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leavjenn

669 karma · joined October 21, 2013

Android/Flutter developer. Author of Hews for Hacker News, Lj Video Downloader, Mondrecur, etc: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Leav+Jenn
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leavjenn··on TikTok Spied on Me. Why?
https://archive.vn/7neEJ
leavjenn··on StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
For example, the top bar on New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/riding-lon... .

Or a more obviously one, the HUGE top bar on Material Design site: https://material.io .

leavjenn··on Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
The Chinese character "企" has multiple meanings. One is "to stand on tiptoe".[1] So "企鹅 (penguin)" means "standing goose".

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BC%81

leavjenn··on Telegram Traces Cyber Attack to China During Hong Kong Protests
Correct me if I'm wrong: Telegram has been blocked in China mainland. So if normal Chinese botnets want to DDOS Telegram, they will be blocked by GFW first. So how these botnets succeeded? Does that mean they are "special"?
leavjenn··on Google confirms Play store will continue to function for existing Huawei phones
Google didn't withdrawn. They stopped censorshipping sensitive keywords and moved their servers to Hong Kong. Then China blocked their sites. You can't withdraw from the Internet by simply move your servers. Bing censor sensitive keywords so China allows them to stay.
leavjenn··on Tencent replaces PUBG with a Chinese government-friendly alternative
Related to Chinese game censorship:

1. A game developed by Taiwanese studio, Devotion, has been removed from Stream by its developers due to a hiding meme about Xi Jinping founded by Chinese gamers earlier this year.[1]

2. Still earlier this year, Chinese Overwatch players being instantly banned from the game for typing the words "Winnie the Pooh" in public chat.[2]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18239937/taiwanese-horror...

[2] https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/chinese-overwatch-players-...

leavjenn··on In China, an App About Xi Is Impossible to Ignore – Even If You Try
And you can't rate & review this app on Apple App Store.[0] I think only some apps made by Apple have this privilege.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/60gdRZs

leavjenn··on Company Update
Tesla starts building Gigafactory in China, expects to begin production in the second half in 2019. Also they start for hiring locals[1]. Is this related?

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/06/teslas-china-factory-set-to-...

leavjenn··on Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
Hi, checked the Android version Meta Meme app. One suggestion: split it into arm and x86 version for the the ffmpeg lib to reduce the apk size. Each of them is 9MB which is not a small number.
leavjenn··on An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
And now she starts getting adoption ads: https://twitter.com/gbrockell/status/1072992972701138945 .

"We're sorry your baby passed away, how about get a new one from here?"

That's sick.

leavjenn··on Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
Opera Software is acquired by a group of Chinese companies,[1] and one of them is Qihoo 360, which has a lot of negative history.[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360#Controversies

leavjenn··on Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China
More info:

On Google Play, https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Frank+Law

The developer email is the same.

By the nicknames combine(lawishere and Frank Law), this maybe his Github page, https://github.com/lawishere

leavjenn··on Show HN: Arguman – Argument Analysis Platform
Great project.

A UI suggestion: how about make the list view in HN nested comment style? If an argument gets too much items (like this one: http://en.arguman.org/there-is-no-such-thing-as-global-warmi...), it's a little mess in tree view. The list view style is more clear, but you have to click each item to see the sub-item. How aout make them nested with indentations? So one can see all items in one place.

leavjenn··on Unity is also found infected after xcode (xcodeghost) in China
Short translation: After xcode, unity 4.6.4 – 5.1.1 are also found infected version by some Chinese labs, using the same means as xcodeghost.
leavjenn··on Google’s look, evolved
Not only the logo, they have changed the size of search box: http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-more-height-to-their...
leavjenn··on The Verge's web sucks
Verge: We're turning comments off for a bit http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/6/8901115/were-turning-commen...
leavjenn··on Telegram Suffers DDOS, Criticism For Enabling Human Rights Lawyers In China
Cause China gov heard that the so-called dissidents were using Telegram.

For the iMessage, it is just for iPhone, Telegram is all-platform. And in China, iPhone is still an expensive smartphone. Android phone is used more widely.

Edit: typo

leavjenn··on How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
I think what you mean is "Google with China"?
leavjenn··on China Trade Halts Locks Up $2.2 Trillion of Shares, Freezing Market
The military is governed by CCP, not the conuntry. "China's military said on Sunday it must be governed by the ruling Communist Party and not succumb to "liberal" voices who wish to challenge the party's control." [1] [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/07/us-china-defence-i...
leavjenn··on Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop
The chinese sale page is here, I think it is official site (well, actually it says group-buying rather than sale, but maybe just sales gimmick): http://www.loongsonclub.com/gw/, it's 379 rmb. I don't know whether you guys in US or somewhere outside China get any transit companies that they can buy something for you in China, and then send it to you. Off topic, as a guy lived in China, I really can't understand why are you interested in something like that...
leavjenn··on Chinese Developers Can Now Offer Paid Applications to Google Play Users
For mainland China, yes. The most feasible way for mainland China developers to bypass this limitation is using Hongkong bank account and address.