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The Framework/Omarchy thing. (infosec.pub)
submitted 14 hours ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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Does anyone know what's going on at Framework?

One of my friends mentioned Omarchy is great but he said to not use it cause of it's creator and I only just stumbled onto this trashfire just today.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 38 points 13 hours ago

DHH is right-wing diarrhea

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 42 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
  • Both Hyprland (which we'll just say has an unpleasant history of allowed comments) and Omarchy (DHH... Mostly self explanatory, but go ahead and read his blog and you'll see exactly the person DHH is. Dogwhistles and all.) were brought up as benefitting from Framework.
  • Nirav Patel (nrp) (Founder, CEO) replied by saying "its a big tent and everyone is welcome", which pissed off a lot of people.
  • Rather than respond in the community forums, nrp went to twitter to say he isn't bigoted.
  • Clarification of support was given, that no money went to DHH (kind of a lie here, I'll get to that), and only a bit to Hyprland. Avoided all discussion of the outsized amount of posts by framework about Omarchy.
  • Blog post was made by framework/nrp detailing how money was spent. Left out any mention of hardware being sent out, later edited.
  • blog post shows that Railsworld (DHH was the keynote speaker) received massive amounts of money by comparison to every other event. That includes hardware, Linux firmware, the major DEs, etc - combined. A truly astounding amount compared to every other sponsorship. To date I do not believe this has been addressed.

I don't know about further updates, at this point I've written off framework. If you want open, go MNTRe IMO.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If you want open, go MNTRe IMO.

Oh, and a GmbH instead of US.
That is now going to be a higher priority for me.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 8 hours ago

And active on the fediverse too:

https://mastodon.social/@mntmn

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 18 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I took a look at Omarchy after a user posted a pretty knowledgeable teardown of it. Stay very far away.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ulterno@programming.dev 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

seemingly no one at Framework (Computer Inc.) or Cloudflare appears to have properly vetted the project they’re directing attention (and sometimes financial support) to.

Sadly, being good at politics makes one more "successful", faster, as compared to being good at actual work.

Not sure how good he is at politics though, but that seems to be the case here.

I haven't read Hansson's blogs, but Brodie's video on Omarchy was good enough to show me that I didn't want it at all.