Toying with the idea of submitting a patch to systemd for storing the user’s sex recorded at birth, but I suspect they might not recognize satire.

@futzle It might make it in. After all, you wouldn't be doing anything with the data. You'd just be making a place where the data could live if folks wanted to use it.

I think I heard that somewhere.

I wonder if people will finally decide that it's time to move on from systemd.

EDIT: The original poster got it, but for everyone else: if you read the PR and Poettering's response where he rejected and closed it, I was poking fun at that and using it as the model for the first paragraph of this reply.

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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@elliot @mason Yes, sincere congratulations, you have identified the satire.

@futzle @elliot @mason

People did: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/41207
Hui and got deleted already.

I would say if we all did it wouldn't it just be an act of protest; and couldn't one argue that blocking us from doing it is stripping us of right to protest? ;)

We'll see how forks are gonna go https://github.com/r4shsec/systemd-no-age-verification

But probably its anyways just another signal to look for alternatives
https://nosystemd.org/

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