Hacker News: gonesilent

New comment by gonesilent in "Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them"

gonesilent — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:20:44 +0000

Rinse repeat. Same thing happens with plugins.

New comment by gonesilent in "OLED, Not for Me"

gonesilent — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:34:52 +0000

Author also thought it might be a backlight failed for his first oled problem....

New comment by gonesilent in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

gonesilent — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:56:19 +0000

It started as a clone of the camelcamelcamel Amazon price history site and got kicked out by Amazon for abusing the system. It pivoted to a coupon site and started sucking down user data with the plugin when PayPal paid $4Bil CASH. Honey cost me affiliate marketing commissions.

New comment by gonesilent in "Ubiquiti SFP Wizard"

gonesilent — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:32:16 +0000

Same setup for me. Unifi just has to many limits to advanced networking. Trying to force tunnels to just do basic routing.

New comment by gonesilent in "Ubiquiti SFP Wizard"

gonesilent — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:28:19 +0000

That app also sends ser# and other info to FS forcing you to help them build out the DB.

New comment by gonesilent in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

gonesilent — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:09:49 +0000

I've purposely put three seashells in many public restrooms

New comment by gonesilent in "uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension"

gonesilent — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:07:04 +0000

paypal paid 2 billion for honey did all the devs leave?

New comment by gonesilent in "Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser"

gonesilent — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:08:43 +0000

I reviewed 1000s of skins and plugins at nullsoft before aol so many of them tie to a time in my life. Feels odd seeing them sometimes. Nullsoft tv was the most fun back in the day. Long before twitch and justin.tv even YouTube who now uses the parts of the old on2 encoder.

New comment by gonesilent in "Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims"

gonesilent — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:44:17 +0000

You can access the starlink.com site from none registered and unsubscribed units. But you need to use the Starlink provided DHCP/DNS servers to do it. Most people use other DNS settings on devices so the walled garden part might not work depending on user device config.

New comment by gonesilent in "Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed"

gonesilent — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 04:45:19 +0000

FireWire is also still used to dump out kernel debug.

New comment by gonesilent in "First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini"

gonesilent — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:49:02 +0000

It's just running the chips hot.

New comment by gonesilent in "They make USB-C cables with displays now"

gonesilent — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:45:31 +0000

You can find them with full cell modems hidden in the cable end molding.

New comment by gonesilent in "Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago"

gonesilent — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:55:57 +0000

The gnutella.wego.com guys ran servers called mrclean on the gnutella network and ran most of the main nodes for the network passing the torch later to limewire who ran nodes and also cleaned network spam.

New comment by gonesilent in "Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago"

gonesilent — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:14:25 +0000

Never forget waste and Gnutella. Justin Frankel told Shawn Fanning Napster would get shutdown back when it had 50 users. Gnutella was made not to use a central server that could be shutdown.

New comment by gonesilent in "BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20"

gonesilent — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:06:44 +0000

Europe doesn't get quite the train length that you see in the US. Also automatic latching versus manual latching on train cars in the US. The US was first to bump latch cars smacking them into one another.

New comment by gonesilent in "Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi"

gonesilent — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:54:51 +0000

So that's about a 8/12 roof pitch ish.

New comment by gonesilent in "YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network"

gonesilent — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:49:55 +0000

Infrasearch / Gonesilent sold to Sun turned into project JXTA and died.

New comment by gonesilent in "Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages"

gonesilent — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:45:46 +0000

Inflation became a three year calculation.

New comment by gonesilent in "SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone"

gonesilent — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 09:32:03 +0000

Viasats service supported this via USB plug in drive on the modem to load some content. Don't think it was released out of beta.

New comment by gonesilent in "EV LFP Battery Price War at Less Than $56 per KWh Within Six Months"

gonesilent — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:30:57 +0000

Most US city's will red flag your house for occupancy if your disconnect from the grid.