userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd
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Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

Fork time? Maybe all the anti-systemd zealots were right all along…

Edit: To address whether it is likely that this change will affect users: Gnome is planning a stronger dependence on userdb, the part of systemd where this change is being implemented. https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Final Edit: The PR has been merged into main.

  • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
    1733·
    2 days ago

    Yes and that’s fine and everyone freaking out is being dumb.

    There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports and they’re losing their shit over an accounts API returning an unverified age bracket!

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
      383·
      2 days ago

      There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports

      • That is already going on in the very same country we’re discussing.
      • “Things could be even worse, so until things are just as bad as that, don’t complain or try to stop it from getting worse.”
      • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
        621·
        2 days ago

        If you yell that the everything is on fire, over an API that doesn’t do verification, it’s less effective when you yell the same thing over real issues.

        • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
          262·
          2 days ago

          That’s a poor analogy, because nobody is lying, saying things are on fire that aren’t.

          We weren’t born yesterday—or at least I wasn’t. We know where this is going, and it’s folly to wait until almost the end before pushing back.

    • idriss@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 day ago

      You are really the dumb one for not learning from the past and for not seeing where is this headed once it’s kicked into motion.