notarobot123 (u/notarobot123)

notarobot123 commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar

lsd85 · 8 days ago

I just can't authorize an app to have full control on my phone if it's not open-source.

What guarantee do I have that you are not selling all my user data?

notarobot123 · 8 days ago

What guarantees do you have that open source code faithfully reflects what is in the compiled binary?

notarobot123 commented on SaaS Is Dead shayne.dev/blog/saas-is-d... · Posted by u/mooreds

notarobot123 · 12 days ago

I don't think this is likely to be a real issue in the grand scheme of things.

SaaS customers pay for a product that provides a workflow and a structure for solving their problem without them having to think too hard about a solution. They are outsourcing the problem-solving work, not just the programming effort.

If you must worry, you should be thinking about the new wave of competitors and copycats using LLMs to replace their programming effort. They are the ones coming to eat your lunch if you don't have a defensible market position.

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notarobot123 commented on Weathering Software Winter (2022) 100r.co/site/weathering_s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

notarobot123 · 15 days ago

I respect this attempt to create something principled, small and self-contained. Uxn is great as a "toy" system or a teaching resource but also as something that contributes to the diversity of ideas of what computing is/can be.

I'm skeptical about some kind of catastrophic disaster that makes popular technologies inaccessible (the pandemic demonstrated our strong impulse towards business-as-usual even when the world is burning) but having ecosystems that aren't as vulnerable to corporate capture and exploitation seems valuable in its own right.

notarobot123 commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10

glimshe · 24 days ago

I believe that AI can't ever replace direct human contact. But I'm not so sure if a good AI can't replace superficial online-only friendships. Looking at the bulk of my online interactions (outside forums like this one), they largely end in trivia (did you know...) or low effort agreement. An AI could play that role admirably.

notarobot123 · 24 days ago

Isn't that more of a comment about the quality of weak-tie networks that exist on internet scale web platforms?

The rise of private group chats as the new lifeblood of social networking gives me hope that the state of the Web today isn't the end of the story. Authentic human connection across digital networks is still possible even if it isn't particularly common right now.

We need new protocols.

notarobot123 commented on The AI age is the "age of no consent" productpicnic.beehiiv.com... · Posted by u/BallsInIt

SilverElfin · 25 days ago

> We’re in the age of no consent. A time where everyday people have to follow the rules, but AI companies and AI toolmen do not.

I wonder if this is how it always was, with elites and non elites, except now it’s all just in the open.

notarobot123 · 25 days ago

Except this generation's elite are mostly divorced from history and tradition and lack a sense of noblesse oblige. The worlds moving fast enough for things to be different this time - or so the thinking goes.

notarobot123 commented on No AI Content eclecticlight.co/2025/07/... · Posted by u/frizlab

Mk2000 · a month ago

I feel like we're going though an evolution of the web, and no matter what we do, it's going to happen. The web is going to change (for better or worse) or die, and there's nothing we can do about it. The web killed printed media to a large degree and AI will do the same, Resistance is futile!

notarobot123 · a month ago

Printed media, radio and television are still very much alive and well, just not as big as they once were. We've past peak Web but it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

We do need new protocols though.

As a social network the web is collapsing but it is entirely possible that a new kind of internet could emerge in its place. After all, routing around damage is part of the essence of the Internet.

notarobot123 commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired

notarobot123 · a month ago

Who do you trust more with your data: an advertising funded platform or a data hungry app?

The whole ecosystem is compromised. We need new protocols.

notarobot123 commented on The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious xn--gckvb8fzb.com/tabs-vs... · Posted by u/ChiptuneIsCool

notarobot123 · a month ago

The original "tabulator" key was intended to save time and effort aligning text with spaces. With the ubiquity of decent IDEs that objective is unnecessary.

I think there is a reasonable argument about the distinct semantic value of tabs but they introduce a concept that the general public think is superfluous when two spaces do the trick.

Words can become obsolete if there are other more commonly understood ways of expressing the same thing. This seems similar.

notarobot123 commented on CEO of Ghost CMS silenced an independent publication that dared to criticize forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-c... · Posted by u/letter_mg

notarobot123 · a month ago

I'm starting to think that marketing products as open-source introduces a liability:

> Open-Source Myth: Despite being marketed as open-source, Ghost restricts open discussion in forums, often editing or removing user posts, and provides no clarity on upcoming releases or feature development...

OSS has come to be associated with an incredibly high-bar of community engagement and an expectation for open and transparent participation. Maybe the term has just gathered too much baggage at this point to be worth shouting about when talking to the general public.

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