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kubobletoday at 12:40 PM3 repliesview on HN

Them you are free to not install them? Why ban them outright?

I'm using https://github.com/cjpais/Handy whichseems to be doing exactly what this app does, and has a very similar background story (author couldn't type die to injury).


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SyneRydertoday at 12:57 PM

Handy is excellent and cross platform, and really elegant. They've got a direct website here which might be easier to navigate than the Github repo:

https://handy.computer/

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mrweaseltoday at 12:53 PM

In this case it feels like it's a feature that the operating system should be providing or something that could be marked as an accessibility tool, which would allow it to use that API.

The problem from Apples perspective could be that there is a ton of tools that require access to the accessibility API because they want to do stuff that Apple have deemed a security risk and the only way to do it is by abusing the API. Some of these are also because macOS simply lacks certain APIs.

I think Apple overreacting due to previous API misuse by other apps.

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amazingamazingtoday at 12:45 PM

To their defense you cannot rollback apps, so if you did install and only an update had this function, you are out of luck

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