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       >> 1  Anonymous Techie  2026-09-18 11:21 ID:Yo++6Fgk
         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-subscriptionsReported security issues:
         
         > >accepts command injection through video titles, notifications, sudo helper
         >Lua injection through USB device names
         >privilege escalation/path injection
         >unsafe temporary-file handlinghttps://files.catbox.moe/m19ksh.png
       
       >> 2  Anonymous Techie  2026-09-19 19:31 ID:Heaven
         ai slop
       
       
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