Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    …The heck happened?

    I’ve been under a rock for a bit.

    Explain to me: why is there so much hype (and controversy) around some Hyperland Arch Linux config, within like a month? Is this some astroturfing thing?

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      Disclaimer: I only know bits of this story and am missing details.

      Creator vibe codes configs, makes a “distro”

      Creator says fairly fucked up things online, effectively a “dog whistle” gathering right aligned attention and money- and a quite a lot of it.

      Begins hiring similarly minded people, claiming “the money will be spent” on the distro

      All of it wreaks of BS.