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.

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
    32·
    2 months ago

    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 age verification attestation 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.

    • stravanasu@lemmy.caOP
      71·
      2 months ago

      You’re absolutely right. And it’s the same group of people pushing for this in all these places.