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Diletante said:

The neutering of this aspect of the bill was completely inevitable. What is interesting is why the government, despite knowing full well the negative consequences to end to end encrypted services, attempted to argue the opposite for so long? To which constituency were they appealing?

chadbag said:

JamesCude said:

Yeah welp people at Apple need to justify their jobs and when you hit version 17 of a piece of software these are the kinds of things done to show progress.

Politicians, middle managers, long running software (developers).  Everyone needs to justify their existence.  I find it irritating that things are constantly changing for no real UX reason.   Sometimes I think it is that changes are not thought through.  

MacOS (this may go back to OS9?) would not remove focus from an app automatically unless the system health required it.  Ie a system level issue that would damage the system or your data had happened and immediate attention was required.   Any other time a way was provided to notify the user of a change that needed attention.  Now any app can instigate system actions that grab focus.   Terrible experience.  I am typing in a window and all of a sudden so non essential service finished and grabs focus with some non essential dialog.  

The red button, the thing I describe above , are all symptoms of the “make changes and don’t think them through and justify them” syndrome. 

Calvin_Hobbes said:

Financial expert Clark Howard refers to Wells Fargo as "a criminal enterprise impersonating a bank." And still after how many years and how much in fines does WF continue its nefarious ways??

mayfly said:

Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but I don't want some algorithm telling me what "I may like" or what I want to hear next. I choose.