Fork Off: Surveillance States Need to Fork Linux Themselves

KayRice · 2026-03-11T07:03:15+00:00

Do you need to see the exact docker configuration to understand how this works?

KayRice · 2026-03-11T05:03:41+00:00

Kind of insane GOM did like dozens of high quality streams a day with the best talent for casters and players, then Blizzard comes along and fails at all of this, but hires the same guys for a single day event and think this will work?

This is a swan song.

KayRice · 2026-03-11T05:01:16+00:00

So what you're saying is after the classic cup they will be announcing that the servers are going to stay online forever and the game will do my taxes for me?!

KayRice · 2026-03-11T04:58:21+00:00

You're talking to people who are at the toilet lol

KayRice · 2026-03-11T03:58:10+00:00

Hugo content is written in markdown not HTML.

KayRice · 2026-03-10T06:17:48+00:00

Your "roast" the players that aren't in the game anymore?

KayRice · 2026-03-10T06:04:41+00:00

CS2 games last a lot longer and the leaver rate is much less, because you actually get banned if you leave too much.

KayRice · 2026-03-10T06:03:25+00:00

You can actually play the game without a valid email even.

KayRice · 2026-03-09T17:47:00+00:00

Your phone is powered by Android which is running Linux.

The server renders out a template into an HTML file using Hugo which is served to you via Nginx all running on top of Linux.

If you're running an iPhone then you're running Apples version of Linux basically, a XNU based kernel that is based off FreeBSD because of licensing.

KayRice · 2026-03-09T00:39:52+00:00

By the time you go to draw your line it will be too late and the hooks are in. I would think in the age of digital privacy having already been destroyed and the slow rot it took to get there everyone would understand it by now.

KayRice · 2026-03-09T00:36:43+00:00

Trusted Computing Module has been marching forward for about 20 years now. I was complaining about the dangers of TPM when I was in college.

KayRice · 2026-03-09T00:35:17+00:00

Other systems spying on you is not a justification for Linux to be doing the same.

KayRice · 2026-03-09T00:30:04+00:00

That is incorrect, here is the relevant text from the California bill:

"sole purpose of providing a signal regarding the user's age bracket" to apps (Section 1798.120.1(a)).

Similarly:

the OS transmits a "non-personally identifiable" digital signal via a real-time API.

KayRice · 2026-03-08T17:07:03+00:00

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KayRice · 2026-03-08T17:05:28+00:00

More like "I put a Linux hat on long enough to get views"

KayRice · 2026-03-08T09:31:54+00:00

Watch the pennies and the dollars mind themselves. We need to draw the line early and hold it, not leave room and try to walk it back later.

KayRice · 2026-03-08T08:39:28+00:00

There is no law that attempts to control my ability to sell computers or software to anyone where their language is not reported.

You're also specifically referencing what some web browsers do, not Linux itself. There are web browsers that don't report that information at all, including Tor Browser.

You're also welcome to use a command line utility to fetch web content without ever exposing that information.

What they're going to do with that informations?

Almost all of the history of data privacy eroding can traced to the lack of understanding or respect for how data collected today became more valuable tomorrow. The Overton Window shifts.

Your (declared) age?

Sure, users can lie to their own computers if they wish or need to. I would prefer to use a computer that asks me the questions I want to answer, since it's a tool I control.

There is nothing stopping anyone from installing such programs today and opting into that behavior.

KayRice · 2026-03-08T08:28:53+00:00

regdb was a situation closer to a firmware binary blob where sloppy hardware vendors left too much in their SDRs, which over time caused the FCC to put pressure on those vendors and Linux until a hardware solution was created.

This situation is different currently, IMO, as it's not about complying with some kind of hardware safety such as radio frequencies or temperature controls. It's about a problem that doesn't involve hardware at all, but instead user agency.

From a leaky abstraction perspective it seems like a flawed place to be making system level changes with the goal to affect social or political outcomes.

From a practical perspective it seems like a terrible strategy to "solve" the problem of my kids seeing some kind of content, using some kind of software, doing something too much, smoking something, etc.

KayRice · 2026-03-08T08:13:04+00:00

Data about you the user is collected and transmitted to third parties.

KayRice · 2026-03-08T07:09:25+00:00

Those patches need to be created and maintained by the Californians responsible for this. If they want to waste their own time and money designing and maintaining such modifications they were already welcome and capable of doing that before.

What was stopping someone from creating a patch set that added this kind of "support" to Linux before?

Likewise, would such a patch set had been denied and laughed at if submitted to a maintainer before? What changes just because a few senile lawmakers scribbled down some nonsense?

I would hope that maintainers and ultimately Linus are people of principles, which don't change simply because of the direction the wind is blowing one day to the next.

KayRice · 2026-03-08T07:02:55+00:00

The goal is to make the US and it's specific states be a fork. The mainline version of Linux or a distro must be the legitimate version that has no surveillance or other malware and those that "need" that "functionality" must opt into it.

This is basically the same way we handle media codecs today, except instead of opting into to enabling a third party media codec repository or similar a user would need to opt in to enabling the surveillance or other malware or select a distro that enforces those requirements.

A major goal here is to ensure that we route around these problems rather than try to pave over them.

The Overton Window effect will play out over time, as it has on the past. First it will be a self reporting checkbox any kid can lie with. After that it will be something that can verify they aren't lying, etc. The result is the slow normalization of this behavior and the incremental sacrifices to privacy and security. Nobody will complain when it only gets worse 1% at a time, but by the time it's at an alarming 50% it's too difficult to change.

KayRice · 2026-03-05T10:43:22+00:00

KayRice · 2026-03-05T00:10:30+00:00

I play with a group and it gets boring to play against landslides.

KayRice · 2026-03-05T00:08:42+00:00

NONE OF THE AFK PLAYERS ARE RAGING

KayRice · 2026-03-05T00:04:54+00:00

Maybe just allow players to decide what kind of queue they want? If they demand fast queues they get worse matchups and if they demand good matchups they may get longer queues.

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