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.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    393·
    4 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·
      4 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
        272·
        4 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.