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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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...

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,

For the low price of nine ninety squiggle?

hperrin,

Yeah, but it’s still funny.

hperrin,

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.

hperrin,

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

hperrin,

Yep, cause the constitution doesn’t forbid felons from running for president.

hperrin,

The Constitution doesn’t do that, that’s up to the states. Also, you don’t have to be eligible to vote to be the president. The US Constitution outlines the only eligibility requirements for the president.

hperrin,

The fourteenth amendment would probably bar this, but it’s never been tried.

hperrin,

What I’d love to see is the government funding and running a way to do microtransactions over HTTPS.

Basically, one of the government’s jobs is to facilitate commerce, which it has done by issuing and regulating currency for centuries, and collecting sales tax. But we’ve moved beyond paper and metal currency. I can’t pay for an article on USA Today with a quarter. So the government should run a system, funded by automatically charged sales tax, that lets me do exactly that. Let me hook up my bank account to it, and say yes or no when a website wants to charge me 25¢ for an article (or however much).

It would be great to have a way that I can pay without a stupid subscription and without giving the website my credit card information. If I read 3 articles a month, I don’t want to pay a $14.99 subscription. But not charging that means news sites can’t survive. Wouldn’t it be great if we could pay for our media easily and news sites could charge for it in a non-exploitative way?

hperrin, (edited )

You use microtransactions all the time when you pay for things with cash. I’m using the term to refer to payments for one thing in a small amount. As opposed to subscription fees or buying a year’s worth of articles at once. And no, that’s not easy to do with crypto and browser wallets. We don’t need old people having their life savings irrevocably stolen, thanks.

The internet is a government solution, btw, so if you’re not fond of their “solutions”, well, you’re not fond of the internet.

hperrin,

This is all well and good, but what I really want is a Framework 2-in-1. That would be drool worthy.

hperrin,

Former President and convicted felon, Donald J Trump

hperrin,

Yes. Former President, convicted felon, and rapist, Donald J Trump.

hperrin,

Pretty much. At least Lemmy is a lot more like Reddit was when I started on Reddit (~2015), than Reddit is now.

hperrin,

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

hperrin,

I’m sure he’ll justify it to himself immediately. He’s already sunk so much cost.

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    hperrin,

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

    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.

    hperrin,

    Awesome. I love it when I have less choice. I only hope they can find a way to make it more expensive.

    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.

    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,

    Wine glasses, yeah. And other drink glasses too. But yeah, I assume you mean handheld electronics, which even that is a stretch. Handheld CD players, camcorders, cameras, are all pretty fragile and I wouldn’t say they’re planned obsolescence. You just gotta be careful with fragile things. We use our phones way more often than any electronic device from the past, so more chance to drop them and notice how fragile they are.

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