Unwavering Humanity

In the Programming Room of the Loft, November 10, 2026.

Just a thought I had, but giving up on the open web, and on open source, because of language models is quite sad. Its just admitting defeat.

I watched https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html, and he brought up Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol) and put into words what I've always thought about the thing. It's admitting defeat to the scrapers, and making the web worse in the process.

Same thing with CAPTCHAs. They're not for humans, they're for bots. CAPTCHAs are quite literally for scrapers, and anti-human. A site made for humans, and only for humans, wouldn't have CAPTCHAs, it wouldn't have Anubis.

I want to look the Language Model companies in the eye as I refuse to lock my git frontend or my chat room behind Javascript, data collection, tracking, pointless wastes of computation, or anything like that.

I opened my site up to scraping a few days ago, because humans use search engines, and I'd prefer if these humans could see my site. Unfortunately Bing does not see the vision :(

Somehow we've gotten lost in the sauce of language models and forgotten that computers are meant to serve humans. Or at least I did, anyway.

If you notice a sudden jump in random posts, its probably because they're things I would have sent in Discord, but now I know this is a better place :p

Now I write this in Vim instead of Obsidian. I tried to purchase an app for my phone with native Git syncing so I could remove Obsidian, but Apple demanded I confirm my credit card before purchasing. I don't use this card anymore, its expired. The button to add a new card was grayed out and unclickable until I confirmed the old card. I must confirm my expired credit card before purchasing an app. Proprietary software is genuinely so ass. There are advertisements in the Apple app store. Apparently Google wants in on the fun as well, so that's nice.