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Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux (github.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Add a required birth date prompt (YYYY-MM-DD) to the user creation flow, stored as a systemd userdb JSON drop-in at /etc/userdb/.user on the target system.

Motivation

Recent age verification laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. require platforms to verify user age. Collecting birth date at install time ensures Arch Linux is compliant with these regulations.

This is just a pull request, no changes yet.

The pull-request discussion thread has been locked, just like it happened for the similar thread in Systemd, owing to the amount of negative comments...

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[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 94 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (20 children)

This dude need to chill, he also pushed the systemd change, and in his blog he seems to believe android "advance flow" for sideloading protects users.

The one they are targeting is California's AB-1043, which still have three quarters of a year before it comes into effect...

I think this dude might get too excited for his new subscription of claude code or whatever, and decided to spam every project with these request. Some of these are reasonable, some are compliance in advance.

Also this dude writes two freaking blog every week with LLM. If I were him, I would try to find some joy in my personal life...

[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 21 points 2 days ago (13 children)

I fully expect this person to not be even real and instead just another ai bot to push agenda for corporate scum

[–] teft@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago (12 children)

He’s the third highest contributor to archinstall.

https://github.com/dylanmtaylor

Still a dipshit but probably not a bot.

[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Fair enough that's pretty surprising, so even Arch is not safe from lunatics... That is disappointing. As a Manjaro user, I am likely to pick up their changes via both systemd and since Manjaro is Arch based... Sad and disappointed by useful morons who have no fucking clue.

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