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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/pirhoo; my proof: https://keybase.io/pirhoo/sigs/v0oy-525vFboGsf-SouqszkUcRfF6t2g23r7a1MJ5LY ]
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pirhoo··on Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean
You mean like Postiz or Buffer?
pirhoo··on Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean
Since when it's a problem to showcase your work on HN? Also the service is free for the majority of users. Only big accounts have to pay because processing huge list is heavy.
pirhoo··on Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean
We love Bluesky! This tool is for people who like to clean up footprints of their online presence some time to time, no to get rid of it (no needs for a new tool for that).
pirhoo··on Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean
That was humoristic but I guess it's not obvious for everybody.
pirhoo··on Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean
Hi HN, I'm Pierre!

Byesky is a toolbox I created last year for cleaning up your Bluesky account, or erasing it altogether:

- Unfollow the accounts that don't follow you back, or unfollow everyone except the ones you lock

- Disappearing posts: tag a post #vanish (or #) and it gets deleted after a delay you pick

- Weekly auto-clean, and a list of who unfollowed you

- Nuke my account: deletes everything you ever created

- And more to come!

How it works: you log in with Bluesky's own OAuth (ATProto), so Byesky never sees your password. The web app only queues jobs. Background workers do the deleting, and when Bluesky's rate limit kicks in, a job pauses and picks up where it left off once the limit resets. A big account is tens of thousands of deletions, so a full cleaning tasks run for a long time with a progress screen.

The basics are free for accounts with up to 5,000 follows and followers.

To help me cover server costs, a Plus subscription (€3/month) covers bigger accounts and adds the heavier tools, including the nuke.

I'm finally doing a proper launch au the tool and I'd love feedback, especially from anyone who has left a social network and wished they'd had this!

pirhoo··on Tracking yachts owned by politicians to hold them accountable
Yachts owned by politicians and world leaders, tracking navigation data using AIS network to calculate carbon footprint.
pirhoo··on Do you pay the right rent? Compare all rents, all over Europe
This is a good idea. The project is still in progress so we can't exclude that US will be integrated somehow!
pirhoo··on Do you pay the right rent? Compare all rents, all over Europe
You're right, it does not appear clearly on this page. Only on the homepage. However the prices are in € and the per-city dashboard says clearly "We analysed thousands of flats all around Europe". Also the introducing video lives no room for doubt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7g69kXn_o
pirhoo··on Do you pay the right rent? Compare all rents, all over Europe
Hm weird, the API allows CORS https://github.com/jplusplus/rentswatch-api/blob/master/serv...
pirhoo··on Do you pay the right rent? Compare all rents, all over Europe
The data collection has to start somewhere! Why not in Europe?
pirhoo··on Do you pay the right rent? Compare all rents, all over Europe
The site punchline "All rents, all over Europe, in real time" seems pretty straightforward to me :)
pirhoo··on Tractatus Tree
From the homepage "This project is a personnal experimentation of how we can use a data-driven tools like D3.js to discover a Philosophy piece like the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung in its original name).

This book published in 1921 was written by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Its numbered propositions follows a tree structure, (1, then 1.1, 1.2 etc.) which made me think we could easily visualize it. Please note that this project is not an attempt to explain nor justify the book, I prefer to let you do that."