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

[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

[twit_terrorist@mastodont.cat]

@nixCraft Remember, it is for children's sake.

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@nixCraft
"for desktop use in the state of California"

It's for my holiday laptop officer. I only use it on vacation out of state.

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@toriver @henrik @nixCraft afaik you can't access the internet with these

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@WindOfChange @henrik @nixCraft at least devices that let you access the internet, eg. smart TVs

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@BoloMKXXVIII @freekymage @nixCraft IANAL, but I think exactly the same as any os that doesn't care about age verification (yet).
"Evidence" of wrongdoing would probably primarily be server logs either way - no one is stopping you from reinstalling or restoring an earlier snapshot of an installed os

[fooflington@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft I find it obnoxious that this sort of geoblocking is put upon the origin webserver to prevent someone in a different jurisdiction from breaking the law (without prejudice to whether or not that law is just and interpreted correctly)

[losefriendsandalienatepeople@mastodon.social]

I wonder if we can avoid the new law by tweaking the distro enough so it's not considered an "OS."
Can we split it into sections the user then compiles?

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@nixCraft I'd just refuse.to comply as a matter if.principle because #Cyberfascism is always bad.

• Same reason why @delta don't integrate #Govware #Backdoors and snitch on users despite #Russia's #Cyberfascists (#Roskomnadzor) sueing them…

[frutigeraero00@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft There could be ways to skip this somehow? Like a new OS that doesnt need that age verification.... Im not into informatics but im learning..

Instead of education, they want to monitor us. This is just a trial for bigger data recopilation.

[veronica@mastodon.online]

@hansvschoot Yeah, Linux image torrents would work perfectly here. Good reason to keep them running/uploading too.

@nixCraft

[toriver@mas.to]

@punissuer @henrik @nixCraft Well, if that restriction is in the law, and it is less broad than it sounded at first…

[lerxst@az.social]

@slayer256 @nixCraft the point of these laws isn't to enforce them. It's something to add to your charges when they already want to target you. So feel free to ignore them, but if/when some LE agency decides you're next, that's just one more thing they'll tack on.