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...
Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.
No they haven’t, they added a field where a user can store their birthday, as required by law in parts of the US.
Or do you recommend them to ignore the law, and jeopardize the whole project? Do you want linux get banned in California? You are mad at the wrong people
Basically that’s the other option. But considering a lot of the maintainers live there, it’s just easier to comply with the stupid law until it’s reversed.
Ok, who decides which law is clown and which isn’t? You? Or Sam Altman? I guess he has a different idea what laws he wants to follow. See, it’s a slippery slope you recommend.
Change your clown laws, and don’t bully projects who just wants linux to become viable alternative to common people. Don’t make perfect enemy of good.
So it’s the legistlation’s fault again, why aren’t you mad at them, why only systemd? In other jurisdictions you don’t have to use this field. And I don’t see anything in the PR about the verifability of the date. It’s just an optional number it stores in a db, offline.
This entire problem would go away if these projects just changed their terms of service to ban running in California. The tech sector runs on Linux, having Linux deny service over this would immediately see lobbying to kill the law start in Ernest.
This is true elsewhere too of course, but the buying power of Silicon Valley can’t be ignored.
Or do you recommend them to ignore the law, and jeopardize the whole project? Do you want linux get banned in California? You are mad at the wrong people
IMHO, having Linux Foundation and the organizations behind Linux components (such as systemd) to follow the same steps that of IBM back in 1930s (similarly, IBM was just “following orders”, amirite?) wouldn’t be wise, either.
No they haven’t, they added a field where a user can store their birthday, as required by law in parts of the US.
Or do you recommend them to ignore the law, and jeopardize the whole project? Do you want linux get banned in California? You are mad at the wrong people
Yes, they should in fact just state that Californian users are not allowed to use it.
Basically that’s the other option. But considering a lot of the maintainers live there, it’s just easier to comply with the stupid law until it’s reversed.
Linus banned the Russian maintainers. So there is precedent to boot the commie losers off their maintainer role.
It sucks to lose talent, but they should have moved out of that shithole decades ago. It’s on them for still living there.
Following clown laws legitimizes them.
Ok, who decides which law is clown and which isn’t? You? Or Sam Altman? I guess he has a different idea what laws he wants to follow. See, it’s a slippery slope you recommend.
Change your clown laws, and don’t bully projects who just wants linux to become viable alternative to common people. Don’t make perfect enemy of good.
False equivalence as privacy is a human right. Article 12 of the UN declaration of human rights.
People have the right to switch projects and criticize the actions of the developers.
So it’s the legistlation’s fault again, why aren’t you mad at them, why only systemd? In other jurisdictions you don’t have to use this field. And I don’t see anything in the PR about the verifability of the date. It’s just an optional number it stores in a db, offline.
Programmers have to become lawyers now?
Also a lot other projects has a birthday field, e.g. last time I worked with was LDAP: https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Birthdate I guess it’s there since the 90s.
Why aren’t coders the only people allowed to be lawyers instead of these political activist clowns?
The only people who are remotely qualified to be my peers, to have the honour of being in the same room as me, are published package authors.
So yes, coders are more qualified to be lawyers than lawyers.
Yes, I expect them to stand up for the rights of users. Why don’t you?
This entire problem would go away if these projects just changed their terms of service to ban running in California. The tech sector runs on Linux, having Linux deny service over this would immediately see lobbying to kill the law start in Ernest.
This is true elsewhere too of course, but the buying power of Silicon Valley can’t be ignored.
Errr absolutely yes! Either grow a pair or i won’t be one of their users.
Are we going to abide by laws in North Korea or China next?
Coders write the code, not the Epstein government types.
We as coders can say absolutely no. Like the doctors should have during scamdemic.
When will systemd be banished off all servers on the planet?
@infeeeee@lemmy.zip @Sunshine@piefed.ca @privacy@programming.dev
IMHO, having Linux Foundation and the organizations behind Linux components (such as systemd) to follow the same steps that of IBM back in 1930s (similarly, IBM was just “following orders”, amirite?) wouldn’t be wise, either.