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Are you doing anything cool with n8n? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Just curious what people are using n8n for.

I just finished setting up a workflow that sends me a Telegram message every night about photography opportunities for the next day. It puts together weather data, POIs (which I defined for my location), sun/moon position, milky way visibility, cloud cover, etc. The message then simply tells me if it's worth it going out in the morning.

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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (17 children)

I'm not willing to run something that risky on my own infrastructure, therefore I wont run it. I can do all of those things with a handful of scripts or Home Assistant anyway.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    May I ask why you consider n8n risky?

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Just look at the recent vulnerabilities it had. It just had a CVE 10 in January and March of this year.

    https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=n8n

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Almost all of them affect authenticated users. The only ones that allow unauthenticated users access are for old versions. So to be honest: I am not that much concerned.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    You aren't concerned about a severity 10 vuln? Those are found in software with exceptionally bad qa and abandonware. That should give you pause about how hard n8n is "going fast and breaking things".

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    I'm not a slop jockey and I'm watching people plug these kinds of things into public data and having it do operations with financial/business impacts.

    I'd rather employ a gremlin to write scripts.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    I’m not a slop jockey

    Are you aware that you are not required to run AI with n8n? There are two flavors: With AI and without.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Is there a version of n8n without AI generated code?

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    If you are asking if you can run n8n without AI, yes. That's what I run. If you are asking whether n8n is free of any AI generated code used in it's creation, I couldn't speak to that.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    lowcode environments are the O.G slop.

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