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 injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
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.
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?
is this hyperbole or is that actually a thing?
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.
Sir, this is a meme community
nowdays you never know
Fuck 'em.
If I can touch it, I can own it.
outlawnix
Do it. Make the outernet. I’m sure you’ll do a much better job of controlling it then
Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point 😈
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.
No it’s not.
Then I’ll die an outlaw
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.
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.
then you move to gentoo, BSD or retro computing using existing cds/floppies/usbs
