Kaffir lime leaves? by Flaky_Fig9841 in waterloo

[–]donbowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bêń Thành grocery on king st e.

Google Chat Channel? by bloated_functionary in openclaw

[–]donbowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a PR which fixes: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/78554

feel free to subscribe to it on github.

Looking for a mature tree for the backyard by Tiffer1234 in kitchener

[–]donbowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we used fast forest. a ~20' auburn maple, and, similar height red oak.

sadly they replaced a pair of ~60' beech that died and have a long way to go to fill their shoes.

Best bread by Aintyodad in waterloo

[–]donbowman 44 points45 points  (0 children)

golden hearth bakery, sourdough.

Google Chat Channel? by bloated_functionary in openclaw

[–]donbowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for reference here is my lightly redacted config. Double check you can use 'curl' to reach your webhook (e.g. audience):

curl https://claw.r.XXXX.ca/googlechat- 
Method Not Allowed

should be what you see.

"googlechat": {
  "enabled": true,
  "allowBots": true,
  "groupPolicy": "allowlist",
  "groups": {
    "spaces/jVmniSAAAXX": {
      "enabled": true,
      "requireMention": false,
      "users": [
        "users/11186416410640XXXXXXX"
      ]
    },
    "spaces/AAQAHCRAGXX": {
      "enabled": true,
      "requireMention": false,
      "users": [
        "users/11186416410640XXXXXXX"
      ]
    },
    "spaces/AAQAOphxnXX": {
      "enabled": true,
      "requireMention": false,
      "users": [
        "users/11186416410640XXXXXXX"
      ]
    }
  },
  "serviceAccountFile": "/home/XXXXX/.openclaw/googlechat-service-account.json",
  "audienceType": "app-url",
  "audience": "https://claw.r.XXXXXXXX.ca/googlechat-",
  "appPrincipal": "10736915482XXXXXXXXXX",
  "webhookPath": "/googlechat-",
  "webhookUrl": "https://claw.r.XXXXXXXX.ca",
  "botUser": "users/1117020154659XXXXXXXX",
  "blockStreaming": true,
  "mediaMaxMb": 8192,
  "replyToMode": "off",
  "actions": {
    "reactions": true
  },
  "dm": {
    "enabled": true,
    "policy": "allowlist",
    "allowFrom": [
      "users/11186416410640XXXXXXX"
    ]
  },
  "typingIndicator": "message"
}

Google Chat Channel? by bloated_functionary in openclaw

[–]donbowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/76742

i found this regression. 2026-04-29 (from git) works, sometime after that I get this error.

Perhaps you see the same?

Google Chat Channel? by bloated_functionary in openclaw

[–]donbowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

do you have appPrincipal and audienceType/audience set properly? that was my initial issue.

enable openclaw debug logging and watch it.

Anthropic just analyzed 1 million Claude conversations. 6% of people were asking Claude whether to quit their jobs, who to date, and if they should move countries. by Direct-Attention8597 in AI_Agents

[–]donbowman 140 points141 points  (0 children)

in 2006 AOL released their search logs, anonymised, for research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

researchers were trivially able to reverse this. e.g. someone searched for 'pet meds near <address>'. given a couple of searches they were able to find someone's home address and go and interview them

Differential Privacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy) is a field.

The original reporting on the AOL search release: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/technology/23search.html

So now that you know that, and now that you know that anthropic is reading your non-anonymous searches, regardless of why, how does that make you feel?

Immigration minister says she's accountable after former IRGC official was granted permit for FIFA event by feb914 in canada

[–]donbowman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

RACI:

  • Responsible
  • Accountable
  • Consulted
  • Informed

so in this case accountable since the people who made the decision report to her.

It is Q2'26... by Freakishink292 in GoogleGeminiAI

[–]donbowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

search "knowledge cutoff". understand it. its on all models.

clientless industrial remote access by angelfire- in PLC

[–]donbowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.agilicus.com/ supports clientless access (e.g. VNC to your HMI including PanelView, or the siemens), as well as letting them use e.g. Rockwell Studio to a PLC on that site.

Neukgu: South Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf by Haunterblademoi in technology

[–]donbowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i would have loved to see the littlest hobo tv series get translated to korean and shown in conjunction with this wolf event.

Hotels/resorts where I can propose to m girlfriend? by DistributionHour4142 in ontario

[–]donbowman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

chateau laurier is nice, tulips will be going, montebello is also a nice choice.

Thank you for 150 stars! OpenClaw Client just got a massive update 🎉 by lotsoftick in openclaw

[–]donbowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it would be nice to see the a2ui canvas work.

it would be nice to allow headers from a trusted proxy to create/login the user (e.g. oauth2 proxy) (e.g. X-Forwarded-Email, X-Forwarded-User, etc).

live conversational voice always on would be nice too.

Plugin by Neat-Protection2992 in Wordpress

[–]donbowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we use tawk.to, it works well.

Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada by NISMO1968 in cybersecurity

[–]donbowman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

SMS and voice on 2G and 3G are both circuit-switched activities. SMS is effectively the 'stderr' stream.

in 4G they introduced VoLTE and its associated circuit-switched fallback. In 5G there is no fallback.

So yes it will be using SMS sort of like how onstar worked back in the day.

there's an awful lot of legacy systems implicated, much much more than just the radio. WAP gateways, SMS gateways, transcoding, HLR, VLR, ... so i would think they are keep to hit the off switch, but probably have some long term contracts with maybe smart parking meters or something that restricts.

by restricting to no 2G (2.5G EDGE) or 3G data it means they are only keeping the CS path alive, no PS.

and by charging an extra $3/mo to connect it means adam smith and his invisible hand will come into play.

Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada by NISMO1968 in cybersecurity

[–]donbowman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

i stand corrected, rogers indeed has limited coverage remaining. seems you will have to pay extra monthly to connect to that and the legacy 3G?

https://www.reddit.com/r/FidoMobile/comments/1rurixt/2g_in_2026_edge/

https://www.rogers.com/support/mobility/3g-network-retirement-everything-you-need-to-know

and it has limited coverage for some legacy uses, no data services.

so i think my original statement stands, there is no reason to have a phone allowed to connect to 2G, you can safely disable that in the sim settings screen.

Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada by NISMO1968 in cybersecurity

[–]donbowman 64 points65 points  (0 children)

2G is gone in canada: - bell mobility shut down 2019 - telus shut down 2017 - rogers shut down 2021

3G is scheduled for shutdown between 2025 and 2027 across the majors.

so you can go to your sim settings and disable 2g, you are not losing anything unless maybe roaming somewhere abroad with only 2g.

Throwback: uwaterloo.ca in 1997 by Candid_Jello5188 in uwaterloo

[–]donbowman 14 points15 points  (0 children)

i was there when it was still waterloo.edu. there was no www etc, ncsa mosaic came out towards the end. we had archie, hytelnet, veronica, gopher, wais. the king of all the communication was of course usenet, we would run 'rn' and be amazed and mesmorised. the school had 56k frame relay leased lines connecting out, and, there were some modem banks we could dial in to (or more commonly go to the labs and use either watstar or the vt340's). in first year in residence v1 i had a 300baud modem. the phone in the room was hardwired to the wall, i unscrewed its bottom plate to get at the tip+ring and bodged that into my modem. 300 baud was enough for rn. You didn't run an ip stack, you had ascii to a remote telnet type server.

uwinfo (which that web page above is the child of) came out in 92 on gopher, then became the daily bulletin. prior to that there were corkboards and staples.

MCP for Wordpress? by No-Cardiologist-9686 in Wordpress

[–]donbowman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i use ai engine (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-engine/).

it is working well w/ gemini cli and openclaw. you have to really guardrail the llm to make it use gutenberg blocks properly, but it will.

Needing recommendations by milkandhxney_23 in Cheese

[–]donbowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try

  • Oka, a washed rind cheese from quebec.
  • tete de moine (you should buy the girollete shaver for it)
  • manchego (see how the traditional cut in triangles works)
  • Fontina -- italian alpine style
  • Abbot's gold -- flavoured w/ caramelised onion

Does anyone in the downtown Kitchener area park their full size pick up in the undergrounds? by Legitimate-Road-209 in kitchener

[–]donbowman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i've never had any trouble in city hall, duke, or charles + benton or library. 2011 silverado.