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  • IDK. It puts them at the forefront of this fight.

    If governments successfully prosecute distro maintainers (if they can) for this, then distro maintainers are liable.
    And distro maintainers would then have to pursue non-compliant users to cover that liability, or fold.
    Which is a huge loss for open source.

    Or, there would be a huge legal fight and it turns out that the licence of a distro protects it from its users actions.
    Which would be awesome and a massive win. It also makes sense. Nobody is suing an OS maintainer because it was used for a data breach.
    And then the governments have to pursue the actual users. Which… is gonna be useless wrt these laws



  • I dunno if a “cheap drone” can produce the same magnetic response that a fucking cargo ship can, but it seems extremely unlikely.

    And what, you have 2 in the water ahead of you? Is that enough for it to be clear for a cargo ship? They function perfectly all the time and catch every single mine?
    What happens when 1 finds a mine? How many extras do you carry? What happens when you run out, “just turn around”?

    Drones could probably clear a shipping channel, but at some point and actual ship is going to have to go through it.
    And the suez canal was blocked for ages due to 1 ship, even after having been operated for decades. That, except the ship sinks.