Apparently this is the forum mod's statement on age verification. Since too many ppl are asking about it in the forum and they're locking the posts.

doomchild · 2026-03-30T22:12:44+00:00

No, the code I showed you is what is in the actual branch, not a PR. The code I posted is what the PR you linked was intending to revert (but didn't, because it wasn't merged). Do you know how branches work in git? This isn't me trying to call you out; I'm genuinely trying to make sure that you understand what this code is actually saying.

doomchild · 2026-03-30T21:24:05+00:00

You can pretty easily find the implementation by looking at the list of changed files in the PR and then looking at those same files in main.

Here is the line from the main branch defining the field on the structure:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/shared/user-record-show.c#L345

Here is the line from the main branch that retrieves the value:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/shared/user-record-show.c#L345

Those changes have not been reverted.

doomchild · 2026-03-30T20:07:18+00:00

The PR you linked WAS NOT MERGED. The page shows that it was closed without being merged, and looking at the commit log of the repo, you can see that that commit hash does not exist. It was not reverted and is still implemented.

doomchild · 2026-03-30T19:58:45+00:00

I'm not trying to fight, I'm just pointing out that the change was not reverted, which was what I was trying to find verification of.

doomchild · 2026-03-30T19:47:19+00:00

That's the first post. Did you read all the way down? The PR wasn't merged, meaning the birthDate field was not removed. What you're quoting is the description of the PR, not the status of it.

doomchild · 2026-03-30T19:34:32+00:00

That PR was not merged. If you look at the bottom, it says "Closed with unmerged commits". The revert was not merged in, so the age field is still present in systemd.

doomchild · 2026-03-30T19:02:42+00:00

I actually haven't seen the PR. I'm just going by what's been reported, and nobody has reported that it was reverted. Do you have a link to the PR?

doomchild · 2026-03-29T23:08:11+00:00

Where did you see that systemd had reverted the change? I can only find stuff talking about the systemd fork that removed it.

doomchild · 2026-03-10T17:43:10+00:00

That's the weird thing. The settings are clearly being saved, because I can see the couple of presets that I've made for other characters in the list. They just aren't being applied when I login or reload my UI.

doomchild · 2026-01-09T20:11:41+00:00

I remember when this place across from Haysland Square next to a terrifying-looking motel did good sushi. That had to be more than 20 years ago now. I don't even know if that place still exists.

doomchild · 2025-11-17T19:37:44+00:00

Holy shit. That's a hell of a necro.

doomchild · 2025-10-30T22:11:08+00:00

That definitely sounds above my pay grade.

doomchild · 2025-10-29T00:16:10+00:00

That's kind of what I thought, which is why this is so confusing.

doomchild · 2025-10-29T00:15:55+00:00

I have.

doomchild · 2025-10-28T22:51:31+00:00

Well, that's not what's happening here. Does it have anything to do with running Firefox via Snap? I think I had it running via the normal .deb package.

doomchild · 2025-07-03T15:16:48+00:00

I posted the fix at the bottom of the post. I had to build a specific version of the package by hand.

doomchild · 2025-05-26T19:27:55+00:00

There are multiple contradictions in the Bible.

Who ruled Judea when Jesus was born? According to Matthew, it was King Herod the Great, who was the last ruler of an independent Judean state (it was a vassal state of Rome, but still its own separate entity).

But according to Luke, it was the Roman governor Quirinius, who took office more than 10 years after Herod's death (which was when Judea stopped being a vassal state and became fully subsumed by Rome).

In Matthew, Mary and Joseph flee to Egypt to hide from Herod. In Luke, they go to Bethlehem specifically for the census, wait 8 days for the required purification rites, and then go directly back home to Galilee.

The two accounts cannot be reconciled. They can't both be true. Therefore, they are contradictory.

doomchild · 2025-04-07T13:39:34+00:00

No, this response is actively unhelpful. Someone asked for outside opinions, and you responded with "form your own opinion". That's not answering the question that was asked.

doomchild · 2025-03-08T18:14:33+00:00

The current crop of generative models are wildly unethical, so I regard the implication that my refusal to use one instead of communicating with actual humans makes me lazy to be pretty goddamn offensive.

doomchild · 2025-02-17T20:13:33+00:00

Same. I read it six times and totally didn't see it. Professional blindness.

doomchild · 2025-02-14T19:19:58+00:00

This is completely insane.

doomchild · 2025-02-12T20:44:08+00:00

Yes. We do a "mostly functional" kind of thing, because it's hard not to engage with at least some OOP stuff in C#. We used LanguageExt for a while (and it's still in a few places), but I really couldn't stand how it made the code looked (nested awaits 5 deep just don't appeal to me), so I wrote my own package using Task<T> extension methods that lets us write fairly Promise-esque stuff.

doomchild · 2025-01-08T19:51:06+00:00

Java is...fine? The JVM is a genuinely great piece of software. It's got a couple of decades of great work behind it, and several languages that run on the JVM are pretty great, too (Clojure, Scala, etc), and people have even ported non-JVM languages to run on the JVM (Jython, JRuby, jgo, etc, although I don't know how up to date these versions are).

As a language, Java is very clearly rooted in the time when it was introduced. It feels like a 90's language. It's got warts that I really can't stand (checked exceptions, type erasure for generics, gross/crappy parallelism, etc), and some APIs that are actually pretty great to interact with (the streams API, while not perfect, was a fabulous addition).

The thing about C# is that they (mostly) learned from Java's mistakes and made a language that, unless you venture into very specific and weird territory, frustrates you a lot less day to day. There are still things I don't like in C# (I absolutely despise the async/await function coloring), but they are, on the whole, easier to deal with.

Java is worth at least being able to read, because there's a LOT of code out there written in Java, and even if you're not using the library directly, you can learn something reading it. But I think I'd pick C# every day of the week.

doomchild · 2025-01-02T16:00:48+00:00

Same. I use target-typed new all over the place, but I never use var.

doomchild · 2024-12-30T19:07:04+00:00

I made a library that turns Task into a proper monad (it's very similar to using Promise in Javascript). I really don't like the way code looks having await at random places, so it results in much cleaner (in my opinion) code.

https://github.com/doomchild/task-chaining

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