Alina Sytnik

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

A series of video recordings from cameras inside the Ukrainian home improving store, at the moment of russia’s strike.

Lots of civilian people walking around the store on the weekday.

Russia’s terrorism cannot be happening for a third year in a row, Ukraine critically needs the right and permission to hit military targets on Russia’s territory using ally-supplied weaponry to prevent even more casualties amongst innocent civilians.

[Maksym @maksym_boytsov]

At this point, my last hope is going public.

After trying to enroll in the Apple Developer Program and contacting Apple Support for almost three months, my application has continued to be rejected without any clear explanation.

The screenshot that's attached is a response from the Apple Support team I received 4 times during the enrollment process upon asking for a clear explanation of the issue they had with my submission.

Let me drive you through my experience of enrollment so you can make conclusions yourself.

As a web engineer working on a mobile app using React Native, I initially didn't know that the Developer Program is required not only to distribute my app but also to configure services in the Apple Developer console.

After learning that - I started my enrollment in mid-January using my MacBook, providing the necessary EU government-issued IDs through the Developer App.

The app gave me two choices on how I could scan my document (as it turned out, both were extremely inconvenient):

1. Continuity camera: Whenever I took a photo of my ID, it was, for some unknown reason, rotated 90 degrees in a way that half of a document was always cut, so it was impossible to scan.
2. MacBook camera: Even though my 16-inch version has improved camera quality, it took me 4-5 tries to scan the document in perfect light conditions so that letters are visible at least somehow, and the system let me go to the next step.

After moving to the next payment step and trying to pay for the program, I've got this error:

Purchased Failed
An unknown error occurred

This made me repeat the process multiple times from my laptop, switch to my phone, and face the same problem.

I topped up my Apple Wallet for $100 because I thought it might help to pay since the money was already in-app, but that didn't help - at that point, it was clear that support was needed.

Long story short, the answer I received from the first interaction was:
This message usually means there was an issue with a previous purchase and/or your payment information needs attention.

Although I've been paying for anything within the Apple ecosystem without any problem, I've meticulously re-visited my payment information and eliminated any possible inconvenience.

I've started a new enrollment with updated payment info. This time, after providing ID, but before being able to pay, I faced a user interface that said there was a problem with my subscription and that I needed to contact Apple Support again.

I returned to support and asked for clarification of the issue and how it could be resolved.

(The response I received is the screenshot attached to this post)

I responded that I've had an issue enrolling for more than a month so far and kindly demanded a clear explanation of the problem.

(The response I received is the screenshot attached to this post)

I emphasized that this response didn't resolve my issue and kindly demanded describing the action I needed to take to resolve that issue.

Turned out this was a European support branch, which redirected me to the US branch that apparently had more control over the information, such as managing dev subscriptions

US support mentioned that they blocked submissions because I enrolled from multiple devices (e.g., iPhone and MacBook, both of which are mine and assigned to me via Apple ID, by the way) - as I've mentioned earlier, the reason I did that is because of an unknown error, so they reached out to me with an ask to upload
• Government-issued photo ID
• Employment verification document from your organization or employer
• Current business documents for your company

I provided and uploaded the eligible documents per request.

Apple got back to me and said that I would be able to now apply for the dev program but only using the device I originally started the enrollment with
-- I was extremely happy that the issue was finally resolved (March 8), and I was excited to go through the enrollment flow and upload documents again and... the same UI with an ask to contact Apple support... again.

This made me go back to support. Kindly mention that I still have been asked to contact them. Additionally, I asked for a clear explanation of my issue one more time.

(The response I received is the screenshot attached to this post)

It was already obvious how ridiculous this situation was. Me—contacting support, being kind and supportive, exposing personal information, topping up the wallet for convenience, wasting the time I could've spent building the actual product chatting with them instead, and doing everything possible to resolve that issue — ending up in a worse state than I was before even starting to contact them.

The last message I sent was explaining all the previous steps I made to give them a clear explanation of my thought process because I thought it might help to clarify some things on their side.

(The response I received is the screenshot attached to this post)
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Don't get me wrong — I love Apple hardware and software and use it for my day-to-day operations, but facing a situation like that makes me extremely disappointed.

I sincerely hope it's not related to any personal bias.

I hope for your support and re-posting this case to a wider audience. Thanks for taking the time to read through 🙏

@AppleSupport @TechCrunch @WIRED @MKBHD @tim_cook

[FLK Whale @FLKwhale]

⚡ New Edge Platform Whitepaper & Repo ⚡

Today we are very excited to release the new whitepaper and open source repo for Fleek Network’s decentralized edge platform.

https://t.co/vzTNMjnJLd

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

The criminal actions of russia on following points:

The violation of provision of Article 3. 35 of Chapter I, Part III of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, Concerning the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts Regarding the Prohibition of Methods or Means of Conduct of Military Actions Which Are Intended to Cause or Can Be Expected to Cause Widespread, Long-Term, and Serious Damage natural environment.

Such barbaric actions of the Russian Federation violate the basic principles and ideas that the civilized world developed for decades and enshrined in a number of international agreements, for example, in such as the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, Mainly as a Habitat for Waterfowl and the Convention on protection of wild flora and fauna and natural habitats in Europe. Such actions of the enemy once again demonstrate to the world community the absolute leveling of the Russian Federation against international norms, standards and rules.

Such criminal actions of the Russian military definitely and completely fall under the criminal law qualification under Art. 8 (2) (b) (iv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

The consequences are:

- The impossibility of taking water necessary for cooling the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which outcomes as a threat to the nuclear safety of the world;

- A mass death of aquatic organisms (fish, molluscs, crustaceans, microorganisms, aquatic vegetation) with further disturbance of their habitat, including birds and other amphibians and animals;

- Significant risks for rodent populations, in particular endemic species and those listed in the Red Book of Ukraine;

- Disturbance of the habitats of plant complexes;

- Negative impact on water areas, coastal areas and the land part of three Ukrainian national nature parks - "Nizhnyodniprovskyi", "Kamyanska Sichi", "Biloberezhya Svyatoslav", Black Sea Biosphere Reserve (this territory also has the status of a UNESCO biosphere reserve), Regional landscape park "Kinburnska Kosa" and numerous objects of the nature reserve fund with smaller areas. All these territories also have the status of Wetlands of international importance, protected in accordance with the Ramsar Convention, and are also territories of the Emerald Network, protected in accordance with the Berne Convention;

- The pollution of the waters of the Dnipro and the Black Sea - primary pollution due to the ingress of fuel and lubricant materials into the waters, washing away of garbage, agrochemicals, other dangerous materials, flooding and failure of sewage treatment systems, sewage, and so-called "secondary pollution"

- A leaching, transfer of mines and other explosive substances, increase in mine danger;

These are only few major aftermath to come.

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

❗️The undermining of the Kakhovska HPP dam is not only one of the biggest ecological and humanitarian disasters in the east of Europe that led to the flooding of vast territories and many settlements, but is in fact the biggest crime against food security in the world.

The Kakhov reservoir was the heart of one of the largest irrigation systems in Europe. It was the southern regions of Ukraine that supplied the countries of the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe with wheat, corn, sunflower and sunflower oil, soybeans and soybean meal.

We call on everyone who cares about the fate of our planet and the environment, who declares their status as environmentalists and defines nature protection activities as their goals — to take all possible measures in order to record these violations, bring the culprits to justice, and make it impossible to commit such barbarism in the future.

@IUCN @ConservationOrg @nature_org @FoEint @earthwatch_org @TheWSC @SierraClub @EnvDefenseFund @NRDC @globalwild_cc @WorldResources @conservationall @CenterForBioDiv @ifawglobal @earthjustice @UCSUSA @savingoceans @earthisland @intlrivers @oceana @FaunaFloraInt @EIA_News @theGEF @wspa @UNESCO

The world and our planet will face catastrophic consequences if you choose inaction!

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Russian soldier Yehor Guzenko, who is in Kherson region, confirmed that russians blew up Kakhovska HPP.
He is happy and calls for blowing up other dams

[Alina Sytnik @AlinaaSytnik]

Home 😭😭😭

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

In Kherson a Ukrainian policeman saved a dog that got into a flood trap ​​due to the undermining of the Kakhovska hydroelectric dam by russians.

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

The consequences of undermining of Kakhovska HPP…

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Russia blew up Kakhovska HPP that is on the Dnipro River. This is an act of terrorism and a global threat, the consequences of these actions could be colossal and unpredictable.

[Fleek @fleek]

New week, new release ⚡

This time, we're bringing the first automated CI/CD deployment flow integration to our Sites Deployments in the CLI Beta: Github Actions

Check it out and get started:
https://t.co/nUAUmLnXv7

[Fleek @fleek]

WE ARE LIVE ⚡

Join us and @dabit3 for an AMA as we cover our recent beta releases, templates, and more!
https://t.co/pcidHJnzyx

[Alina Sytnik @AlinaaSytnik]

My hometown today #russiaisateroriststate

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

On the world’s biggest holidays russia continues to terrorize Ukraine and its citizens. Kherson city center got bombed by rockets, it’s known of 7 dead, 26 wounded and still counting.
If you continue to make business with terrorists — you sponsor death.

#RussiaIsATerroristState

[Alina Sytnik @AlinaaSytnik]

🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Thank you, USA

[Fleek @fleek]

Today, we're introducing something exciting:

Non-Fungible Apps (NFAs)

A new approach for on-chain tokenization of apps that will help unlock better decentralization, censorship resistance, and community ownership for Web3 frontends.

🧵
https://t.co/zu6aDAMoDW

[Fleek @fleek]

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve closed a $25M Series A led by @polychaincap to build Fleek Network (and a new platform: https://t.co/1kuMI3WlGz )⚡

Check out our announcement blog to learn all about the future of web3 hosting and content delivery:
https://t.co/hDmXHm8sRj

[Plug @plug_wallet]

🔌 Extension V0.6.0 Release 🔌

The start of the V0.6.0 arc is here so let's get the party started 🕺💃

What's included?

🗑️ Delete Custom Tokens
🖼️ Add Custom DIP721v2 NFTs
⚙️ Controller Account Refactoring

Check out the release blog for more details 👇
https://t.co/96bQdqxgsa

[Alina Sytnik @AlinaaSytnik]

Today’s morning ruzzia launched 83 missiles throughout all territory of Ukraine!!! 🤬🤬🤬
F*cking Terrorist State
#RussiaIsATerroristState

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Literally right now whole Ukraine is being massively bombed by russian missiles, big cities like Kyiv Dnipro Lviv have been hit with civilian casualties. Also reports of critical infrastructure damage. This is one of the biggest shellings of the whole time
#RussiaisATerroistState

[Михайло Подоляк @Podolyak_M]

@elonmusk Will hundred thousand dead in Mariupol vote? Or those who went through concentration camps? @elonmusk you create rockets and dream of colonizing Mars. Russia creates mobile crematoria and dreams of Ukrainians disappearing as a nation. It is not a “voting" issue.

[Alina Sytnik @AlinaaSytnik]

🔥🔥🔥

[Plug @plug_wallet]

🔌 Plug Mobile Authentication Android Alpha 🔌

Devs, we're beyond excited to bring you a first for the #InternetComputer.

Integrate Plug Mobile Authentication into your dApps, and bring them on the go today!

Check out the blog for the full rundown 🔽
https://t.co/30sVAYEFgb