No.40
Omarchy (by Omacom) is "We've made the decisions for you" Linux distro, heavily AI-assisted around proprietary software, designed to run proprietary AI coding agents (unusual security risk) having access to your full system, where they execute commands usually not stop for confirmation.
>honeypot or legitimate project?
>the funding and promotion are certainly unusual $18.5 million
>Sam Altman (Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI), Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta), Tobi Lütke, Patrick Collison, Michael Dell, Jeff Friedman, Leonid Dubinsky, Stav Solomon, Aaron Reisman, Amir Harel, Benjamin Katz, Benjamin Wolf, Bruno Katzjarowski, David Dashefsky, Davis Goodman, Jacob Rosenthal, Nina Dubinsky, Roman Weisman, Salomon Mole, Yam Catzenelson etc.
>heavy promotion & large scale SEO (similar how Brave has promoted w/ $30 million spent)
>Meta, Cloudflare, Anthropic, OpenAI etc.
>Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot etc.
>Spotify, 1Password, proprietary/web applications, Discord, WhatsApp, other commercial services
>includes Basecamp & DHH owned 37signals & related software/services
>1.5-2.0 GB RAM usage at idle + large default installation
>passwordless sudo w/ disabled sudo password prompts
>paid AI APIs, token-subscriptions
Reported security issues:
>accepts command injection through video titles, notifications, sudo helper
>Lua injection through USB device names
>privilege escalation/path injection
>unsafe temporary-file handling
No.42
Use NixOS instead.
No.46
>>40I'm actually looking at it and think I'll try it out on my laptop. If you understand what he(dhh) has achieved, it's quite impressive.
No.47
>>40>heavily AI-assistedThanks for letting me know it's crap.
No.48
>>47take your clanker hate elsewhere please
it's honestly super great if you watch the latest talk that dhh gave me explains a lot about the process of employing our friendly monkeys, and to take that to an OS level where it knows where everything exists is simply awesome. also official CUA.ai support! Dual cursors are awesome!
No.49
It's likely a genuine project but it needs time to get more mature IMO. DHH's idea is cool and he's a somewhat cool guy, one can at least give him the chance and a few years to try making something good
