Notices by George Dorn (gdorn@social.coop)

@krruzic yeah, the point of getting off of mint.com is to stop giving access to my financial data to evil financial institutions who do things like deliberately help the GOP create tax loopholes for the rich...

@derle that looks awesome. I didn't see it because it was "below the fold" on https://alternativeto.net/software/mint/?license=opensource

I'll hafta give it a try.

Wanted: self-hosted alternative to mint.com, with the ability to automatically import transaction details.

I'd probably settle for csv import/export if I can script it up with, say, selenium.

@richdecibels Also in a similar vein, Primitive Technology. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

He does the same trick as Mr Chickadee (new to me, thanks!) of putting extra info in the subtitles. Very nice before-bed relaxation videos.

That project might either be a joke or simply dead. The corresponding github repo has no plugin, and there's nothing on the chrome store (obviously).

The concept is sound, though; it's trivially easy to fake tracking data, and only a little bit harder to build a tracking token sharing platform (to deliberately screw with analysis that links tracking tokens to location or other data).

Turns out this thing already exists, at least for Chrome:
https://hello-kill.github.io/

#pleroma docs: Having trouble getting the right versions of Elixir + Erlang running on your production host because you prefer running LTS versions of Ubuntu? Try setting those up with asdf.

me: uh, okay. I guess that might resolve the horrible dependency conflicts I'm getting.

me: But now how do I install all of the pleroma dependencies with asdf?

#pleroma docs: We're not going to help you any more than that. You're on your own.

@interneteh I've had some decent luck with remotelyawesomejobs.com and indeed.com with custom filters. The former is curated just enough to prevent the worst crap from getting in, but the latter yields a greater number of acceptable results. Both will do email and/or RSS.

@sir Yeah, I have a whole separate firefox install with that addon for doing Sleeping Giants work. That and a spider makes for rapid tracking profile acquisition without having to be exposed to an excessive amount of Breitbart.

A Firefox addon that appends nonsense tracking parameters (?utm, clickid, etc) to most requests, just to poison the data collected by trackers.

Getting advice on how to cargo cult one of Google's management techniques from somebody who used to be middle-management at Zynga.

@lightdark yeah, I have a hard time buying that this is about money. It might be a factor, but 70 people is a pretty small portion of the budget.

This reminds me that despite being a diehard firefox user, I don't really provide them much financial support. This is partly a side effect of the dual org structure, but on the commercial side the few products I could buy all rub me the wrong way.

I made a resolution to provide more financial support for things I use, so I should investigate this again, but they don't make it easy.

A host-less version of peertube (free from takedowns) with communities built around curation, reviews and discussion (to drown out the inevitable garbage).

@celesteh it's almost like kids are born with a healthy, rational fear of authority figures in uniforms carrying weapons and have to have it trained out of them...

@gcupc the transitive property of cancellation is also super relevant to fedi. I'm leaving my instance over it.

Ah, yes, devops. For when programming alone doesn't expose you to enough half-baked, under-documented tooling and you need more tech rage in your diet.

@djsundog bring back gopher in 2020

@ceejbot and yet, just like 10X engineers, anybody can be a .1X engineer with the right manager...

@FloatingGhost Yeah, it's rough. But where I stalled out was getting the masto front-end to play nice with the server. Federation was next on the list.

I'm not much of a react dev, and masto's react is extra spicy. Much like the rails code, which is why we tended to rely on pleroma for reverse-engineering instead.