Note by @fastfinge

Angry Sun @sun@shitposter.world

4mo

So, I got OpenClaw installed, which was a terrible pain in the ass until I switched to Linux, then it worked pretty much right away.

You can tell it to do things using a chat gateway, but it only supported protocols I didn't want to use, like IRC or Telegram or Discord.

I pointed it at documentation and told it to implement a delta.chat gateway.

first working version: under 5 minutes
final fully-working version: under one hour.

openclaw provided its own fix iteration loop and was able to see its own errors and fix them itself. I wrote/read no code.

I told it to prepare the code to be redistributed. I'll be auditing the code for bugs and then submitting it back to them after this conference.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

4mo

@sun Did basicly the same thing for XMPP. Using XMPP is a security win because I control the XMPP server, so I'm not depending on openclaw security to decide who can talk to my bot. I can just stop that account from federating.

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Angry Sun @sun@shitposter.world

4mo

@fastfinge very nice. I do actually run an xmpp server but the image attachments are always broken + I didn't want to raise the size limit for everyone, so I just went with my friend's delta.chat.

the telegram stuff icked me out, it uses some random unknown person's bot management service? how long until that gets pwned

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

4mo

@sun I'm using snikket and things seem to work fine. Also means I can have different accounts for different agents if I want. The other services other than IRC make getting second accounts hard enough, never mind third or fourth or fifth ones. I don't have that many valid phone numbers LOL. But on my own XMPP server I can just make all the accounts I want without bothering anyone.

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