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
Oh they don’t want to ban linux. Just make you verify ID on OS level.
Big server hosts can do that on linux too.
oh they’ll put a clause that allows for that, but only if it’s made in America and has a locked down bootloader…
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.
Also, Android and Chrome OS are Linux distros.
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…
Come join my outlaw gang. We have pie.
Pi. Raspberry pi.
My raspberry pi is a wifi hotspot. Its SSID is CreamPi
I will make the raspberry pie.
The only way to stop a bad guy with Linux is with a good guy with Linux
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 ?
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
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?
Governments can’t even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.
Fuck em.
Thats the spirit.
Just sounds like they want to force you to have operating systems that monitor you at every turn.
Explicitly yes. With a side bonus that their donors are enriched.
Palantir is hungry.
More of a reason to use Linux. Fuck the tyrants.
Dude can you all stop with this nonsense, all servers are run on linux, they will never be illegal!
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 🙂🙂👍👍
Not for the servers running software for our billionaire overlords. But for you and me?
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
If a service requires it they are not worth using.
Yes, freedom requires giving up some things.
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.
At least in the US there’s precedent that source code is protected speech, so we may see the year of the Gentoo desktop.
Compiled code ought to be too then tbh.
sigh LinuxFromScratch desktop evenually? See yall on the other side guys, good luck to us all (we’ll need it TT)
Would be very funny if we manage to eliminate Linux OS distributions on the internet before we eliminate CSAM on the internet.
I’m not holding my breath on either.
The CSAM guys are the very ones attacking Linux.
Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point 😈
They can pry it out of my solid state drives 😤
Unwise invite.
“When I go to [do normal, totally uncontroversial thing]… and [nonsensical catastrophe that I made up in my head happens].”
There are a lot of bills that threaten privacy and could, if taken to a logical conclusion, result in the criminalizaion of open-source operating systems. This isn’t as nonsensical as it was ten years ago. I think it’s still very unlikely, but it’s been moved into the realm of “reasonable possibility.”
