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20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure. After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books on Apple’s own programming languages (Objective-C and Swift), and spending tens upon ten…Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
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Dr Paris (he/him)
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •it's on the orange site if you can spare an upvote too
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.comCharlie McHenry
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •Scott Williams 🐧
in reply to Charlie McHenry • • •gentlegardener
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •WesDym
in reply to gentlegardener • • •Jonathan Lamothe doesn't like this.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to WesDym • •WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me OP had 20 years to set up local storage for up to 6TB. 8TB currently goes for under $300. They could have, but didn't, instead naïvely putting their trust in a giant faceless corporation who doesn't care about them or anyone. OP is an 'expert' who apparently didn't back up important and irreplaceable data in a form they controlled directly, even though they easily could have.
I read it. What point do you believe you're making?
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to WesDym • •WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •PerryM ✅
in reply to WesDym • • •@wesdym @me Pardon me guys for butting in but I wondered 1) if the data was crucial why O did not back it up and 2) why did he so obviously, as a guest, take a dump on Apple's carpet! I mean, when you're a guest ...
WesDym
in reply to PerryM ✅ • • •@PerryM Apple wronged him, no doubt, but any other huge company would just as readily. It's not even relevant, in my mind, which company was involved.
OP could have easily avoided this whole drama if they'd backed up critical data locally, which they clearly know enough about, could almost certainly afford, and had 20 years to do it.
Sympathy only goes so far. At some point, it's fair to point out mistakes like this, if only so that others might learn from their errors and not repeat them.
PerryM ✅
in reply to WesDym • • •WesDym
in reply to PerryM ✅ • • •@PerryM I know you're not this stupid. If you read the piece, you definitely know better, and you should be embarrassed to offer this argument. You should also be grown up enough not to write this badly to anyone who's invited your commentary.
Take 30 days.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to WesDym • •@WesDym
*sigh*
From the article:
WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to WesDym • •@WesDym I'm not saying he shouldn't have backed up. I'm saying the self-righteous bullshit is exhausting.
I'm tapping out. Have a nice day.
WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Negative12DollarBill
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Negative12DollarBill • •Negative12DollarBill
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Negative12DollarBill • •@Negative12DollarBill @WesDym You can't make phone calls if you can't unlock your phone, can you? Again, I don't know how this actually works in practice. I'm just saying they absolutely could.
My partner had an iPad that had been locked to her ex's account. It was for all intents and purposes completely bricked to us.
WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Yeah, but 'bricked' is an issue specific to local hardware, not external control systems such as the telco or mfr. It means it won't start up, for anyone.
Misusing this term this way would be like me saying that someone taking my car key from me is the same as the engine seizing up. In the latter case, NO ONE can start it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(e…
totally non-functional electronic device
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •gentlegardener
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me @wesdym yes I did. Loads of ways for less informed users to lose everything
And yes there s risk in everything and anything.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to gentlegardener • •Glen Mastodon ☠
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There are already some well documented medical device incidents:
spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-o…
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum)DG1JAN 🇪🇺
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •Jonathan Lamothe doesn't like this.
eli (ˈe̝ːli), vampire kitsune
in reply to DG1JAN 🇪🇺 • • •glad you have the luxury and privilege to spend exorbitant amounts of time fucking with linux servers but not all of us do.
btw i noticed you arent the admin of your instance. also your site and code is hosted on github (microsoft).
@parisba
DG1JAN 🇪🇺
in reply to eli (ˈe̝ːli), vampire kitsune • • •@rowan btw. If you have a second look, I also host my public project at #codeberg and I'm running a private Forgejo instance for my own stuff.
I don't consider mastodon as important, so no need for self hosting. Prefer to support the radiosocial admin directly.