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I think what’s more alarming is the macOS nannying UAC-like toggles to block disk access and other “protections” are apparently all UX reducing flash and no actual functionality.

I’d argue this is a five alarm fire for macOS and Meta simply exploited it.

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Personally that stuff drives me up the wall, it's the Mac wanting to become the iPhone and close off everything but the App Economy. They'll geofence XCode to the Bay Area or something so only "professionals" can develop software and eventually ban web browsers.

I think we need more granular permissions, and built in ways to trick apps into thinking they have permissions they do not.



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