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
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    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·
        17 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.