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j1elo commented on Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped   tilschuenemann.de/project... · Posted by u/tilschuenemann
consumer451 · 2 days ago
I have a dumb question: What if we put a simple password in front of every website that everyone knew, like "password". Upon click of login, the user agrees to the terms of service which exclude all automatic scraping.

I know this is a dumb idea, but I would love to know exactly why.

j1elo · 2 days ago
Law is only as useful as your ability to enforce it. Would you have the legal means (and will) to go after a random foreigner who still scraped ypur site after accepting the terms? Multiply by 1,000 times a day.
j1elo commented on Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped   tilschuenemann.de/project... · Posted by u/tilschuenemann
yjftsjthsd-h · 2 days ago
Simple solution: Screenshot it, then ask your AI of choice to read that:)

(Or use any other OCR solution you like; I've got a prototype that takes a screenshot and runs it through tesseract.)

j1elo · 2 days ago
That's funny :)

We'll come full-circle when web authors provide custom-made glasses to decipher their sites, as the plain rendering will be obfuscated to prevent OCR too.

j1elo commented on Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped   tilschuenemann.de/project... · Posted by u/tilschuenemann
j1elo · 2 days ago
That's cool. Hopefully you never post any remotely interesting, because in my very human 2010's way of doing things, I cannot even select and copy some text to my personal notes.

This goes well beyond accessibility and bots. I guess the Reader mode, a basic web browser feature meant precisely to read articles, wasn't an expected use case either?

j1elo commented on Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?   npr.org/2025/12/12/g-s1-1... · Posted by u/pseudolus
j1elo · 3 days ago
What's up with train services reliability in Europe? In my european corner here, I always have to give this advice to people who are new to the city: do NOT use the commute train ever if the deadline is serious and absolute (you got a work interview, a flight, a funeral). Trains get stopped in the middle of the trip, get delayed, or get cancelled all the time!

The solution is to lose even more of your time (as if public transport wasn't slow enough already) and be at the station already for the previous schedule of what you'd ideally need to take. But at that point, sometimes it's just better to go a longer route by subway, or if traffic is not bad, go ahead by car for those occasions.

j1elo commented on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days   letsencrypt.org/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/abraham
j1elo · 15 days ago
Cert lifetimes are such a burden. I wanted to provide pre-configured server examples of my WebRTC project, something that was download-and-run without any more prior knowledge (an important point), which users could access from their LAN e.g. to test the examples from their phones (not from the useless localhost exemption that exists for secure contexts), for which a self-signed cert embedded in the examples was fine. New users could run them, new concepts (such as security and certificate management in production apps) could be learned at an apropriate time.

Until web browsers started to believe that no, that was too much of a convenience, so now long expiration certs became rejected. What's the proposed solution from the "industry"? to run a whole automation pipeline just to update a file in each example folder every few months? bonkers. These should be static examples, no reason to having to update those any earlier than every few years, at most.

j1elo commented on I built a faster Notion in Rust   imedadel.com/outcrop/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
alabhyajindal · 22 days ago
I used to be very against closed source products but changed my mind recently. One of the founders of Obsidian makes some great points here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...
j1elo · 22 days ago
> From what I see of the pricing options in your business model, having your code released under a FOSS licence would make no difference to how you make money.

Except that making their client FOSS would help a lot to replicate the APIs and create a FOSS server, which would definitely make a difference on how they make money.

j1elo commented on Two minutes on a porch, a misunderstanding and a gunshot killed a house cleaner   adn.com/nation-world/2025... · Posted by u/rolph
j1elo · 25 days ago
Say some young folk is coming back home very wasted after a good night party, and mistakes his house. The fact that it depends on the good or bad judgement of his neighbor to end up dead that night, is objectively not something that makes society better. Why are people even allowed to wield a gun without due process and frequent psycho-technical test evaluations? (so as to not get into the "why at all" question). My instinct here (as a non-american) is that if you're allowing citizens to have firearms, it ought at least to be only for those best prepared to evaluate conditions and situations, not anyone who's been watching YouTube videos as a poor-man's replacement for proper training.
j1elo commented on Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)   raymii.org/s/tutorials/Fi... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
caymanjim · a month ago
It's unclear to me why running Docker directly in Proxmox (it's just Debian) and using it like any other Docker host is a bad idea, and why this extra layer of abstractions is preferable.

Docker has security issues if you're not careful, and it's frankly kind of a shitshow out of the box with defaults. Maybe that's part of the reason. But I struggle to see how a bespoke solution like this is the right answer.

j1elo · 25 days ago
What about running Docker inside a Proxmox LXC container? Is that a common practice? Intuitively doing that would have a lower baseline resource usage than using a full-blown VM for Docker containers.
j1elo commented on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker   wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0... · Posted by u/a-fadil
paxys · 25 days ago
> Wealthfolio does not currently support integration with online brokers or aggregators. Data must be imported from CSV files or by manually entering transactions.

This is unfortunately going to be the deal breaker for wide adoption. Self hosting is great, but manually importing data from dozens of accounts every day and entering every single transaction as you make it is simply too much of a burden.

j1elo · 25 days ago
Maybe the license structure could allow for proprietary extensions. I don't think there would be many people willing to put the work of writing many deep and good quality integrations with banks for free.
j1elo commented on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker   wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0... · Posted by u/a-fadil
jryio · 25 days ago
For those interested in this type of single entry accounting (and by extension double entry)

Here are some other ones I've tried and used in the past:

https://copilot.money

https://lunchmoney.app

https://ynab.com

https://beancount.io

https://hledger.org

j1elo · 25 days ago
But why one or the other? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a curated list of suggestions, but it would really be useful to have some tips or comments on the experience of each one, their shortcomings or advantages. Otherwise, it's not much better than just checking out a list of names from Google :)

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