That’s right. But are you suggesting we just sweep it under the rug and ignore the support of racist people? Because that is what big tech does and not a lot of people like it
Well damn, guess I’ll be cancelling and switching when my subscription renews. Suggestions for replacement?
Bitwarden
Vault Warden if they’re interested in self hosting.
Like $10/year… Stupid cheap for piece of mind and haven’t had a data breach yet.
KeePass + Syncthing
Completely local vault in sync with however many endpoints you need
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Is that a FOSS thing? Never done that before. Are there decent guides for getting it set up?
It’s FOSS and easy to set up. KeePass simply stores everything in a file and you use Syncthing to sync this file between devices. Syncing is optional, if you just need you password on desktop you don’t need it.
KeePass has pretty bad UX when compared with Bitwarden though. Bitwarden/Vaulwarden is the best solution IMHO but it’s really difficult to set up.
Syncthing is great, but can be a bit of a pain in the ass to set up. I wish they’d make that process easier, and maybe also support sharing the ignore file between the hosts…
Thanks for the overview; I’ve got some research to do it looks like.
Why do you even use these? I never understood the point.
Unique passwords and MFA in the one package. Cross platform so I can use on phone and PC. Costs like $10/year. Also locks the credential and passkey to set URLs so phishing attacks are harder.
So that every service I use can have a randomly generated, unique password. Therefore if one of them gets hacked and my password leaked, brute-forced, or decrypted, it won’t affect any other service.
Plus it stores passkeys and handles 2fa code generation, keeping them synced on all my devices, and ensures I never have to remember specific passwords because they’re all safely stored in heavily encrypted vaults guarded by the only single password I do have to remember. Also it notifies me if any of my information is in any breaches, or if I could do better to secure my account.
Trust me when I say, it’s safer, simpler, and smoother way to manage things.
It’s so that you can have unique, randomized, rotating passwords for every service you have. Also, they auto fill fields for you, and can save you from spoofed URLs if you’re not paying attention. Highly recommend getting one. Bitwarden is good.
And they help you remember a shop if you forgot it.
Good for digital hygiene.
Interesting case of how funding decisions can quickly become part of a much bigger conversation around tech, politics, and community trust. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
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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’ve emailed their customer service explaining why I’ll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.
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I cancelled my 1password sub after their absurd price hike late last year
I never expected a mid hyprland preconfig to be tied to a person with Nazi views and cause this much issues.
… Can we not just write shit down?
I don’t understand the need for this password keeper shit outside of a work/corporate environment.
The hard password you think of are actually very low entropy and easy to crack, the only good ones are random ones, which are hard to remember (except for the random words ones). It’s impossible to remember 200+ totally random password for a regular human
Write that shit down.
Ok Grandma and her password book.
The point:
Application unique passwords and MFA in the one package. Cross platform so I can use on phone and PC. Costs like $10/year. Also locks the credential and passkey to set URLs so phishing attacks are harder.
You can’t just write down a secure password. It should be long enough to not be practical to write down on paper.
I have more than 300 logins. My password manager handles passkeys, 2FA and has integretad alias creation.
At some point you just can’t compare.
I do write stuff down. In my password manager so it’s always with me all the time and is much more difficult to gain access to than if I were carrying around a notepad. Also, I ain’t got pockets for that, and I’m not buying a wardrobe of cargo pants.
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 distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
- 12 mo: #21
- 6 mo: #19
- 3 mo: #16
- 1 mo: #12
Obviously growing in popularity. That’s what aggressive marketing usually gets you.
If you don’t like that, perhaps consider stop talking about it, and him. Instead, every second week somebody writes an article about “DHH is fascist”. What the fuck do they think the effect of those articles is?
Are people actually so dumb that they think accusing him of fascism will make him disappear? That’s like high-octane clickbait fuel.
Same with Trump et alia. It’s garmonbozia.
I don’t write any articles on him or his dot file collection. The reach of Lemmy comments is close to zero and even more so among the red pilled who know the truth.
Whatever it is, it’s a stupid name, it sounds kinda like an STD.
The basis is the japanese word “omakase”.
makes me think of Orchi *perhaps NSFW depending on your workplace
