Hacker News: n3rv

New comment by n3rv in "Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M"

n3rv — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:40:51 +0000

That sure is some naivety ya got there. But good luck on the move. Keep your friends and family close.

New comment by n3rv in "Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?"

n3rv — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:02:54 +0000

I didn't see this oldie listed. Schneier on Security - https://www.schneier.com/

There are alot of fresh suggestions in this thread, I will be checking them all out.

Thanks guys.

New comment by n3rv in "Save the Web by Being Nice"

n3rv — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:26:23 +0000

Welcome to the club my guy. I think many of us have done this for years across many sites!

New comment by n3rv in "FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps"

n3rv — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 07:12:43 +0000

I'd rather not have my ISP decide which packets are "higher" priority and do this myself.

This is a core tenant of Net Neutrality.

New comment by n3rv in "My Clients, the Liars"

n3rv — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:18:03 +0000

Hello DANmode,

I'm trying to touch base from a few months back about a post you replied to about a start-up ISP.

I have updated my contact info if you still want to chat.

New comment by n3rv in "An all-optical general-purpose CPU and optical computer architecture"

n3rv — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:16:50 +0000

Hello Morphle, I tried to email you regarding the post you replied to a good while back about an ISP-related post. It got bounced from the ziggo.nl address. Have an updated contact point?

I have updated my contact info if you still want to chat.

New comment by n3rv in "Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?"

n3rv — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:59:33 +0000

25-year network architect/system admin here.

I am disappointed and furious about the progress of our communications industry. ISPs for far too long have been milking the taxpayers and foremost the customers.

During high school, I ran our town's dial-up ISP. This was a high school program to bring internet to our little town, at an affordable non-long-distance price. My most recent employment was taking a wISP from 1300 customers to 5000 customers in 2.5 years with a staff of less than 10. We had 2 IT wizards, the primary owner and myself. The rest were installers/physical maintenance and 2 secretaries.

I'm looking to found an ISP similar to my previous employer, BUT this is going to be a hybrid tower/fiber model ISP that must operate at the lowest cost to consumers possible.

I have worn so many hats it's time to put them all on at once. I'm just not sure if I can pull this off by myself nor will my savings cover the start-up cost.

Sorry for the rant, and no contact info. I should probably spin up the website/email server for contact points while thinking this over.

New comment by n3rv in "QR codes appearing in Google street view?"

n3rv — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:28:33 +0000

Looks like Dave V. removed all the websites. I wonder if the guy ever though it'd follow him around like this.

You're famous Dave!

New comment by n3rv in "Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]"

n3rv — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:19:33 +0000

Nothing to do with record heat and record droughts? dude.. seriously.. Get out of here with this nonsense.

New comment by n3rv in "Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]"

n3rv — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:16:29 +0000

yeah no joke. But that's not what were looking at here on a global scale...

New comment by n3rv in "Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]"

n3rv — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:14:53 +0000

At some point we're going to be forced to dump the Tea Into The River.

New comment by n3rv in "Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in Phoenix?"

n3rv — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:58:21 +0000

Gotta pay for all them law suits, instead of maintaince...

New comment by n3rv in "ChatGPT Plugins"

n3rv — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:27:50 +0000

API access as a service here we come!

New comment by n3rv in "NordVPN library and client code open-sourced"

n3rv — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:53:52 +0000

carrier grade NAT does not hide you...

New comment by n3rv in "Urgent: Sign the petition now"

n3rv — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:26:37 +0000

pretty much this. hard pass on signing this nonsense.

New comment by n3rv in "Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC"

n3rv — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:17:24 +0000

wasn't it ultra low interest investments, but very long term? They should have known it wasn't going to stay like that after the crazy 2020 ride. :/

New comment by n3rv in "Videolan: Google refuses to take down or unlist domains with tons of malware"

n3rv — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:02:58 +0000

god bless vlc