>In 2026, so far, OpenClaw has deleted a user's inbox, spent 450k in crypto, installed uncountable amounts of malware, and attempted to blackmail an OSS maintainer. And it's only been two months.
I have no sympathy for that!!
People have been warned over and over to don't grant full access to these AI and yet, they do the completely opposite.
>Similarly, you shouldn't give OpenClaw access to money. But I want an agent that takes photos of my pantry, sees what I'm running low on, and orders new groceries for me, and that requires my credit card
It should never have access to your main account in the first place anyway.
Have an AI account with limited money in it and even that, have a process in place that will only process any financial request if and only if you have approved it.
The same logic must be followed for everything, people prefer to just give full access without guardrails and hope nothing bad will happen.
Read: The USA as usual doesn't like when a company doesn't give what they want.
Awwwnnnn poor thing :)
It is like the USA big techs mad because the Chinese AI companies are stealing their data just like, wait for it, how the USA big techs stole the data from artists worldwide to train their models.
The sweet payback in the name of every single artist/company that have been affected by USA greedy.
I am in that phase of my life that seeing people complaining about big techs gives me no sympathy.
These companies keep telling you that you own nothing, they change their TOS without informing you, they collect everything they can from you and yet, you spend $249/mo for their service.
The future belongs to those who use AI as an assistant to improve tasks and workflows since search engines are broken.
In contrast, we are seeing people using AI to do the heavy thinking, doing their whole work, these people are cooked.
If you remove AI right now, they can no longer work, some cannot work at all because they are 100% vide-coder.
In a world of AI, Internet Of Things, things released to please shareholders over users and usability, using old technology that just works is the most wise approach.
As much as I have hate and love relationship with AI, I disagree.
I use AI, mainly Perplexity AI, as a replacement for search engine because they all suck right now.
AI makes homelab more fun and therefore I learn more.
Homelab is my main hobby, using AI to ASSIST me with one thing or another, always end-up mentioning something else that I never heard before.
I wish I could clone myself due to the amount of topics and projects I have noted down.
AI is like money, money doesn't make you a bad or good person, money only enhance what you already are.
AI doesn't automatically make things boring, they way how you use it is what make things boring or more exciting with you jumping from forum to forum, new topic to new topic.
Neither, AI is a tool to guide you in improving your process in any way and/or form.
The problem is people using AI to do the heavy processing making them dumber.
Technology itself was already making us dumber, I mean, Tesla drivers not even drive anymore or know how, coz the car does everything.
Look how company after company is being either breached or have major issues in production because of the heavy dependency on AI.
I love LibreOffice. It's fantastic. I rolled it out to a prior employer where everyone needed a word processor but we certainly didn't need to pay Office prices when we didn't have requirements that only Office could satisfy. A high point was when we were having trouble collaborating on a DOCX file with a customer, then they sheepishly told us that they weren't using Office, but this other LibreOffice (OO.org at the time) thing. We laughed and told them we were, too. That day we started swapping ODT files instead and everything worked 100x better.
And all that said, I haven't seen LibreOffice in person in years. Mac shops uses Pages & friends for internal stuff, but really, almost everyone not using Office 365 or whatever they're calling it now is using Google Docs. Google is eating Microsoft's lunch in this space, and my gut estimate is that they split 95+% of the office software market between them.
I do wish that weren't the case, but my personal experience tells me it is. I wish it were more common, and also that there was a virtuous cycle where more Mac users made it get more attention, and more attention made it feel more like a "Mac-assed Mac app", and feeling more like a Mac-assed Mac app got it more users, etc. I just don't see that playing out.
Countries in Europe realized that if USA sanctions International Criminal Court judge - that judge suddenly loses access to their email/calendar/docs/etc because Microsoft/Google/etc have to comply.
This one misses the point entirely, I'm sorry to say. Microsoft 365's "lunch" is that a majority of US businesses, schools, and governments are reliant on 365 for anything in their organization to function.
And also majority of European businesses and governments and schools. Europe is well integrated into US. Quite a few STOXX 600 have US wings or acquired US companies.
Basically a substantial (non-software) enginerring or financial work is done in Microsoft's proprietary formats, occasionaly involving VBA.
Many businesses cannot even pay salaries without macro-ridden Excel documents.
With 365 Microsoft has even stronger moat: cloud integrated co-editing using desktop apps. No browser will exceed C++/C# Office apps running directly on the PC. Not even proprietary apps have equivalent experience.
On top of that add all Azure, SharePoint etc. All big companies without exception use those and put significant portion of their business knowledge on Microsoft platforms.
US can literally kill Europe by just forcing Microsoft to shutdown its operations. It is fucking scary.
I've been using GOS for 3years give or take on a Pixel 7 PRO. Yes, GOS also stops you from buying new phone every year and personally, I am hopping Pixel 10 PRO is worth the upgrade, doubt it.
In Australia, everything works, from banking to gov services, they do not block or have limited function. CommBank App supports NFC payment via its app for example.
Dual profiles is silly and utterly unnecessary.
List of my open-source applications:
- Aurora Store: Should be avoided, it like F-Droid have broken security in place. You have a high risk of installing crappy on your phone via those stores. That is why I still use Google Play and download apk once here in there from GitHub project.
- Organic Maps: Dead project, a lot of things have happened and that is why CoMaps was created/forked.
It is a beautiful and mega lightweight offline GPS map with tons of features.
CoMaps replaced Earth Magic that got completely destroyed to greedy, and Sygic which I have an old lifetime premium license which now is somewhat limited unless you pay for premium plus :)
OP didn't mentioned but GOS + Android Auto works like a dream wirelessly, GOS provided is Google-free dependency version and it just works.
I have no sympathy for that!!
People have been warned over and over to don't grant full access to these AI and yet, they do the completely opposite.
>Similarly, you shouldn't give OpenClaw access to money. But I want an agent that takes photos of my pantry, sees what I'm running low on, and orders new groceries for me, and that requires my credit card
It should never have access to your main account in the first place anyway.
Have an AI account with limited money in it and even that, have a process in place that will only process any financial request if and only if you have approved it.
The same logic must be followed for everything, people prefer to just give full access without guardrails and hope nothing bad will happen.
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