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...
  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports

    • That is already going on in the very same country we’re discussing.
    • “Things could be even worse, so until things are just as bad as that, don’t complain or try to stop it from getting worse.”
    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 hours ago

      If you yell that the everything is on fire, over an API that doesn’t do verification, it’s less effective when you yell the same thing over real issues.

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 hour ago

        That’s a poor analogy, because nobody is lying, saying things are on fire that aren’t.

        We weren’t born yesterday—or at least I wasn’t. We know where this is going, and it’s folly to wait until almost the end before pushing back.