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> Right but granny is not a child, she is kind of the opposite of a child. The failure modes are often quite similar - cognitive/motor issues and lack of experience with the tools …

> Rather than passing laws to require a non-digital option for these things... Do you think I oppose this?

> They have to have procedures for this sort of thing. "Sorry, try somewhere else" is the procedure.

> You won't get in trouble for using your Apple device in non-approved ways because it doesn't let you. The government won't let me use my car in non-approved ways. They will, in f…

I agree! But what's Grandma supposed to do in the meantime?

> You can freely buy and use knives… No, not necessarily. Quite a few countries have restrictions on knives, including some parts of the US - a switchblade will get you in trouble …

The average layperson doesn't even know caller ID can be trivially spoofed. Or they accept the push notification dialog on some random site and start getting "COMPUTER HACKED, CALL…

Apple has extremely/problematically vague guidelines about what constitutes spammy apps. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#des... > Don’t submit apps that ar…

, I guess.

> So your solution is to ban the sale of any kind of knife. If you give a toddler a butcher's knife to play with and they get hurt, you'll likely get in trouble for child endangerm…

You did the meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som... Last time I was in a bank branch they told me to go to the website for my issue.

Why comment on a site with zero interest in actually interacting with people?

What freedom on the planet isn't restricted in some way for societal benefit?

There isn’t a way for everyone to be able to do what they want with computing devices and be safe from this shit. That’s the reality. As with most things in society, it’s left to p…

Grandma will also be happy to disable it when the nice man from Microsoft phone support calls in to remotely fix the viruses she has.

Loudly dismissing genuine and legitimate concerns may feel good, but it’s not likely to get you what you want, especially at a societal level. I agree with you on the risks of this…

The flip side of this is: Pro: I can use a convoluted process to install an astronomy app Apple didn't like. Con: Billions of dollars of life savings siphoned off with devastating …

People will murder people, too. We don't have to make it trivially easy .

All of my app review submissions come back at like 2-3am, so yeah. We had a client whose website geoblocked non-US IPs and failed several rounds of review until we gave up and put …

They're likely just ticking boxes on a checklist - does the app crash, does the app have a privacy policy, does the app permit chat? Nothing about level one app review should need …

There's a saying about how hard it can be to design bear-resistant containers: > There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest touris…

My local USA Today-owned paper moved from a giant historic building (800 people when I worked there), to a new much smaller office (about 150 people at that point), to announcing t…

Yeah, turns out the trickle is just piss.

The title of the chart is "Nonfarm Payroll Employment Percent Revisions ", with subheading indicating the statistic shown is the final number minus the first released number. The t…