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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GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled (www.phoronix.com)

For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with...

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This is great news. Shipping X11 on a system that doesn’t need it is a big waste.

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The driver will work fine, but it won’t update to the latest one in the future without GE. (Windows update might update it, but they’re always several versions behind.)

Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors (www.latimes.com)

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down part of a federal anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for state and local officials to take gifts valued at more than $5,000 from a donor who had previously been awarded lucrative contracts or other government benefits thanks to the efforts of the official....

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Buying politicians is super duper legal now, thanks to conservatives both past and present. May the super wealthy among us rejoice as the huddle masses work feverishly for their masters. The conservatives have done their part and restored the autocrats to their former power.

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I’m really sorry that whoever tried to educate you failed so miserably.

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Go Temecula! :D

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Made them more valuable.

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Is Nostr still just full of crypto bros and Nazis?

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Let me do it for you.

Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

Due to the recent announcement of Proton moving to a non-profit structure (although not becoming fully non-profit) I’ve decided to take another look at them and really, Proton Unlimited is an enticing offer. However, the fact of everything from mail, to accounts, to storage being in one place is somewhat disconcerting. Also I...

hperrin,

I’ve been using Proton for several years now, and paying for their Mail and VPN features. Proton Mail is definitely better than Gmail, but other than the privacy features, it’s just a basic email service. Their VPN also is just a basic service. If that’s what you need, then by all means, I’ve always had a good experience with them.

That being said, I do run a competing email service called Port87 that (IMHO) has better features for organization and spam protection, so take what I say with the knowledge that I am technically their competitor (although my user base is tiny compared to them). Really, I see them more as an ally against Gmail and MS Exchange, because I’ve never experienced any sort of anti-competitive behavior from them like I have with both Google and Microsoft.

Supporting smaller players in the email space is what keeps email open, so the more people move away from Gmail and Exchange/MS 365, the better.

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The seventh wonder of the world, for sure.

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How about, and I’m just spit ballin’ here, neither Donald Trump nor Hunter Biden should be president?

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I have never whole heartedly supported the Democratic candidate (because I’m far more left than any of them have ever been), but I’ve always voted for them, because they’re far better than the other option. This time they’re just so far better than the other option, not because they are any better, but because the other option is so astoundingly worse. So, I guess, welcome to the club.

But I will say, Biden has been more progressive than any other candidate in my lifetime. Again, that’s not saying much, but hey, it’s better than nothing. He’s just killing himself by supporting Israel.

(Repost of my comment from the same article in another community.)

Warning to Trump’s new pals on Wall Street (www.politico.com)

Republican donors – including those who had said they’d never support Trump again after Jan. 6 — believe the current regulatory climate for businesses is also an existential danger. Kathy Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City — a nonprofit organization representing the city’s top business...

hperrin,

They misspelled, “I don’t care about society, I just want lower taxes.”

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All those chants of “lock her up” for almost a decade, without even one shred of tact or civility, were all building up to this glorious headline.

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She could have changed her profile pic after that comment.

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So no change at all for our uncracked sisters.

hperrin,

I’d press it as long as I get to keep my parts down there. I’m way more attached to my anatomy than my gender.

hperrin,

Do you need to proxy?

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Email, probably. Kind of depends on your needs, and how willing other people are to accommodate them. The most secure messaging platform is email with a third party IMAP client using OpenPGP. That way the client and the server are run by different people, and the encryption is based on a verifiable and well known standard. But will other people use that to communicate with you? Probably not. So probably something like Signal would strike a good balance between privacy and ease of use.

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They asked what the most secure one is, not the most practical. When I said other people wouldn’t communicate with you, I meant because it is very difficult to set up, so I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone. But unless your client and server come from different parties, you’re putting all your trust into one other party (like with Signal), so that’s inherently less secure.

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Former President, and convicted felon, Donald Trump.

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This is definitely against their ToS, so I would advise against it. That said, do you have any friends or relatives who might be interested? That’s less likely to lead to any negative consequences.

Btw, your original username will always be tied to the account. There’s no way to change that.

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A stable male, if you will.

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“Biden says accurate thing and then we make a headline about it.”

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I’ll take your entire stock.

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For the low price of nine ninety squiggle?

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Yeah, but it’s still funny.

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Idk man, the AI just told me to put more glue in it.

hperrin,

You mean Donald Trump, convicted felon? That Donald Trump?

hperrin,

He has been convicted of a felony (34 times) by a jury of his peers. He is a convicted felon.

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VLC is the best media player, but the Linux kernel is the “supreme of all open source projects”.

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Glad to see XFCE is in the lead. I’ve loved that DE for years.

My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

hperrin,

Install Windows. He gave it a shot, and that’s better than most. Hopefully Linux will fit his needs soon, and he can try again.

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As opposed to the conservative justices, who probably jerk off thinking about all the people they’ve hurt with every decision.

Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?

I’m currently learning how to code (currently Python, then maybe JavaScript), but I’m not always around my desktop, and learning on my phone is not always an option (also, it can be quite cumbersome at times). Therefore, I’m looking into purchasing a laptop just for learning how to code and stuff....

hperrin,

This one is wider than you said your max is, but I own one and it’s awesome. Chuwi Gemibook XPro

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hperrin,

The opposite of Pro is Air. I learned that from Apple.

hperrin,

I’d much rather have had her shitty politics for four years and still have the right to an abortion.

T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration

In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS’s own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....

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Moral of the story: carrier locking should be illegal. Eat the rich.

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I’ve heard they were commissioned by land owners to show off how big their animals were. So basically like having a really expensive sports car.

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I love it. It’s the perfect illustration of a metaphor for enshittification.

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I think he’s about as crazy as I think, because I think he’s really fucking crazy.

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Because, as it has been for the last 40 years, it’s disproportionately going to the wealthy.

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I mean the guy’s almost eighty years old, fat, and eats like a toddler. He’s gone on record saying he doesn’t exercise. He’s probably not going to last much longer. What I’m worried about is the damage he definitely will do if he’s reelected.

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Undecided voter is a euphemism for “someone who literally does not give one shit about the world beyond their tiny little bubble in it”.

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Yeah, that’s basically what I said.

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Quickly run those down a wool sweater.

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The course sand pocket would be pretty great. Unlimited free sand. I could run an empire.

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Red bean boba tea is a thing.

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