Like ur right, it’s total bull that this shit affects you. But the only way they could keep you totally isolated would be to host and finance an entire instance in your county, which ain’t easy for a FOSS project. Like it absolutely sucks that large parts of the world have to bend to the will of American and, to a lesser extent, European tech.
That is literally my point. But i think you’re underestimating how difficult a task like that is not only just to migrate but also to learn new tools, if it were so easy, why haven’t they done it yet? Not to mention the servers and fiscal activity done in the US that will also be targeted and moving to places like the EU where they are already implementing ID verification laws isn’t a good idea. They’d have to move them to other countries that are less likely to do such a thing, but there are no guarantees those countries will stay safe. So do you think the devs would rather do all that or add an age field that is stored locally? If the laws get worse (which they very well might), we should start funding campaigns that try to fight these laws through legal means and through awareness, this is personally what I think is the best idea but I’m open to hearing other methods. Getting mad at this one guy is doing nothing and if anything, will make devs not want to maintain these projects.
They will get kicked off Github by Microsoft when they get somthing in the mail by the state of California for hosting content that vilolates the law.
Look, it sucks that they’re complaying early with no push back ok. Like not even watiing until the law goes into affect at the least. But what else are they supposed to do besides comply, get off Github or lawyer up when the time comes. If you don’t belive they can move off GIthub then we, as a community, should try to support these devs for a legal battle with the state. I don’t care about this guy, I care about long term solutions to protect our privicy. And to answer your question I don’t think many distos are going to switch off Github, that is a laborus task. I just don’t know what other solutions to this problem are besides this
Y’all are going after this guy rn but in a few months we should expect more and more distros to do changes like this. So lets think, what is the real issue going on here? The real issue is that these distros are hosted on GitHub, which is a Microsoft company, and they will comply in a heartbeat and take that shit down if the software is against the law. So the two options are to move off Github or wait until it gets taken down, and lawyer up and fight California and Colorado, which if so, we’d better start a fund as a community for some lawyers for these devs.
STD’s are no joke, wrap it before you tap it.
Who cares lol
Games are about having fun, not market potential or whatever.
OP is used to Windows Remote Desktop SSH is a bit far from that, but still a good option
Would it be different if they were coal miners?
They hating, but his got a chuickle outta me
I should go get lunch
Your callousness is disheartening
WIll the prices not be as bad? Amtrack costs like $270 from Clevland to Colorodo which I know is a travaling half of the country but thats not cheap for me
To real
Well I’m glad someone likes it
That’s sadly not how the world works. The code for the most popular distros is posted and maintained on Github which is owned by Microsoft, a US company. If the state of California sees that Github is hosting illegal content, they will block that site and Microsoft isn’t going to want that site to be blocked in the state that Sillicon Vally is located in. All financial institutions that are located in America are also not going to let themselves be open to any form of lawsuit from the state of California for allowing transactions for “illegal” software and will instead block donations. It sucks but most FOSS projects rely on these shitty companies to run, and these corps would rather sack any project than let the smallest possibility of a lawsuit happen. So basically, the USA sucks and other countries will hopefully stop relying on this shitty country