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

[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.