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For those interested, the Systemd release that's planned to include the controversial 'birthDate' field to user records, complying with age-verification laws, is v261 (see 'milestone' in the pull request). This release seems to be planned for May.

The current release, from some hours ago, is v260.1. I see that Ubuntu Noble (24.04) just updated to v255.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nothing, and that's legal, too. The new law only requires a method for putting in an age or birthdate, no age verification.