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...
  • inmatarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    19 hours ago

    echo "18+" > ~/.age_rc

    Am I compliant with California’s law now? Apps can use the POSIX API to access my age.

    • Corngood@lemmy.ml
      9·
      17 hours ago

      Yes, and you can do the same thing to your child’s non-root account. The point of the California law is to allow admins (parents) to do that.

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
      1327·
      17 hours ago

      Yes and that’s fine and everyone freaking out is being dumb.

      There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports and they’re losing their shit over an accounts API returning an unverified age bracket!

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        352·
        17 hours ago

        There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports

        • That is already going on in the very same country we’re discussing.
        • “Things could be even worse, so until things are just as bad as that, don’t complain or try to stop it from getting worse.”
        • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
          319·
          17 hours ago

          If you yell that the everything is on fire, over an API that doesn’t do verification, it’s less effective when you yell the same thing over real issues.

          • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
            231·
            16 hours ago

            That’s a poor analogy, because nobody is lying, saying things are on fire that aren’t.

            We weren’t born yesterday—or at least I wasn’t. We know where this is going, and it’s folly to wait until almost the end before pushing back.