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jwally commented on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant github.com/clawdbot/clawd... · Posted by u/KuzeyAbi

nunodonato · 15 days ago

I have my own telegram bot that helps me and my wife. Reminders, shopping list, calendar. Small and simple, gets the job done :) At the start of the day it greets with a briefing, can also check weather and stuff

Btw, I'm in the process of training my own small model so that I can run it on my cpu-only VPS and stop paying for API costs

jwally · 15 days ago

The API cost...ughhhhh

I set $10 on fire the other day as I was running through some tests.

Like old school arcade games "Please insert more ${money} to keep playing...". Local, smaller, specialized (unix philosophy?) seems like the way to go so you don't bk yourself having AGI distill pintrest recipes to just recipes.

jwally commented on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant github.com/clawdbot/clawd... · Posted by u/KuzeyAbi

jwally · 15 days ago

Thanks for sharing.

For the past month or so I've been slowly having claude build something in the same ballpark. Basically something to nag you to take care of grown-up things so your boss/spouse/local municipality doesn't have to.

I was going to call it "Nagatha Christy", but the joke gets old after 48 hours. At the moment, its called "Jarbis" (old Simpsons reference).

For me, checklists are useful but I suck at creating them, maintaining them, etc. I want this thing to be able to look at my calendar/email/groupme and be able to say things like:

"Hey, you have 2 kid birthday parties this weekend and a soccer game - you're bringing snacks. You want me to update your shopping list?"

or

"The dentist office just sent out a reminder - you have an appointment on Thursday that's not on the calendar. It conflicts with your daily standup. You want me to create a task for you to resolve it?"

Its using: - AWS CDK - Telegram as primary chat interface - Trello/Jira/Something Custom - Integrations into GoogleCalendar and GMail - Ability to use Claude/OpenAI and different models

FWIW, if someone figures out how to create a reliable "secretary in a box" that I don't have to DIY but doesn't scream data-collection-watering-hole (facebook) I'd _happily_ pay $200 / mo for it. ;-)

jwally commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026) · Posted by u/david927

jwally · a month ago

I updated a really outdated, but surprisingly popular repo for linear programming:

https://github.com/JWally/jsLPSolver

I'm tinkering around building "JARVIS" (I didn't want to come up with a clever self deprecating name - this works) - a personal project to manage my life. Integrates into Google Mail, Google Calendar, Trello, GroupMe, EveryDollar. Basically it nags me to do grown up thing and is a better UX than Google Calendar/Trello - I just talk to it and ask it things.

Also experimenting with a new Claude-Code flow; give the bot its own AWS account, Put a bunch of tickets on my personal JIRA, be persnickity about what constitutes "pass" and tell the bot "follow these instructions, pull down tickets until there are no more. Your branch cannot merge until you have integration tests passing in your own dev env first" (I use AWS CDK). Then let it loose to build. The instant feedback loop that Claude has with Build-Code->Deploy to AWS->Run Integration Tests->Address Failures is really nifty fwiw...

jwally commented on Wasp Blower softsolder.com/2025/08/12... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

genuineresponse · 4 months ago

Wasps in a high traffic area are definitely bad, but if the nest is somewhere not too in the way I'd encourage folks to leave it be. Wasps are predators, and they eat a lot of the bugs that damage gardens. Yes, they are also assholes, do you have to strike a balance, but they can be really beneficial.

Obviously, if you've got young kids around or the wasps are being aggressive, take care of the humans first, but understanding them a bit can really reduce the conflict with them.

jwally · 4 months ago

When the crusader army reached Béziers, they demanded that all heretics be handed over. The townspeople refused, and the crusaders stormed the city. Once inside, they couldn’t tell Catholics from Cathars—everyone spoke the same language and lived side by side.

That’s when the Cistercian legate Arnaud Amalric supposedly gave his infamous order:

“Caedite eos; Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.” “Kill them all; for the Lord knows those that are His.”

It’s a paraphrase of 2 Timothy 2:19 (“The Lord knoweth them that are his”).

The crusaders slaughtered virtually the entire population—estimated between 10,000 – 20,000 people—before burning the city.

ps I have an irrational fear of wasps

jwally commented on EU age verification app not planning desktop support github.com/eu-digital-ide... · Posted by u/sschueller

zb3 · 5 months ago

It isn't, but due to bureaucracy, when designing a solution, it's that solution that has to be "secure" without really considering that the current outside situation is already insecure..

Anyway I'm not advocating for this solution, just addressing the question directly.

jwally · 5 months ago

Thanks for the feedback.

I don't see this as the end all ultimate solution for age verification. I see it more as a tourniquet; imperfect - but better than bleeding to death.

jwally commented on EU age verification app not planning desktop support github.com/eu-digital-ide... · Posted by u/sschueller

tzs · 5 months ago

What happens if some party is able to get logs of the bank's age attestation signings and of hornpub.click's steps #2 and #6? It appears this would present some risk of matching up hornpub.click accounts with real IDs.

This is called "linkability" and ideally should be avoided so anonymous age verification can be safe.

jwally · 5 months ago

Banks and most sites requiring age verification are _littered_ with tracking software that does _literally_ this.

Further, if you put on an adblocker and I get access to the logs at ironbank and hornpub; I could just query them for your IP address.

Collusion to this degree is possible, but doesn't seem worth worrying about if the aforementioned attack vectors still exist. My $0.02.

jwally commented on EU age verification app not planning desktop support github.com/eu-digital-ide... · Posted by u/sschueller

f_devd · 5 months ago

If you read the guidelines they actually want to implement a double-blind approach with ZKPs, which imo is significantly better than a challenge-response pub key system in term of privacy.

If you're not familiar this would mean the verifier doesn't learns anything except a statement about attributes (age, license, etc); and the EU doesn't learn what attributes have been tried to verify or by who.

jwally · 5 months ago

Not asking to troll or be a jerk. Promise.

What would need to happen in the United States to implement a reliable ZKP age verification system - and how long would it take to roll it out?

Asking because it feels like the Titanic has sunk, and we're eschewing a floating door because the coast guard has regulation conformant life rafts that would work better.

jwally commented on EU age verification app not planning desktop support github.com/eu-digital-ide... · Posted by u/sschueller

zb3 · 5 months ago

But the bank and the horn content provider could collude and that would let the bank know that you're watching horn (shame, shame!).

The ZKP approach aims to prevent this attack method.

jwally · 5 months ago

Chase.com currently is using:

mPulse

Google Marketing Platform Meta

LinkedIn Ads

Trade Desk

Aggregate Knowledge (Trans Union)

Adobe Audience Manger

Can you elaborate on how the risk of ironbank and hornpub colluding by de-anonymizing you via rainbow tables or IP forensics is substantially greater than Chase and PornHub using - Google Marketing?

jwally commented on EU age verification app not planning desktop support github.com/eu-digital-ide... · Posted by u/sschueller

SomeoneOnTheWeb · 5 months ago

What's crazy to me is why they didn't go for that kind of implementation. This works well, ensures privacy, can be audited easily, and doesn't need a f*cking app on my phone.

jwally · 5 months ago

If I work for Aylo (pornhub, etc) I'm telling every fintech and click-and-mortar bank who wants more customers to do this yesterday!

"Hey third fifth of Oregon! Do you want to triple your customer base in Oregon for the cost of a small dev team and 1 month of work?!"

> f*cking app on my phone

I need another app on my phone like I need another hole in my head...