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Apple will update Macs to protect users from AI agents with full disk access
mashable.com/tech/apple-will-update-full-disk-access-due-to-updates-ai-agents
Replying to @TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
Good change.
- It helps the less tech savvy users,
- It actually forces developers to write their app properly.
Software should not operate at a privileged level “just in case”, but rather have a well-defined functional boundary.
Replying to @Ashrakal@lemmy.ml
It’s not clear exactly what Apple is going to impose here. In principle, trying to ensure users understand the implications of a permission is good. In practice, Apple is famous for keeping users from making decisions they might reasonably want to make on phones, and it’s starting to creep into the Mac; installing an app Apple hasn’t signed requires the command line, for example.
installing an app Apple hasn’t signed requires the command line, for example
Yeah this is the reason I’ve avoided Macs for so long. I get giving the user a warning but not providing any sort of prompt to override the warning, and hiding it in a terminal command is ridiculous .
There was also one time I tried to simply turn off Bluetooth and it was just like “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that”. And I was like WTF, absolutely not .