<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hannesm" class="u-url mention">@<span>hannesm</span></a></span> wrote a blog post about it some time ago, and yeah, one can imagine few possible &quot;special use cases&quot; of this feature: <a href="https://blog.marbu.eu/posts/2018-03-06-gnu-tar-xkcd-bsd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.marbu.eu/posts/2018-03-06</span><span class="invisible">-gnu-tar-xkcd-bsd/</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> so? I don&#39;t give a shit about ITAR, never did, and never will</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://josh.tel/@josh" class="u-url mention">@<span>josh</span></a></span> I took Nov 4th - 6th off because I know I won&#39;t be working well during that period anyway. We&#39;ll see how I feel afterwards.</p>

@whitequark@mastodon.social @feld @sun@shitposter.world Then what? That doesn’t mean it’s protected. The countries laws it’s used in are still there.

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> this hasn&#39;t mattered since 1995, but if it somehow started, the correct move here is to relocate the Linux Foundation from countries with such idiotic regulation to somewhere more reasonable, not to yield to it and then whine on the mailing list about how everyone around is a &quot;russian troll&quot;</p>

<p>It would appear my ability to function is inversely correlated with proximity to election day.</p><p>So eager to be done with this election year!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dramforever" class="u-url mention">@<span>dramforever</span></a></span> you&#39;re aware how open source works, right?</p>

@whitequark@mastodon.social @SlicerDicer @sun@shitposter.world why? cryptography is a munition and is similarly export controlled. There's cryptography in the kernel, both IPSEC and KTLS now

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> your anecdote about ITAR is irrelevant</p>