alt Hacker NewsThere's a bit of a jump here from something appearing good to rapidly becoming very very bad. Here's what I read:
> 1Password has pledged $300,000 over three years in support of David Heinemeier Hansson's Linux distribution known as Omarchy, and is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom. What a nice brand partnership.
Supporting a Linux distribution sounds nice; I hadn't heard of that one.
But the very next paragraph:
> DHH has called for the ethnic cleansing of Europe; he is also an antivaxer, a Covid "truther," a proponent of the "lab leak" conspiracy theory, an 'anti woke' weirdo, and is virulently anti-DEI
> In an internal Slack message leaked to press today 1Password’s Roustem Karimov defended DHH as being attacked for his views...
Perhaps they could support a different Linux distribution.
It's also strongly concerning when someone defends someone with views like that, characterising them as being attacked. In general, toxic, racist, fascist views spread like viruses; when tolerated, through acceptance, they grow. A company needs to root them out. If we trust 1Password with our data, we are trusting a company with those views inside it with our data.
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> Perhaps they could support a different Linux distribution.
They won't. SV/YC loves the guy, that's the only reason they're donating to Linux/OSS (but really just omarchy).
COVID lab leak is not a conspiracy theory.
it doesn't mean it's true (we may never know), but framing as "conspiracy" was a product of conflict of interest where certain scientist were protecting grant money. Since then even some of the scientists who participated in it walked it back and openly said that both natural and lab leak theories were credible: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj0016
> DHH has called for the ethnic cleansing of Europe; he is also an antivaxer, a Covid "truther," a proponent of the "lab leak" conspiracy theory, an 'anti woke' weirdo, and is virulently anti-DEI
Leaving aside all the rest of this, I thought "lab leak" was considered a reasonable hypothesis, although not especially likely, these days, rather than some kind of fringe theory.
It's mostly extreme hyperbole and twisting of his views if anything.
One of his criticisms was the virulent attacks on anyone that questioned policy during covid. He for example prefered the Danish approach and they still ended up doing better than the UK or US.
I also can't help but see the folks clamoring for mass migration for the past 2 decades in europe against popular will as anything other than blind oikophobes. If you'd look at my capital and other places you'd question who is actually calling for ethnic cleansing.