The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙This is some peak cat entertainment
Given to compulsive pondering.
He/him/bleurgh.
Gideon Hallett
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Another half hour on the phone to Apple senior support.
No firm updates on when the age verification issue will be fixed.
I also discussed my concerns about the restrictions in Screen Time (location sharing enabled and disabling it is impossible as it requires age verification) - and it *may* trump per-app location sharing settings.
They're not sure, and I've asked them to pass my concerns on to engineering for clarification.
I'll pass on any updates as I get them.
David HoI don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.
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@gmh @CGM As far as I'm aware this being allowed just means "an app can request this permission and you can choose to grant it". I still think it's a cockup bodging these things into the parental controls system so you get these issues, but I don't think it inherently means that your location is being sent anywhere.
FWIW: it just worked for me, but that's because I had a credit card in my Apple Pay wallet. My father had issues trying to get it to verify until I added one to his (which was not intuitive in the slightest). And while I think Apples implementation is one of the less intrinsically evil age verification, iOS 26.4 has actively got me to try using a phone with much more OSS system software
Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼♀️🐈🐈⬛Sweden’s digital ID was hacked and the data is out on the dark web already.
Edit: Oop, important context: https://front-end.social/@kolombiken/116315181663844091
Kolombiken (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] Got some strong opinions on BankId but that headline is not correct. What was hacked was test servers belonging to the company who build a lot of things for the tax agency. Not BankId itself. Of course it’s still serious but it sounds like it’s a lot worse.
Another call with Apple support (the second today).
Still no firm information on when an age verification fix might be available.
To be fair, Apple support are very apologetic and I can well believe they’re having a bad week (it’s no fun being in support when the shit hits the fan).
They’ll be calling me back tomorrow morning.
As an IT pro, I use my phone for work.
Apple have damaged the utility of my phone for my job without even attempting to warn me beforehand.
Until this is fixed my choice is :
a) my phone is now a toy and not to be used for Serious Work
or
b) I risk my personal data by rolling back to 26.3
or
c) I fork out a grand and several weeks of effort to remove my data from Apple's ecosystem.
None of those are exactly great choices, are they?
(7/7)