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

Come join my outlaw gang. We have pie.

Pi. Raspberry pi.

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 ?

Torrenting "LLM training data"

Has that been considered working?

Thats the spirit.

Explicitly yes. With a side bonus that their donors are enriched.

Palantir is hungry.

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.

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)

Unwise invite.

Arrgh! Me matey! It's off to Antarctica with us, then! Penguins ho!

The CSAM guys are the very ones attacking Linux.

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.

Just means we will have to wipe the preinstalled OS, as is already the custom. Also means there will likely be efforts to lock down consumer devices similar to how Android OEMs make it difficult to impossible to unlock the bootloader

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 🙂🙂👍👍

What sort of stuff do you archive and how do you do it?

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."

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.

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...

Sir, this is a meme community