TechTakes

2235 readers

165 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

dgerard@awful.systems

163

Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (awful.systems)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

89 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In case you haven't heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about "[creating] a big tent" for open source".

If you've got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should've been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav's actions - recommend checking them out.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The absolute shitshow that's been some of the most visible open source projects recently just reinforces my thoughts that one cannot establish trust (and therefore support) with any project leads unless they show their political affiliations upfront. The same way we demand to see a Foss license, we should expect to see what kind of person someone is before we use our community support to elevate them in any position of technical authority.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes this completely sucks. I assume most open source projects are run by leftists of some kind and hate finding out I'm wrong.

I have a framework 13 that I planned to use for years to come.

Really wish they would have at least corrected this shit when it was pointed out to them.

Guess I'm just going to run this thing until it breaks but they won't be getting any more of my money.

[–] rook@awful.systems 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Shoutout to gleam.run whose web page has always (AFAIK) said

Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 6 points 2 days ago

They're very based.

And if you click on the star (desktop only), the background becomes a pride flag :D

I'd love to use gleam but I don't think it's production-ready yet, so I'll stick with elixir.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 4 days ago

Nice, the language itself also looks pretty cool, which you love to see.