the tech industry fervor over Omarchy is so fucking confusing to me that i'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just money laundering. over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS for a fascist's dotfiles and bash scripts is patently insane
Replying to @davidcelis@xoxo.zone
@davidcelis how in the heck? basically nobody gives alpine money and it is the backbone of the modern internet, but some vanity distro gets $12m?
do you have any idea what foundational distros like alpine could do with $12m? it would be game changing.
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne
It's because fascists give money to fascists. Also I did not know that alpine is the backbone of the modern internet, but it completely makes sense. I've had only good experiences with it
@davidcelis
Replying to @sackofbones@kolektiva.social
@sackofbones @ariadne @davidcelis Alpine is the gold standard of Docker base images
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne @davidcelis
But giving money to Alpine doesn't promote a political agenda. All it does is help lots of people you don't know personally. Obvious waste of money.
Replying to @jannem@fosstodon.org
@davidcelis @jannem is that not the marketed purpose of philanthropy though?
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne @davidcelis
Philanthropy is not what is happening here
Replying to @jannem@fosstodon.org
@jannem @ariadne @davidcelis that, plus marketing is always a lie.
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne @davidcelis @jannem Better when you can misuse the target and embezzle the donation back. (Or so I presume it goes.)
Replying to @jannem@fosstodon.org
@jannem @ariadne @davidcelis does it not promote a political agenda? i'd say it certainly does. just not one built on bigotry
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne @davidcelis I lost the game. :3c
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne okay i'll bite, what could Alpine do with $12m
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne @davidcelis I honestly have no idea what Alpine would do with that much money. I would like to know.
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne @davidcelis Forget alpine. Just give it to Arch. You know the distro on top of Omarchy is based.
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @davidcelis@xoxo.zone $12 million is a lot of money, that is so much money that even if it was split up evenly between 100 different OSS projects it still would've been a world changing amount of money for each of them, when most non-corpo FOSS projects operate on budgets measured in toothpicks and pennies even just a couple digits in a single donation is already huge, a full $12m is unimaginable
but no throw it all down the toilet into some fascist vanity distro where it'll make a difference to approximately nobody of value ig, great job society
Replying to @delta@mk.absturztau.be
@delta@mk.absturztau.be @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @davidcelis@xoxo.zone the market for fascist grifters is huge, fascism is also somewhat correlated with wealth
The horrors, naturally, get washed away by marketing speak
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne @davidcelis isn’t that probably the root of the problem? Why invest in change, that you can’t control, when you can invest in things staying great for you?