“20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple | hey.paris”
Yeah. Time to review how you use Apple, Google, and Microsoft cloud services.
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, and…Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
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Tisha Tiger / Neliger
in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •What a shaming story 🔥
I'm in the process of revisiting every data source here since the begining of the year to make sure nothing can be taken away from me.
LionelB
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Unknown parent • • •Der gnädige Herr Jemineh
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in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •Many of the replies to the above post are solid examples of why people who are seeking alternatives to traditional social media still bounce off Mastodon: you all have a tendency to behave like assholes.
Nobody wants a lecture on switching to Linux, ever, or to be told how using the services they’ve been sold makes them a fool, and wasting that lecture on somebody who is already on Linux and already uses iCloud as little as possible just makes you a dick
Kerr Avonsen (she/her)
in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •Schroedinger
in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •Look, behaving like an asshole is my brand....
I guess what I see is the sort of people I started working with computers, and everyone was really enthusiastic about their particular brand or style or language or whatever. People who were insistent on building your own computer. Or plugging home-made hardware into it.
So for me, it feels more like a home that i remember. Not the political hot-house that other places have been. I find it a lot better, but I know I am a nerd who prefers the geek culture to the serious one.
Sasha Akhavi
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in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •yes. i'm an IT person who has made a real effort to make sure our family files are not vulnerable to this. it is hard and expensive and i'm still not sure i have covered everything important. i keep running into intentional evil fuckery.
for example: our QNAP NAS synchronized photos from Google, allowing us to back them up to second NAS and SFTP. great! .. but Google killed the API the sync relied on in March.
ada
in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •I agree. That's why I actively avoid tech post on here and even migrated away from a tech instance.
Technology seems to be a religion here, an extreme one that worship no other gods.
And these arseholes have loudspeakers.
(Staring at Mozilla from far away)
bobschi
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in reply to Baldur Bjarnason • • •Hell! The worst thing I‘ve ever read. An Apple Evangelist has lost his existence.
»Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.«
Franz Kafka, Der Prozeß (The Trial)
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