Hacker News: cm2187

New comment by cm2187 in "EFF is leaving X"

cm2187 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:16:11 +0000

Well if you look at their bullet points:

- Greater user control how is any of the other platforms they have no problem with any different than twitter?

- Real security improvements where is end to end encryption on all the other social media? And why do they need end to end encryption to broadcast a message to the public?

- Transparent content moderation wait, the EFF is now calling for more censorship?

The first two points are clearly nonsensical, only the third one has at least some logic. Though if the EFF has turned pro-censorship, I am having bad feeling for having given them money in the past.

New comment by cm2187 in "Veracrypt project update"

cm2187 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:09:35 +0000

It doesn’t help that they do that sort of shits AND mandate a microsoft account for logging in to windows. Also how much trust can you have that if you move your business to azure they will not randomly kill it. Incompetence or malice, almost doesn’t matter to the average user.

New comment by cm2187 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

cm2187 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:47:44 +0000

Saudi Arabia has something like twice as many jet fighters than France. Even if you factor incompetence, it's not hard to hit a cargo ship or an oil production facility in absence of any meaningful air defence.

New comment by cm2187 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

cm2187 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:50:40 +0000

Not convinced it will happen. What would prevent Saudi Arabia from retaliating and introducing a special fee on all ships coming from Iran. It's not like intercepting those massive cargo ships in a small sea is of any difficulty for a well funded military.

New comment by cm2187 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

cm2187 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:45:25 +0000

> "Netanyahu funded Hamas"

I see this claim repeated over and over. You should be aware that it is false. As far as I am aware, Israel never funded Hamas. Israel allowed Qatari money to the Gaza authority to pay for civil servants, humanitarian aid and basic services, while it was run by Hamas.

New comment by cm2187 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

cm2187 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:03:32 +0000

You just need to cover it with graffitis to fully depict the experience of the poor souls living in brutalist buildings.

New comment by cm2187 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

cm2187 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:39:11 +0000

I love the idea that even on a mission to the moon the crew still needs to allocate a portion of their time to click through cookie consent banners, non skippable ads and fighting with windows update! Probably part of the effort to make the environment similar to life on earth to make the long trip more bearable.

New comment by cm2187 in "Amazon WorkMail End of Support"

cm2187 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:39:41 +0000

well I was about to migrate to AWS from smartermail (which completely ruined my trust with their handling of their disastrous zero day) when I read this. I am in the market for a replacement too.

Looking for a provider handling custom domains, aliases, enabling to send emails from an alias and with an API to create/delete aliases programmatically, with a decent webmail + ActiveSync or equivalent for easy smartphone config + push.

So far it seems to me that the only options are Exchange 365 and Google. But I fear those will be over engineered and super complicated to set up.

Amazon WorkMail End of Support

cm2187 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:23:14 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workmail/latest/adminguide/workmail-end-of-support.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598640

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by cm2187 in "How Iran is making a mint from the current war"

cm2187 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:04:03 +0000

And for all the heated rethoric, both sides have shown a certain restraint so far, which is encouraging. It doesn't feel like a deal is out of the question.

New comment by cm2187 in "How Iran is making a mint from the current war"

cm2187 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:51:49 +0000

It's a bit absurd to describe all the procedures Iran takes to disguise those ships. It's not like it is hard for the US military to track massive tankers in a small sea (or to intercept them if they wish to). Those tankers are tolerated by the US because they don't want to antagonise China more than they need right now (not the least to keep them out of this conflict), and don't want to add more pressure on the oil market. Not because somehow those ships evaded US vigilance thanks to Iran's cunning skills.

But this is a damocles sword hanging over Iran. The US could seize those tankers if they want to apply more pressure.

New comment by cm2187 in "How Iran is making a mint from the current war"

cm2187 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:45:11 +0000

The US consumer will still pay more at the petrol station. Doesn't matter to them that some big oil companies are making a killing somewhere else in the US. US consumers vote.

New comment by cm2187 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

cm2187 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:03:20 +0000

Already exists, it's what people refer to as "male olympics". As far as I know, females aren't banned from competing. It is just that they don't stand a chance in most disciplines. The whole point of female olympics is to keep males out.

New comment by cm2187 in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

cm2187 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:41:07 +0000

And McDonald’s is known to be primarily a real estate company. Berkshire Hathaway is meant to be an insurance company. Military aircraft manufacturers are really maintenance companies.

New comment by cm2187 in "GitHub is once again down"

cm2187 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:22:11 +0000

MSFT acquired Skype in 2011, so I would say only a few months:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=s...

New comment by cm2187 in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

cm2187 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:56:11 +0000

In the UK, wind is super volatile and isn't viable without LNG. You can have two weeks without wind several times a year. So more wind means more LNG.

New comment by cm2187 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

cm2187 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:56:06 +0000

And we shall call it "the Great Firewall of the UK".

It is amazing that these guys don't see the irony of monkeying totaliterian states policies, in term of surveillance and censorship.

New comment by cm2187 in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

cm2187 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:38:22 +0000

So the correction is “friends of the PM, and a few other key politicians”. Still a club of people who represent no one. And more problematic, are accountable to no one.

New comment by cm2187 in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

cm2187 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:08:42 +0000

All other democracies have safeguards against the tyranny of the majority. Whether it is representativity by state in the US or in the EU, a constitution requiring a large consensus to change in the US, or the senate being elected by the elected officials of small cities in France, it is not true that democracy is just 50% + 1 vote.

New comment by cm2187 in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

cm2187 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:14:03 +0000

Yeah, the assumption is that the non hereditary peers are somehow more representative, but all they represent is being friends of the PM of the time. It's a historical oddity of questionable usefulness. Meanwhile the house of commons can wipe out any civil liberty with a majority of 50% plus one vote. It is remarkable how a system that seems so unstable and prone to abuses of power has served the longest continuously running democracy for so long.