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,

Check out port87.com

It’s similar. I made it to solve my spam problem, but it’s also really good for staying organized. When you sign up for something, you can use yourname-whatever@port87.com, then if you don’t want it anymore, you can block that address. Each address has its own label in your account, and blocking the address is just one click.

hperrin,

Check out port87.com

It’s similar. I made it to solve my spam problem, but it’s also really good for staying organized. When you sign up for something, you can use yourname-whatever@port87.com, then if you don’t want it anymore, you can block that address. Each address has its own label in your account, and blocking the address is just one click.

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    hperrin,

    1337x.to is a great site for downloading Linux ISOs.

    hperrin,

    Yes. And it’s absurd.

    hperrin,

    Pants have the same number of legs as people. This joke is getting absurd.

    hperrin,

    Touché.

    hperrin,

    If you’re not a fan of your current email provider, I’ve created one that automatically organizes your email and helps prevent spam and phishing:

    port87.com

    hperrin, (edited )

    Basically a long time ago Linux/Unix was run on big machines in a separate room with all the fancy graphics hardware, and you’d have a dumb little machine at your desk that could barely draw pixels on a screen. So X11 was designed with all these fantastic neat server-client mechanisms that made it great for running on a mainframe.

    Fast forward 30 years and all that stuff is useless now that everyone has built in graphics (as well as several other issues with X11’s archaic design). So some smart people who didn’t know any better made a new thing that everything has to be rewritten for (because they were smart, but didn’t know any better). Then someone who did know a little better was like, what if we take the old bloated one and rewrite it for the new lean one. So now everything runs in an X11 session inside a Wayland server, which has to be rewritten for everything because Wayland is a protocol, not a server.

    But one of the really nice things about it is that everything has to be rewritten, so we can make newer, fancier bugs.

    Edit: I don’t want you to take the impression that I think Wayland is bad. Wayland is way better than X, it just sucks that we have to rewrite a bunch of stuff for it and figure out new ways of doing things that were dead simple in X, but very insecure.

    hperrin,

    What’s curn?

    hperrin, (edited )

    When you’re done, look up how humans losing our body hair split the species of lice living on us into head lice and pubic lice.

    hperrin,

    hperrin,

    Having a penis. Though, it’s only the conservatives who consider that unattractive, and based on how popular that kind of porn is in the deep south, they’re lying about it anyway.

    hperrin,

    s/enough/too many/

    hperrin,

    gamingonlinux.com If you like video games.

    hperrin,

    Not even close to how good the library is on the high seas.

    hperrin,

    You can use a WebDAV server to sync your notes in Joplin, and if your WebDAV server has a web interface, you can view your notes in a browser.

    May I suggest Nephele as a good WebDAV server you can use.

    Available for Docker as well.

    hperrin,

    I don’t particularly agree with his impression that the average user doesn’t benefit from open source, or that they should know anything about open source.

    The only popular operating system that isn’t based on an open source kernel is Windows. Nearly every mobile phone in the entire world is running an open source kernel. And I’d bet that nearly every computer system in the world has at least some open source software running on it.

    And who cares whether the average user knows about open source software? The average Blender user doesn’t use it because it’s open source, they use it because it’s the best 3D modeling software. The benefits of open source software are usually what makes it enticing to people who have no idea what open source is.

    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.

    hperrin,

    I have no recommendations for you, I just want to second your opinion that the Gnome on screen keyboard is annoying.

    hperrin, (edited )

    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,

    The last release came out 7 years ago…

    hperrin,

    Wow, the new owners enshittified those apps really fast.

    hperrin,

    It does. The Windows built in WebDAV client was not great until Windows 10, so that might be what you’re remembering.

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