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,

I’m just sitting here waiting patiently for Valve to put out a new headset so I can upgrade from my Quest 1. Never wanna give Meta any more of my money.

hperrin,

To protect the right wing snowflakes.

hperrin,

My upgrade went very smoothly. No issues.

hperrin,

Don’t we have a rule against insurrectionists holding office??

why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...

hperrin,

In general, because what everyone thinks of when they say USB is a host-device protocol, and you’re trying to connect two hosts together.

But USB is a blanket term for a number of protocols, and there are protocols that allow a host to switch roles and become a device, depending on what it’s connected to.

If you see a PC being advertised with “dual role USB ports” or support for “USB-OTG”, then you can connect it to another PC. Otherwise, you almost certainly can’t.

If all you want to do is transfer files, you can use something like QuickDAV to transfer files over your local network.

hperrin,

If they don’t list the salary, they definitely can’t afford me.

hperrin,

Give them a real desktop, like Fedora. If they enjoy computers, they’ll love it and they’ll be excited to learn how to use it.

hperrin,

I just bought a Framework 13, and I got say, it’s amazing. First of all, everything works out of the box. That’s surprising for a laptop with Linux. Even the Dell I used to own that specifically advertised compatibility with Linux and even came with Ubuntu had a fingerprint reader with no Linux support. Meanwhile, the fingerprint reader on my Framework has worked flawlessly.

Second, it’s blazing fast. I got the new AMD one, and it’s definitely fast enough to handle everything I’ve thrown at it.

Third, if something breaks on it, like the screen, replacing the part is incredibly easy. I’ve replaced a couple laptop screens before, and while they’re easier than phone screens, it’s still a PITA. And that’s if you can find a replacement screen.

And then lastly, eventually I’ll be able to upgrade it. I like that.

So yeah, if you can afford the price premium, I highly recommend the Framework 13.

hperrin,

I’m guessing she’s “pro life”.

hperrin,

What is, the opposite of John Wick, Alex?

hperrin,

“northen hemispherial”

hperrin,

There is not a reliable way to determine that, by design.

hperrin,

Probably ninety percent of those would want to replace any relevant Democrat that made it on the ballet. Big deal. What a useless story.

hperrin,

You gotta have thick skin to be an open source dev. A lot of people will talk to you with an impressively entitled tone, and say very disrespectful things.

I hope this dev can experience the better side of their community more often, and I sincerely hope they can make a living from their project, even if it stays closed source.

From Windows to about 6 recommended distros for gaming.

I am not bad with computers and have a beginner+, maybe intermediate level knowledge of Linux and I kept running into some problems here and there with different distros. Most claimed to work out of the box (which may be the case for some users, but I have a shit ass Nvidia 1060 and that was not at all the case, until I...

hperrin,

How dare you not use the same distro as me. Just kidding. Glad you found one that works for you. :)

hperrin,

You forgot also snaps pollute both the mount list and the path. Whether you like or dislike the second is up to opinion, but nobody likes the first.

hperrin,

I wish people used email for chat more. SMTP is actually a pretty great protocol for real time communication. People think of it as this old slow protocol, but that’s mostly because the big email providers make it slow. Gmail, by default, waits ten seconds before it even tries to send your message to the recipient’s server. And even then, most of them do a ridiculous amount of processing on your messages that it usually takes several seconds from the time it receives a message to the time it shows up in your account.

There’s a project called Delta Chat that makes email look and act like a chat app. If you have a competent email service, I think it’s better than texting. It doesn’t stomp on the images you send like SMS and Facebook do, everyone has it unlike all the proprietary services, and you can run your own server for it that interacts with everyone else’s servers.

Unfortunately, Google, Microsoft, etc all block you if you try to run your own server “to protect against spam”. Really, I’m convinced that’s just anticompetitive behavior. The fewer players are allowed to enter the email market, the less competition Gmail and Outlook will have.

As much as I like ProtonMail too, unfortunately their encryption models prevents it from working with Delta Chat. I’d love to see Proton make a compatible chat app that works with their service.

I made an email service called Port87 that I’m working on making compatible with Delta chat too. I’d love to see people using email the way it was originally meant to be used, to talk to each other, without being controlled by big businesses.

hperrin,

Oh, another awesome thing about email is that you can ensure that your address is always yours, even if you use an email service provider like Gmail. Any provider that supports custom domains will allow you to use your own domain for your address, then if you want to change your provider, you keep your address. So, since I own hperrin.com, I can use the address me@hperrin.com, and I know it’ll always be mine as long as I pay for that domain.

This is a much better model than anything else. Even on the fediverse, you can’t have your own address unless you run your own instance.

If your email service provider goes out of business or gets sold off (skiff.com, anyone?), as long as you’re on your own custom domain, your address is still yours.

I’m working on custom domains for Port87. It’s definitely a feature I think every email provider should offer.

hperrin,

Yes, I mentioned that. That’s not a protocol issue, that’s a big business controls everything issue.

hperrin, (edited )

If you’re relying on the remote server to delete something, you can’t trust it no matter what protocol you’re using.

For a regular email, the chance to undo might be fine, but for real time communication, it’s just an unnecessary road block.

Maybe if it was optional per recipient, or per conversation, or better yet, depending on the presence of a header, it might be fine. Gmail only supports all-on or all-off.

hperrin,

Fair enough. Sending binary data over SMTP adds a lot of overhead, because it all has to be encoded. We should fix that.

hperrin,

If you’re not the proper government mandated religion, you’re not welcome in Florida.

Trump juror quits over fear of being outed after Fox News host says she should scare Trump (www.salon.com)

Those calls came after numerous media outlets reported potentially identifying biographical information about the woman, including her job and the neighborhood she called home. Fox News Jesse Watters highlighted the juror’s details while reading through public pool notes about the selected members. “This nurse scares me if...

hperrin,

Using terrorism to protect a criminal (again). The Republican Party cannot possibly be redeemed.

hperrin,

Let’s just get straight to the point and make it illegal to be poor. Maybe then it will get through to people how inhumane this is.

hperrin,

Most conservatives are poor.

hperrin,

Minecraft is super fun and addictive, and works great on Linux.

hperrin,

AFAIK, they only allow you to connect your checking account.

hperrin,

Just some mild hoops to jump through will prevent spam. On my email service, Port87, I use a waitlist. I don’t use it specifically to prevent spam, but it does do that very well. Then you email invite codes to the people who join the waitlist for them to create an actual account. If you start seeing spam entries in the waitlist, just delete them.

hperrin,

Jesus. I thought it just asked nicely.

hperrin,

Yeah, you take the “Alex” from the beginning of Jeff and the “is” from the end of Elon. Alexis.

hperrin,

Let’s go back to the beer economy, where your money goes bad eventually if you don’t drink it. Elon Musk would have the largest reserve of rotten beer in human history. He deserves it.

hperrin,

Wayland, Pipewire, systemd, btrfs/zfs, just to name a few.

hperrin,

Yes, I know. I was answering the question of if there were instances of this happening.

hperrin,

“Pleeeeease give him this power. He promises he’ll never use it.”

hperrin,

Probably a number of factors. Some I can think of that may have contributed:

  • Steam Deck showing that gaming is possible on Linux.
  • Windows 11’s hardware requirements pushing people to try Linux on older hardware.
  • Microsoft’s recent enshittification of Windows by pushing Edge and AI so hard.
  • KDE has been pushing to fix bugs and has gotten really good lately.
  • Electron has made a lot of apps people really need super easy to build for Linux, so companies have started releasing apps for Linux.
  • Flatpak has done the same, for distribution.
hperrin,

That new MinisForum tablet looks pretty good.

hperrin,

It does look cool, but it’s quite expensive for what it is.

hperrin,

You have to be really poor to lose weight because of it. Cheaper food is usually high in calories and low in nutrition.

How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?

I have been thinking about self-hosting my personal photos on my linux server. After the recent backdoor was detected I’m more hesitant to do so especially because i’m no security expert and don’t have the time and knowledge to audit my server. All I’ve done so far is disabling password logins and changing the ssh port....

hperrin,

If backdoors exist, they’re probably enough to get your data no matter where it’s stored, so self hosting should be fine. Just keep it up to date and set up regular automatic backups.

hperrin,

The most important thing you should do is never boot into that disk again until you have made a full backup image of it.

hperrin,

“I care about liberty, personal freedom, and equal protection.”

And

“We should ban people from being trans.”

Are incompatible statements though. We don’t actually share these core beliefs with them, because their interpretation of these core beliefs is guided by bigotry.

hperrin,

He’s also good at sexualizing his daughter. Creepily, disgustingly, probably illegally good at it.

hperrin,

I wouldn’t say it’s great for me, because I have to use it for some people who just refuse to use an open source alternative.

hperrin,

Beer is liquid bread. It’s good for you.

hperrin, (edited )

If you’d like a WebDAV server, I wrote one called Nephele that has a really small memory footprint. With a 4GB budget, you can run in cluster mode with probably 4 or 5 instances and not affect any of your other services.

If you install the NPM version, you can also authenticate with system users, so you can use it to manage the files in your home directory. (You could also do that with the Docker version, but only for one user.)

gotta get a new printer

Greentings As youve seen from the the title, i want to get a new printer as a present for my parents. Sadly they are still windows peasants and my mom somehow thinks that the HP printer on her desk has been a good financial investment, even though it has costed us more than 300 bucks in ink over the past 2 years....

hperrin,

I use an Epson EcoTank, and I love it. The ink is incredibly cheap.

hperrin,

If you stick around Donald Trump long enough, you get free housing from the state anyway.

hperrin,

I won’t be using Azure either though, so not even tangentially.

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