ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
Im quite hesistant with idea of AI writing my code. At one point your AI wont help you with fixing certain bug and you will have to go through all of this AI slop. Not to mention you deploy debt code.
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
there is this repo that lists some slopware :
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
maybe someone can add it -
Do you recommend an app?
The first three on this list can do it: https://joinjabber.org/docs/apps/android/
Explanation here: https://joinjabber.org/tutorials/service/unifiedpush/
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
Thanks for the heads up. I was considering tryingntfyfor some home projects but now I will not.
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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I meant to ask already: what is the actual technical difference between mqtt and ntfy? For me it feels pretty similar technique, just one is used for push service and the other not. So it feels like reinventing the wheel. Maybe somebody here can enlighten me?
I think the main difference is that services adapt to mqtt while nfty adapts to services to send the msgs.
Also, nfty offers push notifications on your Android device. -
According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
That's concerning. If it was "I generated a function with an LLM and reviewed it myself" I'd be much less concerned, but 14k added lines and 10k removed lines is crazy. We already know that LLMs don't generate up to scratch code quality...
I won't use PostgreSQL with ntfy, and keep an eye on it to see if they continue down this path for other parts of ntfy. If so I'll have to switch to another UP provider.
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
I'm assuming this is some sort of canary message to indicate that the code base has been compromised, the author can't talk about it, and everyone should immediately stop using the service. Surely no-one would be unwise enough to commit this otherwise?
Even ignoring the huge red LLM flag, a 25kLOC delta in a single PR should be cause for instant rejection as there's no way to fully understand or test it, let alone in 2-3 weeks.
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Gotify is supposedly a good alternative. Looking into it myself now.
Gotify is not UP compatible still AFAIK. That's why I went to ntfy.
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
Well now I certainly am glad I didn't migrate from Gotify as I've been slowly planning.
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Do you know any? I've never really looked beyond ntfy.sh until now
There's SunUp on F-droid, but I don't know anything about them.
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They are not even trusting it themselves. This is from the release notes
I'll not instantly switch ntfy.sh over. Instead, I'm kindly asking the community to test the Postgres support and report back to me if things are working
Fuck that.
Hmm, no, I think I'll just uninstall.
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
Damn, I guess I'll stick to the older release for now. Hopefully a viable alternative/fork comes around.
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
Look, if he wanted to introduce AI code, whatever, but doing it all at once in a 14k line change is crazy.
Surely it would be better to introduce AI by letting it handle misc changes here and there instead of starting with the "biggest release ever done" (his words), no?
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
Fuck, I love ntfy, it's one of the best self hosted push notification systems I've used. It has been flawless so far.
Don't like this.
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I'm assuming this is some sort of canary message to indicate that the code base has been compromised, the author can't talk about it, and everyone should immediately stop using the service. Surely no-one would be unwise enough to commit this otherwise?
Even ignoring the huge red LLM flag, a 25kLOC delta in a single PR should be cause for instant rejection as there's no way to fully understand or test it, let alone in 2-3 weeks.
25kLOC delta in a single PR should be cause for instant rejection
Not to pick at nits, but it would be VERY different if it was 1k lines added and 24k lines removed. There's something extremely satisfying about removing 10k+ lines of unnecessary code.
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
No thumb down reaction emoji
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there is this repo that lists some slopware :
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
maybe someone can add itAwesome page, thanks. Have bookmarked.
Harfbuzz though? That's going to take some replacing. Hopefully someone will fork an earlier version. The thing that it does (accurate multi-script font shaping) is difficult to do; requires a lot of rule-of-thumb knowledge that's unlikely to be possessed by a single person, needs a lot of collaboration.
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
Uovote and comment on: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/1645
Please add this to the post.
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Uh. I'd really prefer if people experimented with new technology a bit more cautiously and not directly jump to "the biggest release [...] ever done".
Upvote and comment on: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/1645
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According to the release:
Adds experimental PostgreSQL support
The code was written by Cursor and Claude
14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed
reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks
This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.
Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?
I switched to Gotify when I ran into an issue where ntfy would delete old api tokens when creating more than 20. Only thing missing in Gotify is UniversalPush, other than that it feels actually more solid than ntfy to me.
