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How would you implement this on something like Arch Linux where you basically build your whole OS from scratch?
by benbristow 11mo ago
How would you implement this on something like Arch Linux where you basically build your whole OS from scratch?
- adastra22 11mo agoDoesn't matter. If you can't find a way to do so, then it becomes illegal to distribute or use Arch Linux.
- iamnothere 11mo agoAs an American I will happily help my EU colleagues ignore this absurd law by any means necessary, even if it requires sending SD cards affixed to letters through the mail or embedding them in 3D printed trinkets. Or, more likely, simply emailing gzipped installers or providing convenient download links that circumvent whatever firewall is eventually set up (assuming this law sticks around, but it won’t).
- benbristow 11mo agoOr use the censorship resistant protocol known as BitTorrent. Downloading Linux ISOs just became illegal for real this time.
- benbristow 11mo agoLiterally no one is going to get arrested for installing Arch Linux.
- Hizonner 11mo ago... because they won't be able to, because the project will have been shut down.
- benbristow 11mo agoAfaik Arch isn't German, so why would it be shut down?
- Hizonner 11mo agoThis is part of a wave of similar bullshit worldwide. And we have a bunch of countries trying to enforce their bullshit extraterritorially. Also, your lack of concern for any people or projects who may happen to actually be German is... disturbing.
- panja 11mo agoNo it won't