Mastodawn

Excellent example for the list of answers as to why I try to keep my household linux-free:
"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."

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

The brainrot is big in this one.
also… TIL: "systemd-userdbd" wtflol.
Kinda amazed how they manage to still find new nooks and crannies to metastasise into, in their haphazard nonchalant fashion.

extra-lol for this idiocy:

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LumiWorx Mar 20

@nblr

They closed and locked the issue queue on it as they committed age verification to code, so i opened a new issue to bring up how they were going to cover their asses when the lawsuits start flying... it was outright deleted.

They don't want public discourse or to even acknowledge that users have problems with the door they've opened.

I doubt that there's anything already in any system level process that is even remotely open to possible legal concerns ... until now.

#OpenStupidity

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Numerfolt Mar 20

@lumiworx @nblr Now I need to find out how to remove systemd from my system...

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LumiWorx Mar 20

@Numerfolt @nblr

I'm not even sure if that's a possibility, and if it isn't, then the alternative is to move to one of the BSD flavors, or something more obscure than the usual distros at least.

It's truly a shame that once Microslop pushed the door open to give Linux an opportunity to become a desktop of choice, decisions are made to sabotage that from readily happening.

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LumiWorx

@Numerfolt @nblr

....

Well, there is one more possibility, but not a hopeful one.

Lock into whatever version of distro you're currently running until your box drops dead, or someone makes some serious changes to their 'policy' choices.