So can I just use the OBS virtual camera with a video of somebody waving
Fuck that
Jokes on them, I have no webcam.
Me either…
But you do have a cellphone with camera and mic
Absolutely not. Go fuck yourselves. There’s not a person in the world who I would do this for.
Came to say this. I’m not uploading my ID so I can check my emails. I’m not turning on a camera so I can log into a website.
Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers
- https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
- https://grapheneos.org/ * https://postmarketos.org/
- https://www.fairphone.com/ * https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
- https://librewolf.net/ * https://www.waterfox.com/
- https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox * https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
- https://www.ecosia.org/ * https://qwant.com/ * https://searxng.org/
- https://immich.app/ * https://nextcloud.com/
- https://www.comaps.app/ + https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
- https://signal.org/ * https://element.io/en
- https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
- https://bitwarden.com/ * https://joplinapp.org/
- https://www.qobuz.com/
- https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ * https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
- https://tuta.com/secure-email
degoogle for privacy
still use AI chatbot
Bruh
I think such an all-or-nothing mindset is exactly why people are staying on megacorp services. Besides, Mistral is much more transparent about its data collection, unlike Google, which makes you disable all chat history if you want to prevent training on your inputs.
What is your use case for LLMs?
My mindset is all-or-nothing because I have yet to find a use for LLMs. Enlighten me, please.
AI chats are pretty good for finding leads on unknown unknowns when researching something new. Maybe it’s just because of how much worse search engines are now but theyre also pretty good for troubleshooting when you don’t have good keywords to narrow down the search effectively.
All-or-nothing mindset people usually do not comment because they want to be helpful. They are a nuisance.
What do you use AI for?
To block trolls on the internet.
Finding sea lions.
I generally favor local LLM usage, but I will sometimes use Kagi’s assistant tools. I trust them to throw out my data a fuckton more than I do Google.
A locally run LLM is a different story, one that I’m slightly note open to, but “trusting” any corp is how we got here. To me degoogling isn’t just about moving away from Google but about removing myself from any nonessential service and limiting the data I share with essential services.
I also just plain don’t know what I’d use any LLM for.
I also just plain don’t know what I’d use any LLM for.
PewDiePie has been on a tear lately with recommending everybody switch to Linux and recently experimenting with LLMs. He put out a legit good local LLM project that showcases the different kinds of things you can do with a model.
My biggest LLM use cases have been:
- A replacement for search, since you typically need multiple searches and multiple sources to get the information you need
- Code generation, because it’s so good at producing entire fully-featured utilities or just let it spin away at implementing some new functionality
- Helping me out with some random Linux error or difficulty, because support forums are fucking garbage
Fuck you, Google.
Oh I’m gonna wave some stuff at them.
Don’t have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.
Don’t worry, it will ask you to scan a QR code to complete the verification on your phone.
No phone. Now what?
You’re shit out of luck
Jokes aside don’t give them ideas
They already do this
Yeah and they enroll any phone against your will too. Last month google randomly decided an android VM I spun up for like ten minutes then deleted was my primary device and wanted me to use it to log in.
What’s the joke?
That made me chuckle
I always buy the cheapest phone and usually they dont have built in qr code scanner. My current phone doesnt. And no, im not downloading some shitty feature-stuffed adware app just to scan qr codes
Slightly off topic, but if you need a QR code scanner there are really good open source ones available on F-Droid. Such is SecScanQR which I have been using for quite a while.
If you need a utility app chances are an open source one already exists. Avoid crapware from the Play Store.
Web cam? I don’t have one on my computer, what now?
So what’s stopping me from using OBS as a virtual camera and feeding it a stream of stock footage of someone waving their hand?
This…
If I have to do face verification at some point I am using a pic of Harold. I am almost 70.
It can try, but I’m not doing that. I will stop using everything that requires it.
Yep. If the web requires ID to do anything I will only use it for banking and shit I already give my ID to. For everything else I’ll just pirate, or use tor/I2P until they lock me up.
All these fascist criminal pedophiles that want to control us can suck a big fat bag of dicks.
Yep. We’ll make our own internet. And it won’t have recaptcha
Me neither… So are people like us just going to make our own internet or what? Because it’s getting kind of hard not having access to 90% of things without logging in anymore.
Can the AI identify which finger I’m waving too?
Privacy nightmare aside, is it just me or does this sound a lot less secure than the find the bus bullshit they do now? Seems like it would be much easier for a bot to generate a realistic looking hand wave than interpret increasingly obscure photo puzzles.
Well right. But they can’t collect your photo and other data that way.
Waving is something robots already could in the 80s.
That’s it, I’m rewatching Short Circuit now
For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.
Same!
