I had to check the date on my phone as I was sure it was an April fools joke. After the absolute onslaught of negative feedback and the new term "Microslop", they put out an article saying you can now adjust the position of the taskbar. Unreal.

No, they put out an article saying that not right now but later this month or maybe next month, if you switch to a beta release, then possibly you'll be able to adjust the position of the taskbar. But at least they have screenshots!

"In researching a hiccup with performance, he stumbled across a file where the OpenClaw agent had downloaded all of his WhatsApp messages and stored them in plain, unencrypted text on his computer. Not just the work-related messages it was given explicit access to, but all of them, his personal messages too."

Now the agent can do the same thing, but it's in a container and it's doing it with a Rust binary, so you know it's safe. /s

Edit: It's not Rust.

Definitely a sign of the times that (pre-edit) I thought, "oh this person's thinking of the wrong claw, IronClaw is the Rust one"

Not necessarily? You can just as easily design an agent that only has access to one chat.

The process is called "webview2" on windows. From memory my Tauri app process is about 6mb memory and the webview2 is about 100mb.

> I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand these tools, never mind meaningfully compare them

This is why I use the copilot extension in VS code. They seem to just copy whatever useful thing climbs to the surface of the AI tool slop pile. Last week I loaded up and Opus 4.6 was there ready to use. Yesterday I found it has a new Claude tool built in which I used to do some refactoring... it worked fine. It's like having an AI tool curator.

How do you accept crypto payments? Is there a Stripe style service that provides an API and/or payment portal? Id like to implement something for my SaaS but generally can't be bothered with crypto.

I have three OS installs. Windows install for games. Another Windows for development (I have to for windows dev). And a Ubuntu install for anything not games/work. The windows drives use bitlocker and they can't access each other's files. It's not perfect.

Although with the amount of crap I have to install for windows development I'm starting to wonder if a base VM image that is used as a start point for each project would be cleaner.

Curious how you manage licensing?

When a person buys, they get the download links in the mail; the installers work without any license keys, so buy once, use forever.

Wow that was an interesting read. I find it amusing that nobody seems to really know who he is or what his motives are, yet his code is run on millions of machines every day.

I just import them with unique names if there is a collision - Wiz_Baz and Foo_Baz

I did this accidentally the other day in Rust:

let x = some_function();

... A bunch of code

let x = some_function();

The values of x are the same. It was just an oversight on my part but wondered if I could set my linter to highlight multiple uses of the same variable name in the same function. Does anyone have any suggestions?