lrvick

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by lrvick 2mo ago
At least one person understands my intentions. You made my day.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
People used to have to die in masses for freedoms in this country. If the worst thing one could face for defending freedoms is some jail time until bail gets posted while the law determines their innocence then anyone who caves to pressure
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by lrvick 2mo ago
If someone is stupid enough to try to target me over my open source Linux contributions, the EFF would be my first call.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Agreed. They are never going to actually come for niche Linux distros. All the more reason I am pushing back on all the fear. The correct response from the Linux community is to say "fuck off", and get back to making their distros
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Meta is a company. I am an individual.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Okay well if they want to jail me for being unable to comply with violating the privacy of the users of the Linux distro I work on it. Cool, I guess. They would sure be wasting a lot of resources and public goodwill with absolutely no posit
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I run stagex on servers and workstations baremetal, however admittedly minimal. It can run lots of ways.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
If they are successful at doing so, then those distribution methods were too brittle. I expect in response one of the maintainers outside US jurisdiction of their own volition publishes via bittorrent, tor hidden services, and embedding blo
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I could probably play games like this, but I outright do not believe this law is constitutionally valid, and believe it must be challenged by anyone they try to wield it against. I would refuse to even give the appearance of compliance in h
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I could, at worst, resign from the project. International maintainers would carry on the work, but I will never be compelled to write code I do not wish to write.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
No one is asking me to add code to stagex right now, so there is no actual legal situation I am in. I am not even an owner of the project, I founded the project, but am now just one of many volunteer contributors. Are they going to mandate
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Being afraid and hoping you are never forced to add code to a project you do not want to add is letting the chilling effects work as designed. We need to all loudly and publicly say "Fuck off, I will defend my rights if needed", s
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by lrvick 2mo ago
And the DMCA has been rightfully weakened to the point that archive.org has every Nintendo Gamecube game ever made hosted for the public, for years, uncontested. So too will these other silly laws go I expect.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
The fact people are scared, or scared for me, is in and of itself a problem. But lets all wait for nothing at all to happen. Then confidence can grow over time that this is unenforceable in any effective way. They should go back to trying t
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Opencollective collects funds to distribute to open source project maintainers. Not that it matters. We have never collected a single donation, but figured it was worth a shot. lol.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
But someone could attach a GPU in the offline OS and use it to generate porn with local AI models! Oh no! How will we stop them?!
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by lrvick 2mo ago
https://stagex.tools
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by lrvick 2mo ago
How many jailbreaks has Apple had now? I even have an Apple DRM bypass not public yet. We will be fine ;)
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Pretty far fetched an Illinois legislator hires a hitman for a FOSS developer. But to humor you, if they did, the distro would carry right on, so they would be taking a lot of risk with no progress on their objective. I only sign like 1&#x2
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Some time in jail or having to fight a fine for refusing to implement features in the constitutionally protected free speech code they author? If that is what it takes. I do not want to go to jail, but if that is the only way to get to an o
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I specialize in TPM security and know plenty of ways to bypass it with physical access to consumer laptop hardware, and would gladly make that easy for the public if needed. But I hope they try this. It will be funny to watch the public hum
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by lrvick 2mo ago
No need to hack the law. Our FOSS code is constitutionally protected free speech and I would defend on those grounds. The technical design of the project just makes it so no one can force changes on the distro unwanted by the maintainer tea
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I will never show fear to tech-illiterate bullies trying to compromise constitutionally protected rights. That is how freedoms get quietly lost. Users need to see that the people in positions of influence in FOSS projects they trust are not
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by lrvick 2mo ago
And it will be wiped immediately as usual, so sure whatever.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
stagex accepts tax deductable donations via opencollective but we do not actually have a registered legal entity, so yes, probably fine. I mostly just want to make it clear this type of legislation is unenforceable and a waste of everyone&#
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by lrvick 2mo ago
I am in the USA, but I literally cannot comply because by design it is not possible for me to ship changes without the international maintainer team agreeing to them. And Illinois legislators have no power over them. Also, we are not a comp
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by lrvick 2mo ago
Linux distro founder here (stagex) I will never be compelled to implement this, and would never merge it. Every release requires quorum signatures by an international maintainer team, and the distro is designed to work offline-first, with s
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by lrvick 2mo ago
> Enabling "unknown sources" does not make my device less secure. The setting is also disingenuously named: It is in fact "known sources" I am installing (not "sideloading") software from. It is just not a s
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by lrvick 2mo ago
My daily driver for family, friends, and coworkers is Element/Matrix.
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by lrvick 2mo ago
When it is 100% freely licensed open source software I can modify and compile myself, I will be happy to give it a shot.

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