I think one of the appealing traits of open source is that you can identify what piece of software and hardware does what (and how, if you’re interested). You can post your exact method, and another person can follow along and replicate the result.

But if AI tells you how to build everything, you don’t get the opportunity to learn, and your stack depends on what that particular model thought was best on that particular day. Maintenance also becomes harder if you just did a sudo apt install whatever Claude told me to without knowing what everything does and how it interacts

People deserve privacy because there are many things they want to protect, and it’s their prerogative on how much they’re willing to share.

A lot of the things we hide could be used to hurt us if someone with malicious intent had access to them. Our account logins, our bank accounts, ways to access our houses.

Remember when Trump’s goons wanted to ban TikTok because all the data went to China?

Now it’s all “Pwease wet us keep aww youw data 🥹. It’s good fow the AI 🥹🥹”

Notesnook seems to have a free tier that meets all the requirements to replace (eg.) Google Keep. I would love to support them when I have a more stable income