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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61071136

Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 11 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

Gavin Newsom should drop out of politics and stick to shitposting about trump. He's much better at that.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 0 points 26 minutes ago
[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

standing on a San Francisco street corner, opening my trench coat revealing 40 USB sticks

Hey kid, wanna buy illegal Linux?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It doesn't matter if you're, say, Debian, because they'll just put up some symbolic "not intended for use in state X" and then continue doing whatever they were doing, but if you're Red Hat and actually selling something like Red Hat Enterprise Linux to companies in the state, stuff like this is actually a pain in the ass.

And to reiterate a previous comment, the Democrats have a trifecta in both California and Colorado, and the legislation here is something that they are squarely to blame for. I'd really rather that they knock this kind of horseshit off so that I can go back to being upset with the Republican Party.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 30 minutes ago

Good luck trying to strongarm foss. Forks and backups included. Also making all linux servers illegal. This will totally not be circumvented. Get lost with your law. Let the parents do the parenting instead of overreaching on mass surveillance and trying to end any form of online anonymity.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My Steam account is 21 years old and can now buy alcohol. Does that count?

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They don't care. They want your face, retina, fingerprints, DNA. All for their LLMs and so they can sell you something else.

Also to blackmail you later if they think they can or just feel like it... because they will put all that shit on an insecure server and some 13 year old hacker in Turkmenistan will leak it and make a killing (literally and figuratively) with it.

[–] Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

wrose yet blackmail you with their ai created child pron.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

This will immediately get struck down in court even if it passes, though everyone should make their voices heard in saying this is complete nonsense.

Yet another case of antiquated politicians not understanding technology whatsoever.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 0 points 43 minutes ago

Lol, get rekt