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Retro-Tech Parenting

mawise — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:02:35 +0000

Article URL: https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400588

Points: 336

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Retro-Tech Parenting

mawise — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:59:55 +0000

Article URL: https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314574

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mawise in "Sunsetting Rec Room: How to Give a Beloved Product the Ending It Deserves"

mawise — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:44:26 +0000

Referenced but not detailed in the article: under android settings -> Apps -> AI Core, you can disable the app and clear the stored data.

New comment by mawise in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

mawise — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:57:36 +0000

Human trial in 2025 looks promising?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41160460/#:~:text=ResultsAt%...

New comment by mawise in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

mawise — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:57:09 +0000

I consider myself pretty pro-privacy, but there is so much dragnet surveillance and legitimate breaches of the fourth amendment that I have a hard time getting up in arms over a company complying with a valid search warrant that is scoped to three hard drives (and which required law enforcement to have physical possession of the drives to begin with).

This is so much more reasonable than (for example) all the EU chat control efforts that would let law enforcement ctrl+f on any so-called private message in the EU.

New comment by mawise in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

mawise — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:17:51 +0000

The article goes back and forth between bloggers who "are doing well" (ie: making money) and efforts that are non-commercial. It comes across as asking humanity to put more effort into writing and publishing in a non-profitable space while the blogging incentives are profit. I still think the unexplored space for blogging (and the LLM-proof space) is _private_ blogging--for friends and family. But maybe Facebook killed that space off, who knows.

How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?

mawise — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:32:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-eliezer-yudkowsky.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799383

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mawise in "Open Social"

mawise — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:59:49 +0000

Also worth reading, the IndieWeb's "Social Reader"[1] concept. Built more on websites/blogs as the foundational units.

[1]: https://indieweb.org/social_reader

New comment by mawise in "Slow social media"

mawise — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:38:02 +0000

Um, I'm building this? [1]

The one key element I added was privacy. If your posts are private to your social group then there is no mechanism to try appealing to a broader "viral" audience. Also--if it is decentralized then the company (or person in my case) building it can't change their mind and start selling your data/eyeballs.

I have a LOT of thoughts in this space. Lots of people think they want some sort of healthier social-media alternative, but we're fighting against systems that are so finely tuned engagement monsters that is hard compete to protect your attention and time.

Herman- I'll reach out to you by email!

[1]: https://havenweb.org

New comment by mawise in "I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)"

mawise — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:01:43 +0000

I met a guy a while ago who's passion was enabling self-hosting. His vision was to use an old android phone as a server--he ended up building a domain registrar[1] to facilitate OAuth-style flows for configuring DNS and an ngrok-style proxy[2] service that could configure DNS through said flow.

[1]: https://takingnames.io/ [2]: https://boringproxy.io/

Show HN: Haven – Selfhost a private blog instead of using Facebook

mawise — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:15:44 +0000

Hi everyone,

This project started as a way for me to share pictures of my then-newborn kid with close friends and family. I've always been privacy conscious and didn't really want to use Facebook or Instagram. The more I've worked on it, the more it feels like it could be a healthier way for people to interact on the internet--avoiding the polarizing, engagement-optimized algorithms that generate modern news feeds.

I shared this project a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013715

Since then (in addition to a lot of small things) I added a built-in feed reader. Haven already published private RSS feeds, now you can subscribe to those feeds along with any other RSS/Atom feed right in Haven.

I'd love any feedback, thanks for taking a look!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746539

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Age Assurance and Bluesky

mawise — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:33:12 +0000

Article URL: https://havenweb.org/2025/07/12/age-verification.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44562912

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

An Important New Study on Phones and Kids

mawise — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://calnewport.com/an-important-new-study-on-phones-and-kids/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44391585

Points: 2

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New comment by mawise in "Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use on Adolescent Mental Health"

mawise — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:25:08 +0000

Commentary by Cal Newport: https://calnewport.com/an-important-new-study-on-phones-and-...

Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use on Adolescent Mental Health

mawise — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:23:32 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5256747

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44391562

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

How to Be a Techno-Optimist for Animals

mawise — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:16:58 +0000

Article URL: https://optimistsbarn.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-techno-optimist-for-animals

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310648

Points: 2

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New comment by mawise in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

mawise — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:04:07 +0000

(open source) Self-hostable, private social media alternative (like Facebook circa 2012). Functionally it is a private blog that speaks RSS with a built-in RSS aggregator. Self-hosting being the only way to actually have privacy in a social-media-type space.

https://github.com/havenweb/haven

Private Social Media Doesn't Need to Worry About Censorship

mawise — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:09:30 +0000

Article URL: https://havenweb.org/2025/04/15/private-censorship.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728792

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Private Social Media Doesn't Need to Worry About Censorship

mawise — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:48:56 +0000

Article URL: https://havenweb.org/2025/04/15/private-censorship.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43719360

Points: 4

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Using TV for GPS Backup in the USA (2023)

mawise — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:25:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/19433/tv-for-gps-backup-in-the-usa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672651

Points: 2

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