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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 18:51:36 JST Aral Balkan

   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

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 18:57:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan Xero. They’ve known for at least 3 years: https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198/suggestions/44988634

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 18:57:13 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @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.

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 19:00:44 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @aral Let me see what I can do.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 19:00:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan Thanks :)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 19:02:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @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?)