Made in Canada Grocery Store Guide | Made in CA by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's what my tool is working towards! It uses OpenFoodFacts data. Right now you can manually type in the UPC codes to search

https://lemmy.ca/post/38474037

https://isitcanadian.cynber.dev/product-search

I put together a tool that lets you check where an item is from, and then search for Canadian alternatives. Looking for feedback, and I'm open to working with others to make this better! by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Could you share which link? They seem to be working for me.

I was having DNS issues when setting it up, which could be related

https://madeinca.ca/

This is great! I might remove the blog section and focus on the search functionality, since there are a lot of these compilations/guides already.

I put together a tool that lets you check where an item is from, and then search for Canadian alternatives. Looking for feedback, and I'm open to working with others to make this better! by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm also planning to set up a community on this instance project, if there is enough interest for it. I didn't make the commuinity yet because I haven't settled on a name. I mentioned those plans here:

https://isitcanadian.cynber.dev/community

198
I put together a tool that lets you check where an item is from, and then search for Canadian alternatives. Looking for feedback, and I'm open to working with others to make this better! (isitcanadian.cynber.dev)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
14 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/38473938

I spent last night putting together this tool. You can try it out here: https://isitcanadian.cynber.dev/product-search

Some barcodes that you can try with:

  • 0673513001507
  • 0013000052528

It lets you search for a product by the barcode, and then using the Open Food Facts database, it will tell you where the product is from (origin of ingredients, location of manufacturing / processing, and where it is sold). You can then search for Canadian alternatives.

It uses the categories of the item to search for similar items in the database, and filters out items that aren't Canadian in at least one of the ways above. You can further filter by those categories or by origin and manufacturing / processing location.

I chose Open Food Facts because it is an existing open source initiative, run by a non-profit, and already has lots of data. When a product is missing or incorrect, you can contribute it with their mobile app. This has the added benefit of improving the data for everyone, and there's a lot more there than just the country of origin.

Some things I'd like to do:

  • Ability to search by name, not just barcode
  • Ability to scan a barcode instead of typing it in / pasting it
  • Gather articles and compilations from community members since the search alone would be tedious
  • Go through the mess I made of the code while trying to do it all in one night

I hope it's helpful, and I'd love to hear feedback. It's open source so if you want to contribute, you can find the code here: https://github.com/cynber/is-it-canadian

I'll be back again tonight to respond to comments and feedback. Thanks you!

0
I put together a tool that lets you check where an item is from, and then search for Canadian alternatives. Looking for feedback, and I'm open to working with others to make this better! (isitcanadian.cynber.dev)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink

I spent last night putting together this tool. You can try it out here: https://isitcanadian.cynber.dev/product-search

Some barcodes that you can try with:

  • 0673513001507
  • 0013000052528

It lets you search for a product by the barcode, and then using the Open Food Facts database, it will tell you where the product is from (origin of ingredients, location of manufacturing / processing, and where it is sold). You can then search for Canadian alternatives.

It uses the categories of the item to search for similar items in the database, and filters out items that aren't Canadian in at least one of the ways above. You can further filter by those categories or by origin and manufacturing / processing location.

I chose Open Food Facts because it is an existing open source initiative, run by a non-profit, and already has lots of data. When a product is missing or incorrect, you can contribute it with their mobile app. This has the added benefit of improving the data for everyone, and there's a lot more there than just the country of origin.

Some things I'd like to do:

  • Ability to search by name, not just barcode
  • Ability to scan a barcode instead of typing it in / pasting it
  • Gather articles and compilations from community members since the search alone would be tedious
  • Go through the mess I made of the code while trying to do it all in one night

I hope it's helpful, and I'd love to hear feedback. It's open source so if you want to contribute, you can find the code here: https://github.com/cynber/is-it-canadian

I'll be back again tonight to respond to comments and feedback. Thanks you!

69
Crab Fit, an open source tool for group event planning (similar to When2Meet) (crab.fit)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19327950

I'm not the developer. I came across it and I thought it was neat.

Repository: github.com/GRA0007/crab.fit

Align your schedules to find the perfect time that works for everyone. Open-source and licensed under the GNU GPLv3.

Self-hosting guide

67
Crab Fit, an open source tool for group event planning (similar to When2Meet) (crab.fit)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink

I'm not the developer. I came across it and I thought it was neat.

Repository: github.com/GRA0007/crab.fit

Align your schedules to find the perfect time that works for everyone. Open-source and licensed under the GNU GPLv3.

Self-hosting guide

20
FOSS Android apps that can view webpages offline? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink

Firefox doesn't seem to do support it currently. Chrome and Brave do come up as options

I'm using a documentation framework that supports offline builds. It works well across browsers on desktop, but it's not great on mobile.

Any recommendations?

19
What's a good way to map bathrooms/showers/water fountains? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
14 comments fedilink

I don't see an option to enter that info on StreetComplete or EveryDoor, and it would be hard to open your laptop every time

This was specific to a university campus, to try and map out the amenities available to the public / to students

Me and my new GitHub repository by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was chatting with a friend, and she mentioned how she tries to at least set up a README, which includes her vision for the project and her plan for the implementation, design, and goals.

Best case scenario is that the planning helps her complete the project herself. Worst case scenario, someone else can pick up where she left off and use her considerations for the project.

I'm thinking of doing that for future projects too

1
~~Going to start working on this again soon!~~ Thank you to everyone that has continued to suggest features, leave reviews, and the very generous tips/donations ๐Ÿ’› (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink

Apologies for not actually putting anything out in months

55
Simplest solution for fragmented communities: Redirect comments to one post (by asking or with new functionality) (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
27 comments fedilink

EDIT: Thank you for all the great responses! I agree that a forced implementation is no longer the way to go. I've left the post as is, aside from this comment, in case anyone wanted to reference part of it. At this point, I think implementation 1 (Sincere Request) is the way to go if anything.

I've seen a few of these posts, some with really cool solutions, but a lot of them are difficult to implement, or complicated for casual users to understand. Here is my proposal on how we can coordinate communities that share the same topic, while also keeping the spirit of federation.

This post has some general thoughts on why I think this is the best solution. It also has some possible implementations, including a trivial one that works already without any automod or code changes.

General Thoughts

This talks about why I think this is a better solution. Feel free to skip to 'proposed solutions'.

Leave vote counts alone:

  • Some proposals talk about sending vote totals to the original post or having all cross posts share a total vote count. This leads to issues since larger communities can manipulate which posts show up, and it creates an incentive for users to spam posts to unrelated communities. This also might lead to implementation issues, where the vote counts don't properly federate out. It's also confusing for casual users, and it takes power away from individual communities to decide if a particular post is relevant or not.
  • With all that in mind, I also don't see much of a benefit in playing with the vote counts. It might be better to leave them alone.

What are the issues we're trying to address

  • Comment threads are disjointed. Users need to open up multiple posts to see what is being discussed. With small communities, a few users are just talking into the void. This issue is addressed.
  • Can't see relevant content without subscribing to multiple communities. While this can be seen as a downside, I think it has an added benefit because each community can decide if a post is relevant or not. Forcing posts into one community may lead to other drama with linking/unlinking, and it's very confusing for casual users to figure out who's actually going to see a particular post if it automatically appears pops up in other communities.
  • Scrolling past multiple identical crossposts in a row. My proposal doesn't address this directly, but it may offer a way for apps and frontends to deal with them.

Proposed Solutions

The general premise here is:

  1. User makes a post in community A
  2. User makes crossposts in communities B, C, and D
  3. Posts in communities B, C, and D are locked, with a link to the post in community A
  4. If someone wants to make a comment about the content, they can do so in the main post in community A

Benefits

  • User can pick which community to have the comments appear in. They can base this on rules, moderation style, or if they want to promote a niche community
  • Everyone else is free to upvote/downvote the posts independently

Issues that need to be addressed:

  • A malicious user can post a scam or misleading content, and then lock the post with no easy way for people to call it out. While this can be reported to moderators, people may fall victim to it before the post is removed and the user is banned. Simply checking for a redirected post isn't enough because a user can make that post be on an instance/community they control, and remove comments calling out the content.

Implementations

  1. Sincere Request: After making a post, the user can paste in a standard comment asking people to comment in the linked post.
  • Doesn't require any code changes and you can start doing this right now
  • Relies on commenters listening to the request
  • somewhat silly, but this is the easiest implementation

  1. Automod locks top level comments: After making a post, the user can leave a comment to trigger automod.
  • automod will prevent any top level comments, but still allow replies to the original comment.
  • requires updates to core lemmy for partial locks, or for an admin level bot that can remove comments from posts based on characteristics

  1. Automod locks post entirely: After making a post, the user can leave a comment to trigger automod.
  • automod will lock the post entirely, and leave a comment on how to deal with issues
  • anyone can message automod with a link to the post, and have it be unlocked to discuss issues
  • doesn't require updates to core lemmy, but it does require an admin level bot

___

1
Test Post for proposed fix (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink

Post contents

6
Instance Assistant v1.2.6 is out - Redirect user profile pages (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6770347

This is a very small update, but hopefully it's helpful! As I mentioned in the last update, I'm a little tied up with other commitments right now, so I haven't had a chance to implement the other features on the to-do list. This one was requested the other day, and it was simple to add since I could reuse a lot of existing code.

Links:

โ“ What is Instance Assistant?

If you're new to Instance Assistant, it is a browser extension with a collection of tools and features to simplify your browsing experience on Lemmy and Kbin. It is available on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge; you can also install it from the releases page on GitHub.

For a full list of features, please see the GitHub homepage: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

โญ What's new in v1.2.6?

  • Redirect user profile pages: When you want to message a user and click on their profile, you might end up on a foreign instance. To message them, you need to modify the URL or copy/paste. Instead, you will now find a little button to jump you to your home instance.

๐Ÿ’› Also

Thank you for all the suggestions and feedback! Like I said before, I'm really happy to see that people are using the extension and finding it useful. Please continue to make suggestions and contribute your expertise.

Cheers :)

1
Instance Assistant v1.2.6 is out - Redirect user profile pages (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6770347

This is a very small update, but hopefully it's helpful! As I mentioned in the last update, I'm a little tied up with other commitments right now, so I haven't had a chance to implement the other features on the to-do list. This one was requested the other day, and it was simple to add since I could reuse a lot of existing code.

Links:

โ“ What is Instance Assistant?

If you're new to Instance Assistant, it is a browser extension with a collection of tools and features to simplify your browsing experience on Lemmy and Kbin. It is available on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge; you can also install it from the releases page on GitHub.

For a full list of features, please see the GitHub homepage: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

โญ What's new in v1.2.6?

  • Redirect user profile pages: When you want to message a user and click on their profile, you might end up on a foreign instance. To message them, you need to modify the URL or copy/paste. Instead, you will now find a little button to jump you to your home instance.

๐Ÿ’› Also

Thank you for all the suggestions and feedback! Like I said before, I'm really happy to see that people are using the extension and finding it useful. Please continue to make suggestions and contribute your expertise.

Cheers :)

18
Instance Assistant v1.2.6 is out - Redirect user profile pages (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6770347

This is a very small update, but hopefully it's helpful! As I mentioned in the last update, I'm a little tied up with other commitments right now, so I haven't had a chance to implement the other features on the to-do list. This one was requested the other day, and it was simple to add since I could reuse a lot of existing code.

Links:

โ“ What is Instance Assistant?

If you're new to Instance Assistant, it is a browser extension with a collection of tools and features to simplify your browsing experience on Lemmy and Kbin. It is available on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge; you can also install it from the releases page on GitHub.

For a full list of features, please see the GitHub homepage: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

โญ What's new in v1.2.6?

  • Redirect user profile pages: When you want to message a user and click on their profile, you might end up on a foreign instance. To message them, you need to modify the URL or copy/paste. Instead, you will now find a little button to jump you to your home instance.

๐Ÿ’› Also

Thank you for all the suggestions and feedback! Like I said before, I'm really happy to see that people are using the extension and finding it useful. Please continue to make suggestions and contribute your expertise.

Cheers :)

*Permanently Deleted* by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We're actually working on a browser extension for this! It currently supports both communities and posts

[email protected]

We ran into the same issue, federated sites are hard to work with. Right now, the extension has it so that a user needs to right click on a link to be redirected. That way the user can choose which links get redirected, and there's no chance of accidentally redirecting the wrong thing.

There are other solutions (using the API for example), but they seemed to slow the browser down too much. Another proposed feature that hasn't been implemented yet was to redirect when holding down a key (when holding down "r", try to redirect the link).

Feel free to take a look, try it, and you can totally contribute code. It's all open source and we've tried to keep the code simple and easy to verify/contribute.

YSK that You can now generate posts for Lemmy/Kbin, search for posts, and redirect posts from foreign instances (with Instance Assistant v1.2.5) by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

That's fair, I've posted here in the past but I'll take it off my list moving forward. I think early on there wasn't much content so it was ok, but now that the community is rolling it's not that relevant

It's good feedback!

Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I don't agree with the solution the government came up with, but the problem still exists and I don't understand it well enough to come up with an alternative solution.

Making news is expensive, and good quality news (not mucked up by corporate interests) needs a way to fund that work. We don't want news to be an outlet for corporations investing in a mouthpiece. So traditionally this was done through advertising.

Now people barely ever click through to the websites so the advertising doesn't work. Meanwhile the places where people ARE seeing the news do have ads. The content is produced by one party, and the profit goes to another.

The problem exists and needs a solution, but I don't know what it might be. Australia brought in a similar law successfully and Facebook/Google came to a deal. Canada might also be able to do that?

The other long term solution IMO is to make the platforms obsolete with things like Mastodon and Lemmy. That might take some time though

Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

Not really emergency notifications but news, which tbh isn't as important in this case because non-Canadian news orgs aren't affected and are covering it too. So there isn't an immediate risk I don't think.

As for the main point: The problem is that a subset of the population ONLY gets information through one platform. The only way to reach them is through that platform, and not reaching them means excess costs when you have to rescue/treat/otherwise deal with the fallout. It's also the government's job to inform people and keep them safe.

At the same time, the companies need to be regulated by the government. Can't just let them have free reign because they seized control

GitHub is slowly rolling in 2FA. Any good open source apps that will enable me to activate 2FA token on android? by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Yep, it works perfectly

Bitwarden has it too, but eggs in one basket etc.

Does lemmy have flairs? by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

This is something that is probably better if implemented in Lemmy itself. It would be tied to a particular community, and it wouldn't need to cross over between instances.

If someone tried to make a browser extension for it, it would only appear for people using the same browser extension. Some third party apps have it like that, and it's not that helpful.

What's better for a browser extension / app to take on is cross-instance functionality, such as jumping between instances, having buttons / content in the UI, etc. I'm working on an extension for that ( [email protected] ), and while I really want flairs as well, I don't think it would be good for a browser extension.

Once it's implemented in Lemmy itself, then we could probably make it easier to add/remove/view/filter flairs using a browser extension.

Appreciation thread amidst other app hype by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I tried Sync for a bit, but I agree with the other posters that the pricing model is a little outrageous.

Have you considered adding a donation option through google play? I'm not sure what the process is like, but it might make it easier for people to donate.

Android users who don't use the stock launcher - what launcher do you use, and what do you like about it? by cynber in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I've been using Nova Launcher for years now, but I explored other options a few months ago because of the ownership change. Lawnchair was the best one I found, but I didn't switch to it because it looked like it was missing features I needed. Folders was an important one.

Which version / source are you using for the app? I got a bit lost trying to find a recent version. The last release on the GitHub is from 2018, and the last prerelease is from a year ago. There's also an issue for the folders which I was following, and it actually just went stale: https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/issues/2471

I also see Lawnchair2, but that looked like a fork or something

view more: next โ€บ

cynber

0 post score
0 comment score
joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
otter_sandbox
instance_assistant