Post · bonfire.cafe

Oh, why am I spending my morning looking through the source code of a Chrom(ium) extension that clicks OK buttons repeatedly, you ask?

Because I have about 1,000 transactions from Stripe from our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal to reconcile in Xero and apparently the galaxy brains at Big Business, Inc., think that making you click a button 1,000 times is just fine, actually.

Fucking capitalists can’t even do capitalism right.

*smdh*

#xero #capitalism #usability #design #BigTech #business #accounting #money #bullshit

Screenshot detail of code:

function match_statement(matched, statement){
//get reference id from xero
var id_set = null;
var set_spans = matched.querySelectorAll('.c0 .details span');
if(set_spans.length > 0){
var i;
for(i=0; i < set_spans.length; i++) {
if(id_set=set_spans[i].textContent.match(id_set_regex)){
id_set = id_set[1];
if(id_set){break;}
}
}
}
if(!id_set){return false;}

var id_rec = null;
var rec_spans = statement.querySelectorAll(".statement.no-shadow div.info div.line-details span");
if(rec_spans.length > 0) {
… — Screenshot detail of code: function match_statement(matched, statement){ //get reference id from xero var id_set = null; var set_spans = matched.querySelectorAll('.c0 .details span'); if(set_spans.length > 0){ var i; for(i=0; i < set_spans.length; i++) { if(id_set=set_spans[i].textContent.match(id_set_regex)){ id_set = id_set[1]; if(id_set){break;} } } } if(!id_set){return false;} var id_rec = null; var rec_spans = statement.querySelectorAll(".statement.no-shadow div.info div.line-details span"); if(rec_spans.length > 0) { …

Andy Wootton

@woo@fosstodon.org replied · 5 days ago

@aral They don't see 'doing things right' as their responsibility. They think they can buy-in the skills to do everything they can't do, which is almost everything. We could refuse to sell.

Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

@jackyan@mastodon.social replied · 6 days ago

@aral Would this be a Stripe issue or a Xero one? If the latter, the founder is a friend of mine and I can pass things on.

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied · 6 days ago

@jackyan PS. This is the extension I’m using: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xero-reconcile-robot/omchihoemeblabnbpbamimnopopfllfi

The source of my download looks straightforward and fine but exposing your Xero account to a browser extension is not great, especially for something this trivial (how many people are going to audit the source of that extension or the many others before they run it?)