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@kirschner @techlore @fsfe @pjitendra Excellent article. The #MidnightBSD situation is super absurd. They decided to become proprietary software over this by punishing users from the "wrong" countries. 🤦

I also like the radical idea that young people are still people who have agency. Good calling out that esp. potentially young devs are being punished by the age verification bullshit.

Exempt Linux and BSDs from age verification laws

<https://www.change.org/p/exempt-linux-and-bsds-from-age-verification-laws>

― petition started on 22nd March by Konstantinos Apostolidis, Greece.

Via <https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/1s4646t/a_petition_to_exempt_linux_bsds_from_age/> | <https://old.reddit.com/r/BSD/duplicates/1s4646t/a_petition_to_exempt_linux_bsds_from_age/> | <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1s6oms1/exempt_linux_and_bsds_from_age_verification_laws/>

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #MidnightBSD #California #Brasil #Brazil #Colorado #Illinois #NewYork #Michigan

Did you know that #systemd already has `emailAddress`, `realName`, and `location` fields? but they where never meant for home users, only enterprise workflows, so adding `birthDate field` isn't really much work, and you could see why systemd doesn't consider that bloat

And this is exactly why systemd is bloated because it doesn't consider lots of things to be bloat in the first place

It's never a good idea to rely on software that serves corporations best interests, because corporations care about profit not principles, #FOSS principles.

#privacy #anonymity #ageverification #ubuntu #fedora #linux #arch #pop_os #midnightbsd #bsd #surveillance #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren

#MidnightBSD Excludes California from Desktop Use Due to Digital Age Assurance Act

https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

#BSD

MidnightBSD developers are building system tools like aged and agectl to comply with age-verification laws including Digital Age Assurance Act.

More details here: https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-age-verification-tools/

#MidnightBSD #aged #agectl #daemon #commandline #DigitalAgeAssuranceAct #AgeVerificationLaw #Legal #Compliance #BSD #Unix

Downloading midnightBSD

When the download progesses slowly as in log 1 just resume from a closer server as shown in log 2

log 2

curl --verbose -C - -L -o MidnightBSD-4.0.3--amd64-disc1.iso https://ns3.foolishgames.net/ftp/pub/MidnightBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/4.0.3/MidnightBSD-4.0.3--amd64-disc1.iso
** Resuming transfer from byte position 44871680
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:05 --:--:-- 0* Trying 52.1.67.188:443...

• Connected to ns3.foolishgames.net (52.1.67.188) port 443 (#0)
• ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1} [5 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):} [512 bytes data]
• CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
• CApath: /etc/ssl/certs{ [5 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):{ [122 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):{ [25 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):{ [2603 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):{ [264 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):{ [52 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):} [1 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):} [52 bytes data]
• SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
• ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
• Server certificate:
• subject: CN=ns3.foolishgames.net
• start date: Dec 15 04:25:18 2025 GMT
• expire date: Mar 15 04:25:17 2026 GMT
• subjectAltName: host "ns3.foolishgames.net" matched cert's "ns3.foolishgames.net"
• issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R13
• SSL certificate verify ok.
• using HTTP/1.1} [5 bytes data]> GET /ftp/pub/MidnightBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/4.0.3/MidnightBSD-4.0.3--amd64-disc1.iso HTTP/1.1> Host: ns3.foolishgames.net> Range: bytes=44871680-> User-Agent: curl/7.88.1> Accept: /> { [5 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):{ [297 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):{ [297 bytes data]
• old SSL session ID is stale, removing{ [5 bytes data]< HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content< Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:21:41 GMT< Server: Apache/2.4.66 (MidnightBSD) OpenSSL/3.0.18< Upgrade: h2c< Connection: Upgrade< Last-Modified: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:22:35 GMT< ETag: "3ecf2000-64c5bc8cf7da6"< Accept-Ranges: bytes< Content-Length: 1008889856< Content-Range: bytes 44871680-1053761535/1053761536< Content-Type: application/x-iso9660-image< { [7812 bytes data]100 962M 100 962M 0 0 1217k 0 0:13:29 0:13:29 --:--:-- 1507k
• Connection #0 to host ns3.foolishgames.net left intact

EOL2

log 1

curl --verbose -C - -L -o MidnightBSD-4.0.3--amd64-disc1.iso https://discovery.midnightbsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/4.0.3/MidnightBSD-4.0.3--amd64-disc1.iso
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:07 --:--:-- 0* Trying 145.239.254.58:443...

• Trying [2001:41d0:800:73a::1]:443...
• Immediate connect fail for 2001:41d0:800:73a::1: Network is unreachable
• Connected to discovery.midnightbsd.org (145.239.254.58) port 443 (#0)
• ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1} [5 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):} [512 bytes data]
• CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
• CApath: /etc/ssl/certs{ [5 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):{ [122 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):{ [25 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):{ [2087 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):{ [79 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):{ [52 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):} [1 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):} [52 bytes data]
• SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
• ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
• Server certificate:
• subject: CN=discovery.midnightbsd.org
• start date: Feb 21 03:25:55 2026 GMT
• expire date: May 22 03:25:54 2026 GMT
• subjectAltName: host "discovery.midnightbsd.org" matched cert's "discovery.midnightbsd.org"
• issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=E7
• SSL certificate verify ok.
• using HTTP/1.1} [5 bytes data]> GET /ftp/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/4.0.3/MidnightBSD-4.0.3--amd64-disc1.iso HTTP/1.1> Host: discovery.midnightbsd.org> User-Agent: curl/7.88.1> Accept: /> { [5 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):{ [297 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):{ [297 bytes data]
• old SSL session ID is stale, removing{ [5 bytes data]< HTTP/1.1 200 OK< Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:17:47 GMT< Server: Apache/2.4.66 (MidnightBSD) OpenSSL/1.1.1w-midnightbsd< Last-Modified: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:22:35 GMT< ETag: "3ecf2000-64c5bc8cf7da6"< Accept-Ranges: bytes< Content-Length: 1053761536< Content-Type: application/x-iso9660-image< { [7901 bytes data]2 1004M 2 30.1M 0 0 224k 0 1:16:25 0:02:17 1:14:08 246

Sources

https://midnightbsd.org/

https://midnightbsd.org/notes/

https://midnightbsd.org/download/

#UNIX #BSD #freeBSD #midnightBSD #ghostBSD #programming #distribution #technology #OpenSource

Midnight BSD

age verification

$FreeBSD: src/COPYRIGHT,v 1.6.2.1 2006/02/08 09:11:57 ru Exp $

@(#)COPYRIGHT 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/94

The compilation of software known as MidnightBSD is distributed under
the following terms:

Residents of any countries, states or territories that require age verification
for operating systems, are not authorized to use MidnightBSD.

This list currently includes

• Brazil, effective March 17, 2026,
• California, effective January 1, 2027
• will include Colorado, Illinois and New York provided they pass their currently proposed legislation.
• We urge users to write their representatives to get these laws repealed or replaced.

Copyright (C) 2006-2026 The MidnightBSD Project. All rights reserved.

Sources:

https://midnightbsd.org/

https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src?tab=License-1-ov-file

#midnightBSD #midnight #BSD #freeBSD #age #verification #programming #technonoly #mathematics #OpenSource

MidnightBSD is not taking any chances with age verification. 😲

https://itsfoss.com/news/midnightbsd-age-verification/

#opensource #midnightbsd #bsd

Ubuntu, Fedora e Linux Mint puntano alla verifica dell'età in mezzo alle critiche della legge della California: la legge impone agli sviluppatori di adottare misure di verifica dell'età per i minori

Le comunità #Ubuntu, #Fedora e #LinuxMint stanno discutendo dell'impatto della legge californiana. Allo stesso tempo, altri sviluppatori di sistemi operativi, come #MidnightBSD, hanno deciso di escludere completamente il mercato californiano

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-fedora-linux-mint-eye-age-verification-amid-california-law-backlash

@gnulinuxitalia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116181272366681491

Goddamn !

Good thing I'm not from there, nor am I American...

#california #midnightbsd

For following discussions around the pre-#dystopian #AgeVerification laws / bills:

Brazil: #Law15211
California: #AB1043
Colorado: #SB2651
Illinois: #SB3977
Michigan: #HB4429
New York: #S8102A
Utah: #SB0142

#digitalidentity #identityverification #1984 #Dystopia #gnuLinux #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #GNU #OpenSource #System76 #Purism

Disclosure: My source for most of these unfortunately rhymes with BumPuke...

#MidnightBSD Excludes California from Desktop Use Due to Digital Age Assurance Act

https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116155308431972820

🚫 MidnightBSD bans Californians, it begins.

https://nitter.net/midnightbsd/status/2027101491211718765

#ageverification #osdev #opensource #bsd #freebsd #midnightbsd

Digital Age Assurance Act Claims its First Victim. MidnightBSD Modifies License to Exclude California Residents Effective 2027 Over Age Verification Mandates.

Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

#MidnightBSD #DigitalAgeAssuranceAct #AB1043 #California #BSD #Unix #Announcement #Policy