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charles_f commented on OpenClaw is changing my life   reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx
wiz21c · 15 hours ago
I want an OpenClaw that can find and call a carpenter, a plumber when I need him; take appointment for all the medical stuff (I do most of that online), pays the bills and make me a nice alarm when there's something wrong, order train tickets and book hotel when I need to.

That would be really helpful.

charles_f · 14 hours ago
While Claude was trying fix a bug for me (one of these "here! It's fixed now!" "no it's not, the ut still doesn't pass", "ah, I see, lets fix the ut", "no you dont, fix the code" loops), I was updating my oncall rotation after having to run after people to refresh my credentials to so, after attending a ship room where I had to provide updates and estimates.

Why isn't Claude doing all that for me, while I code? Why the obsession that we must use code generation, while other gabage activities would free me to do what I'm, on paper, paid to do?

It's less sexy of course, it doesn't have the promise of removing me in the end. But the reason, in the present state, is that IT admins would never accept for an llm to handle permissions, rotations, management would never accept an llm to report status or provide estimate. This is all "serious" work where we can't have all the errors llm create.

Dev isn't that bad, devs can clean slop and customers can deal with bugs.

charles_f commented on OpenClaw is changing my life   reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx
charles_f · 14 hours ago
> My role as the programmer responsible for turning code into reality hasn’t changed

> OpenClaw gave me the chance to become that super manager [...] A manager shouldn’t get bogged down in the specifics—they should focus on the higher-level, abstract work

These two propositions seem to be highly incompatible

charles_f commented on White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site TrumpRx   cnbc.com/2026/02/05/trump... · Posted by u/geox
charles_f · 3 days ago
The name of that website is interesting. I had heard of landmarks being named after politicians, laws being nicknamed after them (e.g. obamacare) or after judicial decisions, but it seems that it's usually, at least seemingly, by others. This one is directly named after the president launching it. I can't think of a precedent, was there one?
charles_f commented on Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS   github.com/microsoft/lite... · Posted by u/aktau
gdevenyi · 3 days ago
What is a 'library OS'?
charles_f · 3 days ago
I think that's an OS in the form of a library, like Wine for example. From what I get from the description it allows you to run programs on your real OS and make it see a cut down API to your actual system to reduce the attack surface.
charles_f commented on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale   fredbenenson.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mecredis
ajcp · 5 days ago
> He also provided a fake email for my brother: alexanderedwardenenson@out-look.com. Notice the subtle misspelling — “Benenson” without the second “n” in the email, and the hyphenated “out-look.com” domain.

Surely you meant "'Benenson' without the “b” in the email, and the hyphenated 'out-look.com' domain"?

charles_f · 5 days ago
I had to re-read the email twice and concluded the same.
charles_f commented on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale   fredbenenson.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mecredis
dh2022 · 5 days ago
I think these days the easiest thing is to take a HELOC loan backed by the property. Do not withdraw money from HELOC and pay the $125/year fee. This puts a lien on the property. (The article alluded to this solution by noting these scammers avoid properties with a mortgage).
charles_f · 5 days ago
I eas thinking of purposefully not paying some kind of invoice to trigger a lien but this way seems more legitimate
charles_f commented on Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)   apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/... · Posted by u/kioku
charles_f · 7 days ago
Actor model is one of these things that really seduces me on paper, but my only exposure to it was in my consulting career, and that was to help migrate away from it. The use case seemed particularly adapted (integration of a bunch of remote devices with spotty connection), but it was practically a nightmare to debug... which was a problem since it was buggy.

To be fair, the problem was probably that particular implementation, but I'm wondering if there's any successful rollout of that model at any significant scale out there.

charles_f commented on Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?   ztechtalk.com/microsoft-t... · Posted by u/imalerba
jabroni_salad · 9 days ago
Out of curiosity is this related to the 'emergency location' that we admins have to provide for every calling plan user or is it a wholly separate system? Reading the other comments here they must not realize that teams is already tracking their address because it has to know which PSAP to connect them to.

This location either uses the named locations I have set up in Entra (we use our public IP ranges for it) or it prompts users for their address if isn't sure. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/emergency-c...

charles_f · 9 days ago
Honestly I don't know - building location is probably using the same data though.
charles_f commented on Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?   ztechtalk.com/microsoft-t... · Posted by u/imalerba
charles_f · 9 days ago
I work on Teams (I know, I know... please don't hit me, it's not my fault)

1. I don't speak authoritatively and

2. I don't have knowledge of the whole product - there's always a rogue team here and there doing stuff.

We've had that feature turned on at MSFT for some time now. It does not allow your manager to see that you're at Starbucks, at home, on the shitter or anything like that. There's a new toggle in the calendar settings called "Share location with my organization", and the settings are: "all details: building, desk, etc.", "general location: office or remote", "can't view any location information". What it does when turned on is just adding, at the top of your calendar, icons that tell you which of your colleagues are in office, and if they share and you click on someone's picture, what building they're in (when it works).

The whole "it will tell your manager what your wifi is" is just baseless extrapolation, and plainly false from what I can tell.

charles_f commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out   moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm
charles_f · 10 days ago
Looks like a cool place to gather passwords, tokens and credit card numbers!

u/charles_f

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