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greatjack613

429 karma · joined July 9, 2019

Senior Software Engineer. Architects and builds high performance backends. Builds high quality native android apps as well with numerous production apps in the play store! Hobbies include coding and cooking.

Java expert, but loves kotlin.

In my past job:

AOSP expert, built and customized android for various clients. Currently in a role at meta. Want a puzzle?

var solution : String = 3 -x "VjFjNU1VbElUblppU0Zwc1drTkNjR1JEZDJkWk1qbDFXak5LYUdSSVRXZz0="

Hey there, I am not looking for a new job, but always on the lookout for a good oppurtunity. Reach out to me if you think we are a match.

What I am looking for?

TC > 600k Full benefits Values results over hours

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greatjack613··on SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone
While the bandwidth numbers seem terrible given this is from an entire beam at it's peak and beams are wide, this is super useful for things like sms where bandwidth is not a concern. At 17 Mb/s you can have thousands of simultaneous sms sends without issue
greatjack613··on SafeTest: A novel approach to front end testing
Not sure why this is fundamentally different from existing e2e testers with bootstrapping
greatjack613··on Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf]
(Views are my own and unrelated to my employer)

This shouldn't surprise anyone. Tiktok has made it clear many times over that while they pretend to be in the clear and un affiliated with the ccp they are a direct arm of the ccp that uses tiktok as an arm to influence global politics.

Why this stuff has not been banned as a national security threat is beyond me.

greatjack613··on Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week
Why can’t Apple just disable the oxymeter feature in the interim and continue selling Apple Watches?
greatjack613··on Starlink Direct to Cell
The tech behind this is great, but I fear what the TV makers will do with this to prevent you from disabling ads. Samsung is bad enough as is, having a built in connection will make it even worse.
greatjack613··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
Thanks! I Misspelled the email, it's fixed now! Looking forward to hearing from you.
greatjack613··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
We develop huge 32" interactive display touch screens for trade shows and conferences that allow users to interact with apps and websites that a company wants to show. They look amazing and are always a show stopper for booths. They run a custom os based on AOSP which allows companies to use there pre made android app for the display instead of having to build anything custom. We also offer a website module that will display your website in full glory and interactivity.

For more information or to rent a display you can send us an email isaac@bigtopdisplays.com

greatjack613··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
This piece smells like ccp propaganda. @dang
greatjack613··on Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'
The "blue badges" of software packages. Honestly not a bad idea but who and what determines a package to be "trusted"? Will there be transparency into the decisions?
greatjack613··on Tell HN: Instagram's API has broken, support tickets ignored, status page green
Did you double check that other people are having this issue? Seems very likely that this could be something affecting just your access key or something like that
greatjack613··on Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding
If the screen was broken how did you manage to enable debugging and perform authorization?
greatjack613··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
It’s not enough for senior management to be removed. Malfeasance like this needs to have real life consequences.
greatjack613··on Extending the Android SDK
"How to update an os without updating the os itself". Personally I see this model extending to other things as well, the idea that each part of the os is a "package" with a specified interface and that you can replace that package at any time as long you comply with that interface is a very powerful concept. I see this going a lot further then just sdk improvements in the future.
greatjack613··on Ask HN: Has anyone successfully recovered photos from a broken Android phone?
If adb is enabled on the phone you can try using WebADB - https://webadb.com to pull data from the phone. It includes a file browser that allows you to see and pull files from the phone as well as a web based version of scrcpy.
greatjack613··on FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat
This should not come as a surprise to anyone here. The fact that people on HN still defend china when they clearly got their success through espionage and cheating just shows how much influence XI has on american institutions and social media. I hope everyone just wakes up in time so we can stop this nightmare before we lose everything we hold dear.
greatjack613··on The driverless car revolution is stuck in the slow lane
https://archive.ph/YcYKk
greatjack613··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
I have had the exact opposite experience, I used mail in a box and set it up on digital ocean on a 5$ droplet.

Have not had any spam or blacklisting issues and it was super easy to setup.

greatjack613··on Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?
Shhhh, this has been going on for years and is known as wire fraud and carries one of the most severe punishments by law. On top of that most banks will reverse a payment when someone does it without your permission although the time and pain it takes to reverse it may vary.
greatjack613··on Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
I built https://bobbysdeals.net as a way to share curated deals with family and friends. Never marketed it but it still garners some organic traffic through our social media accounts so I guess that works. :)
greatjack613··on U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash
Can someone Eli5 what this actually means? I mean tornado is anonymous so I can’t see the operators getting screwed.

Does it mean people like me who use it so Coinbase can’t track my wallet activity are going to have our wallets banned since we used tornado?

greatjack613··on Signal: You were the chosen one [video]
Are open shameless plugs like this allowed on hacker news without disclosure?
greatjack613··on Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent?
Triplebyte had a great model in the beginning which was focused on getting people who had skills without formal certifications jobs.

That did not make enough money so the founders pivoted like 5 times to try other things and each time they made Triplebyte more and more anti candidate.

Keep on going Ammon, we all know where these companies end.

greatjack613··on Is it a Ponzi? A framework for evaluating crypto projects
Just want to point out that according to the authors framework for determining if a project is a ponzi, Uber, Lyft, Doordash, and many more gig economy businesses would also qualify as ponzis since they have to spend move to get users then they bring in and have not been and probably will never be profitable
greatjack613··on Cat S22 Flip Phone
For all the fliphone enthusiasts here check out https://forums.apps4flip.com . It’s a great community dedicated to flip phone users.
greatjack613··on Worldle
Anyone have a non new york times wordle alternative.

Currently using https://wordlle.app, but I want something more authentic

greatjack613··on ProtonMail Is Inherently Insecure, Your Emails Are Likely Compromised (2021)
The title is super clickbaity, emails are likely compromised?? Uh no. Every single closed source client for end to end encrypted messaging has this problem.

What happens if whatsapp decides to exfiltrate your end to end encrypted messages from the client side app?? There is nothing you can do to stop them. They can even attach it to an analytics event to be discrete.

Protonmail is unable to view your emails without your password and that claim is true regardless of whether they hold your encrypted private key server side.

Total garbage

greatjack613··on JDeploy – Deploy desktop Java apps as native bundles on Mac, Linux, and Windows
This looks extremely scary to me, they say you can avoid having to noterize your apps with apple and microsoft because their installers are already approved. What happens when someone publishes some malware application using their wrapped and noterized installer? Apple and microsoft will then flag all other applications that used jdeploy as malware as well since they are all relying on the same noterized installer application.

Super risky and definitely not a good approach from a security perspective.

greatjack613··on On the Future of 12ft
Check out https://webreader.app , it works with way more sites and is privacy preserving.
greatjack613··on Show HN: A mastermind-like version of Wordle
This is a cool concept especially now that the old one got susbsumed by the NYT.

I am currently using https://wordlle.app, but it still contains Google Analytics.

Does anyone here know of a clone that has absolutely zero tracking?

greatjack613··on I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/1...
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