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That OSS has become too entangled with political activism and ideological gatekeeping, when it should be about making great software, giving people control over
by speak_plainly 1mo ago
That OSS has become too entangled with political activism and ideological gatekeeping, when it should be about making great software, giving people control over their computers, and rediscovering the joy of computing.
I don't think Omarchy is anti-political so much as an attempt to revive the enthusiast/hacker ethos of the OSS community.
- mathw 1mo ago[flagged]
- thesdev 1mo agoNot sure ignore is the right word here. I think they rather take pride in it.
- throwawaypath 1mo ago[flagged]
- meibo 1mo agoThe fact that this is up for debate already says all. For anyone passing through, read the blog posts and his social media feeds, make up your own mind.
- rbanffy 1mo agoRacists don't think racist speech is racism. News at eleven.
- meibo 1mo agoNot everyone passing through HN is a racist. These things become canon when nobody opposes them.
- throwawaypath 1mo ago[flagged]
- deleted 1mo ago[deleted]
- preg_match 1mo agoOkay but reading DHHs own tweets and blog posts is not fake news. You can’t just call anything you don’t like fake news. It would be one thing if people were putting words into DHH’s mouth. They’re not.
- throwawaypath 1mo ago[flagged]
- throwawaypath 25d agoMy flagged comment: >The fact that this is up for debate already says all "The fact that Mamdani is an antisemite is up for debate already says all." Many people repeating fake news does not make it true.
- rbanffy 1mo ago> He's not a "massive racist," Only in the sense he lacks physical mass.
- throwawaypath 1mo ago>Only in the sense he lacks physical mass. He lacks physical mass, so he's virtual, made up, like the claims that he's racist.
- TehCorwiz 1mo ago"Freedom to compute" cannot be separated from "Freedom to exist" as it explicitly depends on it. The authors of Omarchy pay lip service to the former while taking a stance against the latter.
- throwawaypath 1mo ago[flagged]
- TehCorwiz 1mo agoSee links further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448069
- throwawaypath 1mo agoNothing in that linked comment points to where DHH specifically takes a stand against the "freedom to exist."
- TehCorwiz 1mo agoI disagree. Calling for ethnic cleansing counts to me as taking a stance against a group's right to existence.
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- throwawaypath 1mo agoHe didn't call for ethnic cleansing.
- stymaar 1mo agoHe did. He claimed that the demographic has changed and he advocates for reverting this change. And it turns out that forcibly altering the demographic of an era is the literal definition of ethnic cleansing (and by the way the phrass has historicallt been coined with the specific meaning of removing Muslim people from Serbia, by the people who intended to perform that “cleansing”, so it's particularly apt here).
- deleted 1mo ago[deleted]
- Avshalom 1mo ago'OSS "became" too entangled with political activism' Statements dreamed up by people who get gilliganed by a coconut every morning.
- thesuitonym 1mo ago> Omarchy is...an attempt to revive the enthusiast/hacker ethos of the OSS community. ...By injecting it with big money and pushing more AI slop?
- ndiddy 1mo agoMaybe DHH should live by his own ethos and "shut up and program" rather than continually making divisive political statements that alienate people who might otherwise use and contribute to his distro.
- rbanffy 1mo agoI don’t think he’ll refrain from using the political power he amassed by building a very popular web framework. We gave him a megaphone and a soapbox, and he’ll use it. We probably should have known better.
- throwawaypath 25d agoIs that not what he's doing? Where on any Omarchy page have you seen "divisive political statements that alienate people"?
- stymaar 1mo ago> That OSS has become too entangled with political activism Wait is that really the spin that DHH is pushing? That'd be insane given he's among the most politically active open sources developers put there by a wiiide margin.
- rbanffy 1mo agoOh, but you see, when it’s their own points of view, it’s never politics.