Post #1110804
2026-04-06 12:33 UTC
My real worry isn't that Debian will cave, but that the services we use every day—banks, government sites, DRM-heavy media—will start checking for a "compliant" kernel. If those "invisible borders" get built, you might have a truly free OS that's effectively useless for 90% of the modern web.
It's not about the distro failing; it's about the "compliant" versions becoming the only key to the door. We have the choice now, but the gap between "free" and "functional" is definitely getting wider.
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@0x0@lemmy.zip 2026-04-06 13:15
> will start checking for a “compliant” kernel. Reminds me of all the banking apps that rely on Google's "secure" crap to run.
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@pennomi@lemmy.world 2026-04-06 12:40
How will they check for a compliant kernel, at a technical level? I haven’t seen any proposed way to do that that can’t be easily circumvented.