FYI Systemd v261, probably due in May, is the release planned to include the 'birthDate' field. (lemmy.ca)

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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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[-] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 6 points 1 day 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

[-] dancingtigergames@mastodon.social 1 points 1 day ago

@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 1 day 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)?

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