Hacker News: Jigsy

New comment by Jigsy in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

Jigsy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:53:29 +0000

My issue with SimpleX is that the company is in the UK, and it's developed in the UK under UK law. https://simplex.chat/transparency/

Considering how fiercely anti-encryption the UK is/has become (because "only child molesters care about encryption!"), this is sadly reason enough for me not to trust it.

Do I believe they have a backdoor in their software? No.

But if the UK passes a law demanding they introduce one...

New comment by Jigsy in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

Jigsy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:49:32 +0000

Windscribe is now the third one to be terminated by Microsoft as well...

https://nitter.net/windscribecom/status/2041929519628443943

New comment by Jigsy in "Apple Just Lost Me"

Jigsy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:48:31 +0000

You know what's funny? Even China doesn't do OS verification and block everybody from every website by default.

New comment by Jigsy in "Apple Just Lost Me"

Jigsy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:48:00 +0000

As someone from the UK, do you honestly believe the UK government would be happy with just "true or false" data?

New comment by Jigsy in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

Jigsy — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:02:47 +0000

> but if it's a drawing of a real child

How would you even prove that, though?

New comment by Jigsy in "The 49MB web page"

Jigsy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:21:12 +0000

I agree with this. Just because a website can eat all my RAM doesn't mean it should...

New comment by Jigsy in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

Jigsy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:40:45 +0000

Australia also believe that women with small breasts in porn causes people to become child abusers...

New comment by Jigsy in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

Jigsy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:12:35 +0000

I can't agree with the photorealistic AI images because they're indistinguishable from an actual photograph.

Everything else I do agree with you on, though.

The probem is, prosecutions are just looking for easier ways to jail people for things they could do based on what they personally believe. (E.g. "Manga causes child abuse")

MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet

Jigsy — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/mps-give-ministers-powers-to-restrict-entire-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330221

Points: 9

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New comment by Jigsy in "The unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance"

Jigsy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:15:54 +0000

Edubuntu comes to mind.

New comment by Jigsy in "Ubuntu Planning Mandatory Age Verification"

Jigsy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:13:32 +0000

People need to stop calling it "age verification" and start calling it what it really is: Dissident Identification

New comment by Jigsy in "Trump DOJ just erased one of the Epstein files from their website"

Jigsy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:30:45 +0000

No wonder the FBI is hell bent on trying to take down archive[today].

New comment by Jigsy in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

Jigsy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:48:18 +0000

I do wish more companies would bring their games to GOG.

That said, Square finally released some of their Final Fantasy games on it yesterday, so hopefully that's changing.

New comment by Jigsy in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

Jigsy — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:29:02 +0000

I do find it quite interesting how people support this idea (because they got a warrant), but are vehemently against the idea of backdooring encryption.

How is this any different?

New comment by Jigsy in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

Jigsy — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:25:56 +0000

That's one of the ideas the British government had a few months back...

New comment by Jigsy in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

Jigsy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:20:07 +0000

This is by far one of the best advertisements for LUKS/VeraCrypt I've ever seen.

Shabana Mahmood proposes AI 'Panopticon' system of state surveillance

Jigsy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:59:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thenational.scot/news/25780001.shabana-mahmood-proposes-ai-panopticon-system-state-surveillance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694317

Points: 3

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New comment by Jigsy in "CompSci was a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Now graduates can't get a job"

Jigsy — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:33:02 +0000

In order to rack up nearly £100,000 of debt, he'd have to have studied at University for at least eight to ten years. (I'm not knocking him, I'm just saying.)

New comment by Jigsy in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

Jigsy — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:22:08 +0000

Best to download the *.apks now so you can help others sideload them and stay safe.

New comment by Jigsy in "Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP"

Jigsy — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:18:53 +0000

I'm guessing this no longer qualifies as "modern," since the last update was in 2018 and is no longer in active development, but I'd like to say that the 32bit version of the Tiny C Compiler by Fabrice Bellard works on Windows 98 SE.

https://www.bellard.org/tcc/