Hacker News: gonesilent

New comment by gonesilent in "LLM Networking with MikroTik"

gonesilent — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:57:50 +0000

The main pfsense dev who exited the project is working on just that. Forget the name.

New comment by gonesilent in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

gonesilent — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:04:02 +0000

Honey lawsuits still might be a feared liability?

New comment by gonesilent in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

gonesilent — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:18:32 +0000

Amazon ripped off the price tracking and history from camelcamelcamel.com

New comment by gonesilent in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

gonesilent — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:58:12 +0000

If you can find a good security vulnerability Tesla will give you root on your car as an award.

New comment by gonesilent in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

gonesilent — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:20:21 +0000

Yes, Gene, Justin, Shawn all somewhat knew one another. Street raced and hung out online. I started infrasearch with Gene. He also did an open source shoutcast server.

New comment by gonesilent in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

gonesilent — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:08:53 +0000

Napster came along to the nullsoft channel one day and shared the app he was working on. We all played with it and offered suggestions. Told him he was be sued out of existence. From that came gnutella and waste. Something was spun out with me and friends as infrasearch and sold to sun. Wilson Sonsini did a good thing on peer-to-peer back in the day too. They were our lawyers. Sucked us dry.

New comment by gonesilent in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

gonesilent — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:33:27 +0000

It took a ton of work to keep the network clean. I did the gnutella.wego site back in the day. Gnutella was made when napster had 50 users and we all told him he was fcked. So gnutella was made to not use servers. Justin gave napster the code for song length and such to integrate with Napster.

New comment by gonesilent in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

gonesilent — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:27:17 +0000

I was part of this pre-aol and after. Good times! We all still hang out on an IRC server.

New comment by gonesilent in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

gonesilent — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:44:37 +0000

Unlimited with an *.

New comment by gonesilent in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

gonesilent — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:43:41 +0000

FSD,2019 still waiting with HW3.

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.