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deep exasperated sigh If you're too young to remember a time when Windows didn't bug you every five minutes with a prompt that said 'Isn't there someone you fo
by zjp 2y ago
deep exasperated sigh
If you're too young to remember a time when Windows didn't bug you every five minutes with a prompt that said 'Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?', you should know computers used to just silently do what you wanted them to do. Shame that macOS is going the same way.
- Gigachad 2y agoYeah, this was an era where just opening the wrong email would fill your computer with malware. Even “legitimate” companies have exploited users to the extent they physically could, resulting in the situation where we are currently at where the OS makers have to fight back for the users.
- Sophira 2y ago> opening the wrong email would fill your computer with malware While true, this likely isn't a situation where prompts would have helped, sadly. That's a problem that was fixed by hardening email clients.
- Gigachad 2y agoIt’s all part of a general shift to security and privacy. An invisible app sitting in the background recording the screen without the users knowledge is really really bad. So dangerous that it deserves a weekly prompt to make sure you really know it’s happening.
- zjp 2y agoThat's true. I'm not even going to argue that guardrails are bad on balance, I'm just dispositionally against them if I can't turn them off (to Windows's credit, you can disable UAC). If this goes away when you disable SIP, that's fine.