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ah yes once again the racists are the real victims

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.

theverge.com1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux projectThe controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

David Lynch

@david.lynch.wtf

2 Sept

The comment from the other founder mentioned “Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users”, which is intensely weird when this is literally the first time I’ve ever heard of the distro.

Alys Brooks

@alysbrooks.bsky.social

2 Sept

Omarchy 12th on Distrowatch snd pretty new, so yeah, seems unlikely. I guess it wouldn‘t shock me if it shows up as second in their data due to other distributions not being reported as frequently. distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile...

distrowatch.comDistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

Alys Brooks

@alysbrooks.bsky.social

2 Sept

E.g., if Omarchy provides an easy way to install 1Password that turns on telemetry without asking.

Michael Gattozzi

@mgattozzi.dev

It’s installed by default in the machine so that’s my guess as to why. Whether people actually log in and use it is another thing

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Alys Brooks

@alysbrooks.bsky.social

3 Sept

From the repository and docs I saw there's a shortcut for it added automatically, but I couldn't tell if it's actually installed. But if it is installed automatically, and 1Password is counting installs to determine the most popular distros among its users, that would explain it being number 2.