Post #1624384

2026-03-21 07:31 UTC

The community pushed back hard on this one. The Arch maintainers are holding, Canonical backed away, and Artix Linux, the systemd-free Arch derivative, issued the clearest statement: they will never require any verification or ID. It's FOSS When someone opened a revert PR, Lennart closed it himself on March 19th. The birthDate field is in systemd and it's staying. It's funny because only Artix isn't actively enforcing this change. Arch are lying that they're holding (they're not). Canonical are lying that they're backing away (they're not). How can I tell? Both of them use systemd. Both of them require systemd. So anything that gets merged into systemd, they require, whether they want to or not. It's a fuggin disgrace to see people downstream of an important change saying "Oh no, no we aren't gonna comply with this nosirree," while forcing upstream compliance of it down our throats just by being useless tools. CC: @wwahammy@treehouse.systems @k3ym0@infosec.exchange

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@DiogoConstantino@masto.pt 2026-03-21 09:07

@cy @wwahammy @yrrsinn Canonical never had a position, stop pushing fake news.

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@jpaskaruk@growers.social 2026-03-21 14:16

@cy @wwahammy @yrrsinn Far as I know, this is a database field which is set by the admin of the system (ie. THE PARENT) so that they can set that field for their kids' accounts on the computer, and thusly, until they reach the age of majority OR learn to use a computer themselves and create a VM or save up their allowance and buy a raspberry pi, THE PARENTS will have a mechanism to prevent their kids from accessing shit they absolutely should not be going anywhere near. It is not on a parent to make sure their kid can't walk into a bar and get a beer. It is on the bar owner to not sell beer to kids.

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@mborges@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 16:52

@cy @wwahammy @yrrsinn > whether they want to or not I mean they could also cherry-pick the revert-commit and call it a day for now, but it's gonna be messy to track future changes. afaik there hasn't been a new release with this change introduced yet?

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