Overpriced VPS reseller joins the Fascist Linux Project.

From reading about Omarchy and community reactions it sounds like DHH is a successful grifter, milking money from corps with pictures of agentic promised land. HOWEVER grift will go bust at some point: does anyone remember SaaSpocalipse that did not materialize,along with numerous articles from people with degrees pointing out that there's no data supporting claim that AI is actually making money for it's peddlers or consumers. AI grifts will continue until "market" will finally acknowledge it for what it is (it's just a new shiny tool, no more) and all the myths go bust and investors will want their money back. So - yes money got "stolen" from actual OSS projects that keep world's lights on, yes vibecoding has not been proven to scale or endure multiple decades like Debian, Gentoo, Fedora etc. so it'll collapse from technical standpoint, but it WILL collapse unless DHH will start applying those grants towards hiring engineers. Token money are not worth paper they are printed on so everybody just chill and let this trainwreck go off the cliff on it's own. Shame DO got into it though... but for all the major cloud platforms who isn't supporting fascism? What differs is the scale.

ew gross

How many 3 initial techdudes are there?

I only know jwz and DHH

They love bing an asshole

Gonna have to set up some time during the weekend to help a friend migrate some infra off DO. To where? Who knows.

Lemmy is gonna love that the whole thing is vibe coded

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-secures-tokens-from-leading-labs/

Seems like everything is being run over by fascists these days.

I am not an Omarchy or DHH hater but....why? It's Arch with Hyperland, why are people fawning over it? Is it just because he keeps saying "agentic"?

I'm agentic too, how about throwing me a million bucks?

thanks for the heads up

I'm out of the loop, what's going on? Why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?

Okay I'm seeing further chicanery. Their GitHub repo gives the license as MIT but many of the components are not Omarchy originals but derivatives of other products under different licences. Quickshell is LGPL 3, for example, and of course the Linux kernel is GPL 2.

But then there's a guy working on the "Omarchy Kernel", which I guess is a derivative like Ubuntu does...

Personalities aside this is still weird, and I wish people would focus on that.

There goes my weekend migrating off of DO. I should have left sooner but supporting this crap is lighting a fire under me.

but why? its a shitty distro made by an amateur. there are real who needs support

I have a meeting with a DigitalOcean Account Manager scheduled for tomorrow because I wanted to move my business over from Azure. Guess it’s time to cancel it and tell them why.