A good reminded to myself to do another GDPR request and download all my iCloud images to an external hard drive
Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
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Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
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I thought I'd buy Cory Doctrow's Enshittification ebook direct from his website. Surprised to be redirected to Paypal with no other option.
I remember when Cory would let you download any of his books for free and even said you were allowed to email him and call him a sucker for doing this.
He still does offer them for free as far as I know. Perhaps not his most recent ones.
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Youtube is full of scam baiting videos – of people who waste scammer's time for entertainment. A very usual scenario is that the scammer pretends to be a technician doing some remote support and for example pretends to provide some refund. Then they pretend that they've mistakenly sent out e.g. 10x the amount and they ask for the difference back, claiming that their job is on the line. Crypto would work, but since th…
“Do not redeem the…! WHY DID YOU DO THAT!?” lol They’re great entertainment pieces, and almost a commentary on the state of the world through the lens of microeconomics, with both sides behaving in a way they think is best for them. For the baiters, they get engagement and, sometimes, the feeling of revenge for a scam visited upon an elderly relative; for the scammer, maybe it’s worse, as we know some people are traf…
I guess the days of the scammer grunts are numbered. It is eventually going to be cheaper and more efficient to use a language model. Only the scammer architects who come up with the schemes will be able to extract value.
When that happens, there won't be much entertainment nor that much ethical value in scam-baiting. We need to enjoy it while we can.
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I've used macbooks for 15 years and have never felt the need to create an Apple ID. Maybe I've just been lucky but I have never even encountered a piece of software that didn't offer a direct download or brew installation.
Xcode.
Development on Apple hardware generally
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I’m suggesting you do both One Drive and Google! Also, to be clear, I’m saying to install One Drive and Google Photos on your iPhone. My approach to this is based around having the least amount of things to manage. In my scenario, I’m looking for the most simple out of the box systems to backing up that don’t require any self hosted solutions or NAS management and so on. Just throw money at it! Hence my suggestion to…
I think we are saying almost the same thing. I have iCloud storage, pay for one Google storage and have Office365. I use all three. But, we travel a lot, it’s a hobby of ours. Being able to see on a map where the pictures were taken is important. iCloud Drive and Google Drive preserve all of that information and the accompanying Live Photos, and depth information. One Drive doesn’t. But I’m okay with a two full Fidel…
100% with you there!
Having location data is very desirable, and searching my library without it would be painful!
I'm also a huge fan of how iCloud and Google Photos can search my photos just by a description. (not sure if One Drive can, never tried).
I'm horrified when I talk to people who only have their photos on their phones, with no additional iCloud storage. They have no additional backup at all.
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>It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this. It's also the buying of gift cards that can get Apple accounts locked: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/r8b1lu/apple_will_pe... If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards because of the real possibility of account bans. - Don't give Apple gift cards to family and friends: You're potenti…
The "gift card" in general is an anachronism whose time has passed. They have got to go. If companies are going to consider use of gift cards as red flags (as they often are, due to their being key components in money laundering and scams), then society should just abandon them. They are worse in every way than a prepaid credit cards, and in most cases where you want to give someone a gift card, you should probably j…
> you should probably just give them cash
I really wish this was more acceptable. Even I have this block in giving just plain cash as a gift.
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#957Sue them. If you don't sue them, they’ll just keep doing it.
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living in an apartment sucks for security. You can't really own a gun and practice castle doctrine. Your landlord has a key to your home and can lock you out at any time, or can go through your mail. There are other options like living in your own property, living in an RV, etc. that are better if you are worried about security. If I was living in an apartment, I wouldn't be stashing all of my money under my mattress…
Where do you live? You are implicitly assuming a rented property. Where I live you can buy a flat. however, even assuming rented, its not that bad, atleast here in the UK. > our landlord has a key to your home and can lock you out at any time Illegal to do without notice and permission. You can change the locks as long as you change them back or pay for cost of doing so when you leave. > I wouldn't run a business out…
I wouldn't develop software for apple, MS or Google if I had the option. If I did, i would intend to diversify when it's practical to do so.
The only platform you list I would build for is MS' Win32, which they can't afford to deprecate and can be somewhat emulated with WINE.
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living in an apartment sucks for security. You can't really own a gun and practice castle doctrine. Your landlord has a key to your home and can lock you out at any time, or can go through your mail. There are other options like living in your own property, living in an RV, etc. that are better if you are worried about security. If I was living in an apartment, I wouldn't be stashing all of my money under my mattress…
> You can't really own a gun and practice castle doctrine. Your landlord has a key to your home and can lock you out at any time, or can go through your mail. None of this is true in the US. Castle doctrine applies to your domicile , and is not based on property ownership. If you have a lease, it is your home as far as CD is concerned. WRT gun restriction rules for rental properties, they vary by state, but in states…
Apartments can ban pets, I don't see why they would have a problem banning weapons. If you want to be a gun owner, you basically have to live in a gun-friendly county of a gun-friendly state and only carry in the minority of gun-friendly private spaces that allow them.
It's like how we have 5th ammendment rights, but they don't apply 100 miles from the border, which just happens to include 90% of the population and the entire state of florida. We have rights that are de-facto illegal to practice due to the way they're implemented.
In the last apartment I was in, my mail went directly through my landlord and I was dependent on them to filter it by apartment room number.
Almost every landlord I've had has thrown out mail they've received after I've left. So if I order something and it ends up taking 2 months to get to my apartment, and I leave after the first month, I don't have access to that mail. They just throw it out.
The landlord, at the end of the day, holds all of the keys. They can change the locks. Even if it's illegal, are you going to go to court while homeless and without access to all of your possessions? My last apartment had an app that allowed them to remotely change the lock code.
My takeaway is that it is totally impractical to run a buisness out of an apartment. When you rent, you're a basically a peasant. You don't have a permanent mailing address, you don't have real security, you have no incentive to improve the property, and you are just paying out the ass for someone else's mortgage. For anything serious, it's better to live in an RV and get a P.O. box.
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#960This is one of the worst stories I’ve seen yet. It sounds like they were “all in” on Apple with zero backups, which shows some questionable judgment, but still, this sort of thing shouldn’t be possible any more than a bank deciding to take all your money with no recourse. (They can close your account, but they can’t keep your money.) Maybe hosts should be required to mail you a hard drive with your data on it when th…
I do have backups of most data, including photos, but there are things you can't backup like shared actively edited iWork documents, and things like that. I can rebuild from it, but it's still a shitshow and my very expensive devices are bricked.
Apple (via Executive Relations) says they won't do anything. Guess I'm stuffed.