For those interested, the Systemd release that’s planned to include the controversial ‘birthDate’ field to user records, complying with age-verification laws, is v261 (see ‘milestone’ in the pull request). This release seems to be planned for May.
The current release, from some hours ago, is v260.1. I see that Ubuntu Noble (24.04) just updated to v255.
What I don’t understand:
Why is everyone hating on systemd for adding the birthdate field, but no one is bashing xdg-desktop-portal for adding the actual ageverificationattestation system?Is it because systemd makes for a better target?
Or because most don’t know what xdg-desktop-portal actually does?By the way, Freedesktop.org’s Accountsservice is doing the exact same thing for non-systemd users.
You’re absolutely right. And it’s the same group of people pushing for this in all these places.
And it’s the same group of people pushing for this in all these places.
Dylan M. Taylor
Oh, no! Yet another field I will simply leave blank like all the others.
What’s stopping anyone like not filling it in or putting a false one in?
Nothing, and that’s legal, too. The new law only requires a method for putting in an age or birthdate, no age verification.
They already rolled it back.No longer sure what I saw.It hasn’t been rolled back. You can go to the systemd repo and look at the main branch for yourself.
Here’s the commit. Just click through and see if the code was subsequently removed from any of the files. You’ll find that it wasn’t.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/7a858878a03966d2a65ef9e8f79b5caff352ac53
where do you see that?
Someone posted about it here in one of these linux communities. It was a big blog post.
not seeing anything when searching for it, do you have a link? looking on the github it’s still merged so it’s difficult to believe
Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe it wasn’t systemd.
