Wow, who knew all systemd users were born on 01/01/1970? What a coincidence!

Why does systemd need to verify age?

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I'm really disappointed that someone hasn't just made a standalone userspace addon to implement the feature, shoved in down California's throat, and told them to come back with complaints once they can find where BSD came from.

Adding this type of "support" is just giving legitimacy to crappy legislation. I would not bother even creating the underlying system so some underpaid google intern can make his age verification app 2% faster.

This entire fiasco could have been a bash script that uses a new file in /etc to store birthdays.

Another patch should be added to rename "Systemd" to "Surveillanced".

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Brazilian here. I'm neither a lawyer nor a specialist, just someone who has read the Portuguese text from the Brazilian flavor of the ongoing worldwide age check set of laws.

I must note that the Brazilian age check law (Lei 15.211/2025) specifies "vedada a autodeclaração" (English: "self-declaring is forbidden"). This means that this kind of implementation, where age or birthday is an user input, wouldn't be compliant to Lei 15.211/2025, because it requires the age information to be assessed independently from the user whose age is being assessed. This means face biometrics, government-issued ID (in our case, CPF, CNH, Passaporte and similar) or "behaviorial analysis"... Anything but a "yes I'm 18" or "I was born in day month year", for those are self-declared and the Law says it's "not enough".

Someone should warn the systemd maintainers of this "Brazilian jabuticaba".

Void Linux with runit, here I come!

If this shitstorm keeps up, I will just build my own OS at some point

Age verification is fucking scaremongering for this.

It literally adds a field to record user ages. It doesn't verify anything.

Wtf.

So are we jumping ships ? Where to I go, where do I go?

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