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Back in January, OpenClaw's wild rise triggered a nation-wide Mac mini shortage and a record number of security advisories. But just last week, Peter Steinberger spoke about fixing its vulnerabilities to a room full of devs at AI Engineer Europe, and he convinced me to give it another shot.

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- The state of OpenClaw
- Fixing OpenClaw's security issues
- Real-life OpenClaw project

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A humorous walkthrough of setting up OpenClaw (an AI personal assistant platform) on a VPS via Hostinger to automate responses to family tech support requests. The setup involves configuring a Telegram bot, customizing the agent's personality via a soul.md file, integrating ElevenLabs for voice cloning, and using ffmpeg to convert audio responses — all to deflect printer-fixing questions from relatives.

I finally found a use case for OpenClaw…