Hacker News: ImJamal

New comment by ImJamal in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

ImJamal — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:31:00 +0000

> Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams) - these can be likely ported to Linux if they're not already since they also work on MacOS?

I thought the Mac versions were not a full fledged port and were missing features present in Windows.

New comment by ImJamal in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

ImJamal — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:05:45 +0000

Trump doesn't care if somebody is a Catholic. Many of the people around Trump do.

New comment by ImJamal in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

ImJamal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:21:30 +0000

Has the Hatch Act ever been enforced? Every administration in the last 20+ years have had people violate it but as far as I can tell nobody has been found guilty.

New comment by ImJamal in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

ImJamal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:18:25 +0000

What do you mean by dodgy meds? These are just the normal meds you can get at any pharmacy. They also aren't even peddling them. They just link to pharmacies or provide discount codes.

New comment by ImJamal in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

ImJamal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:06:18 +0000

Maybe privacy concerns aren't your biggest concerns, but they are for the FTC for a case like this.

New comment by ImJamal in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

ImJamal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:51:24 +0000

Just guessing, but the third party company did not break a law or go against their privacy policy.

Reuters says it is "Clarifai" if you wanted to know.

https://www.reuters.com/world/match-group-settles-us-ftc-cla...

New comment by ImJamal in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

ImJamal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:36:15 +0000

How are you connecting the petrodollar and US manufacturing? US manufacturing was destroyed because companies closed their factories in the US and used factories in China because labor was cheaper and they were less regulated.

New comment by ImJamal in "How to turn anything into a router"

ImJamal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:49:03 +0000

There are a few reasons

- Access to data (dns/ips, domain names (if not using ESNI), amount of traffic, etc) of sites you are visiting

- Access to the inside of your network where it can attack machines that may not be secure

- DDoS

- The ability to shut down your internet

I'm sure there are more.

New comment by ImJamal in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

ImJamal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:20:19 +0000

Your last paragraph is my point. Some policies may be good, but not popular. (I'm not suggesting the one child policy is good). How would you be able to continue a policy like the one child policy in a democracy for decades? You wouldn't be able to. With China since their leaders are there longer and because the leaders have a more consistent world view they were able to continue with such a policy.

New comment by ImJamal in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

ImJamal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:30:50 +0000

It is not even first past the post that is the problem. Even if you had some sort of ranked voting or parliamentary system you would still end up with the same problem. The person in charge gets changed too frequently to be able to have long term plans. 8 years is too short to execute a plan that will take 10 or 20 years.

I think this is why FDR was a successful president and was able to get so much done. He had 3 complete terms and a partial 4th term.

If you are going to have shorter terms you need to have your successor continue with your plans, but in a liberal democracy you don't know who is going to follow you. Even if your party wins, your successor might not continue with the plan.

New comment by ImJamal in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

ImJamal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:11:24 +0000

> Well, its either "remove all gender from classification", or "we're doing crotch and blood checks to verify if youre a woman".

Correct.

> And since you have to "prove youre a woman", thats like having to prove a disability. Is that the message we want to send to all women? I dont want to send that.

Comparing womenhood to a disability is certainly a position to take. I wouldn't want to send that message to women, but you do you.

In terms of your main point, I want to send a message to women they have a chance of winning. If you have only one competition in the Olympics I'm not sure if a woman would win a single competition in the Winter Olympics except maybe curling?

> And about the "Women would win almost no sports competition.". Well, the thought of "get good" comes to mind. Supposedly, more competition is better for everyone.

Do you want only men competing? Because that is what you are going to get. Maybe you don't care about diversity, but many people do.

Many young girls want to look up to a woman skier or snowboarder and think I could do that. Maybe you just don't care about that?

New comment by ImJamal in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

ImJamal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:17:10 +0000

Transwomen are not banned. They are free to compete in the open (men's) competitions if they want.

New comment by ImJamal in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

ImJamal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:59:31 +0000

Women would win almost no sports competition. Maybe that is fine in your view, but many women want to have a chance at winning.

Ntpd-rs: it's about time

ImJamal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:35:43 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ntpd-rs-its-about-time/79154

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529678

Points: 11

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New comment by ImJamal in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

ImJamal — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:38:26 +0000

It seems like it is bipartisan to me. Do you have the statistics to back up your claim?

New comment by ImJamal in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

ImJamal — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:46:09 +0000

9-0 rulings happen all the time. I couldn't find an easy to consume list so I asked AI to provide the percentage and it said 65–75% of rulings in a term are 9-0.

New comment by ImJamal in "Can the world get its supply of oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz?"

ImJamal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:31:52 +0000

How are you defining war? Weren't Libya and Syria started under Obama?

New comment by ImJamal in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

ImJamal — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:10:26 +0000

This is such a weird attitude. We can't rely on anything being perfectly executed every time, so why have warrants at all?

New comment by ImJamal in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

ImJamal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:44:33 +0000

Trump was talking about how Elon campaigned for him for a month in Pennsylvania and said he knows all about the voting counting machines in Pennsylvania.

Even if Musk did something in Pennsylvania, Trump still would have won the electoral college vote.

I think the good faith argument is that Musk confirmed they were secure so that the election wasn't stolen from Trump. But frankly Musk is too much of an idiot to steal an election or make sure it is secure so I don't know how to take it...

New comment by ImJamal in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

ImJamal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:02:08 +0000

Trump was validly elected. He won the required number of electors in the electoral college in the 2016 and 2024 elections.

Maduro on the other hand...