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
the fact that this shit now has an entire foundation, conference, corporate sponsorships, and merch proves that the tech industry is just a never-ending series of grifts in a trench coat
@davidcelis wait people pay money for arch + hyprlnd with ruby installed on it?
@fernfractals @davidcelis no, but corporations do
you should see that shit's list of donors
Aug 31, 2026, 7:20 PM@davidcelis it is insane, I know people falling for it. very sad
@davidcelis Agreed, it’s depressing to witness. Just very very wealthy people throwing their money around congratulating each other over essentially nothing.
Startup LARPinv with a side of PAC, or the other way around?
@davidcelis it does feel as if some people with bad politics (but a taste for free stuff) found issue with the reality that desktop Linux was a social warrior project, and are taking panicked corrective steps to "fix" it.
Sep 1, 2026, 4:17 AM@davidcelis it’s insane and never saw it coming.
I feel at the beginning everyone was making fun of how useless it was and suddenly I’m swamped with “coder influencers” saying it’s the second coming of christ
@davidcelis it's aligned interests aligning
@davidcelis how many steps you reckon until there's a direct connection to peter theil? i reckon two
@davidcelis dhh is the jia tan of fundraising https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
Aug 31, 2026, 7:23 PM@glyph @davidcelis hey now; Jia Tan is a fucking legend and that exploit took some real skill to get in there. Let’s not insult a real one, here…
@davidcelis @glyph can you really put a price on trivial eval() injection vulnerabilities
Aug 31, 2026, 7:24 PM@SnoopJ @davidcelis @glyph Going to Omafashcon to hand out USB drives named “sudo rm -rf /“
@SnoopJ @davidcelis @glyph this is probably how they got the money
@SnoopJ @davidcelis @glyph brb renaming all my wifi SSIDs "give Rob monies"
@davidcelis @glyph I think it’s ultimately about alignment of the wider liberal FLOSS world to fascist tech bros’ ideology.
@frumble @davidcelis @glyph are they even planning on contributing upstream? looks like they aren’t
@mariusz Have you seen Brodie’s video? See my quoted thread.
@davidcelis @glyph It’s an easy mistake to assume the mini-oligarchs are sponsoring just #Omarchy. But they are donating to the #Omacon Foundation under DHH’s control, which will decide where to seed this whole pile of money in the ecosystem. See Brodie’s video in my quoted thread.
Also like @dukeboitans has said about the money laundering hypothesis:
Aug 31, 2026, 7:29 PM@davidcelis@xoxo.zone it's not exactly money laundering, it's how people can take giant amounts of donations that are classified differently under tax laws. There's a lot of things that would otherwise be fairly innocent that exist mostly just to take gift money that ends up funneling into another project, usually politics. The obvious example of this is Super PACs.
It's just now the US is set up with their tax system. This is how you get rich without paying (as many) taxes and without a foreign bank account.
@ada yeah “tax evasion” was more akin to what i meant but i was too mad to get the right words out
Aug 31, 2026, 7:33 PM@davidcelis@xoxo.zone gets better when you consider both sides get tax relief from this. it's a well known loophole that requires connections and starting capital but it boggles the mind why it hasn't been closed yet. actually it doesn't but you get it.
@davidcelis gee it almost seems like it's some kind of money laundering thing.
@kevingranade you mean… like i said in the post…?
@davidcelis attempting to agree and phrasing it in the worst way possible, sorry.
@davidcelis meanwhile I'm lost, where the heck this thing suddenly came from and why it's talked about so much. I have been truly living under a rock, because I see 10 months ago there was controverse about Framework sponsoring them.
Aug 31, 2026, 9:23 PM@Tsluijter @davidcelis It is hard to keep up with all the bullshit these days.
@Tsluijter @davidcelis
yeah that annoys me. Desperately hoping Framework have become useful idiots for this bullshit, rather than nrp signalling he's an aspirant to the tech billionaire deadshit community.
@davidcelis … so how much can I get for my dotfiles? How ‘bout my dotfiles and helpers in ~/bin ?
@ShadSterling @davidcelis Unless you‘re a rich fascist, 'bout tree fiddy.
WTF is Omarchy?
...
Hang on... I can google...
Oh...
What the...
Why?
Fuck these guys.
What a bunch of fuck'n tossers.
Does anybody even try anymore?
@401matthall @davidcelis You made me google Omarchy and now I want to shoot up an arsenic and cyanide cocktail.
@elfin @401matthall @davidcelis I heard about it and constructed an image of it in my head, and it was, at least,
a distro
@davidcelis yes it’s a way for rich people to pass around money and utilize tax law to their gain and to circularly inflate others in the group. Just like membership in the Rails foundation is essentially a way to buddy up with DHH and Tobi
No, a money laundering scheme would look more sensible at first glance.
@davidcelis It's (political) advertising. Some sort of software-as-lifestyle concept and probably an attempt to vaguely get people to "like" some guys (or at least buy into the "idc politics i just like the thing they made" thing) and start somewhat agreeing with them maybe occasionally perhaps.
@davidcelis those donors are billionaires, they don't need to launder a bunch of millions. This is just part of the culture war.
@davidcelis I don’t think it’s money laundering or whatever. I think it’s just a racist billionaires propping up each other. It’s just a sign that they too much money and would rather shuffle it around to each other
Sep 1, 2026, 12:58 AM@davidcelis@xoxo.zone my theory is that it's a dogwhistle, conspicuous consumption of fascist aligned products for the sake of supporting fascism without saying you're just a fascist.
@davidcelis youtube has been flooded lately with omarchy videos and it makes it so easy to play whackamole with the block button.
@davidcelis it's a small price to pay for a honeypot to catch all the fasc-curious Linux fanbois. My money is on them turning this into a nerd "active club"
@davidcelis @lisamelton I had to look up Omarchy and then landed on the 37 Signals website and it’s weird. It reads like propaganda.
@christopherbrown @lisamelton oh that’s just because it is!
@davidcelis it's twelve now?
Sep 1, 2026, 2:51 AM@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.
Sep 1, 2026, 2:54 AM@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
@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.
Sep 1, 2026, 2:58 AM@davidcelis @jannem is that not the marketed purpose of philanthropy though?
@ariadne @davidcelis
Philanthropy is not what is happening here
@jannem @ariadne @davidcelis that, plus marketing is always a lie.
@jannem @ariadne @davidcelis does it not promote a political agenda? i'd say it certainly does. just not one built on bigotry
@ariadne okay i'll bite, what could Alpine do with $12m
@ariadne @davidcelis I honestly have no idea what Alpine would do with that much money. I would like to know.
@davidcelis seems like pretty colors will go a long, long way with technologically illiterate people who have money to throw around
Sep 1, 2026, 3:47 AM@davidcelis the injustice that anyone who works on arch must feel right now...
Sep 1, 2026, 6:24 AM@davidcelis so there is a lot of .hidden magic in this system? Gotta see that for myself.
@davidcelis lmao wait what who’s the fascist… i too am willing to sell my dotfiles and am 100x fascism for the low low price of just €1M :welp: :smug: