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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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.

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[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~They already rolled it back.~~ No longer sure what I saw.

[-] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

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

@fruitcantfly @Quibblekrust governments want to spy on linux machines because they love sending police to my door just because I use linux

[-] mech@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago

Then why don't they require age verification in this new law, only a method for the user to enter any date (without forcing them to enter one)?

[-] starsoaked_lily@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago
[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Someone posted about it here in one of these linux communities. It was a big blog post.

[-] starsoaked_lily@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 day ago

Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe it wasn't systemd.

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