Hacker News: 2xlbuds

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid"

2xlbuds — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:55:34 +0000

Do you make any carveouts for software meant for game consoles, like the playstation 5?

New comment by 2xlbuds in "WhatsApp Security Advisories"

2xlbuds — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 23:06:41 +0000

That's another great reason to be vague, because even if you were able to launch your updates at the same time on all platforms, at least on mobile the adoption rate can be relatively slow - on mobile I've measured that it takes about a week to get 80% of users to update and 2 weeks for 90%, which could leave a sizable vulnerable population.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "WhatsApp Security Advisories"

2xlbuds — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 22:12:50 +0000

There are quite a few reasons to have release notes like this:

1. Major apps often do phased rollouts of features in order to react to potential production issues, or to make certain features available to a limited subset of users or regions without having to do an emergency binary release if things go wrong.

2. The new build contains an A/B experiment, and you don't want to tell users that feature X was revamped because the experiment might not even go anywhere and only a small number of users will see it, anyways.

3. Your app is stable enough to have a regular release cadence e.g. monthly or biweekly, and you actually are just shipping whatever bugfixes made it into master since the last release with the major feature changes hidden behind feature flags until they are ready for 1. or 2.

4. The vast, vast, majority of users never read the update notes on the app store. They have automatic updates enabled, and your app updates at 3AM when their phone is plugged in on wifi and they are fast asleep.

5. Building on 4, if you actually want to advertise new features to users, it is better to build a native experience into the app either building a UI highlighting what has changed in the new version, or just popping up a dialog to show the patch notes (can be coupled with 1. and 2. to only show the dialog to users who have gotten the new feature enabled in the phased rollout or experiment). Discord is an example of an app that does this well.

6. Also building on 4., the changes are so minor that they are not worth paying a translation service to translate your patch notes if you are offering your app in multiple languages.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos"

2xlbuds — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:56:36 +0000

If you're in Japan, you can go to Yushakobo's store in Akihabara, or order some kits online at places like https://eucalyn.shop/product-category/kits.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "A 72-year-old French man has crossed the Atlantic in a giant orange barrel"

2xlbuds — Thu, 09 May 2019 05:10:29 +0000

Reminds me of "Father's Day"

https://medium.com/@info_44554/5ft-4-inch-fathers-day-is-the...

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake"

2xlbuds — Tue, 07 May 2019 03:33:37 +0000

Which category is bigger? 1. Citizens who want to invest their money 2. Citizens who work in the financial services industry

It's #1, by several orders of magnitude. I would still argue that it's not a mistake, but that's because a mistake would mean they didn't intend to help category #2.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat"

2xlbuds — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 08:12:29 +0000

Yeah, I remember seeing the anti-scanning measure in another game circa 2009. IAT hooks were hot then too. I wonder if they run a CRC on sections of the game code as well (also pretty trivial to defeat).

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user"

2xlbuds — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:03:28 +0000

I also used an XPS 15 for personal and work before switching to a Macbook, and it was also much thicker than a retina MBP. I didn't have a touchscreen model, but the touchpad was probably the best touchpad I have used on a windows machine (it even had good gesture support, like 4 finger swipe to switch programs). It did have some weird quirks like the optical drive would make a loud mechanical noise whenever you turned it on, and the screen would often get dust stuck behind it which was basically impossible to clean.

By the way, all Macbook pro models still have the 3.5mm audio jack.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study"

2xlbuds — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:40:48 +0000

I speak as someone who checked it occasionally during the whole debacle - gamergate quickly became a referendum on feminism and women's place in the games industry, and I was disgusted by what I read, so I stopped going there.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study"

2xlbuds — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:51:00 +0000

KotakuInAction is an alt-right cesspool. It contributed to the rise of breitbart, and Milo Yannopolis got famous by writing articles about gamergate targetted to their audience.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’"

2xlbuds — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:56:25 +0000

If you're on iOS, I recommend Apollo for reddit, I actually was using Alien Blue for the longest time because I also hated the official app, but I switched to Apollo a few months ago and it has been great.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen"

2xlbuds — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:01:23 +0000

Carl Icahn to be exact

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions"

2xlbuds — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:27:19 +0000

No, they made a new deal with google and ended theirs with Yahoo late last year.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-back-its-firefoxs-defau...

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Saving San Francisco goes deeper than “build more housing”"

2xlbuds — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:21:04 +0000

SF definitely needs more underground transit. I recently found out that it takes on average 5 minutes less to take a bus from the inner sunset to forest hill to catch a K/L/M inbound than taking the N-Judah.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices"

2xlbuds — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 22:45:39 +0000

Here's a dump of a bunch of artists if you like melodic house for programming :)

https://soundcloud.com/miloh-fliger

https://soundcloud.com/wilddark

https://soundcloud.com/bedouin-official

https://soundcloud.com/hishamzahran

https://soundcloud.com/theokottis

https://soundcloud.com/hraach

https://soundcloud.com/ldsroom

https://soundcloud.com/zeroparty

https://soundcloud.com/foxloveeeeee

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?"

2xlbuds — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:10:54 +0000

Rand Paul cosponsored the bill, so he was an effective yes. I don't know all of the rules of the senate, but apparently it is common to abstain on your own bill.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review"

2xlbuds — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:50:18 +0000

Perhaps you were looking for this? Studio Ghibli produced the art for the Ni No Kuni series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni_no_Kuni

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Combating “Fake News” with a Smartphone “Proof Mode”"

2xlbuds — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:43:17 +0000

I think this is trying to combat a phenomenon that isn't based on logic with something that is - I doubt it will work. Fake news is such a powerful tool because it plays into people's biases and reinforces their beliefs. I doubt the sort of person who would believe in conspiracies will take the time to understand what digital fingerprinting is.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'"

2xlbuds — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:30:53 +0000

At that point it's just like funding magicians to come up with new tricks.

New comment by 2xlbuds in "Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads"

2xlbuds — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 01:45:44 +0000

Yeah, it completely boggles my mind that companies do this. I was selling my old laptop on eBay, and on the desktop and mobile version of the auction page, there were ads for the same model of laptop I was selling at a cheaper price on another site. I guess ad revenue was literally more important than making money off of users selling on their platform.