this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Again, it has nothing to do with systemd, and they aren't enforcing anything. You're just making shit up to get angry at. They are only providing a place to put the information that users (distro providers) can collect (or not collect) and use however they want. You should be grateful systemd is doing this because I can't imagine how ridiculous whatever solution all the lazy activists complaining about it would think up. It would ofc be no solution because the only thing those people can do is performative outrage from the top of the Dunning Kruger curve. If the next law enforces verification it still won't be systemd's problem because the only thing forcing end users to provide that info will be the distro providers, not systemd.
Also just because it's such an hilariously vapid argument against this PR, I fully endorse and support systemd adding a skin color data field. No distro will ask me to set it, no program will try to read it, and I will make it "kumquat".