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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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?

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[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

And the lead dev for Huntarr said they were following best practices, and had a heavy background in cybersecurity. And we’ve all seen how that turned out.

This change 100% smells like vibe code. They refactored nearly 15k lines of code in a single push. That’s not something you just do on a whim without a team of full time devs or vibe coding. And we know they don’t have the former, so it is almost certainly the latter.

[-] sinnsykfinbart@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Wait.. what happened to Huntarr?

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Long story short? You should kill the container and change your related passwords/API keys. The dev tried censoring it for a while, but couldn’t keep up with the posts. They eventually nuked the entire sub and deleted their Reddit account. They also privated their GitHub and changed their username.

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