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.

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
        84·
        1 month ago

        Only to be backdoored by the Red instead of the Orange.

        Someone call Dr. Strange, he fucked up this timeline real bad.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      23·
      1 month ago

      I’ll never buy a computer that can’t be run without this shit. If that means I run what I have until it breaks and then never have a PC again then that’s what I’ll do

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        1 month ago

        The last computer I bought (a couple of years back) was a decade old PC, the price was €10 or so. I needed to add RAM, SSD, and used it for a couple of years as a Fedora Workstation desktop. It was plenty powerful for most of my needs. I’m not too worried about it. I think I can survive on a machine like that.

    • tyler@programming.dev
      23·
      1 month ago

      Email your legislators telling them that parents already have access to network block tools, these laws won’t stop the problem anyway (run through a vpn), they’re a free speech nightmare, they’re collecting more data on American citizens when America has data breaches losing data every few days, and Congress literally studied this twenty years ago and decided it wasn’t a good idea then, what makes it a good idea now?

      • IronBird@lemmy.world
        13·
        1 month ago

        uh…$? same reason the majority of US politicians vote anyway on anything put in front of them.

        the only thing sacred in the USA is $

    • antrosapien@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 month ago

      What if users are redefined as context? Now the is does not have users anymore. That’s not a ‘root’ user, it’s a ‘root’ context. And that’s non root context with supercontext privileges

    • gnuthing [they/them]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Honestly the only way to fight all the corporate and govt data collection is to end the dictatorship of the Epstein class by overthrowing then. Until we can unite against them, they will continue to limit our speech in an effort to quell efforts to organize a resistance

    • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
      26·
      1 month ago

      The least effective way is whining on a Lemmy community about open source projects.
      Go talk to your lawmakers, not the people complying with the law.