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@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