sniperjzp | 3 years ago | on: Tik Tok is a national security threat
Not trying to defend TikTok, FB/Google/Twitter are not sharing data with CCP, but they are sharing data with CIA owned by Uncle Sam.
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sniperjzp | 3 years ago | on: Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 years after release
I'm wondering how to test those thousands lines of C++ code, a lot of them are compute-intensive, I don't see any unit test.
sniperjzp | 4 years ago | on: Fuchsia IDL Overview
Listing the messaging App here is like comparing apples to oranges, gRPC and FIDL are for different purposes from technical perspective, people must have evaluated leveraging existing tech vs. creating a new one before the investment.
sniperjzp | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Pay
What if someone don't use Messenger? Venmo/Paypal are still the most popular options in my circles, largely because they are not tied to any specific platform.
sniperjzp | 4 years ago | on: Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook
It’s 81% to be precise according to it’s Q4 earnings.
sniperjzp | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
Not sure about Teams, but Google Meet allow you to share a specific browser tab, I don't know how to implement it without reading all the opened tabs.
sniperjzp | 4 years ago | on: Robinhood’s big gamble
It’s looks like free but it isn’t, RH makes money by selling trading requests to high frequency trading firms like Citadel, which buy/sell before the actual order in a better position so they can earn a penny from selling to or buying from you. The more transactions, the more they earn.
- https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/robinhood-makes-millions-sell...
sniperjzp | 4 years ago | on: Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
First, you can play YouTube without any problem on Firestick, they made the change 2 years ago. Second, you should give the new Chromecast device a try, it's far much better than Roku. Third, Google is asking Roku to support VP9, which is a much superior video coding format, I don't see any issue with this ask.
sniperjzp | 5 years ago | on: 2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]
You can see this kind of comment in every YouTube related posts, please, there's no free lunch, either pay for the subscription or use tools to block the ads.
sniperjzp | 5 years ago | on: Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
Because Android users will switch to iOS for better privacy, Google needs to develop something similar to keep the market share.
sniperjzp | 5 years ago | on: Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
So many people complain about the mount of Ads, or the quality of Ads, but don't forget there's YT Premium. There's no free lunch, creators also need to feed their family. (it's your choice to use adblocker anyway)
sniperjzp | 5 years ago | on: NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
Watching youtube videos using Google's bandwidth, without watching any ads or paying for sub, I don't see how this could be legit in the long term.
sniperjzp | 5 years ago | on: TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being caught in the act
Smh, a newly registered account.
> Honestly it is okay to discuss the bar behaviours of an app without blaming other apps.
OP explained the reason for doing so, how can we just discuss the problem without checking the cause?
sniperjzp | 5 years ago | on: India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
This is funny, can you elaborate how come a ranking algorithm is a national security threat? It reminds me of the time when Google/FB/Instagram/Twitter still worked in China, Chinese govt used the same excuse to ban big tech social platforms.
sniperjzp | 6 years ago | on: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
This is interesting, would YouTube cut the quality too? If no, does this mean Netflix has much higher traffic than YouTube?
sniperjzp | 6 years ago | on: Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think
Great idea, thanks for sharing this! But how could we prove what's behind the image is exactly what is shown? Could someone still hack it, pretend to be a normal link but actually is a phishing link?
sniperjzp | 6 years ago | on: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
️ oops, a typo in the query, but why they have query correction for popularity based, not date based?
sniperjzp | 6 years ago | on: Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
It feels ironic, I searched "Algolia" from both, today's news is ranked as #7 in Algolia powered HN.
From Algolia: https://imgur.com/a/atRMnwj
From Google: https://imgur.com/a/d3EKdUp
Some people says it's popularity based, but if I change it to date based, it's broken? https://imgur.com/a/HGzL6fO
sniperjzp | 6 years ago | on: India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
Does anyone notice that in the video there are kids holding guns, at around 00:54 and 01:11? I hope they are not real.
sniperjzp | 6 years ago | on: China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters
I guess Chinese gov needs to pay me then ;), mind sharing out the "well documented" reference?
It's a common way for Chinese to pick up an username, a common word plus few characters from their name. I created mine since high school and I use it like a charm for almost a decade. I'm not defending China, I just wanted to let you know NYT is not telling the full truth. I've done biz in HK for 5+ yrs, the conflict and tension between China and HK can't be simply explained in two or three sentences.
The protest is out of control right now, you can't imagine how scary and horrible the current HK is, protestors hit people if they don't want to join, they forbid people from going to work, they rush into airport, train station to interfere public transportation, etc. I was lucky to return back earlier, but it's really disappointing to see NYT only reports whatever favors them. People visiting HK for holidays or biz are not the right ones the protestors should blame. If you don't believe what I said, you can go to HK and take a look (I hope not, at least not now), or talk to anyone who just came back.
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