1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
Archive: https://archive.is/osNh3
Interesting case of how funding decisions can quickly become part of a much bigger conversation around tech, politics, and community trust. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
When/how/why did DHH fall off so bad? There was a time when he was (at least vocally) shitting on Jeff Bezos, Chamath, and a few other “friends”
Probably around the time he started writing blog posts about how there’s too many brown people in London, or comparing Romani to invasive predator species?
Being against a few horrible people doesn’t automatically make you a good guy…
… Can we not just write shit down?
I don’t understand the need for this password keeper shit outside of a work/corporate environment.
You can’t just write down a secure password. It should be long enough to not be practical to write down on paper.
I do write stuff down. In my password manager so it’s always with me all the time and is much more difficult to gain access to than if I were carrying around a notepad. Also, I ain’t got pockets for that, and I’m not buying a wardrobe of cargo pants.
I have more than 300 logins. My password manager handles passkeys, 2FA and has integretad alias creation.
At some point you just can’t compare.
of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
popular?! According to whom?
Well damn, guess I’ll be cancelling and switching when my subscription renews. Suggestions for replacement?
Why do you even use these? I never understood the point.
So that every service I use can have a randomly generated, unique password. Therefore if one of them gets hacked and my password leaked, brute-forced, or decrypted, it won’t affect any other service.
Plus it stores passkeys and handles 2fa code generation, keeping them synced on all my devices, and ensures I never have to remember specific passwords because they’re all safely stored in heavily encrypted vaults guarded by the only single password I do have to remember. Also it notifies me if any of my information is in any breaches, or if I could do better to secure my account.
Trust me when I say, it’s safer, simpler, and smoother way to manage things.
It’s so that you can have unique, randomized, rotating passwords for every service you have. Also, they auto fill fields for you, and can save you from spoofed URLs if you’re not paying attention. Highly recommend getting one. Bitwarden is good.
Bitwarden
Vault Warden if they’re interested in self hosting.
KeePass + Syncthing
Completely local vault in sync with however many endpoints you need
Is that a FOSS thing? Never done that before. Are there decent guides for getting it set up?
I’ve emailed their customer service explaining why I’ll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.
As bad as the “Nazi bar” problem seems to be in FOSS at the moment, it is definitely heartening to consistently see how immediate and overwhelming the pushback has been. I think it says a lot about the community, and it’s a good thing.
I never expected a mid hyprland preconfig to be tied to a person with Nazi views and cause this much issues.
I know about omarchy and seen that guy interviewed a couple of times. How the fuck am I just now aware he is a nazi? He seemed egotistical for sure, and his contribution to open source is … basically his personal dotfiles? I think that this shit was still completely devoid of extermination of minorities manifestos and hatespeech. But seriously how do you know if someone wants to kill refugees? why doesn’t he say so in the interviews or in the source code so we can know? This is fucked up. A faschist idea would be to keep a list. But omg, if you want to exterminate children that fled from war, please just say so in your dotfiles! Idk why this bothers me so… I really do care if my config was made by a hateful hand even if it doesn’t show
I partially blame people with big audiences that keep hyping him up and platforming him. Primeagen interviewed him on YouTube and was worshipping him the entire video. Embarrassing display.
Completely agreed. Unfortunately he was also the “Ruby on Rails” guy, so for a long time he had serious developer cred. It is really sad to see.
It’s like one of the founders of Mullvad VPN (very very rich OG Swedish hacker from way back when) came out as supporting a serious right wing nationalist party in Sweden a couple months back, he paid them like $500K to make sure they stayed in politics and won.
They are the best VPN, but I’m not coming back once my subscription expires.
What is even happening? Are we seeing something like a return to lead poisoning, but there some chemical in our environment that’s rotting people’s brains the same way but we don’t know about it just like we didn’t know about lead at first?
It’s the corrosive force of capital
We have too many people gaining power divorced from consequences
My mullvad account has only 15 days left, but i already switch to windscribe vpn. Did my research so far so good… https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships#vpn-company-relationships
All right windscribe.
Thing is with Mullvad is that I know for a fact that they don’t keep logs. The cops raided their place twice and they learned after that that there’s no point. They let them in and do whatever they wanted- they knew they wouldn’t find anything.
That type of trust is hard to come by.
Fuck nazis man, they infect the best of us. Such a copout. I suppose it’s something about… They get sentimental in their old years and remember a country that is no longer there- I feel that shit too, but I don’t get caught up in nationalist cosplay and LARP parties about it, shit changes, we need to fight for it without being fucking nazis. There’s a middle road here I feel.
Sorry, I just got rambling, didn’t mean to, but damn.
Nah no rant at all. I’m with you, feels like running away from nazis, ai slop, enshittification… Now days.
I wouldn’t have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.
Controversy? Never.
Sick thing is, you can say the most outrageous shit, and since you have a direct pipeline to billions of people online, you’ll always find some fumb ducks to pay you.
Welcome to the post-MLM economy! You don’t even influence people, you just say what they want to hear, and they’ll influence others for you! Jesus christ.
popular? among who?
never heard of it.
PSA please stop using Archive.Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance.
I vaguely remember hearing about that, but when I searched the community to see what other people use the first link I found was archive.is. Replacing that archive doesn’t really seem to have taken off.
Your link is broken btw
I’ll just copy-paste the first paragraph in case you or anyone else can’t open it:
The English Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today and its related websites. This decision was agreed on after a request for comment with more than 200 participants concluded in February 2026, and is due to multiple concerns, including the site using editors’ and readers’ computers to run a denial-of-service attack and evidence that the website has tampered with some archived pages.
And the story on the DoS script itself:
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
???
For some reason it’s including the period at the end as part of the link, which breaks it.
“popular distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
- 12 mo: #21
- 6 mo: #19
- 3 mo: #16
- 1 mo: #12
Obviously growing in popularity. That’s what aggressive marketing usually gets you.
If you don’t like that, perhaps consider stop talking about it, and him. Instead, every second week somebody writes an article about “DHH is fascist”. What the fuck do they think the effect of those articles is?
Are people actually so dumb that they think accusing him of fascism will make him disappear? That’s like high-octane clickbait fuel.
Same with Trump et alia. It’s garmonbozia.
Whatever it is, it’s a stupid name, it sounds kinda like an STD.
makes me think of Orchi *perhaps NSFW depending on your workplace
I literally didn’t know this, but I’ve switched from 1Password to KeePassXC few days ago because its Android client stopped working. Wth?
shouldn’t you have switched to Bitwarden?
i am on bitwarden, and i want to switch to keepass, but i am dreading syncing the database between my phone and my PC.
Unfortunately Bitwarden might not be as super of a choice as it was https://howmation.com/en_US/blog/article/bitwarden-2026-what-really-changes they’re slipping into private equity.
At some point they’ll stop supporting Vaultwarden, at that point anyone with skin in the game should 100% get out.
Vaultwarden can probably keep going without BW. The main issue is maintaining the clients.
No, he shouldn’t have switched to Bitwarden. Why the fuck do people keep recommending cloud shit instead of Keepass?
I don’t know where this weird trope of thinking Keepass is somehow obsolete or inferior came from, because it isn’t.
Keepass is great it if’s just you. If you’re sharing with a family, it’s ill-equipped.
Sharing = putting the file on shared storage (Syncthing, Nextcloud, SMB, Git, etc.)
No per‑item permissions
No audit logs
No user roles
No built‑in conflict resolution
Don’t fear it. Syncing is easy. Keepass, in its various forms, has great merging support.
Can’t you just do an export from BitWarden and import into KeePass?
what i meant was syncing my phone and my pcs keepass databases.
i used to use google drive for that (storing the database on the drive), but i didn’t like it.
I’ve had success on android with Syncthing. I had it installed on every device I needed the DB on and then a server that was always online to make sure each device had the latest version.
I have an iPhone now and Möbius Sync does not work as well (I think iOS limits background activity). My solution was to access access my DB via ssh (Strongbox has an option for this, Strongbox is KeepassXC but for Apple).
You can use Syncthing to synchronize the database file between your devices. It’s kinda neat tbh.
Note, this works super well for single-tenant Obsidian as well.
i never heard about it. but i will definitely look into it, thanks ❤️
Aw man, I use them because they’re Canadian but fuck them, I guess. I wonder how hard it is to switch to another password manager. I’m especially concerned with how passkeys work.
Very easy. You should be able to export your passwords as .csv and import it into a new manager.
This should help: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes/passwords
Yay, thanks!
