Hacker News: vedmed

New comment by vedmed in "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"

vedmed — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:10:59 +0000

I've tried it a bunch of times, it just doesn't work and always crashes on Artix.

LightWorks works flawlessly on the other hand.

New comment by vedmed in "typ.ing"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:23:25 +0000

I would not object to seeing my statistics compared to the statistics of others, what percentile I am in, what percentile I am in based on referrer source and operating system.

New comment by vedmed in "Waterfox 6.7.0 – Supernova"

vedmed — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:30:44 +0000

I don't like this floaty crap, its a waste of space and looks trash. I realize waterfox was not the designers of it, but I complain here nonetheless.

New comment by vedmed in "I hacked Hikvision push notifications on GrapheneOS and submitted a fix PR"

vedmed — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:10:41 +0000

I'm the author. I have been dealing with this for over a year and reluctantly running LineageOS until two days ago everything related to google services went bonkers on my phone after the TSA had it.

So, inspired by frustration, I revisited the subject and saw it to conclusion.

Initially, GrapheneOS moved my post about this to the 3rd-party-apps forum and then later locked it. Hikvision/Annke/Guarding Vision devs never replied.

So I reverse-engineered their app, found they were checking for com.google.android.gsf (the old GSF package) instead of actually verifying FCM was working, and built an MIT-licensed patcher.

I also submitted a PR to GrapheneOS that adds a minimal synthetic GSF package presence when verified GmsCore is visible to the caller. And it's gated so it only engages when Play Services is actually installed and visible.

For now, the patcher does its job. If the PR gets merged, future GrapheneOS builds will fix this for every app that makes the same wrong GSF check, not just Hikvision stuff.

I also documented a dead-simple method for non-devs: enable USB debugging, plug your phone in, and tell an AI assistant to use the GitHub repo to patch your APK.

I hacked Hikvision push notifications on GrapheneOS and submitted a fix PR

vedmed — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:10:31 +0000

Article URL: https://reflashlab.com/articles/graphene-vs-hikvision/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390213

Points: 2

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New comment by vedmed in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

vedmed — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:41:44 +0000

Haha perfectly said and reminds me of the time I used AI to fix my neighborhood's comcast outages by correctly diagnosing the issue and there was a guy in the comments thread angry with me for burning down rainforests

New comment by vedmed in "Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1"

vedmed — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:30:50 +0000

You're trying to cancel this guy's project on hackernews comments because he quoted winston churchhill in 2025 and didn't get a vaccine donut in 2019?

What do you get from it? Is he your enemy? Seems like you are trying to destroy him using this comment as attack vector. And this comment is well prepared and sourced and easily repeatable, so I presume you use multiple attack vectors like this.

Just an observation. And as an observer, this is annoying to see.

New comment by vedmed in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

vedmed — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:20:06 +0000

The index depth just isn't there and at the rate you're crawling you won't catch up to google's ocean cooled datacenter

https://xonaly.com/vision/

Good luck nonetheless, we need more independent indexes.

New comment by vedmed in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

vedmed — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:46:40 +0000

Most recently, I needed a smb 1.0 server to host an iso to an ipmi. I thought about it, rolled my eyes, bought a digital ocean server for $4/month and told Deepseek Flash Free via openrouter via opencode the root credentials and told it to ssh in there wget the iso and and make an smb 1.0 server and give the me credentials.

A couple of days before that, I told it to make a website, and then I kept telling it to do little changes and add crazy graphics. I just wanted to see what it could do. I made 30n3.com as a tech demo built on hugo hosted in cloudflare pages.

I was so impressed with this that I am fully transitioning many of my WordPress sites to this new gen workflow. I just redid my agency site (cyberbrand.net)to using similar method and the whole thing feels like I felt with geocities and tripod as a teenager. Its fun and I'm exploring and there don't seem to be any boundaries.

Before that I just used it for silly stuff like suing people and sending cease and desists.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:43:30 +0000

that's not me but I concur with the statement made

get a life

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:40:57 +0000

make me.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:26:57 +0000

That's exactly what I did.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:15:28 +0000

Starlink would have be double natted and I couldn't run my server cluster nor my vpn. And it would have high latency.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:11:42 +0000

How do you get the CEO's office address?

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:09:59 +0000

This is actually a great idea. For the consumer. Not for a monopoly ISP which can ignore every issue and collect checks.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:39:19 +0000

You are the one with the problem, not me.

I suggest you reread, I am very transparent about how I used AI in the very thread to which you are replying claiming that I am denying using AI.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:29:38 +0000

Do you want me to prostrate before you for using AI? Get real. I told you exactly how I used it.

And no AI did not write the article. I wrote it. Then I instructed AI to restructure it to have a professional tone.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:10:46 +0000

I probably will but my monetary loss is so negligible they wont care.

There's another article on that site about how I sued Subaru of America for covering up an octane issue.

New comment by vedmed in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:05:50 +0000

What route dude I made an article to bring attention to the issue and the attention has been brought. Why do you want me to do things your way? I do things my way just fine. There's always someone to tell you that you should do this or that. Why should I do this or that? You do this and that if that's whats important to you. And if you want me to do this and that then convince me why I should.

New comment by vedmed in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:03:16 +0000

Guess I IRId instead if IRCd