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...

Fork time? Maybe all the anti-systemd zealots were right all along…

Edit: To address whether it is likely that this change will affect users: Gnome is planning a stronger dependence on userdb, the part of systemd where this change is being implemented. https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Final Edit: The PR has been merged into main.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    417·
    1 day ago

    Final Edit: The PR has been merged into main.

    Fucking hell. All he had to do was fucking nothing, the bastard.

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/revoluciana-facing-fascism-sabotage

    Sabotage sounds spicy. It sounds dangerous.

    And yet, the underlying concept is simply this: inefficiency.

    I told you last time, make every inch have its cost.

    Resistance does not have to be violent, and that’s not something I’m advocating here. Resistance is the word no. Resistance is standing in place. Resistance is pushing.

    Resistance is the albatross around the neck of your opposition. Resistance is the anchor that drags along the sea floor.

    Here are some incredibly mundane but effective examples from the manual:

    Make mistakes with purchasing travel tickets

    Make engineering mistakes

    Make long speeches and waste time

    Act ignorant, or ask a lot of questions: if you’re not familiar with the concept of sea-lioning, you should really learn it

    Take longer to do your work

    Even if you’re terrified of doing more, this is simply a place to start.

    You are someone and you have a responsibility to do something.

    You cannot make it easier for the fascists to achieve their goals. You can’t do it today, and you can’t do it later if they claim authority. You must stand in the way of oppression.

    This is fucking horseshit. I’m turning against fucking systemd , and I had no fucking opinion before, now it’s completely clear they’re a bunch of 1940s IBM wannabees.

    EDIT : What a surprise, the fucker that wrote the PR works for IBM and “A Medical Malpractice company” and the one that merged it works for Microsoft.

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      1·
      12 hours ago

      The origin of inefficiency as resistance comes from people in concentration camps deliberately doing poor jobs at forced labour as a form of resistance. If you’re posting on Lemmy right now you can do a lot more than inefficiency. The people who had to resort to inefficient slave labour as resistance could only dream of what you can do.

          • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
            12·
            10 hours ago

            Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.