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Author here. I own LinuxToaster and wrote this after getting frustrated with every AI tool asking me to move into its interface. The short version: Unix survived 40 years because s…

But wait.. there's even more.. Jam did a great job with its times and while. But sometimes you want map, so we wrote a couple more command line utilities: imessage bot toast "reply…

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Fair. The posts have all been from our blog, because that's where I write. I'll make a point of submitting other things I find interesting too. In the meantime, happy to discuss th…

After reading the guidelines... This IS the original source. I wrote it. The guidelines explicitly ask for this. A post about supply chain attacks, the economics of open source, an…

Management is cargo culting the tooling without grasping what AI is actually good at. Because they don't look at it. Meanwhile smart blue collar guys are only limited by their will…

Fair point. The article doesn't mention LinuxToaster's products — the curiosity here is about the future of open source, not promotion. For what it's worth, toastd does what LiteLL…

Author here. I run LinuxToaster, a set of commercial Unix tools for the AI era. This started as notes after watching the LiteLLM compromise unfold in real time — 94 million monthly…

Author. Esther was right about the bots indexing the wreckage. She just didn't know she'd be the wreckage. HN (native app + web), Discord, Facebook, LinkedIn, Lemmy, TikTok, Bing, …

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Author here. Good points. We renamed to UnixClaw — too many NoClaw namespace collisions. On the .tools gap: you wouldn't put `rm` in .tools. The tools are purpose-built — `kal` tal…

Author here. Now renamed to UnixClaw. We wrote small C CLI tools that bridge Unix pipes to native macOS apps — Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, iMessage, email. Combined with toast (…

Relevant timing: the NemoClaw thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427027 ) has a lot of discussion about whether sandboxing solves OpenClaw's security problems. We thin…

NVIDIA's answer to OpenClaw's security problems is to add more layers. LinuxToaster's answer is to use fewer: https://linuxtoaster.com/blog/noclaw.html