Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?
For the life of me, I don't understand how DigitalOcean can't afford a $50 a month sponsorship to GNOME and Flatpak but can afford $3M to Omarchy. [0]
Not only that, DigitalOcean cancelled their $50 a month sponsorship to GNOME and Flatpak.
How does this make any sense?
[0] https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/117241534134006167
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 70.5 ms ] threadYou are just upset about it because you’re not “right wing”. You wouldn’t complain at all if they supported a left–wing influence campaign. On the contrary, you would laud them for it!
And basically everything else you said was just sour grapes.
Huh? Yes, I am appalled by someone who literally compared brown people to wolves that should be shot for the protection of the "human" population, which is to mean, white people. That's an ideology that neither deserves respect nor equal protection under the law.
> It doesn’t even matter if Omarchy was some kind of sekret “right–wing influence campaign” as you say
I didn't claim it was "sekret." On the contrary, it's playing out in the open for everyone to see. Wealthy companies and individuals are pouring obscene amounts of money into a fund centered around someone's personal dotfiles with hotkeys for launching a bunch of commercial software. They claim to support other projects, where most of the actual work is done, but projects that have any shred of conscience are avoiding their money like the plague. In effect, it's funding projects that don't have an issue with ethnic cleansing. Digital Ocean even withdrew funding from projects that didn't take DHH money, effectively punishing them for their stance. If something quacks like a duck, it's a duck. That fund is, for all intents and purposes, a right wing influence campaign.
Also despite your attempt at putting together a debate-me-bro response, you couldn't even resist resorting to crude name-calling. And no, adding "useful" before "idiot" doesn't hide your petty emotions.
Nah, my reading comprehension is fine. If anything, you should go look up the definition for "compare" before you start grading other people.
> There’s nothing racist about it
If comparing people to wolves that should be killed based on their race isn't racist for you, what is?
> “brown” and “white” are words that you read into the text
No, it's very clear what DHH means. The Romanis (paraphrasing since DHH only referred to them by a slur) vs. the "native" Danish, the "native Brits" vs. the other 2/3 of the London population. DHH is discriminating based on skin color, that's an unambiguous fact.
> so that you could be angry
I'm not angry, just appalled at you and DHH's racism. I'm not the one angrily hurling crude insults and incoherent rants repeatedly.
It is more damning that a company cannot afford $50, but you're not even getting paid for the free work for your time defending them.
If that is what you choose to do, that's fine, but for people working in OSS with companies depending on their work get nothing.
This is what is wrong with the world today.
Keep "fighting the good fight" for free I guess...
CachyOS is No1 the last three months and is LLM friendly. Debian is the underlying OS for a bunch of distros and its more popular.
The donations are 100% budy-budy and rich kids rubbing shoulders. Nothing else / more than that.
That said, it’s their money. They use it as they please. At the same time, trying to see everything through capitalistic lenses is sort of myopic IMO.
I have not seen a single post of anyone from CachyOS talking about how to drive your install with agents.
CachyOS also openly supports parents transitioning their kids and bans anyone that says a peep otherwise.
Means that you haven't been looking. Your 100% figure is incorrect for the mere fact of Omarchy having hundreds of ordinary people as patrons. https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/omarchy-patronage
Heck, Linux Mint gets 15k a month.
And yeah, you are missing the point. The original claim was about 100% of money coming from DHH's friends/buddies/rich kids, and from far-right at that. Hundreds of public donations was merely the sinplest way to debunk the ridiculous claim. The original claim was false.
If we go deeper, we can easily deduct that not only is the 100% number in the claim not correct, but that wherever it might (sic!) be arguably (sic!) correct, even then the number is close to 0%.
I think I'm pretty on point if someone insists on focusing on trivial technicalities while ignoring the bigger picture.
By all means keep doing what you're doing. Just don't act surprised when people don't look up to you and take your words with respect.
Very poor coming from you.
The original commentor mentioned the donations were ideologically motivated. I just don't think that is the case. I think people are excited about something that doesn't really have any ideological attachments to it and is just focusing on making something cool. My anecdotal observation of the internet in general and day to day life tells me people are burnt out from that.
2. Companies, or rather mostly CEOs donating are the usual circle of questionable characters where you can just search for "why is (name) problematic".
They're basically buddies donating to DHH not the project. The only ones that make sense are the tokens from AI companies to be used in actual development.
Gnome has lots of issues that still need to be fixed. Even if you're happy with it, you could find something on the bugtracker that you'd really like addressed. It's basically like seeing a house being built by a big crew, then someone completely unrelated painting the front doors and getting paid more than all of them and credited for the house as a whole.
I too align and want to do business with people who's entire online existance is NOT centered around "Everyone who politically disagrees with me is a racist fascist and I want people to cause harm to them and I will ban them from my forums if they disagree at me at all about my politics"