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

[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

[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…