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.

  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
    62·
    1 month ago

    Contact your representative

    Right, so that they can ask if I’m stoned or stupid for asking them to affect laws in another country?

    • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
      28·
      1 month ago

      Then this doesn’t impact you in any form. (Especially since it’s just a DoB).
      You can continue to whine but frankly I don’t see the point then.