this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
696 points (97.7% liked)

Technology

87833 readers
2673 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 147 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 88 points 2 days ago (2 children)

to fix issues and errors

and create more issues and errors, like executing USB device names as root.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] msage@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look! There's a lion! Oh my god!

[–] not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Nice reference bro!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I think it's time to start a company that produces excellent mice named rm -rf / --no-preserve-root then

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But seriously what is the actual reason for the donation

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Billionaires like racists?

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Per @GreenBeard@lemmy.ca's comment

I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they're good at keeping it "In The Family" so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It's the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bundling of their stuff into the base installation, I suppose. With simple math, if 1password gets like 33k subscription payments, that's about $100 000 already.

Omarchy got perhaps a 100K installations just last month.

They're buying customers and visibility with a sum that's probably pocket change for them.