Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.

Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.

In a video posted on YouTube, the creator of Solus and AerynOS called the money behind DHH’s distro absurd and promised to do it better with nothing. His answer is Barney, a Rust-based tool for building Linux distros from source.

    • dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz
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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, but in that case what keeps me away is that an asshole broke their system.

      As it stands, my argument is about bad people writing good code. That is definitely not the case here, so I am sorry if I robbed anyone’s time.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        no, you’re making a salient argument. I don’t want to dump a book length (/s) idea I’ve had brewing in my head about this, so we can have a little chat. I’ll just throw the broadest strokes to you.

        1. What do you do with unethical scientific advances? Eg : Data on human limits on heat/cold/sleep deprivation obtained through torture? Can you use them in ethical projects after?
        2. How does a culture perpetuate? What are permanently completed projects? If an untrustworthy party is working on a project that for now seems fair, can you rely on it while its still being worked on and have faith that you can use that to go forward and build new things without getting stabbed in the back after?
        3. Curation. By choosing something curated by a “bad person TM” you are not giving opportunities of propagation to a project maintained and created by a “good person TM”.
        • dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz
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          2 hours ago

          Tough questions.

          1. I can only think of extreme cases, so I’d be really grasping in the dark. My thoughts went towards euthanasia and other health and safety standards, but definitely weak legs on this side of the argument. Would you define the moon race as something positive? Because that seems to be based on the wrong things.
          2. Cultures aren’t meant to last forever? Or from another end of it, they morph into each and borrow and steal. Maybe I’m skirting that first question. No permanently completed projects, because projects in use need to be maintained. I’d say it’s probably a bad idea to start a project with knowing the other one can rob you of your time.
          3. We’re all looking for good curators, but most of us don’t know it. If we don’t give attention to the ‘bad ones’, will the ‘good ones’ prosper? Doesn’t the attention the bad one gets bring light to something that will inspire new good ones to act?

          That last part felt a bit unhinged. The heat might be getting to me. Thanks for the thoughts, I tried to leave out the nazi programmer aspect of it all in my reply. I can lean into it for some devil’s advocacy, but I’m pretty sure that’s not why we’re here.

          There’s definitely useless data, but information in itself is mostly harmless. Maybe it makes sense working together with someone bad until you have enoughgood people around to branch off and create a well-working, clean version of your product. I am totally in the dark here, the last time I did anything programming related was making a batch file in windows 20 years ago.