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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.

    https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

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    [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

    And it can be used to verify how old you are.

    How?

    This is the part I’m hung up on. What actually physically happens to make me enter my real birthday in the systemd user field, and verify it’s actually my birthday?

    January 1 1900 has been my official online birthday forever.

    [–] DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

    I guess the idea is that your parents store the date and you don't get root access (or you store the date for your kids and don't give them root access).

    [–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    I was born on January 1st, whichever year before 2000 that I first click on.

    [–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Right? I'm not scrolling that far down. Somewhere within the last 18 years is good enough.

    [–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
    [–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    I'm a dog on the Internet.

    If I say I'm 10 I'm actually 77 and to suggest otherwise is discrimination.

    [–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 34 minutes ago

    Well there's no arguing with that...