Hacker News: GJim

New comment by GJim in "'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack"

GJim — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:59:25 +0000

The number of people fawning over Trump, Putin and Kim in this thread is bizzare. The troll farms must have been very busy.

New comment by GJim in "I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened"

GJim — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:15:27 +0000

> kinda scary to think about how many scientific papers are probably written using AI these days

Journals now routinely ask you to declare any use of AI in writing. Better authors are up front about its use, so peer review can take this into account.

New comment by GJim in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

GJim — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:56:11 +0000

Annnnnnnnd the FUD has begun.

New comment by GJim in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

GJim — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:53:06 +0000

> America is crazy, why are you letting people sell your data like this?

Because of FUD spread about data protection laws… such as the GDPR?

New comment by GJim in "The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise"

GJim — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:54:56 +0000

Why?

New comment by GJim in "Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone"

GJim — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:38:38 +0000

Yes.

In the civilised world, those caught abusing public office resigned.

"Deny, deny, deny" in the face of all evidence is a curioulsy Trumpian move.

New comment by GJim in "Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone"

GJim — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:25:27 +0000

Disapointing to see your factually correct post downvoted.

Somebody must have a very thin skin!

New comment by GJim in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

GJim — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:17:10 +0000

> Which I never used because it requires permission to see my location

A healthy mistrust.

It's bizare how many people give their coodinates to any random website that asks for them.

New comment by GJim in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

GJim — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:54:39 +0000

> Just start the process to ban this party already

Oh dear.

Whatever happend to Voltares "I disprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it"?

EDIT: The irony of this post being downvoted in an attempt to hide it, rather than discuss an opinion you disagree with!

EDIT2: Please understand I have no love for AfD, rather a love of open politics (let everybody hear how crazy they are!).

New comment by GJim in "OpenBSD 8.0"

GJim — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:08:28 +0000

A sixty-nine interupted by a period?

New comment by GJim in "What was a Token Ring network?"

GJim — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:50:22 +0000

Four milli bits per second sounds very slow to me.

New comment by GJim in "Gold is now the top U.S. export"

GJim — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:19:59 +0000

> Government bonds have fallen 80% relative to gold in the past few years.

I think most people would suggest the converse..... that gold prices have doubled over the last three years compared to virtually any stable western currency.

New comment by GJim in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

GJim — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:10:06 +0000

> mother's maiden name: 14t&7--ghv&32@/apER;Aa0)/90sIs

This isn't a good idea....

If using random text, there are many examples of, when asked to answer a secret question, telling the call centre droid "I just hit a few random keys for that one" and this being accepted.

You would do well to assume each call centre droid is a board kid more interested in his co-workers tits than your clever answers to security questions.

New comment by GJim in "Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran"

GJim — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:32:39 +0000

> I used to work on software that still uses Fortran from the 50's

Gnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Online conversation about Fortran is invariably domniated by people who waffle about Fortran 77, FORTRAN and bloody punch cards!

Yet modern Fortran versions are actually rather spiffing. Not to mention they can be used with the old libraries which are utterly bombproof.

There is a reason Fortran is still used for mathmatical modelling. It's simple to use, and you can really trust it.

New comment by GJim in "Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)"

GJim — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:04:20 +0000

> One big usability issue these days is that PGP identities come in the form of a file. Lots of people don't have the concept of that anymore.

Mind. Blown.

New comment by GJim in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

GJim — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:30:22 +0000

Please don't spout such obvious made up bollocks. Thank you.

New comment by GJim in "Submarine cable resilience"

GJim — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:35:21 +0000

*Gbps

(Irritiating, but not as bad as those who insist on having milli-bit speeds I grant you).

New comment by GJim in "Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones"

GJim — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:15:29 +0000

> The timing is interesting, given that it comes days after Musk said Ukraine had gone "too far

More like Zelensky, in stating the Trump-Russia diesel deal was a 'weak decision by strong partners', has pissed-off the Orange One with his famously thin skin.

America, your president is a liability to the free world.

New comment by GJim in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

GJim — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:35:08 +0000

How is that different or worth singling out from playing or watching ?

EDIT: Am I really arguing with somebody in favour of 'rights' for AI's?

New comment by GJim in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

GJim — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:51:12 +0000

"Abusing" a robot? A machine?

You seriously have a problem with that?