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- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 6 days ago:
Not sure what is worse:
- The political fight re: should the OS store your age at all. (Linux will be illegal because they didn’t bend).
- The political fight re: should OSes be required to verify your age / identity?
To me, fighting at step 1 has the advantage of keeping the infrastructure from getting built, and the disadvantage of people saying “well, actually, there’s nothing concerning or new here.”
Fighting at step 2 has the advantage of being a clearer threat, but a disadvantage since the prior infrastructure has been built, society has adapted it, and politicians say “think of the children.”
I feel like it is more strategic to fight at every step.
- Comment on marriage update 6 days ago:
“All our fucking neighbors” this is the internet you dont have to self censor
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 1 week ago:
Yucky
- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 1 week ago:
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
- Comment on MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI 1 week ago:
I thought that generative image AI wasn’t able to generate the same person multiple times in different pictures and contexts. When did that change?
- Comment on IYKYK 1 week ago:
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
Reminds me of Djengis Kahn - Moskau https://youtu.be/rFUloAg1iXk
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Just cringe for us oldheads
- Comment on What kinds of public buildings have solariums? 1 week ago:
Thank you all! I continue my search for greenhouses, sun rooms, winter gardens, and also robber baron houses.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 1 week ago:
The one in the picture. I haven’t met any rednecks who didn’t take being a redneck as a point of pride, just like how I dont mind being a city slicker. But don’t call me a citiot
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- Comment on Spicy spicy 1 week ago:
Link to reddit
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 week ago:
Is this like Master Cheifing ?
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 week ago:
Sweet. Thank you
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
From HN comments:
This is just the latest in a series of vibe-coding caused bugs, Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code:
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 week ago:
Explain rip fat cotton
- Comment on Spicy spicy 1 week ago:
Sometimes when I hear teens use the r-slur, I wonder if it is less hurtful these days
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
Thanks, but I didn’t write anything – I just copy pasted the linked article – maybe it is not what the website would want, but I much prefer reading the article in the comments vs having to click the link to read the article.
Raises an interesting philosophical and operational point about how content online should be paid for.
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Thanks
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 1 week ago:
What is this new form of Dungeon Crawler: Stone Soup ?
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Link?
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
The new structure would distribute ownership equally among members, use transparent voting for major decisions, and assign “arbiter” roles to experienced contributors for specific domains
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
A significant portion of the Manjaro team has signed a manifesto demanding the project split from its parent company and restructure as a non-profit.
Sourav Rudra 18 Mar 2026
Manjaro has long been one of the more popular Arch-based Linux distributions, known for making Arch Linux more accessible to everyday users. But it has been losing ground for years, both in terms of user trust and active contributors, and the complaints about its direction have only gotten louder.
Now, things have hit a breaking point, with calls for a fork if the current leadership does not budge.
A Manjaro team member going by the handle “*Aragorn*” has published the “Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto” on the official Manjaro forum. The post lays out a detailed restructuring plan for the project that has been signed by 19 team members, including developers, community managers, moderators, and the company’s technical lead.
Is there any weight behind this?
Manjaro 2.0 Synopsis This document covers the organizational, technical, management, and other changes we (the Manjaro Team, et al) like to see applied to the Manjaro Project. The goal of this document is to serve as a point of discussion, and ultimately, once a consensus on its contents and written goals has been reached, as a guide for the organizational restructuring of the Manjaro Project. Motivation The Manjaro Project has been declining over the past decade. It managed to sustain a sizable user base, yet it stagnated, lost trust, lost almost all of its contributors, and even became a laughingstock for repeatedly making the same mistakes and never even attempting to address these known issues.The manifesto opens by stating that the Manjaro Project has been declining over the past decade, losing trust and contributors while repeating the same mistakes without ever addressing them.
One example cited is the repeated failure to keep TLS certificates current, something volunteers had reportedly already built tooling to fix, only to be ignored.
From there, it goes after the core issue directly. Aragorn writes that Philip Müller (*the project lead*) has been running Manjaro as his own personal venture rather than a community effort, keeping a tight hold on access to both the codebase and the infrastructure.
Aragorn goes on to say that:
The priorities of the Project leadership do not align with those of the developers and community. The current leadership’s goal is to turn Manjaro into a successful business, and thus far, these attempts have mostly failed.
The money situation makes it worse. The manifesto says the company, Manjaro GmbH & Co KG, has not been funneling any of its funds back into the project and has not pursued outside funding either. *What the team wants is a clean separation, where the Manjaro Project is spun off from Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG and restructured as a registered nonprofit association under German law (e.V.).
The new structure would distribute ownership equally among members, use transparent voting for major decisions, and assign “*arbiter*” roles to experienced contributors for specific domains.
Under the proposal, the nonprofit would get full use of the Manjaro trademark through 2029. The company keeps the right to use it too, as long as the two don’t step on each other’s toes. After that initial period, the manifesto nudges the company to declare that **it is willing to hand over full trademark ownership to the nonprofit for €1.
Key assets like the GitHub organizations, the self-hosted GitLab instance, forum, CDN, and the *manjaro.org domain would all move over to the non-profit as well. *The team has also laid out what would happen if they were ignored. The “Our Resolve” section of the manifesto says that *there are three stages (*from 0-2*): waiting for a reply, striking and going public, and finally forking or leaving. Within *Stage 1*, there are three phases that control how public the document gets.
They skipped Phase 2 and jumped straight to Phase 3 a few days ago, moving the manifesto to the public *Announcements section of the forum and archiving the thread on archive.org. If things don’t improve, then a forum lockdown is on the table. Don’t think that this is some kind of witch hunt. One of the Manjaro team members, Dennis ten Hoove, has clarified that the goal of this initiative is not to kick people off the project but to change the leadership and help foster Manjaro as a healthy community-driven project.
Expect a bumpy transition
@dennis1248 had sent me a draft proposal for a possible restructuring of Manjaro project in advance via a DM and told me, that it might be formally submitted by the community to me at a later state. With this post here on the internal hub, it now seems that the community has serious intentions to actually found a non-profit association (German Verein/e.V) and push ahead with a split from the company. Before the company was founded, there had already been suggestions and discussions to establish an association or other forms of legal entity to make the Manjaro project more sustainable. Ultimately, the current corporate structure was chosen as the only legal entity, known as the Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG company. The company has already provided significant financial support to the project in the past and has also employed various Manjaro developers on a freelance basis since 2019 using company funds. I have no personal objections on the subject of founding an association to separate the project from the company. However, at this time, I will not be personally involved in any founding processes of this new legal entity. In this regard, association members should not be involved in the company in any way. Any transfers of company assets or infrastructure require close consultation with the company and yet to be established new legal entity, in order to ensure that the interests of both parties are safeguarded as amicably and smoothly as possible. Any actions that could damage the business must be ruled out. To ensure the smooth operation of the company, assets relevant to the company will remain within the company. Finally, I would like to note that any actions or comments that could damage the business or reputation of myself or the company should be refrained from in order to ensure a mutually agreeable process and avoid legal actions.Philip did break his silence on the matter, saying that **he is fine with an association being formed but wants no part in setting one up himself. He also made clear that handing over any assets would need to happen on the company’s terms and closed with a warning that public statements damaging to either himself or the business could have legal consequences.
The protesting team’s response was measured, where Aragorn pushed back, pointing out that the manifesto already lets the company continue using the infrastructure for as long as it needs to move its operations elsewhere.
Roman Gilg, who signed the manifesto despite being the company’s CTO, put a direct question to Philip, asking whether he had any specific objection to the list of assets outlined in the document. Philip went quiet again.
After days of silence on that question, Aragorn declared that Philip was stalling and announced the team was skipping Phase 2 and moving straight to Phase 3 (*where things stand as of now*).
What can you do?
There’s an active community discussion thread with over 200 replies, started specifically to accommodate talks surrounding the manifesto. If you have thoughts on what’s going wrong with the Manjaro project and what could be done better, you can head over and weigh in.
One of the Manjaro old timers, Stefano Capitani, has recently posted there, sharing his view of the situation:
I have to apologize to all of you. It seems I’ve missed some of the events here. I believe, without fear of contradiction, that I, along with @guinux , @oberon , and of course @philm, am one of the “old timers” still active, if not as much as before, but still active in Manjaro.
I have to be honest, I feel like I’m having flashbacks because we’ve already had these discussions or “storms” in the past. We’ve always come out stronger, and we’ll come out stronger this time too.
*PS: You need to be logged in to the Manjaro forum to view user profiles.
- Comment on Just sitting here, pondering what it's like to be a fleeting piece of Internet lore... 2 weeks ago:
‘Crazy plane lady’ Tiffany Gomas makes career switch two years after viral rant
Mark Daniell - Wed, June 4, 2025 at 8:17 a.m. EDT
Two years after she went viral following a meltdown onboard an American Airlines flight, self-proclaimed “crazy plane lady” Tiffany Gomas is launching a Passes page in which subscribers can pay to see her pose in a bikini.
This week Gomas announced on social media that she will be launching a paid site that will give supporters a behind-the-scenes look at her “chaos: work, workouts, pups, sports, shoes, & fits.”
“I told y’all that mf wasn’t real… but this is…” she wrote on X. “Relaunching now on Passes. Come chat with me here and I’ll answer all your questions.”
On Instagram, she told her 159,000 followers her new PG-13 account will offer an “unfiltered, unexpected and unapologetic” look into her life.
Monthly packages range from $10 to $70 and includes access to her photo uploads, discounts on pay-per-view material, messaging, signed Polaroid pics (for $500), Instagram follow backs (another $500) and other goodies.
Some of her followers were hoping Gomas was going to announce she was joining the racier Only Fans, but the Dallas-based marketing exec opted for Passes, which doesn’t permit explicit content.
Gomas made headlines worldwide in the summer of 2023 after she charged to the front of a plane on an Orlando-bound flight before takeoff declaring one of her fellow passengers was “not real.”
“I’m telling you, I’m getting the f*** off and there’s a reason why I’m getting the f*** off and everyone can either believe it or they can not believe it,” Gomas was seen screaming as she marched down the aisle.
Pointing towards the back of the plane, she declared: “I don’t give two f****, but I am telling you right now – that motherf***** back there is not real. You can sit on this plane, and you can die with them or not. I’m not going to.”
After the incident, Gomas quashed online chatter from conspiracy theorists that she had seen something otherworldly.
“The reason I probably haven’t come out yet is that it’s so cringe,” she said during an appearance on the Pardon My Take podcast.
Gomas said her outburst happened after she got into “a little bit of an altercation” with a fellow passenger.
- Comment on stages of mitosis 2 weeks ago:
Beautiful, but the hair things, esp. 3, dont line up with what I remember from bio
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 2 weeks ago:
The actor alluded to it being correct on twitter.
Personally I’m convinced by the scene jar jar was animated behind padme without a speaking role. Animation is expensive and they must have had a plan for why he had to be there – using force suggestion on her.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 2 weeks ago:
Mall Cop Paul Odo.
Such a good show…. I also wish they had explored it more.
- Comment on How I want to be flirted with 2 weeks ago:
DUMPS LIKE A TRUCK
