The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙This is some peak cat entertainment
Given to compulsive pondering.
He/him/bleurgh.
Gideon Hallett
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@MonkeyKing I can recommend the Stealing History for SFF panel!
Sarah W
Information Is Beautiful
@bjornfr.bsky.social Watch out for crocodiles!
@technicaladept There wasn’t even a sign saying ‘Beware of the leopard’.
That would have been funny…
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.
@cstross I was thinking of Akhenaten just the other day, and how his name was purged from buildings and monuments after his death.
@linuxandyarn That’s my fear; I need to do some experiments with apps to see if one overrides the other; it seems like a confusingly opaque bit of UI.
I’d love to be wrong here and it’s quite possible I am, but given the implications, it’s not a reassuring setting default.
@linuxandyarn To be fair to Apple; it’s a reasonable default if you assume that the user is a child and that their parent or guardian will want to be able to locate them if needed. Applied to an adult, that has some potentially problematic consequences.
That said, the Privacy & Security settings also have enable/disable location settings on a per-app basis, and it’s possible for them to say different things at the same time, so I’m not 100% sure if it’s truly locked on.