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.

> 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?

- 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?

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

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

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

No (useless for that usecase) additional intermediary like Tailscale in the middle. It has the added benefit of allowing you to share everything that is on Nextcloud with people without requiring them to use any VPN/etc.

[0] the fact that it runs an a laptop (with its battery) rather than on a workstation provides a UPS on the cheap

[1] dynamic DNS can be achieved even using cheap providers such as OVH as long as you get your domain name there https://docs.ovh.com/ie/en/domains/hosting_dynhost/

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?

This is what it would look like with proper "boring old" html/css written back in the days https://jsfiddle.net/dgtvjn5x/ (more readable and slightly lighter)

For the sake of completeness:

-it would require a more verbose doctype or none depending on when it was written ;

- the "style" element would also require a "type" attribute until some point in time ;

- "border: none" isn't required anymore, browsers have stopped adding border around images.

PS. this is just a comment about how html/css can still be easy and straightforward these days. I do not mean to undermine the fact that the owner did the right thing with regard to standing for and protecting the domain (and promoting eff :)).