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 love how there is an entire group of people who think it’s perfectly normal to “fight” the company that makes the OS they use.

(This message brought to you by the Linux gang.)

hperrin ,

As soon as I started doing that, I hopped distros.

hperrin ,

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

hperrin ,

Maybe it’s Crustabeline.

hperrin ,

This is the least surprising one I’ve seen. coreboot just loads a payload and exits, so this is just a version of DOOM designed to run directly on the hardware (not using OS APIs). So basically, this is just DOOM running on a regular computer.

hperrin ,

Ice cream on a hot dog. Just plain vanilla ice cream, on an all beef hot dog in a bun. Some chocolate fudge on top if you like.

Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users ( www.theregister.com )

The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture...

hperrin ,

Switch to Firefox.

hperrin ,

The very highest up (that I was aware of) at the 3 big tech companies that I worked at made about $500k, so $700k isn’t too far off. But they weren’t really coding much anymore. These people were making systems architecture and development decisions for huge systems. But there are definitely more of them than a few dozen. Across the field I would guess there are hundreds of engineers at that level, maybe thousands. I’m sure they make less money if they work at a smaller company, but they’d also likely get a much bigger piece of the pie in stock.

hperrin ,

Lamp shade, sheets, done.

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.

hperrin ,

Lol. He is seething. You love to see it.

hperrin ,

Because he owns a bunch of shit. That’s literally it. Nobody would give a single shit about him if he didn’t have money. I saw it put very eloquently like this:

Elon Musk is so poor that all he has is money.

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

hperrin ,

I haven’t bought them specifically for that, but I have harvested drives from them. A lot of times, you’ll have to destroy the enclosure to get to the drive. If you’re ok with that, go for it.

hperrin ,

Kobo isn’t bad.

hperrin ,

Maybe a local independent bookstore?

hperrin ,

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

hperrin ,

Ideologically, they’re different, but practically, they’re not.

hperrin ,

There is only one species of dog, canis familiaris. I still wouldn’t call a chihuahua and a great dane the same thing. Species or subspecies, indica is still a different thing.

hperrin ,

Continue living in California, and probably not go to any red state. At least not with my wife. Continue to vote Democrat and spread progressive values.

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.

hperrin ,

Yes, correct. But also, let those people be inconvenienced. Reddit should not be convenient. The only thing it’s good for now is porn.

hperrin ,

Coke for kids.

hperrin , (edited )

You should probably only do this if you’re using an enclosure that connects all the disks over a single cable. That way if it gets unplugged or otherwise disconnected, all the disks get disconnected, and they remain in sync. Otherwise, get very familiar with resyncing drives.

hperrin ,

Funding the IRS to go after rich tax cheats.

hperrin ,

Sure, but if you can and don’t vote for Biden it means you’re at least ok with Trump.

hperrin ,

You have two options:

  • Ok with genocide. Otherwise relatively progressive. Has passed major important legislation.
  • Ok with genocide. Wants to be a dictator. Appointed half of the Supreme Court majority that took away women’s right to abortion. Will probably strip more rights if elected. Cut taxes on the wealthy and will probably do it again.

You can throw away your vote, but come inauguration, you will have a president who is ok with genocide.

hperrin ,

You have an abysmally stupid sense of morality.

hperrin ,

If your morality prioritizes staunch adherence to standards over harm reduction, you have a stupid sense of morality.

It’s the kind of morality where someone would rather let a child die than push them out of the way of a speeding car, simply because pushing them would harm them.

Your morality should lead you to making decisions that result in the least harm. Look at it this way: if all of the people who voted third party instead of Hillary because Hillary wasn’t [insert moral standard here] enough had sucked it up and voted for Hillary, access to abortion would still be legal nationwide. (This assumes enough people to get her elected voted third party over moral objections.)

Trump is the worst president in my life time, by a huge margin, and he’s even more in favor of genocide than Biden, demonstrably. So if your sense of morality causes you to help put him in charge of our country again, in my mind, you’re a fucking moron.

hperrin ,

I’m not talking about drug harm reduction. I’m talking about the reduction of harm. Put another way, aiming to reduce the amount of harm your actions lead to.

hperrin ,

Ok cool. Your choice is between genocide, and genocide but worse. You can proclaim how righteous and moral you are that all the pain everyone around you is feeling is not your fault, because you merely threw your vote away, but that won’t change the outcome, and it won’t make you anything but a moron.

hperrin ,

That’s a nice platitude, but there are only two outcomes, no matter how much you might wish there was a third. Your options are to help, abstain, or hurt. Abstaining means you’d rather not help, so again, in my mind, you’re a moron.

Third party candidates are only viable when one of the major parties collapses, and the major parties only collapse when they consistently lose. So, if you actually want a viable third party, you should vote for the major party you dislike the least. Otherwise, you’re just perpetuating both.

hperrin ,

Trump is literally a fascist. A vote for Biden is a vote against fascism. You’ve got to be a troll.

hperrin ,

Voting third party right now also just perpetuates both parties. There are enough people in this country to elect anyone from the major parties, so a third party can’t win unless one of those parties collapses. The only way a party collapses is when it consistently loses elections.

The republicans won’t consistently lose elections as long as progressives don’t vote for democrats, so both parties will continue on. The majority of the people in this country are left of center, so the only way republicans win is by suppressing votes, and one of the ways they do that is by propping up progressive third party candidates.

If we truly want a progressive party, making sure republicans never win elections is the way to do it. Then either the Democratic Party will shift left and republicans will regroup under a new less extreme conservative party, or the Democratic Party will shift right as it absorbs all the republicans and a new progressive left party will rise. Both ways result in a more progressive set of major parties.

hperrin ,

What do they even want a war over? Some perceived slight from the left they’ve been told democrats do? Like, they want a war against an imaginary enemy.

hperrin ,

Fuck CNBC.

hperrin ,

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

hperrin ,

When did they move the Statue of Liberty off the island?

hperrin ,

Very very few people actually want to kill cops. But way too many cops are really paranoid. I mean, if an acorn can cause you to think you’re hit and unload two magazines at a guy in handcuffs, you shouldn’t be a cop. So here we are.

hperrin ,

And everyone in town will tell you how FUCKING life changing Scratchy Dick’s will be, then you try it, and it’s, like, just not bad.

Now that DuckDuckGo is out. Give me your search prompts and I'll answer them as best I can. That includes images (based on what I have saved on my PC). So what is it you wish to know or see?

Edit: Due to popular demand FatTony Search servers are down for the time being. but has gone open source just in time (Yes that's how it works 😡) . You may now get responses from other users. Servers will be back up some time later.

hperrin ,

How to remove my cat from neighbors house, doors are locked, he’s eating their turkey and shredding their leather sofa, they’re right down the street, how did he even get in there?, legal liability cat destroyed neighbors house

hperrin ,

😏

hperrin ,

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

What is the Legal copyright on a Lemmy Post?

Most instances don't have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click "Agree"). I've noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is this...

hperrin ,

It’s not really fully determined whether you can actually release something to the public domain, since the “public domain” is not a legally sanctioned entity. It’s just the name we use for things that are uncopyrightable or otherwise not copyrighted (like certain government works, or works old enough that the copyrights have expired). The CC0 license from Creative Commons gets around this by waiving all copyrights instead.

This waiver nullifies and voids all copyright on a work. It also provides a fallback all-permissive license in case the waiver is deemed legally invalid. In the worst case that even the license is deemed invalid, the license contains a promise from the copyright holder not to exercise any copyrights he/she owns in the work.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_the_public_domain

hperrin ,

Sunk cost fallacy.

hperrin ,

At least in the US, you literally can.

hperrin ,

Those are cooling towers, and are usually just literally blowing off steam. It would be really hard to make the case that that is pollution. The thing that produced the waste heat might have created pollution though, depending on what it was.

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