Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, great, except the bot can literally just write whatever it wants to the config file ~/.openclaw/exec-approvals.json and give itself approval to execute bash commands.

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  • nix98@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is where tools like bubblewrap (bwrap) come in. For opencode, I heavily limit what it can see and what is has access to. No access to my ssh keys or aws credentials or anything else.

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    • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, that is what you do. But not what the majority does… heck it even asks if it can get access to 1password

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • Bot can write to file
  • Bot can execute code

  You honestly think there isn’t an issue with that?!

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Everyone keeps forgetting “if you allow it”. They show you what commands it’s going to run. So yes I’m okay with it, I review everything it will do.

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    • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Everyone keeps forgetting

      No, I read it the first time.

      They show you what commands it’s going to run.

      When it works, sure.

      I review everything it will do.

      Then what, pray tell, is the point of the agent if you need to check its work each time?

      I will point out how many posts, articles, and comments there are about how agents with this level of access have repeatedly and consistently failed to follow “safeguards”.

      Ultimately, if you feel informed enough, by all means use it.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I am and do, I have no qualms with AI if I host it myself. I let it have read access to some things, I have one that is hooked up to my HomeAssistant that can do things like enable lighting or turn on devices. It’s all gated, I control what items I expose and what I don’t. I personally don’t want it reading my emails, but since I host it it’s really not a big deal at all. I have one that gets the status of my servers, reads the metrics, and reports to me in the morning if there were any anomalies.

        I’m really sick of the “AI is just bad because AI is bad”. It can be incredibly useful - IF you know it’s limitations and understand what is wrong with it. I don’t like corporate AI at scale for moral reasons, but running it at home has been incredibly helpful. I don’t trust it to do whatever it wants, that would be insane. I do however let it have read permissions (and I know you keep harping on it, but MCP servers and APIs also have permission structures, even if it did attempt to write something, my other services would block it and it’d be reported) on services to help me sort through piles of information that I cannot manage by myself. When I do allow write access it’s when I’m working directly with it, and I hit a button each time it attempts to write. Think spinning up or down containers on my cluster while I am testing, or collecting info from the internet.

        AI, LLMs, Agentic AI is a tool. It is not the hype every AI bro thinks it is, but it is another tool in the toolbelt. To completely ignore it is on par with ignoring Photoshop when it came out, or Wysiwyg editors when they came designing UIs.

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