for me it adds nothing (like most userdb fields as i don’t use them) but equally doesn’t remove or compromise anything, userdb is optional

i’m absolutely not acting like it’s being added for no reason, did you read my reply? it’s being added (and i just wrote it) to maliciously comply with CA upcoming laws. you instead just acted like a optional field is the same as MS no-offline setup. “Windows would implement it in an identical way”. do you even use linux?

you claim there’s plenty of evidence and this is not a slippery slope because the goal is deanonymization. this is not how you prove to not be in a logical fallacy. “legalize gay marriage and they’ll marry dogs”, “oh i have plenty of evidence queer folks are against nuclear family”. the second statement is true (per this queer folk) but it doesn’t make the first less of a slippery slope.

Meta pushes for age verification? i believe that, not contested. systemd will violate privacy? this is the slippery slope. i know meta wants privacy violated. you’re claiming that having an optional field is a dead giveaway systemd wants to let meta do this.

how? wouldn’t systemd rely on meta services, or third party stuff like persona, to id you if they really wanted to make sure who you are? i see no api calls, i see no system lockdown when not complying, i see no data being sent away.

i see an optional field that nothing uses, that prevents nothing, that is strictly on your device.

you say it’s “just” compliance, but how does it verify? if this is compliance with age verification, it sure lacks a lot of verification and seems to just be age. thus why this is malicious compliance: the bare minimum to be lawful and not compromise user privacy. seems desirable to me

not who you replied to but makes linux systems maliciously compliant so that you can still use them (say, in schools) without having your privacy violated.

your slippery slope argument could apply to any field of userdb: real name will require an id, location will require geolocation!

slippery slope is a logical fallacy, complain when systemd requires an id, not when it does the bare privacy-respecting minimum to comply with a silly law