iamnothere 9 hours ago

I wonder what this entails. Is an operating system critical? I would think so.

  • cylinder714 9 hours ago

    The OpenBSD project is based in Calgary, btw.

    • iamnothere 5 hours ago

      I am hopeful that the US doesn’t attempt to force its sanctions enforcement upon “allies” as it has in other instances.

    • dabockster 9 hours ago

      But both Windows and Mac OS are developed largely in the US.

      Could Trump unintentionally bring about the year of the Linux desktop?

      • anigbrowl 4 hours ago

        Isn't Linux widely adopted in China already?

  • rolph 9 hours ago

    it makes more sense when you get to see the actual title:

    "Trump puts extra 100% tariff on China imports, adds export controls on ‘critical software’"

ggm 9 hours ago

Kerberos V? Or is this 3DES?

  • rolph 9 hours ago

    i would bet on both, as soon as someone ELI5's them.

    • ggm 8 hours ago

      Before that it was Vax 11/780s and digital telephone exchanges like system/X and the ericsson AXE. Those goddamn arms traffickers and their vax-guns.

burnt-resistor 5 hours ago

Time to dust off "This shirt is a munition" vintage TinkGeek garb.

The US needs to put locks on the foot-gun triggers before there are no toes or jobs left.

And also, China is building tank-capable invasion barges and practicing in inner Mongolia how to raid Tapei's government buildings. Escalation and self-sabotage isn't helping. This is two malignant, geriatric, authoritarian narcissists slowly trying to drag the world into yet another world war while shuffling along with toilet paper stuck to their shoes while doing nothing to ensure lasting peace for everyone who lives after them. Xi, Trump, Bibi, Putin, and every other neofascist criminal substitute for a leader needs to go.