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@paco@infosec.exchange

2026-08-08 18:50 UTC

You can tell when I go to help my mom with computers because I end up posting here. I’m helping her clean out junk email. Her hospital sent her helpful info about prostate cancer. And her bank sent her helpful hints about saving for retirement. She is 93. Nice job, folks. Take a victory lap.

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  • @paco@infosec.exchange 2026-08-09 02:42

    Here’s the other tech thing I had to help my mom with. She said that when she goes to the phone app, she can’t see any of the numbers to dial. That’s weird. It’s totally true. This is an #iPhone 13 or so. Running the latest iOS because she has auto update like a lot of people do. Watch what happens. The basic idea is that light mode seems to be broken. It sets text to black, but it somehow doesn’t change the background to white. Result: black text on black background. Switch to dark mode, and the text turns white, making it readable. I couldn’t figure out any better solution than to go to dark mode. I think she had chosen light mode because emails or texts or something looked better in light mode. I wouldn’t have believed it (or understood what she was describing) if I didn’t see it for myself. It makes so little sense that I would have had trouble believing her. Not that I think she can’t describe it accurately, but that this behavior seems SO unlikely to me, that I would assume she was describing something different.

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