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posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

hey.paris/posts/appleid/


20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, andโ€ฆ
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
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xs4me2
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Relying on commercial big tech for all your digital data can almost not be avoided. We should steer away from itโ€ฆ the cloud is just somebody elseโ€™s computer.

Go open source whenever possibleโ€ฆ

Clear and enforceable rules and regulations are needed to protect the users against these murky unpredictable and in-transparant monopolies that can simply ban without reasoning.

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So sorry to hear what's happened, it sounds like the worst nightmare imaginable. This part particularly made me roll my eyes:

"I canโ€™t even sign out of the blocked iCloud account becauseโ€ฆ itโ€™s barred from the sign-out API, as far as I can tell."

FFS. That is terrible API design...

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@mawhrin ๐Ÿค”๏ธ I'll reprocess this conversation in a bit.
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@hellomiakoda have a perfectly adequate life then.
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Miakoda
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@mawhrin Nah. I've been listening to people mock me for snubbing Apple products for years. So, I'mma have this moment, especially after spending most my adult life cleaning up after people who insist on using software and devices that do this type of crap regularly and refuse to consider alternatives.
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@mawhrin I'm a computer nerd, and was a technician till I couldn't work anymore. Just adding that for context, the latter being the most relevant.
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so, for convenience you put your whole digital life in a trap and now you are complaining that you are trapped? Trusting in a single company (regardless of apple, google, microsoft, atlassian, etc) is - frankly speaking- stupid these days. Go and free your digital life with Linux, OSS and Selfhosting. This is not convenient at all, but it's much better than being a digital slave from big-tech
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@DG1JAN what on earth is wrong with you that you would talk to someone in distress this way
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DG1JAN
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@eniko grow up. The truth sometimes hurt. Unfortunately, digital resilience isn't fancy or easy like buying ๐Ÿ product.
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The Soweli System
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just because you kind of said the right thing doesn't mean you weren't incredibly rude about it. Growing up would be to have compassion on someone who probably didn't even know better was an option at first
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Sorry, I am german, too. Please dont project your rudeness onto all of Germanys people!

There is a big difference between grown up honesty and just being rude. It is called compassion!

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@aliceice @eniko @kulupuSoweli fascinating to see, how many people living in their own fairytale world and can't handle any criticism at all. Typically a common issue with GenZ these days, so you are in good company.
@aliceice @Eniko Fox @The Soweli System
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aliceice
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And another round of rudeness. Seems like that's your thing. And another generalization, too.

I guess I now know enough about you to say goodbye and wish you a life in which you don't need to be so rude to others.

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@gruber FYI, John, I'm fully back on the air as of today, but share your concerns on Apple Gift Card safety. Small update here: hey.paris/posts/appleid/ โ€” longer one soon. @glyph

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, andโ€ฆ
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
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@gruber @glyph I'm happy to hear Apple finally restored your account. Your story has inspired me to cut ties with iCloud and set up my own NAS to get my memories back under my control.

I sincerely hope you'll do the same.

@Glyph @John Gruber
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