Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point 😈
When Linux becomes illegal, only outlaws will run Linux.
Come join my outlaw gang. We have pie.
Pi. Raspberry pi.
My raspberry pi is a wifi hotspot. Its SSID is CreamPi
I will make the raspberry pie.
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
Also, Android and Chrome OS are Linux distros.
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.
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.
Finally torrenting linux ISO’s will no longer work as an euphemism for pirating.
Torrenting “LLM training data”
I seed so Gen Ai can reach AGI sooner! /s
Has that been considered working?
Governments can’t even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.
Fuck em.
Thats the spirit.
More of a reason to use Linux. Fuck the tyrants.
At least in the US there’s precedent that source code is protected speech, so we may see the year of the Gentoo desktop.
Compiled code ought to be too then tbh.
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
“When I go to [do normal, totally uncontroversial thing]… and [nonsensical catastrophe that I made up in my head happens].”
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.”
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 pry it out of my solid state drives 😤
Unwise invite.
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.
Then I’ll die an outlaw
then you move to gentoo, BSD or retro computing using existing cds/floppies/usbs
