The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.

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A developer named Jeffrey Seathrún Sardina has forked systemd into 'Liberated systemd', removing the recently added birthDate field tied to age verification laws in California, Colorado, and Brazil. The fork strips out all related code including homectl options, man page entries, and tests. While the birthDate field in mainline systemd is optional, admin-only, and not acted upon by systemd itself, the developer views it as surveillance-enabling code. The fork is currently a one-person project with no releases and is already 37 commits behind upstream, making it unsuitable for production use. The author suggests such forks serve more as protest and conversation starters than serious long-term alternatives.

Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

Obligatory reminder, systemd doesn’t actually have Age Verification, just an optional Birthday field.
The article does explain this but the discourse around the topic has been quite uninformed recently :(

Haha for the rebelion spirit I kudo this.
I’m curious on NixOS how it will ends xD probably a “birthyear”: “2000” in plain text somewhere :D

It was a matter of time until this happened. Glad it was sooner than later.

~Wow! Someone removed an optional field, now we are free!~

Car’s with kill switches and computers that will eventually require state ids to use.