Uber CLI

[Animats]

If you're going to draw lines with characters, use the line drawing characters. We have Unicode now.

I have a program which takes text files with ASCII line art and automatically turns them into text files with UNICODE line art.[1] I wrote this for some very old documents, but it's still useful.

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[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv/blob/master/src/Util/picf...

[userbinator]

We have Unicode now.

Not everyone and not everywhere, and depending on the font, the line-drawing characters may not be the same width as the others even if it's a monospace font (e.g. see https://blog.helftone.com/ascii-art-unicode/ ). The whole point of text files in things like RFCs is to be as portable as possible, and using Unicode somewhat defeats that point.

[amelius]

Very nice. Just one question: what if the host environment uses a large line height?

[mritun]

That argument to UberClient() looks like an API token. Did you mean to leave it in there for the world to use?

https://github.com/jaebradley/uber-cli/blob/master/src/servi...

[jaebradley]

Hey, I'm the author (thanks @zoodle for notifying me).

Obviously, this is a security issue that is pretty much bottom-of-the-barrel-shitty.

My explanation is that I didn't feel like standing up a middleware service to direct traffic through in order to obfuscate the server token. Especially for a tool that I anticipated being used by pretty much only me.

Not a satisfying answer, but thanks for exposing this security flaw - definitely going to add it to my project task queue.

[zoodle]

Not sure this was submitted by the original author. I forwarded a note to the repo owner pointing back here.

[chx]

Do tell me, why are you still using Uber? What needs to happen? Let's see: Weakening the rule of law by deliberately ignoring taxi legislation, that's not enough. Rebuilding indentured servitude via subprime mortgaged cars where the payment comes out of the drivers' wages, that's not enough. Launching self driving cars going again against regulations and putting cyclists in deadly danger, that's not enough. Treating women like shit, that's not enough. Stealing Google tech brazenly, that's not enough.

Tell me, what would be enough?

Sources for subprime loans: http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-and-its-shady-partners-are-... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-31/inside-ub... https://twitter.com/shashashasha/status/688734478181732352 Self driving shit: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self... the rest is either obvious or recent enough not to need a source.

[kiproping]

This is about Uber CLI not about your 'righteous' war against uber.

[arcticbull]

You could make the case that, since they have a -140% profit margin, the best way to hurt them is to use them all the time ^_^ Every $1.00 you give them costs them $2.40, every dollar you don't give them costs them nothing.

[WillySchu]

Using this, a command that will get your public IP, geo locate it, and then get an uber pickup time for those coordinates.

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com | xargs -I {} echo "ipinfo.io/"{} | xargs curl | grep loc | cut -d: -f2 | sed "s/,$//" | xargs uber time

[coderholic]

Nice ipinfo.io mashup! This whole part

    dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com | xargs -I {} echo "ipinfo.io/"{} | xargs curl | grep loc | cut -d: -f2 | sed "s/,$//"

can be simplified to

    curl ipinfo.io/loc

which gives you exactly the same information, per https://ipinfo.io/developers

But ip geolocation usually gives you city or zipcode level accuracy, which may or may not be good enough to get an accurate uber estimate depending on how big your city/zip area is.

[gruez]

too bad IP geolocation is pretty bad. if you're lucky you'll get the city correct but that's about it.

[randomsofr]

I thought everyone already deleted that app...

[donjh]

Everyone deleted the app, so we have to use the CLI now!

[consultutah]

I was just going to ask if this would let someone delete their account... ;) [EDIT] No, it doesn't support deleting accounts.

[jaytaylor]

I'd be more interested in this except for Lyft instead of uber.

Like many others, I'm done with the tire fire that is uber.

[lettersdigits]

And what if you fly somewhere outside the US ? still no Uber ?

[mahyarm]

Is there a way for this to grab your current location, so you don't have to type your address?

[arikrak]

Google maps makes it easy to see the estimated prices of Uber and other services.

[justinhensley]

The goal of this project is to be able to check it from the command line. So while you're at the computer, you can check it via CLI rather than opening a browser.

I think the authors intent was just for his own use and some fun.

[aduffy]

Great, just another thing I need to delete

[divanvisagie]

Well it's on npm so the Author will delete it once you become dependent on it.

[TeMPOraL]

If of the all evil things Uber has done since its inception it's the harassment of an employee that brings in the most attention, then something is seriously wrong with people.

[mixedCase]

Sure we can. What language are you going to use?