Damn. Didn’t they also just sign a deal with GrapheneOS? Real disappointed in this duality.

Thanks for pointing some of that out. Some of the commentary said it was “AI-forward” but that’s a sensical unpackingnof what that means.

Updated my comment to include some of these details.

Tried to go down the rabbithole one why everyone us making noise about this guy / his distro.

Spolier: the hole is not deep at all. Ol’ boy took ArchLinux, pre-configured a bunch of things to be ready to roll out the box in a nice (?) looking format.

Guy behind it (DHH) did some car racing and runs a tech company as well as having made some neat (if not exactly widely well regarded - Ruby on Rails) tools.

All the above is pretty low severity on the reasons to not like the guy, imo. Real reason for the hate appears to be that he was actively supportive of a far-right British politician an anti-islam activist (with his own host of problematic issues) and helped with the anti-immigrant protests in 2025.

I’m not familiar the with politician he supported (Tommy Robinson) nor with that batch of protests, so maybe my nonchalance is understating the issue. To me the headline should read “Elon Musk wannabe tried to say he’s like Elon Musk. Internet left in turmoil”.

Malicious VPN is FreeVPN.One

Maybe shouldn’t be trying to save people clicks, but I would have appreciated this in a top comment.