Jack :telecommuter:

computers, unfortunately

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interested in p2p and federated stuff, i want open source software that normal people could use, plants, 3d and weird video games

website: https://jackaperkins.com
codeberg: https://codeberg.org/jackaperkins
g****b: https://github.com/jackaperkins

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2026-05-21 10:09:08 UTC

god the web is just a huge pile of dogshit now, i know not a hot take but... im searching for information about tick sprays and repellent and every website has that spam blog from 2018 page style now with suspiciously cheap LLM written paragraph feel. but im also prompted to do a really complicated captcha (which doesnt show up right on mobile), agree to GDPR (all my public data is in chatgpt et al already), scroll past ads despite adblocker.
what's even the point of making open software to compete in this landscape?

2026-04-25 10:01:42 UTC

hey desktop #linux people, is there a nice modern app that lets me run arbitrary scripts on a timer on my home pc? like cron style, but with regular notifications if something went wrong or failed? I'm on fedora, running vanilla gnome and i looooove flatpak.
i have some backup scripts i want to run once or twice a week and i'd love it it wasn't just invisibly configured in the text-mode bowels of my computer.

2026-04-16 23:13:44 UTC

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so they did *have* to make their own software because not everything that makes up bluesky is open source?

2026-04-16 21:22:43 UTC

so wait blacksky in addition to running their whole own parallel network that copies all the posts on bluesky also has to make their own software? or is this a choice to like not be dependent on the stack that runs bluesky?

2026-04-07 15:16:57 UTC

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i think this whole flow of dealing with "mounting drives" is still one of the weakest areas of modern linux desktop. some UIs deal with it pretty nicely, some apps completely fail to understand what the setup is. not just like this where it feels like a bug, but in cases like adding my music collection to the player's library when its on a secondary (internal disk). i had to know to go into settings and mount it automatically on startup, even though i was able to select and browse through it in the Files app anytime without manually mounting.

2026-03-10 22:07:24 UTC

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👆 this!

2026-03-07 20:12:31 UTC

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https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/oracle-layoffs-tech-giant-to-slash-30-000-jobs-as-banks-pull-out-from-financing-ai-data-centres-11769996619410.html

2026-02-25 17:53:35 UTC

looking into buying a 500~ eu computer to be my TV PC and backup home server to save 100eu a year on dropbox lol

2026-02-18 09:59:52 UTC

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aaaaalmost there

2026-02-11 10:11:01 UTC

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looks like it was delayed until next week

2026-02-09 15:19:30 UTC

did the bubble pop yet?

2026-01-11 15:36:52 UTC

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have you or anyone seen an analysis of the security / privacy of the project? i really wonder if it's doing something unique on that front or if the privacy is also just vibes

2026-01-08 22:23:42 UTC

@npub1xse…lgk3 i was actually following your bsky bridge here before i followed your mastodon main! im whats wrong with the fediverse

2026-01-01 15:15:49 UTC

First blog post on my new site, about building the private discovery protocol for @npub1a2z…v48a a #p2p library
https://jackaperkins.com/blog/p2panda-private-set-intersection/