Hacker News: vedmed

New comment by vedmed in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

vedmed — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:29:01 +0000

Yeah, totally in 30 years. And in 2006-2009 Antarctica became ice free.

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

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:44:43 +0000

I lied?

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:33:36 +0000

I don't mean to be dismissive or rude, this question is genuine:

Why should I care or bother?

This is the extent to which I used AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46022576

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:19:28 +0000

IIRC there's like three developed countries in the world where one can buy a phone# without providing ID.

In the US one can buy a prepaid card wearing a mask and paying with cash.

Also I came across this service which purports to be anonymous: https://www.cape.co/ but has a ridiculous monthly fee.

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:16:18 +0000

I like the way SimpleXChat works. Good luck getting anyone to switch to it though. https://simplex.chat/

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:12:36 +0000

I'm not a data analyst. Almost everything pertaining to data analysis of the log is perplexity labs.

I'm also not a journalist and the article I wrote didn't sound professional and was too long. So I had AI change it to have a professional tone and structure and then edited it.

I'm also not an artist and I had AI generate a picture of a bear reading a newspaper. Then I used krita to remove the background and make it transparent.

I also asked the AI to generate 10 headlines, it gave me this one:

How a monopoly ISP weaponizes support incompetence against technical customers

    Calls out systemic issue, appeals to HN's anti-monopoly sentiment

Then I changed it to:

How a monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure

Yes I leveraged expertise from three fields outside of my skillset to simplify a task, bounce back ideas, and conclude with a superior end result. It was demonstrably effective and it would have been stupid to spend 4x the effort to receive zero traction.

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:19:47 +0000

Being careful not to make claims I can't prove.

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:46:27 +0000

Do you have any ideas on how to leverage such organization to effectuate change?

It would sure be great to have internet classified as a public utility.

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

vedmed — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:42:01 +0000

I used AI to analyze the log for patterns and to make the charts.