SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling

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By EditorDavidMar 28, 2026, 6:34 pm479 ptsHotTop
It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But "a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight" after he'd added the optional birthDate field for systemd's user…

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