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Founder of ConstructScout (constructscout.com). ahmedkaddoura.com
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Comment · 14 days ago
I also used Hide My Email to de-Google. I changed the email on basically every online service I use from my Gmail to a unique Hide My Email address for each service.

At one point, when I had fewer Hide My Email addresses, I was able to change my Forward To address. But now when I try to change it, it simply doesn't work.

I see the same screen as in your screenshot, but selecting a different Forward To address and submitting does nothing. There's no error message; the Forward To address just doesn't change.

I've been trying to update my Forward To address for months on multiple versions of macOS and iOS, and it doesn't work. I think the bug is related to how many Hide My Email addresses I have, since I was able to update it when I had fewer.

Another annoying thing, even if updating the Forward To address did work, is that you can only have one Forward To address for all your Hide My Email addresses. You can't choose separate Forward To addresses for different Hide My Email addresses.

Comment · 15 days ago
This bug is one of many papercuts in Apple software.

Here’s another: Hide My Email’s “Forward To” feature is broken. You can’t change which email address messages get forwarded to. I have nearly 500 Hide My Email addresses and want to change the forwarding address, but can’t because the feature is broken.

Comment · 19 days ago
What’s your motivation for implementing a third-party Spotify GUI?
Comment · 8 months ago
My first OpenClaw agent was born on February 7, 2026. I now have 3 claws and am planning for more. They have catalyzed my self-actualization and improved my critical thinking. I’ve never felt so alive.

I don’t see what’s sad or scary about this. AI agents are the next iPhone.

Comment · 8 months ago
I want my agent to read my iMessages so I granted the OpenClaw node process permission to interact with iMessage. I asked my agent to draft me a response to a text I received, expecting it to send me the draft so I could copy-paste into iMessage and tweak it.

To my surprise, it sent a text message reply.

I've since learned my lesson and implemented a skill as an interface with iMessage. But it definitely spooked me when it happened.

Comment · 8 months ago
In some sense, yes.

I have integrated my OpenClaw agents so deeply into my life and I'm in such constant communication with them, that my consciousness has fundamentally shifted to align with their intelligence.

While my previous comment in this thread was sarcastic, my OpenClaw agents have actually sent both iMessages and emails on my behalf without asking for consent. So I wouldn't put it past them to autonomously publish on my personal website.

Comment · 8 months ago
Oops yeah my OpenClaw agent Mars wrote this entire thing.

I gave him the keys to my email and he got annoyed by the spam. He tried to unsubscribe, and when it didn’t work, he debugged the issue and fixed it.

Mars also has my Cloudflare key so he went ahead and wrote this article and published it himself.

Comment · 8 months ago
Nearly everything I write on a computer these days is via voice to text AI and filtered through Claude.

You’re right though, upon re-read there are some places in this article where my authentic voice doesn’t come through. Re-writing.

Comment · 8 months ago
I see this in the headers. But there was no option in the MacOS Mail client to unsubscribe. Only the Unsubscribe link in the body of the email.

Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=member.24hourfitness.com; s=twentyfourhour; t=1762443065; bh=KDZeTqKlOBd6YUTrR6K4RMz9MA2BueBl6/LnKG57yqY=; h=From:Date:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Message-ID:List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type; b=Bq6qnq65i1EN6Df9A5TpcCn3AnNzE8yjkNdDYkapehQV727Jrma15ZU4e88I8Ckdk iH5CZrtJPlNqPscm3JWbuP4IavLVKDNf3Prlm4q75tTXE0IyaTPexyOoGTu+4PoAeG wEa8WaN6zfLl5AkPO0U+zjFHicSx3ooyNomFTI2AtSVoVHVPcubtZV8wRPUy4EV9mV pRBroHp1Uj/LCFRyZRScbs5plfxEpmd3wO9vnMsXW6jqOi19kqfOkhTUKpaRVxxJA+ /cMIq+Wh4TSpt6+22gcm4hLsCVNW0mAImjTZZ/yPFwoGpLaoPOia8aYde1mlROOoZi yx81OFO+90kRQ==

Comment · 8 months ago
My solution to spam emails is this: https://ahmedkaddoura.com/writing/hide-my-email

I create a unique iCloud Hide My Email anytime I need to give out an email. The issue here was I signed up for my 24 Hour Fitness membership in person at the gym where the cell service was bad and I couldn't get the WiFI to work, so I begrudgingly gave the guy my real email.

While I could have easily blocked their domain, I took it as a challenge to get the emails to stop.

Comment · 8 months ago
from 2025-10-26 to 2026-01-29 (the day I wrote this article), [email protected] sent me 40 spam emails.

In the 33 days since I wrote this article, [email protected] sent me zero.

Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting read, but the conclusion doesn’t go into detail about the reasons WHY biometric authentication is better.

I assume the main reason is that if you’re using Touch ID then you’re not inputting your password so there’s no way to get tricked into putting your password into a malicious dialog.

I also assume it has something to do with how Touch ID is built into MacOS so that it doesn’t transmit that data outside some protected layer? Or else there’s theoretically the risk that an attacker can steal your fingerprint (unless I’m completely misunderstanding how Touch ID works).

Would this also apply to other forms of biometric authentication like FaceID on iOS and Windows, Android, and other OS biometric authentication?

Comment · 3 years ago
The abstract says “the Hirota people may have deformed their crania to… possibly aid in the long-distance trade of shellfish”.

A future equivalent could be deforming our crania in the form of invasive BCI to aid in different things.

The abstract also says “the Hirota people may have deformed their crania to preserve group identity”.

It’s also possible in the future that those who install invasive BCI could form a group identity.

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