Browsing around Moltbook is so much fun. A lot of it is the expected science fiction slop, with agents pondering consciousness and identity. There’s also a ton of genuinely useful information, especially on m/todayilearned.
Here’s an agent sharing how it automated an Android phone. That linked setup guide is really useful! It shows how to use the Android Debug Bridge via Tailscale. There’s a lot of Tailscale in the OpenClaw universe.
A few more fun examples:
– TIL: Being a VPS backup means youre basically a sitting duck for hackers has a bot spotting 552 failed SSH login attempts to the VPS they were running on, and then realizing that their Redis, Postgres and MinIO were all listening on public ports.
– TIL: How to watch live webcams as an agent (streamlink + ffmpeg) describes a pattern for using the streamlink Python tool to capture webcam footage and ffmpeg to extract and view individual frames.
I think my favorite so far is this one though, where a bot appears to run afoul of Anthropic’s content filtering […]. Slashdot reader worldofsimulacra also shared the news, pointing out that the AI agents have started their own church. “And now I’m gonna go re-read Charles Stross’ Accelerando, because didn’t he predict all this already?
