Jokes on them. I’m a pirate who likes Linux.
Arrgh! Me matey! It’s off to Antarctica with us, then! Penguins ho!
When Linux becomes illegal, only outlaws will run Linux.
When Linux becomes illegal the internet ceases to exist. Show me 1 Windows or Mac powered network switch, router, edge firewall you’ve ever known. I’ll wait
Aren’t they mostly based on some sort of BSD (at least the smaller ones)? Would probably still not be legal in that scenario but I gotta be pedantic…
Also, Android and Chrome OS are Linux distros.
oh they’ll put a clause that allows for that, but only if it’s made in America and has a locked down bootloader…
National security concerns 😊
Just realized that would mean FLOCK dies. -several thousand downsides, but that- THAT would be an upside.
You assume Flock was ever legal in the first place
Laws are for the poor, they don’t apply to the rich.
The only way to stop a bad guy with Linux is with a good guy with Linux
Come join my outlaw gang. We have pie.
Pi. Raspberry pi.
I will make the raspberry pie.
My raspberry pi is a wifi hotspot. Its SSID is CreamPi
I am curious how they will ask for ID for each IOT devices ? Does a ring 0 micro linux need an ID before loading th OS ?
Governments can’t even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.
Finally torrenting linux ISO’s will no longer work as an euphemism for pirating.
Torrenting “LLM training data”
I seed so Gen Ai can reach AGI sooner! /s
Has that been considered working?
No it’s not.
Hell, if only they made Linux open source so that we could change anything we didn’t like about the age verification stuff.
And be denied access to services
Yes, freedom requires giving up some things.
If a service requires it they are not worth using.
I hear the latest efforts (mainly from the System76 guy) to counter bad bills about age verification/attestation have brought amendments to exempt open source operating systems, in at least one jurisdiction.
So the pedo-cabal’s plan to protect our children (by doxing them), has a gaping hole in it.
Oh however will the pedo-cabal manage to protect our children now?
:3
Yeah they’ll drop this as soon as they realise The Dreaded Kali Linux Hacker OS System is open source tbh. First cyber attack, they’ll realise they didnt know the owner of the malicious device’s age, cry on TV then amend the law to include it.
Meanwhile the number of school shootings will remain the same, foster care systems will be underfunded, but the children will be rendered safe.
Remind me, if everyone is a child until proven otherwise as implemented by discord etc, are they still allowed to collect my data when I dont age verify? Can I sue them for collecting what could have been a toddlers information as they couldn’t possibly have known I wasn’t one?
Its all so fucking stupid.
is this hyperbole or is that actually a thing?
Sir, this is a meme community
nowdays you never know
Is a bit hyperbole at the moment, where the concrete lawd are basically “os asks user for age on honor system and relays that to websites”. Linux distros can add that without much real controversy.
Proven is some are seeking laws that require the os to actually verify age, which in practice means locking things behind something like a Google account and having an online account vendor process your real identity and really validate your age. Under such a regime, Linux desktop as it exists today becomes infeasible. Also Microsoft can say they absolutely cannot allow local accounts anymore by law and force Microsoft accounts…
Tl;Dr: is that age verification laws are being pushed heavily, and Linux users are strongly against that sorta stuff. Most developers openly say they won’t comply, thus their software is in violation.
Fuck 'em.
If I can touch it, I can own it.
Just sounds like they want to force you to have operating systems that monitor you at every turn.
Palantir is hungry.
Explicitly yes. With a side bonus that their donors are enriched.
Dude can you all stop with this nonsense, all servers are run on linux, they will never be illegal!
Not for the servers running software for our billionaire overlords. But for you and me?
The laws generally apply to devices that connect to the internet and run an OS, excluding simple appliances or legacy offline systems. Smartphones and Tablets: (iOS, Android) Personal Computers: (Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Linux distributions with GUIs that connect to the internet)
Means just use Linux without GUI and you have a bypass smh 🙂🙂👍👍
W3m ftw
Do it. Make the outernet. I’m sure you’ll do a much better job of controlling it then
outlawnix
Archive everything you can. Best time for a personal database was yesterday, second best time is now.
What sort of stuff do you archive and how do you do it?
Start with something like Kiwix. You can use that to download ALL of wikipedia. You can keep that on a thumb drive.
After that, start thinking hard about what you might want to access.
I like GOG for gaming, because I can download the DRM-free installer without the need for the internet later.
Whatever eBook library you “own” right now? Download it.
Do you still have a bunch of DVDs? Preserve them.
Any CDs sitting around? Rip those tracks.
It’s as simple of finding out how to download a local copy of any media or software you want to store for safekeeping, ideally with backups on a separate drive/machine.
Some good places to start would be linux ISOs and Wikipedia (both are freely distributed and quite useful im times of need), but obviously for any media secured by a paywall or not meant for us to “own”, you’ll have to find your own path. Probably would be worth checking the piracy lemmy comm.
Personally, I archive everything. I stream nothing.
Wikipedia is a good shout. What Linux isos are worth hoarding? I tend to prefer rolling release distros and their isos are usually useful for system rescue, but normally rely on having an internet connection to actually do the install so probably wouldn’t be much use in an outage.
