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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.

    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

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    [–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 30 minutes ago

    How is a field you can introduce used to verify anything? There's no "verification" if you choose to put whatever you want.

    Or what, do you consider the field that shows up when clicking some games on steam where you just scroll the year 40 down and click whatever, age "verification"? Cuz it isn't.

    Having a date field so that parents can define their kids' age in for non root accounts on Linux so the system, in a potential future, automatically limits access to some stuff is useful, and yet there's no age verification being done there, besides the parents themselves knowing that what they inputted is truthful.

    [–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Can i not use age verification in systemd if i dont live in usa?

    [–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 3 minutes ago

    You can even not use it if you live in the US. There's nothing that enforces you put a date in there (and nothing to verify if it's correct, which is why people say it's not age verification).

    [–] jaredwhite@humansare.social 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    This is getting really old, really damn fast. 🫩

    [–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 hours ago

    Luckiky we can track that now!

    [–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Well it’s only going to get worse as more states start pushing for it.

    [–] jaredwhite@humansare.social 8 points 5 hours ago

    Maybe…I misinterpreted your post. I think I'm on your side actually πŸ˜„

    Absolutely against the DoB addition, yep.

    [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

    You want the exciting kind? We aren't the ones it's fun for.