Aaron Toponce ⚛️Mar 19

Systemd merged age verification to comply with California state law.

If you want to enter a birth date, I recommend "Friday, 13 December 1901 20:45:52".

I like this for a few reasons:

1. This is the earliest date possible for a 32 bit datetime integer in C.
2. It's malicious compliance.
3. It's obviously faked.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

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userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd

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...

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Show threadSimon ZerafaMar 19

@atoponce

00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 would be my suggestion 🙂

Show threadAaron Toponce ⚛️

@simonzerafa It's UNIX's epoch and certainly fitting, but also makes you a reasonable 56 years old.

The point of malicious compliance is to comply with the letter but no the spirit of the law.

They can have my birthday, so long as I'm 125 years old.

Mar 19 at 5:26pmWeb
Show threadSimon ZerafaMar 19

@atoponce

Well that date makes me younger plus it's malicious compliance. Which is the best type of compliance 😌

They might even eventually work out the date is incorrect but blame it on vibe coding.

Show threadfuricleMar 19
@simonzerafa @atoponce I've always been born apr 1, 1900
It says so all over the Internet...
Show threadSimon ZerafaMar 19

@furicle @atoponce

That world also work as long as it's not entirely accurate 😁