hperrin

@hperrin@lemmy.world

I’m Hunter Perrin. I’m a software engineer.

I wrote an email service: port87.com

I write free software: github.com/sciactive

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hperrin,

s/enough/too many/

hperrin,

gamingonlinux.com If you like video games.

Upgrade vs Reinstall

I’m a generalist SysAdmin. I use Linux when necessary or convenient. I find that when I need to upgrade a specific solution it’s often easier to just spin up an entirely new instance and start from scratch. Is this normal or am I doing it wrong? For instance, this morning I’m looking at a Linux VM whose only task is to run...

hperrin,

If you’ve designed everything correctly, then yes, it should be much easier to deploy a new instance on a new machine than to upgrade an existing machine.

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Those are just changes to the build system. The last upstream release was 7 years ago. Last commit to the main branch was 6 1/2 years ago. This project is unmaintained. It should be forked by someone who is passionate about it.

hperrin,

I am. Thanks! :) I built my email service, port87.com with it.

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This exactly. Because some poor shmuck might spend two hours trying to get Nextcloud to work with it.

hperrin,

Depending on the ICE car, a similar EV can actually be more noisy, because of the heavy battery causing more road friction = more noise.

hperrin,

That’s really only because most of our electricity is still produced through fossil fuels. As we move to renewables, that equation will shift rapidly toward net positive much before 5 years. And that’s not accounting for any technological advances (like sodium ion batteries) that happen in that time.

hperrin,

The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend and I said out loud, “how many damn polar bears do I need to click to get into your fucking store”, and he knew exactly what I meant.

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Also even if you are protected from the repercussions of moving at super speed, anything you move isn’t. If you carry your friend across the street, your friend is now pulverized and probably burnt to a crisp. If you move your water bottle, congrats on delivering a pressure vessel of steam to wherever you just went. Acceleration that fast and impacts at that speed would destroy basically everything you touch while moving at super speed.

hperrin,

The Boy Scouts trained me for this moment.

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My server doesn’t have a GUI, so the terminal is what’s there. As for my desktop, terminal is just easier for some things. And for my own stuff, it’s easier and faster than building a GUI for all the things I’m doing.

hperrin,

The vast majority of pickups don’t have sloped bed walls. The only other one I can think of is the Chevy Avalanche, and they aren’t sloped the whole way to the tailgate, only part way.

hperrin,

Wow. How did they get it out without it exploding?

hperrin,

There is a way to recover it. You can use a root shell aka recovery shell (usually available through your GRUB menu) to change the permissions on your home directory. But just reinstalling was probably easier anyway.

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Does it have to be an internet meme? Also does God count as a meme?

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I like that a lot.

I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser?

I already use Firefox for browsing normally, but I have to test on a Chromium based browser too. One soft requirement is that it should be installable with Flatpak on Linux.

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Yes. I’ve considered that, but does it still report back to Google? Even though that majority of what I visit will be “http://127.0.0.1:8080”, I’d still rather not be spied on by Google.

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Their latest thing that pushed me to look for a new testing browser is installing a system wide VPN on your computer without your consent.

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My website proudly does not have tracking cookies. Well, once you get past the landing page to the actual app.

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  1. Mastodon
  2. Lemmy
  3. Idk, email?..
  4. …
  5. Porn
hperrin,

Also it’s Domino’s.

hperrin,

I feel you. Technically, the service is in a public beta test, only because I don’t have all the features complete yet.

I have the IMAP spec printed out in a binder at my desk. I have to write the server myself because of how Port87 works (I can’t just use an off-the-shelf server, like Dovecot). But I’m working hard to get IMAP support out soon! :)

PS: also, once I do write it, the IMAP server will be open source, just like the CardDAV server I’m working on.

hperrin,

Q in Minecraft. It throws whatever item you’re holding. Sometimes I’m frantic trying to fight something and I end up tossing it my sword. If it’s a zombie, they can pick it up and use it against you.

hperrin,

Fuck yeah! Grind that wall bro!

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