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...
  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    139·
    20 hours ago

    Unless it is fought, this corporate-driven rot will burrow all the way down to the sub-processor TEE/TPM and all the way up to the web browser/app.

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
        20·
        17 hours ago

        I’ll never buy a computer that can’t be run without this shit. If that means I run what I have until it breaks and then never have a PC again then that’s what I’ll do

        • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          17 hours ago

          The last computer I bought (a couple of years back) was a decade old PC, the price was €10 or so. I needed to add RAM, SSD, and used it for a couple of years as a Fedora Workstation desktop. It was plenty powerful for most of my needs. I’m not too worried about it. I think I can survive on a machine like that.

      • antrosapien@lemmy.ml
        5·
        17 hours ago

        What if users are redefined as context? Now the is does not have users anymore. That’s not a ‘root’ user, it’s a ‘root’ context. And that’s non root context with supercontext privileges

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        94·
        18 hours ago

        🤷

        In a few years, we may be smuggling in contraband Chinese RISC-V computers.

          • Soot [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            20·
            8 hours ago

            I’d done it, I’d smuggled in one of those RISC-whatever boxes. The hardware that doesn’t require a live-scan of your irises and your digital ID to interface. This baby can visit websites without even scanning your brainwaves. I don’t know what country it came from - You’re not allowed to know about foreign countries before you’re 40, the computer blocks them, it’s something about preventing “unauthorised gooning”.

            Just as I sat down, I heard it - the info-chopper, they knew. I grabbed my illegal CPU just as the door was bust open, “INFORMATION PROTECTION OFFICER, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND TELL ME YOUR BIRTHDATE!” You see you’re only allowed to hear certain parts of our rights depending on your details, it’s to protect you from dangerous information. Even seeing his face might evoke corrupted thoughts, but I didn’t care anymore.

            I quickly, but pointedly, looked over, and saw him, cool leather jacket, gun, one of those brain-interceptor helmet things, like a hockey helmet made of cushions and diodes. “NO” I cried, “I WANT TO PLAY SNAKE WITHOUT PROVIDING MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!”.

            With that war cry, I cheesed it, spurred on by the sky-high promise of reading a ‘potentially offensive’ Wikipedia article, in private.

        • warmaster@lemmy.world
          4·
          8 hours ago

          Only to be backdoored by the Red instead of the Orange.

          Someone call Dr. Strange, he fucked up this timeline real bad.

      • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        24 minutes ago

        The least effective way is whining on a Lemmy community about open source projects.
        Go talk to your lawmakers, not the people complying with the law.

      • tyler@programming.dev
        24·
        18 hours ago

        Email your legislators telling them that parents already have access to network block tools, these laws won’t stop the problem anyway (run through a vpn), they’re a free speech nightmare, they’re collecting more data on American citizens when America has data breaches losing data every few days, and Congress literally studied this twenty years ago and decided it wasn’t a good idea then, what makes it a good idea now?

        • IronBird@lemmy.world
          13·
          16 hours ago

          uh…$? same reason the majority of US politicians vote anyway on anything put in front of them.

          the only thing sacred in the USA is $