When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
Same here. I originally wanted something big and complex, but I went with Linux Mint. I am quite comfortable with mint. I might move up to Fedora (while literally wearing a fedora…).
It is fucking insane how they’re so intense in their authoritarianism while somehow claiming to be all about freedom. Palantir’s technological republic post is really fucking insane, claiming that public officials need to be absolutely above criticism (thus giving THEM the only right to privacy) while the rest of us need a microscope attached to every aspect of our lives.
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’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.
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…
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.
My raspberry pi is a wifi hotspot. Its SSID is CreamPi
I will make the raspberry pie.
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 ?
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 🙂🙂👍👍
W3m ftw
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.
Fuck 'em.
If I can touch it, I can own it.
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.
Palantir is hungry.
Explicitly yes. With a side bonus that their donors are enriched.
More of a reason to use Linux. Fuck the tyrants.
Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point 😈
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
Do it. Make the outernet. I’m sure you’ll do a much better job of controlling it then
At least in the US there’s precedent that source code is protected speech, so we may see the year of the Gentoo desktop.
sigh LinuxFromScratch desktop evenually? See yall on the other side guys, good luck to us all (we’ll need it TT)
Compiled code ought to be too then tbh.
