• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
    63·
    2 days ago

    Governments can’t even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • yaroto98@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      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.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 days ago

          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.

          • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            81·
            2 days ago

            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.

            • pivot_root@lemmy.world
              5·
              2 days ago

              Good point. I’m not keen on personally comitting fraud, but with the inevitable data breaches in mind, identity verification would do absolutely nothing to deter malicious actors.

    • subignition@fedia.io
      10·
      2 days ago

      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

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Hell, if only they made Linux open source so that we could change anything we didn’t like about the age verification stuff.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    184·
    2 days ago

    “When I go to [do normal, totally uncontroversial thing]… and [nonsensical catastrophe that I made up in my head happens].”

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      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.”

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    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

    • JoshCodesEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
    5·
    1 day ago

    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.