[HN Gopher] Little Data: How do we query personal data? (2013)
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Little Data: How do we query personal data? (2013)
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 20 points
Date : 2024-02-29 03:32 UTC (1 days ago)
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| hmartin wrote:
| I'm a fan on simonw's datasette/dogsheep ecosystem
| https://datasette.io/
| zrail wrote:
| :wave: OP author here! I still haven't found any decent answers
| to the questions from that post, but I think if I were going to
| make another concerted effort I would absolutely start with
| datasette.
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| Edit: link to the original HN thread with a bunch of
| interesting comments
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718422
| breck wrote:
| It's interesting to see the founders in that thread
| mentioning their cracks at it. All seem to be dead now except
| for HumanAPI (which looks like was acquired by Lexis Nexis).
| hellorashid wrote:
| love it - another relevant project: https://www.mainframe.so/ -
| its a bit finicky when i tried, but interesting.
| mjwhansen wrote:
| Interesting...
| kkfx wrote:
| On personal data, meaning data I control, I have most of my
| digital life in org-mode, from videos (clickable links running
| mplayer against the relevant files) to mails (notmuch:/notmuch-
| search: links) passing from pdfs and mere text notes. For data I
| do not really control I simply suffer.
|
| My banks offer horrible MANUAL ways to export transactions, two
| are supported by woob, but it's still a painful crappy situation
| especially since I'm in EU so they all have OpenBank APIs between
| them by law (similar to USA OFX feeds) BUT the laws does not
| mandate opening the access to individual customers and so ALL
| banks I know in EU choose not to give their customer OpenBank
| access... There are some companies offer VERY expensive OpenBank
| access, that's simply too expensive to be an option, so well... I
| use BeanCount and fava from org-mode notes, but mostly done by
| hand with templates (Emacs hydras + yasnippet).
|
| Fiscal stuff are even worse, both Italian and French public
| administrations have horrific and next-to-be-unusable porcals
| (portals are another thing), automation is somewhat possible, if
| the Citizen want do read obscene XML specifications that change
| frequently enough to break simple automation, making such
| automation no less painful than manual work.
|
| My favorite supermarket offer tickets and invoices from drive via
| it's portal, unfortunately they are ONLY very crappily formatted
| pdfs, so parsing them is a painful exercise, with multi-line
| entries, hard to get tables and so on.
|
| My utilities have pdfs bills, no options for csv/xml or something
| else. In Italy e-invoicing is mandatory, invoices are in XML,
| often wrapped in a .p7m envelope to be signed, so I can formally
| automate them with eventual openssl, xsltproc (apply the xsl
| style to get and html version, and wkhtmltopdf to get a pdf for
| human reading and from the xml munging the automated part.
| Well... Specifications are so horrible that it's simpler (since I
| do not have many, living in France) to go by hand instead...
|
| My hostings thankfully offer XML and CSV for essentially
| anything, one also offer a Python library to interact with their
| invoicing system programmatically.
|
| My IoT setup is an HA mess, too time consuming to manage it
| properly outside the HA mess.
|
| Long story short IF modern IT were designed for the user we would
| have good automation and comfort, unfortunately it's not. So we
| suffer since decades, even if most simple automation was there
| since the '70s from EDIFACTS and beyond...
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