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samrolken··on Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment
I’m not sure if it’s the same kind of situation, but the Macedonian Wikipedia is absolutely rife with all kinds of nationalist pseudo-history and ethnic-based bias.

I think this is a problem for a lot of multilingual online platforms. On Facebook there are pages in Macedonian that constantly publish completely vile hateful material against Bulgarians, Greeks, and Albanians. These pages would absolutely be banned, except it seems that Facebook lacks the linguistic and cultural ability to understand what this content is and to do something about it.

samrolken··on Seeing the Tartars (2020)
This term seems to survive and be used today in some places. In the Balkans, ethnic Macedonian nationalists who hate Bulgarians use this as a slur to refer to their asiatic/turkic/etc origins and to supposedly distinguish their origins from Macedonians (even though they both have their origins in the same Bulgarian people).
samrolken··on iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
5G on eSIM with Verizon worked great for me when it was all I had or it’s the only one enabled. 5G wouldn’t work at all on either line if both SIMs were in use.
samrolken··on TheOldNet Browser Proxy
I recently bought something on Etsy from what seems to be the creator of this service. It has a serial port on it, and it behaves kind of like a Hayes modem. Except the AT commands actually configure a wifi connection, and you dial up servers (telnet-like?) that behave like BBSes over the Internet.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/754439780/serial-wifi-modem-for...

samrolken··on Show HN: Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type
Apps must be specifically authorized by the user to do so, otherwise they cannot. This process is detailed on the FAQ page.
samrolken··on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
Apple includes this on the latest iPads and Macs with the T2 chip.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/03/apple-hardware-microphone-...

samrolken··on Stripe allowed customer to try 9 stolen credit cards and charged back store $500
If Radar did even a tiny bit of what it's advertised to do, it seems like this shouldn't have happened.
samrolken··on Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
The Nook Simple Touch is available used on eBay for $10-$20, and jailbreaks easily from the default shell to reveal a stripped down old version of Android, with browser and other pieces.
samrolken··on Hey advertisers, track this
youtube-dl can take a playlist or channel as the URL and download the latest videos from pre-approved sources, so you can curate and also have plenty of fresh videos. Combined with Plex, this works really well for kids.
samrolken··on EasyJet bans peanuts on all flights
Are there any cases where someone allergic to peanuts has died or had to go to the hospital after being in the presence of peanuts, without eating or even touching them? Is this something that has ever happened? (Even once ever?)
samrolken··on Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug
Unfortunately, epoch time is not literally "seconds since epoch", at least not as implemented/standardized as "Unix time". It skips or repeats itself in case of leap seconds. So it can't save us here.

I think if there were such a thing as a different kind of epoch time that literally actually is "seconds since epoch" it would help a lot and work like you suggest.

samrolken··on Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
It seems like if Amazon killed most of their audience, the people streaming the video games would no longer use Twitch.
samrolken··on One Year Review of Lob.com
Lob.com has been great to work with for some key parts of our business. Always helpful and on-time with everything. We're always looking for more reasons to use their services!
samrolken··on Announcing RubyMotion Trainings
Your mileage may vary. I'm a Ruby developer who picked up RubyMotion. I was up and running and productive with it within days, and after a month of part-time work my first app (which isn't extremely complicated but is by no means trivial) is nearly complete.
samrolken··on RubyMine: RubyMotion is on Board
If you do Ruby and you want to make an iOS app, you should immediately purchase RubyMotion as quickly as you can. You still have to learn how iOS apps work in general and how the UIKit works. But you'd have to learn that anyway.

I was on the fence about it, but I took a shot and it's great. After a few weeks of working on it as a side-project, my app is nearly done. It has gone much more smoothly than I would have thought and it was really easy to get up and running. It was nice to not have to switch to XCode, and use my editor and command line like I usually do. Also, the support is top-notch, the lead developer responded to an issue I had pretty much immediately. And the community is really cool too.

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