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prplhaz4··on Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
The containerise extension has pulled in most of the features of temporary containers and is still semi actively maintained.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/

https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

prplhaz4··on Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System
There is also a live demo available. It sounds like soon the admin features will be exposed too. https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable/
prplhaz4··on Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System
Jellyfin is also a dlna media server, so even devices that don't have an official client can still access your content in a pinch.
prplhaz4··on Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System
Jellyfin also functions as a dlna media server so might be enough to get the job done (depending on what you're using it for). I use Jellyfin dlna with my Samsung TV to stream OTA, iptv, ipcams, movies and recorded TV. I have a bunch of other devices in the house that can access it this way as well.
prplhaz4··on Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System
There's also fairly complete documentation on setting up a number of reverse proxies if you're considering port forwarding: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/reverse-pro...
prplhaz4··on Sparkpost breaks promise to grandfather free accounts, deletes own blog posts
since this twitter link does not seem valid, this topic should probably be merged...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448800

That being said, searching "sparkpost" on twitter today does yield some fun results...

prplhaz4··on Sparkpost Email Bait-and-Switch
These guys seem to be the best of what remains, depending on your use case...here's the results of my quick analysis...

sendgrid - supports campaigns and tracking/analytics - https://sendgrid.com/pricing/

mailgun - less support for marketing features, supports inbound email processing - https://www.mailgun.com/pricing

prplhaz4··on Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
Charles is an http proxy only - it does not capture any other protocols. Good for general app debugging, but did not fit the bill when I recently tried to dig into traffic coming out of my shady ip camera.

I recently used this method (wireshark/windows) [1] with the cam vendors app on an old iPhone to get more insight into what was going on (particularly outside the HTTP space).

[1]https://blog.jjhayes.net/wp/2019/02/28/capture-iphone-networ...

prplhaz4··on Build your own Mint
Again, it's dependent on your bank's support. OFX helps by not requiring remote storage of your online banking credentials.

Direct Connect - Your customer ID and password are not stored on Quicken servers. If you choose to use the Quicken Password Vault, we encrypt them on your computer's hard drive.

Express/Quicken Connect - Your login credentials are stored on Quicken-hosted servers. This makes updates faster for you.

https://www.quicken.com/support/how-quicken-connects-your-ba...

prplhaz4··on Build your own Mint
The finance industry mainly uses OFX as the standard for online access to statements/transaction downloads (as does quicken, QuickBooks and gnucash...etc). Some banks do not support it and others go through aggregators to provide access.

You are doing people a huge disservice by identifying the companies you listed as "the finance industry". They are scraping data (in most cases against TOS) and exposing it as a paid API service.

It's a terrible state of affairs that easy access to ownership of this critical data is so hard to come by and has essentially forced people to give up their most valuable credentials to in a lot of cases unknown or untrustworthy parties.

At least mint has partnered with some banks that actually provide supported APIs for transaction data (Chase), but that is so far from the norm right now it makes me queasy.

prplhaz4··on Measuring the memory usage of popular web apps
I use the uBlock origin badge in my browser as a proxy for making page judgements - I avoid revisiting sites with a high number (>5?) of blocked elements...
prplhaz4··on MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
The last update of the first post says that this was fixed in v1.10.0, and the release notes concur: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-E...
prplhaz4··on Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
The two biggest drawbacks of Caseta for me were the vendor lock-in, and the cheap feeling switches.

With Z-wave you can pick your hub and devices. If things don't work how you want out of the box, chances are someone has already written the code you need for whatever hub you're using. If not, you can write it yourself.

I am currently using (and pretty happy with) all GE switches with SmartThings hub (soon Vera?), Schlage Locks, Visonic door sensors, Ecobee Thermostats and Harmony remotes for control/automation overrides.

prplhaz4··on PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1 Released
Dependency Injection: http://www.phptherightway.com/#dependency_injection
prplhaz4··on PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1 Released
http://www.phptherightway.com/ attempts to do just that - can't vouch for its effectiveness, but is a resource that was at least updated for PHP 7...

https://github.com/codeguy/php-the-right-way

prplhaz4··on .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications
There has been active public development on ReactXP [1] for months now. It supposedly works with React-Native and React-Native-[Windows|macos].

Considering the amount of work being done in public on React-Native-Windows [2], it looks like this is turning into one of their (intended or not) version of cross-platform (using web technologies) dev stack.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

prplhaz4··on LG launches open-source version of webOS
I'm not an active user of either, but have been following this story since the HP Touchpad firesale.

The LuneOS project seems to be more of a viable spiritual successor to WebOS than WebOS itself, and has been under slow but active development since the split.

It is based on modern and open projects (where possible), with an android compatibility layer which should hopefully reduce app gap issues.

http://webos-ports.org/wiki/Main_Page

prplhaz4··on A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line
But doesn't a business have to, at some point, meet a minimum level of efficiency to still be viable? Do subsidies and mandates make up for all that slack?
prplhaz4··on A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line
These are some massive sub-assemblies being carted all over the world...it's surprising to me that there aren't more localized efficiencies, or that this global Lego set doesn't always have more missing pieces than its worth.

    Rear Fuselage: Hamburg, Germany
    Vertical Stabilizer: Stade, Germany
    Forward Fuselage: Saint-Nazaire, France
    Wings: Broughton, Wales
    Engines: Middletown, Connecticuit
    Final Assembly: Mobile, Alabama
prplhaz4··on Gmail – some users being signed out of their accounts unexpectedly
No surprise that I've only heard about this by reading it on HN, despite the fact that I had this problem yesterday. I consider it an operational failure when customers are the first ones to identify issues, double fail when they are not proactively made aware of issues that WILL affect them.

Like others, I also had a moment of extreme panic where I thought something had been compromised, as it also seems to have coincided with an issue where Google Voice SMSes (2FA) were not going through.

prplhaz4··on Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
They lead with this, which is probably why others aren't considered...

>> both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population

prplhaz4··on Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Superchargers
This will be a great social experiment...even more so when there are 500k Model 3s around, competing with the Model S/X crowd for the same superchargers.

Paying $10 for an extra 20 mins to finish their coffee may be worth it to someone in a $100k Model S, less likely for a $40k Model 3...

prplhaz4··on Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library
Emby has this capability and it seems pretty flexible...good for the "kids have their own library" use case...

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Users

prplhaz4··on De-Googleify Internet
I'd say the "better-ness" of Google services these days is strictly the fact that everyone already uses them (which is critical for something like instant messaging). Individually they are (IMO) no better than most alternatives. Unless I'm real serious about a certain tool, the one I already have is the one I'm likely to start using - and most of the adult internet right now probably already has a Google account - and I'm pretty sure the kids are still signing up w/them, so no end in sight here...
prplhaz4··on Plex’s new Kodi plugin
Thanks - I may have to give it another look...went with Emby for my streaming needs, but it's starting to feel a little naggy...
prplhaz4··on Plex’s new Kodi plugin
There is a ton of overlap in the functionality of Plex and Kodi - what are the benefits (or the primary use case) of running both this way?
prplhaz4··on Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account
I just searched this thread, the site, and github...Here's the best I've found...apparently it supports saving attachments...

https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/73 >> Users asked about attachments. Put somewhere in the doc that they are saved.

prplhaz4··on 8M GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB
Well, kinda, but based on the examples given, the data also includes assessments and assumptions about you presumably based on the aggregated information that is available.

They appear to be building recruiting profiles of github users based on their public GH profile and commit info.

prplhaz4··on Fix Windows 10 Privacy
I don't mind being part of the solution, I just wish it were clear what trials I was participating in ,and had the ability to opt out if it didn't feel right...
prplhaz4··on Fix Windows 10 Privacy
All of this "help" for "fixing" Windows 10 privacy issues seems to be based on the "don't worry, I know best" method rather than actual facts explaining the effect each of the items being disabled.

I like using Cortana and Windows Store apps. I like being able to provide bug reports when something hangs.

I don't like the idea of any data going to the mothership that doesn't have an obvious effect on my day to day computing. I'm especially leery of anything that requires (arbitrarily defined) personal information.

I also don't have time to research every one of these registry keys or policies...soooo...thanks for doing some of the work!

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