Given to compulsive pondering.
He/him/bleurgh.
This is also a safeguarding issue.
As I found out yesterday, one of the things locked down in 26.4 is that Content and Privacy Restrictions is locked on. You need to pass age verification to change it. Until I can prove I'm over 18, all of these features like location sharing are enabled and I can't disable them. For me, it's an annoying inconvenience.
For someone vulnerable in an abusive domestic situation - this could be considerably more serious. (5/7)
The bad - and I have stressed this to Apple support (politely!):
There is currently no procedural fallback.
No one at Apple seems to have come up with any kind of plan pre-release for people who don't fit with Apple's implementation of Highly Effective Age Assurance (HEAA).
There were mixed messages on release day about whether passports would work. After many attempts, I've got my phone to take a scan of my passport and submit that; but it invariably fails to upload (see attached). (2/7)
So, until I can get the passport working as ID, my iPhone is feature-limited.
I can live without the ability to download 18+ apps.
The ability to make in-app purchases? That's a bit more severe; there are plenty of things you can buy in-app that aren't porn or loot boxes.
And until I can somehow get this fixed, I'm a child.
To add insult to injury, I tried to look at the Apple community for similar reports and got this...
Apparently, tech support is for grownups!
Whoop de fucking doo. 2/2
When Signs Accidentally Call For Revolution…
These symptoms *can* indicate modern slavery.
They can also indicate that you’re a low waged worker trying to scrape out a living in a culture where zero hour contracts are a thing, rents are astronomical, and the state is either indifferent or in collaboration with the soulless pigfuckers keeping you insecure and afraid.
I’m slightly amazed that nobody involved with this ad said ‘waitaminute…’ and shitcanned the whole thing.
I know Home Secretary is the modern Grand Vizier, that thinking is not in the job description and public displays of authoritarianism are, but still…
If you are not free to do something every moment of every day, you are not free to do something.
(Whether you should is another matter, as is what happens if you impinge on the freedoms of others.)
If your protest is subject to the sayso of your superiors, what you have is a temporary licence, not a freedom.
Yet another indication that being a multibillionaire doesn't require genius.
The counterexample to his claims is standing right next to him.
The January 6th rioters - acting on Trump's sayso - behaved violently and without fear, as do Trump's militias and paramilitary goons.
Ellison's panopticon exists to serve the wealthy; and those who are useful to the wealthy are not covered by it.
