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.
Finally torrenting linux ISO’s will no longer work as an euphemism for pirating.
Torrenting “LLM training data”
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
Governments can’t even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.
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.
Maybe in America. The rest of us with normal governments will be fine.
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.
Jokes on them. I’m a pirate who likes Linux.
Arrgh! Me matey! It’s off to Antarctica with us, then! Penguins ho!
They can’t really make linux illegal. They’ll make selling devices without age verification illegal. Essentially making selling devices with an OS that doesn’t play ball illegal.
They can’t make it illegal, but with a little frog-boiling, they can make it functionally useless for visiting websites you might need to use. No identity verification = no access, and Linux = no identity verification.
I’m certain a “John Doe” false identity signature would be trivial to create.
Not if they use cryptographic signing.
Browser sends website the signed identity verification, then the website checks the signature against some key in a list of trusted identity verifiers. With the verification responsibility being pushed to the OS vendors, that will be a short list of tech megacorporations. And maybe Canonical or Red Hat, if we’re lucky.
Indeed, but wouldn’t the inevitable database breach give ample “identities” for anonymous users to cycle through (similar to aurora for play store infrastructure)?
To be clear, the circumstances are not good and ideally this destructive behavior is averted, but there will be maneuvers which can be taken if worst comes to worst.
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.
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.
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?
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.
