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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project (www.theverge.com)
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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.

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[–] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

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"

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  • [–] 17 points 11 hours ago

    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…

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