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

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What are they getting for their money? Fork it if it's so good.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 0 points 14 hours ago

What are they getting for their money?

It's a marketing campaign to devalue Linux in the public eye.

If they can state that AI came up with a "good enough" distro you know what non-savvy people will think about it: that making a distro is "easy", and "anybody can do it", and that anybody involved with making distros "manually" is redundant and giving themselves airs etc.

It has already happened to many other fields.

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[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Man I'm just here to enjoy some Linux not drama. Can't avoid politics at all on Lemmy :(

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[–] Sims@lemmy.ml -5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yes baby ! What a great page. Thank you, to this Brennan dude(tte) for creating it, and quick apolls to others for me primitively raging against every sign of this nazi/fascist club/product, and the whole nazi/fascist enshittification/normalization of 'open source'.

One nasty surprise in secondary list: 'suckless' - oh well, can't win them all :-(

Let's post this great page as a standard reply to all posts/mentions of omacom/omarchy going forward, so all those not knowing, can be warned about what it really is !

[ait] (warning - AI topic tag) Dear anti-ai, if you can muster it, then please lower defences slightly for just a sec: It's really time and energy consuming to follow and document this yucky movement as they are now heavily funded and work/move constantly 24/7. Brennan is a super cool Human, but can't work on this always, all the time. We might need an active agentic system that also work constantly 24/7 to track the whole fascist/nazi network, all its players, update the lists and make it easier for ordinary good peeps to reject and boycott it all. Supervised by a human oc.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, suckless was a bummer for sure. :( Although, with their elitist attitude, I'm not surprised. There's supposed to be a fork of their window manager at least, written by a really young person. Can't quite recall its name now...

I wonder if your idea is doable without using LLMs though! :)

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