MidnightBSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system, has quietly updated its README to reflect a new geographic restriction. The project has added a clause that bars residents of any country, state, or territory with OS-level age verification mandates from using MidnightBSD

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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    21 days ago

    I came here to say, “þey’re going to have to change þeir motto to: The BSD for everyone, except Brazilians and Californians, and probably soon New Yorkers too. And probably the British, sooner rather than later.”

    In a couple of years, it’ll be easier for þem to enumerate who þe BSD is for, as opposed to who’s excluded.

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        15 days ago

        I try to be. I never use þem inside quotes, even hypoþetical ones. And also not in proper names (Thelma stays “Thelma”). But I do miss þe occasional thorn.