Damn 😱 imaging not being able to download your OS because of where you live right now ...

[raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@_elena @luca I'm not, Silicon Valley has loads of money for lobbying, this is straight up a gift to them they pushed through while there was so much going on nobody would be looking. CA (especially LA county) may be pretty left leaning but the leadership is pretty much always centrist/corporatist dem, companies like Disney/Google/Apple/etc pretty much always get what they ask for. The only reason texas didn't do it first is because the companies that will make money from this aren't HQ there

[smeikx@graz.social]

@stroughtonsmith Or maybe don’t just wait and do something against this instead. 🙃

[lwriemen@social.librem.one]

@_elena @luca Former POTUS Reagan came out of California, and he was the match that lit this fascist fire. California has a long history of right wing bullshit, which is why the Dead Kennedys wrote the song, California Uber Alles.
#DumbAllOver

[alephoto85@fedi.bobadin.icu]

@_elena @nixCraft

https://www.midnightbsd.org/download/

Yes 😢

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@freekymage @nixCraft
How would "live" distros be affected? If the OS is running off of a flash drive, not installed, and no user account is created, are they exempt? If so, it blows a big hole in the effectiveness of this law. Little Billy can just boot off a flash drive and watch his p0rn.

[Guest]

@nixCraft not saying this is ok of course, but haven't Cuban residents seen the same kind of thing for a long time? (Or any other places embargoed by the US)

[vlakicas@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Living free on our planet, not other planet in our solar system.

[freekymage@ieji.de]

@BoloMKXXVIII @nixCraft that question is exactly why lawyers are getting involved. Don't forget that different places will have variations on this law, so even if your loophole works in 1 place it might not work in another.

[contrasocial@mastodon.social]

@poulet_benoit @nixCraft

True, but the EU and UK are attempting to do the same bs. People in general are pretty stupid.

[contrasocial@mastodon.social]

@knapjack @_elena @nixCraft

And Newsom actually thinks he's going to be president in 2028, such a deluded fool.

[troy_frizzell@mstdn.social]

@nixCraft

I mean, no.

No, you can't have my ID.

I make zero effort to be anonymous on line. I post under my name. But I will never NEVER scan my ID or upload a photo of it. It simply will not happen.

What's that? You require me to give my ID to use your software? OK. I won't use your software.

Fuck you.

I was an adult before computers came to the desktop. I know how to live without them. I also know how to buy and use old things.

So again, fuck you very much. No.

[swampputty@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft make sure you have a good VPN. Also smart to download ISO's and store them in a safe place incase you ever need to flash a new ISO.
esspically with the California lawsuit right now.
stay safe everyone!

[woe2you@beige.party]

@nixCraft I feel like the Venn diagram of "people who want to use BSD" and "people who know how to use a VPN" is a circle, so there's actually nobody unable to download it because of where they live.

[hansvschoot@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft how epic, 2026 and we finally have a valid reason to torrent all those Linux / BSD images 😁

[grumble209@kolektiva.social]

@nixCraft I'm so old that I remember downloading meaningful crypto packages from non-US mirror sites because US sites were not allowed "to export controlled munitions like cryptography".

Either you downloaded better .a and .so library files, or your machine was stuck with stinky, smelly, NSA-tainted DES.

The US has always been bizarre, and often because "think of the children!"

[pickleglitch@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Thanks Gavin Newsom!

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft

So IP blocking would be the next logical option to implement actual download blocking 🤔

[tehrealgh5tbusters@woof.tech]

@nixCraft Let the underground OS trade commence.

[fchaix@piaille.fr]

@nixCraft
Is it time for us to revive the good old Finger protocol?
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1288

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@contrasocial @knapjack @nixCraft it's never gonna happen, given his shenanigans of the past few years, sigh