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Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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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...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65555474

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/

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    Wow, who knew all systemd users were born on 01/01/1970? What a coincidence!

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      Imagine if using a dataset containing the same birthdate for everyone results in AIs predicting an upcoming mass extinction due to the entire worlds population being above a certain age. We could call it the epochalypse.

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      Whipper snappers… my birthday on Steam is Jan 1st, 1900.

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      I was actually born in -1… er, I mean, December 31st, 1969. :)

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        April 1st. 1911 here.

        Also,

        https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues

        It is the duty of all to report bugs in the code.

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