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Storing a users birthday is useful metadata anyway. I'm surprised it wasn't stored before.
The age isn't verified is any way. You can set it to the 1800s for all it cares
your argument is an oxymoron. if the data is useful meta data, but the user can just put what ever they want as the date then itβs not storeing useful data. and that means it should not exist.
unless the point is to use it in the future where the user canβt enter what ever they want and thus legitimizes all the commotion.
You can also store an email there, so it can be found by other programs, but you can also leave it blank, or enter a fake email if you don't want your email to be stored.
Given the open nature of Linux, I find it hard to believe they can lock it down like that.
How is that useful information? To what purpose?
Auto-filling those "you must be at least X old to access this content" inputs could be one? Eg Steam could skip that page directly when accessing 18+ games.
I suppose you could ask the same for the realName and location fields that are already in systemd.
This is not very 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 of you.
How does one enter an older DOB without causing an underflow?
Implement it as a s64 instead of a u64. Ugh, honestly. Back when it was a 32 bit integer it made sense to make it unsigned because we'd have run out of numbers by now otherwise. But as of the advent of 64 bit unix time values there's really no reason not to implement it as a signed value smh
It is stored as a json date string
Yeah like the email address and the full name of the user.
... What do you mean it's blank for 99% of users?
I have mine set Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
Email address and name are actually useful for network environments of a system admin needs to know who is the user behind a process or something. How old the user is is complete useless.
Wrong. The earliest date you can set it to is 1900!!! π
You could also just not set it instead of using a nonsensical date