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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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igor47 wrote: post #811
Aurornis wrote: post #799

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Comments like this remind me of my distant relatives who proudly live out in the countryside and avoid traveling to big cities for any reason. They see a lot of Fox News headlines about bad things happening in big cities and they've concluded those bad things are happening all the time. So they constantly congratulate themselves for not going to the nearest city, look down upon people who spend time in cities, warn u…

Huh you got me with this analogy. On the other hand, can't this be said about any bad thing? Few bad things are always bad. A few examples: * My liberal relatives won't own guns because they keep hearing stories about how guns are deadly, even though I own guns and nobody's died yet * My friend's kid won't pet puppies because he heard they bite sometimes * My aunt in Moscow didn't want to vote for Putin because he's…

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Post by philistine »

parisidau wrote: post #121
td540 wrote: post #98

Now that this is on the Hacker News front page, surely Apple will be escalating this and provide a general solution, no?

Let's hope so...

It's Saturday. Executives might get phone calls to make it happen on a Sunday, but I wouldn't bet on it.

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Post by tonymet »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #872
tonymet wrote: post #721

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How do you collaborate ? Do you have friends ? A job ? I’m not being rhetorical —- it’s very rare to have friends or a job and not have some ties to the cloud. Even my tiny HOA manages its record in the cloud

> How do you collaborate ? I commit code. I pair program. I share screen. That sort of thing. Code is mostly set up to have reproducible results. If it is not working on the other machine, then that's a bug and we need to solve it. There is not much collaboration I need to be doing in my free time. What I did on the last job is not what I depend on, but what a business thought they depend on. That's their stuff. If i…

I can’t tell if this is disingenuous.

How do you plan an event like a wedding , moving, a project with your friends without using cloud apps?

And surely one of your employers had you use Onedrive / Google Drive / Dropbox etc.

If you really do all those things without cloud, are you just using email for everything? How do you keep the docs in sync ?

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Post by Barbing »

Noaidi wrote: post #669
Waterluvian wrote: post #577

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I’ve interpreted it as a sort of head-in-sand coping mechanism for those low-likelihood, high-consequence events people feel powerless over. It’s less distressing to be powerless if you decide that the real issue was a fault by the victim and not a powerlessness you have in common with the victim.

I love your comment and I could not just upvote it because it is true with so many things. The technocracy/corpocracy is trying to sell you things that mnake you believe you can have power over everything, even your life. Anyone who "fails" at anything, it is all your fault. I have literally been told my mental illness, and my current homelessness, is my fault because I did not do the right thing. The power and contr…

Hoping housing happens—you deserve it.

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Post by jama211 »

kibwen wrote: post #441
amelius wrote: post #417

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I am surprised that evangelists keep thinking they are safe from the evil of big corporations.

If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine. If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data.

And Linus himself mostly just stores data on the cloud. At the end of the day, practicality matters.

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Post by jama211 »

csomar wrote: post #464
AH4oFVbPT4f8 wrote: post #369

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Which bank?

all banks. Any bank that can indefinitely freeze your money and get away with it will do it. And now that everyone is doing it, the reputation damage is minimized.

All banks can, but it’s not true to say all banks will. It’s also not reasonable to suggest that some banks aren’t worse than others, so when someone wants to know of a less unsafe bank we should recommend one.

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Post by jama211 »

acron0 wrote: post #214
ryanjshaw wrote: post #67

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I think this argument conflates “what’s possible” with “what’s reasonable”. In a complex modern society, we can’t all be expected to have backup plans to the Nth degree. Is it possible to bore for my own water supply, install solar+inverter/battery backup for electricity, get a medical degree to treat my own wounds? Sure but most would say it’s not reasonable. It’s why we have regulations and ombudsmans for healthcar…

I actually really like the idea of a Digital Services Provider Ombudsman, who you can go to if you feel like you've been wronged by a big tech corp. They have a "way in" that consumers potentially don't, and they have the capacity to levy fines in certain circumstances. I love this! What's preventing this from happening, other than no governmental pressure to make it happen? I might write to my MP...

Yeah that’s a great idea

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Post by jama211 »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #67
compounding_it wrote: post #55

My 2 cents: There was a time when I accidentally deleted some photos of which I had only one copy. I blamed myself for being stupid not having a copy but also money was tight for additional drives. Then there is this: depending on a service provider and then blaming them for something like this. The problem is that now you are losing trust in service providers (of which there should be little to begin with) and on to…

I think this argument conflates “what’s possible” with “what’s reasonable”. In a complex modern society, we can’t all be expected to have backup plans to the Nth degree. Is it possible to bore for my own water supply, install solar+inverter/battery backup for electricity, get a medical degree to treat my own wounds? Sure but most would say it’s not reasonable. It’s why we have regulations and ombudsmans for healthcar…

Best take in this whole thread

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Post by bigyabai »

wiseowise wrote: post #348
Rikudou wrote: post #91

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>> I would love to feel sorry, but seems you're technically capable of preventing this (unlike most people), just chose "convenience." > Looks like you've got it coming, sweetie, you knew what you were dressing when going to the neighborhood :wink-emoji: God, I'm all for OSS and try to use it/promote it wherever I can, but it attracts the worst kind of smug, obnoxious motherf**ers imaginable. How old are you?

That's a bad-faith comparison, and it's making me wonder how old you are if you're conflating iCloud lockout with sexual assault.

Apple's EULA, which the OP agreed to, gives them the right to suspend services for whatever reason they want. You're only allowed to use the service by offering consent to be removed, thousands of services work that way.

OSS, and the fact that it doesn't have this weakness, is orthogonal to the "us vs them" dichotomy you're describing. Apple ID is flawed, do not trust it. Full stop.

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