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Love the ref :-)

Would you mind ELI5? I still can't connect the dots.

What I fail to grasp is the (assumed) autonomous part.

If that is just a guy driving a series of agents (thanks to OpenClaw) and behaving like an ass (by instructing its agents to), that isn't really news worthy, is it?

The boggling feeling that I get from the various comments, the fact that this is "newsworthy" to the HN crowd, comes from the autonomous part.

The idea that an agent, instructed to do stuff (code) on some specific repo tried to publicly to shame the maintainer (without being instructed to) for not accepting its PR. And the fact that a maintainer deemed reasonable / meaningful to start a discussion with a automated tool someone decided to target at his repo.

I can not wrap my head around it and feel like I have a huge blindspot / misunderstanding.

Pardon my ignorance, could someone please elaborate on how this is possible at all, are you all assuming that it is fully autonomous (from what I am perceiving from the comments here, the title, etc.)? If that is the assumption, how is it achieve in practical terms?

> Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent

I checked the website, searched it, this isn't mentioned anywhere.

This website looks genuine to me (except maybe for the fact that the blog goes into extreme details about common stuff - hey maybe a dev learning the trade?).

The fact that the maintainers identified that is was an AI agent, the fact the agent answered (autonomously?), and that a discussion went on into the comments of that GH issue all seem crazy to me.

Is it just the right prompt "on these repos, tackle low hanging fruits, test this and that in a specific way, open a PR, if your PR is not merge, argue about it and publish something" ?

Am I missing something?

What does "delisted" mean in this context?

- are they preventing new purchases?

- are they preventing the players who purchased the game prior to the delisting to play them at all?

- both? something else?

hey, would you mind elaborating (with sources)?

How so? Has the author mentioned somewhere that he was tricked into providing 2FA codes / had any sort of 2FA enabled at all?

youtube, probably elsewhere as well

The drone footage is absolutely amazing (as compared to any other camera angle from the recovery boat where you would expect to have better quality but was actually awful). I had trouble, for a moment, believing that it was not CGIed.

Is there any information about what drone/camera equipment was used?

I guarantee that you will. That is a nightmare that you can not choose to avoid unless you are willing to sacrifice your social life.

Remember how raising awareness about smartphones, always on microphones, closed source communication services/apps worked? I do not.

I run an Android (Google free) smartphone with a custom ROM, only use free software apps on it.

How does it help when I am surrounded by people using these kind of technologies (privacy violating ones)? I does not. How will it help when everyone will have his/her personal assistant (robot, drone, smart wearable, smart-thing, whatever) and you (and I) won't? It will not.

None of my friends, family, colleagues (even the security/privacy aware engineers) bother. Some of them because they do not have the technical knowledge to do so, most of them because they do not want to sacrifice any bit of convenience/comfort (and maybe rightfully so, I am not judging them - life is short, I do get that people do not want to waste precious time maintaining arcane infra, devices, config,... themselves).

I am a privacy and free software advocate and an engineer; whenever I can (and when there is a tiny bit of will on their side or when I have lever), I try to get people off surveillance/ad-backed companies services.

It rarely works or lasts. Sometimes it does though so it is worth (to me) keep on trying.

It generally works or lasts when I have lever: I manage various sports team, only share schedules etc via Signal ; family wants to get pictures from me, I will only share the link (to my Nextcloud instance) or photos themselves via Signal, etc.

Sometimes it sticks with people because it's close enough to whatsapp/messenger/whatever if most (all) of their contacts are their. But as soon as you have that one person that will not or can not install Signal, alternatives groups get created on whatsapp/messenger/whatever.

Overcoming the network effect is tremendously hard to borderline impossible.

Believing that you can escape it is a fallacy. It does not mean that is not worth fight for our rights, but believing that you can escape it altogether (without becoming and hermit) would be setting, I believe, an unachievable goal (with all the psychological impact that it can/will have).

Edit: fixed typos

Same in France/Belgium, kids can write a letter to "Santa" (i.e. "Père Noël" or "Papa Noël"), no need for a postcode, or anything else than the name :-)

(it is also processed [my guess would be by volunteers too] and kids receive a proper answer letter back from "Santa, North Pole")

That's a weird take. I am French, I have never heard (except for Téléphone's song) that expression. The closest thing that comes to mind is "plouf plouf".

Wouldn't it simply be because you have been using (and publicly disclosing) that mail address for quite some time and it probably became part of each and every email list script kiddies are able to get their hands on?