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    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.

    [–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 29 points 1 day ago

    When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!

    [–] adam_y@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

    [–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    And be denied access to services

    [–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 11 points 1 day ago

    If a service requires it they are not worth using.

    [–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

    Yes, freedom requires giving up some things.

    [–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Dude can you all stop with this nonsense, all servers are run on linux, they will never be illegal!

    [–] eierschaukeln@kbin.earth 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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 πŸ™‚πŸ™‚πŸ‘πŸ‘

    Not for the servers running software for our billionaire overlords. But for you and me?

    [–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Fuck 'em.

    If I can touch it, I can own it.

    [–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    When Linux becomes illegal, only outlaws will run Linux.

    [–] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

    The only way to stop a bad guy with Linux is with a good guy with Linux

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    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

    [–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    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 😊

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    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

    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…

    [–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

    Laws are for the poor, they don't apply to the rich.

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    [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

    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 ?

    [–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Come join my outlaw gang. We have pie.

    Pi. Raspberry pi.

    [–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    My raspberry pi is a wifi hotspot. Its SSID is CreamPi

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    Do it. Make the outernet. I'm sure you'll do a much better job of controlling it then

    [–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 10 points 2 days ago

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

    [–] FlordaMan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Finally torrenting linux ISO’s will no longer work as an euphemism for pirating.

    [–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Torrenting "LLM training data"

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    [–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Just sounds like they want to force you to have operating systems that monitor you at every turn.

    [–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

    Palantir is hungry.

    [–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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

    [–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Thats the spirit.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 points 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

    [–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

    Then I'll die an outlaw

    Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point 😈

    [–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

    They can pry it out of my solid state drives 😀

    More of a reason to use Linux. Fuck the tyrants.

    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

    The CSAM guys are the very ones attacking Linux.

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