Hacker News: GingerMidas

New comment by GingerMidas in "My website is ugly because I made it"

GingerMidas — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:36:49 +0000

Self-important - sure, the author says as much themselves.

But how is it misguided? OP is having fun on their personal site. Where would you guide them instead?

New comment by GingerMidas in "Map with public fruit trees"

GingerMidas — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:32:21 +0000

This reminds me of the Stanford Gleaning Project

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=15Z25z2IyTYSzH0...

New comment by GingerMidas in "Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions"

GingerMidas — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:47:17 +0000

Okay let's charitably assume this PR for an Audit feature is completely unrelated to the Enterprise Audit feature introduced several months later.

The reviewers of the OSS code are still heavily incentivized to block this PR. Worse, if they knew a similar feature was being built for enterprise and this would never be merged into the free version, they be wasting months of contributors' time and effort.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions"

GingerMidas — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:35:14 +0000

You're missing the point, if this was just an unmerged PR no one would care.

But it's likely the paid Enterprise edition has merged this already, and now the same entity has an incentive to block this from the OSS version.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions"

GingerMidas — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:29:14 +0000

Hypothetically, if they never finish reviewing the PR, isn't that the same as "blocking"? Ghosting is still considered a rejection and arguably a much worse one.

New comment by GingerMidas in "StreetComplete OSM Contribution App Begins iOS Port"

GingerMidas — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:56:37 +0000

StreetComplete is outstanding app, and an iOS port will bring more contributors to places like the US. So happy to see this.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop"

GingerMidas — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:14:48 +0000

You took the libre bait, rookie mistake.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

GingerMidas — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:15:10 +0000

Makes sense - great work so far! This is easily the best looking PTA app I've seen.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

GingerMidas — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:10:23 +0000

> Do people who use this kind of software manually enter every transaction they do every day, or something?

Yes, exactly that. You can do automatic imports of your bank statements but that's arguably more hassle.

It takes 10 minutes at the end of my day to record all my transactions and it gives me a complete understanding of where my money is going.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

GingerMidas — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:05:46 +0000

Awesome! I've been using Beancount/Fava for over 2 years now and this looks really slick.

One thing off the bat I noticed, it doesn't look like custom Tags are supported? I use tags all the time in beancount, say to filter for a trip #trip-europe-2022 which would break down my cash flow and balances (and the rest of the fava UI) for a subset of transactions.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Fast machines, slow machines"

GingerMidas — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:04:19 +0000

Fully agree. When I was younger I used to care more about privacy, and would use nothing but FOSS apps and OSes no matter how much it inconvenienced me.

There's a significant opportunity cost for zealotry.

New comment by GingerMidas in "GPT-4"

GingerMidas — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:31:59 +0000

My AI career disaster plan is to immigrate to a country with a UBI

New comment by GingerMidas in "Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos"

GingerMidas — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 01:37:04 +0000

Eh, from the rest of the thread I don't think these 133t HN readers are the target audience anyway.

New comment by GingerMidas in "The Disappearance of the Ashtray"

GingerMidas — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:18:12 +0000

Not because of how violent and graphic, but because there's a chance the death is immediate. Cancer is always a long, long time away.

It's like saying if you put $100 in your 401k every month, there's a chance (equal to the number of new retirees) you instantly get $2M dollars.

Many more people would understand the immediate gain instead of the 30 year slog.

New comment by GingerMidas in "South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths'"

GingerMidas — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:43:20 +0000

DAE, LEFT=BAD all of the times?

New comment by GingerMidas in "Mac OS 9"

GingerMidas — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:27:45 +0000

Warcraft II actually plays, I wasn't expecting that.

New comment by GingerMidas in "Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad"

GingerMidas — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:49:16 +0000

I suspect it's more about value of returned items than the quantity. I have returned ~half of the items I purchased in the last year

New comment by GingerMidas in "Google added HEVC support in Chrome"

GingerMidas — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:11:03 +0000

Thanks, I like reading this stuff. But that link was 3.5 years ago

New comment by GingerMidas in "We’re adding barcodes to our regular stamps"

GingerMidas — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 03:58:40 +0000

Yeah, I prefer talking about the many illegal drugs you can fit into a stamped envelope.

New comment by GingerMidas in "DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open"

GingerMidas — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:17:15 +0000

Email is inherently insecure, I don't see how this is worse.