Hacker News: bithaze

New comment by bithaze in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

bithaze — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:38:25 +0000

Android Debug Bridge, a CLI for connecting to Android devices: https://developer.android.com/tools/adb

New comment by bithaze in "Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?"

bithaze — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:41:10 +0000

> Why even have a status page if it is not going to be accurate in real time?

The funny thing is reddit's status page used to have real-time graphs of things like error rate, comment backlog, visits, etc. Not with any numbers on the Y-axis, so you could only see relative changes, really, but they were still helpful to see changes before humans got around to updating the status page.

New comment by bithaze in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

bithaze — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:58:46 +0000

There's a ctrl+open shortcut, if I remember correctly, which may be what the parent comment is referring to.

New comment by bithaze in "Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser"

bithaze — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:56:55 +0000

They're not linking to a change in wording? The "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" question was deleted entirely. Unless the parent comment or link was edited at some point, maybe.

New comment by bithaze in "Purism Domain Puri.sm Suspended?"

bithaze — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:17:32 +0000

The blog post talks about DNS glue records, but are they really relevant to the issue if the domain is suspended? A suspended domain is a suspended domain, regardless of whether it's using vanity nameservers.

New comment by bithaze in "Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers"

bithaze — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:02:43 +0000

I keep the module index[0] in my bookmarks bar and that's also been pretty easy to search and read.

[0] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index_mo...

New comment by bithaze in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

bithaze — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:34:41 +0000

There have also been (possibly AI-generated) comments that are simply rephrasing prior comments or even comments on the same post and piggybacking onto an already upvoted comment. It's not as common as the straight copy and paste comments but it is obvious by the same limited user history and rephrased comments that don't quite make sense in context.

New comment by bithaze in "Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs"

bithaze — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:58:18 +0000

A small typo I noticed - "Case-sensitive: 53^5 = 62,259,690,411,360" should be to the eighth power, not the fifth.

New comment by bithaze in "Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses"

bithaze — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:13:17 +0000

> What is Reddit's involvement other than their website being used for this communication?

I think that's it, which is why reddit is referred to as non-party in the motion.

New comment by bithaze in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

bithaze — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:38:57 +0000

It's a domain registered yesterday and an account registered an hour ago expressly to post the website, so the barrier to entry isn't particularly high.

New comment by bithaze in "A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local storage solutions"

bithaze — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:50:16 +0000

It's a marketing blog for a service that relies on storing files locally, so that sounds about right. The HN username also matches the blog's author, so it does feel like they're posting exclusively for self-promotion.

New comment by bithaze in "Ask HN: How should I setup a phone for a newly blind relative?"

bithaze — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:07:10 +0000

Assistive Access is new in iOS 17 and might also be helpful for simplifying the UI: https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...

New comment by bithaze in "Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning"

bithaze — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:50:03 +0000

Flexential PDX02, according to the outages mailing list[0].

[0] https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2023-November/0149...

New comment by bithaze in "HN RSS feeds per user no longer available"

bithaze — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:07:47 +0000

In the distant past, I self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS, accessed it from a web browser and an Android phone, and liked it. I didn't have any problems with it but just never got around to setting it up again when I migrated VMs.

Now, I've been using NewsBlur (mostly on iOS, rarely on desktop) ever since Google Reader shut down. I don't have too many subscriptions but a couple folders for online comic strips, status pages or blogs of things I pay for (email service provider, etc.), and some software projects (Kubernetes, etc.).

New comment by bithaze in "Scrollbars are becoming a problem"

bithaze — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:21:28 +0000

Reminds me of Mac-assed Mac apps[1]:

> Mac apps that are unapologetically _Mac_ apps. They’re platform-specific and they’re not trying to wow us with all their custom not-Mac-like UI (which often isn’t very accessible).

I wonder if there's a directory of such applications somewhere, actually.

[1] https://inessential.com/2020/03/19/proxyman

New comment by bithaze in "Minecraft Wiki has forked from Fandom"

bithaze — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:06:44 +0000

More discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37635939

New comment by bithaze in "A clock where the time is in a song title"

bithaze — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 01:23:33 +0000

It's searching titles, not lyrics.

New comment by bithaze in "1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year"

bithaze — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:15:42 +0000

I've been wanting to spend more time trying out Strongbox[1], personally. It's only available for Apple (macOS, iOS, and iPadOS) devices, which rules out the 1% of the time I use an oddball Linux or Windows desktop, but it's a bit more reminiscent of old 1Password UIs with less of the dismissive attitude that I've gotten from 1Password's support team over the last couple years.

[1] https://strongboxsafe.com/

New comment by bithaze in "Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe"

bithaze — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 14:21:23 +0000

And another thread from a couple hours ago that links directly to Evernote's blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650656

New comment by bithaze in "When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option"

bithaze — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 17:10:15 +0000

> It's not okay to have to jailbreak the thing to make it usable.

I guess we'll have to tell millions of users that their iPhones are all unusable, then. Imagine the shock!