It's not open source but used Axis cameras are pretty cheap and have rtsp and onvif support. Those mostly come from commercial installs and can be configured offline using a web interface.
Axis cameras are great. Their product support is awful.
Readit Newsrkagerer commented on Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras github.com/roryclear/clea... · Posted by u/roryclear
rkagerer commented on A privacy VPN you can verify vp.net/l/en-US/blog/Don%2... · Posted by u/MagicalTux
Hard disagree... not only is SGX deprecated and was also removed from recent processors due to security issues IIRC, it still can't prove that your requests are actually being served by the code they say they're running. The machine/keys you get back from their server could be from anywhere and might be completely unrelated.
Looks neat, but how can you tell the fingerprint the server returns was actually generated by the enclave server, and isn't just a hardcoded response to match the expected signature of the published code (or that you're not talking to compromised box that's simply proxying over a signature from a legit, uncompromised SGX container)?
rkagerer commented on A privacy VPN you can verify vp.net/l/en-US/blog/Don%2... · Posted by u/MagicalTux
Someone had a comment here that just disappeared, mentioning it's by Mark Karpelès (yes, the same guy from MtGox) and Andrew Lee. Why did that remark get deleted?
rkagerer commented on The beauty of a text only webpage albanbrooke.com/the-beaut... · Posted by u/speckx
Agreed. And by the way, I really love the simplicity of https://wordgag.com/ (even though it has some ads on it).
That popup at the bottom is gross, and there's a whole screen worth of ads to scroll by as soon as you get rid of it.
I'm sorry but your page is a prime example of web enshittification. It's the kind of site I immediately move on from.
rkagerer commented on The beauty of a text only webpage albanbrooke.com/the-beaut... · Posted by u/speckx
Mr. Buffett seems like the kind of guy that makes you shut your phone off during a meeting. When you're conducting 'serious business' in your Brooks Brothers suit and silk tie at the oaken table you'll have a real computer open anyway.
The "message from Warren Buffet" feels a bit slimey.
They already have ads on their landing page for the same thing. That extra message comes across like a used car salesman. He could have phrased it to be informative but in a somewhat more impartial writing style.
rkagerer commented on Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps · Posted by u/mahmoud-almadi
There isn't a viable computer use model that can be ran locally yet unfortunately. Am extremely excited for the day that happens though. Essentially the key capability that makes a model a computer use model is precise coordinate generation.
So if you come across a local model that can do that well, let us know! We're also keeping a close watch.
What would it take to train your own?
rkagerer commented on Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps · Posted by u/mahmoud-almadi
Are you referring to the LLM being used or where the actions (click, type, etc) are being executed? The actual actions can be executed on any windows machine, so the actual execution can take place locally on your device. The LLMs we're using right now are cloud LLMs. We haven't done an LLM self hosting option yet. Can I ask what reservations you have about running in the cloud? We have zero-date retention signed with our LLM vendors, so none of the data getting sent to them ever gets retained.
I'm talking about the LLM (and any other infrastructure involved). Reasons are:
- Pricing. If I grow to do this at scale, I don't want to be paying per-action, per-month, per-token, etc.
- Privacy. I don't want my data, screenshots, whatever being sent to you or the cloud AI providers.
- Control. I don't want to be vulnerable to you or other third parties going bankrupt, arbitrarily deciding to kill the product or it's dependencies, or restructuring plans/pricing/etc. I also want to be able to keep my day to day operations running even if there's a major cloud outage (that's one reason we're still using this "old fashioned", non-cloud software in the first place).
I think I'm simply not your target market.
I advise several companies who could be (they run "legacy" software with vast teams of human operators whose daily tasks include some portion of work that would be a good candidate for increased automation), but most of them are in a space where one or more of the above factors would be potential deal breakers.
The retention agreements between you and your vendors are great (I mean that sincerely), but I'm not party to them so they don't do anything for me. If you offered a contractual agreement with some teeth in it (eg. underwritten or bond-backed to the tune of several digits, committing to specific security-related measures that are audited, with a tacit acknowledgement any proven breach of contract in and of itself constitutes damages) it could go a long way to address the privacy issues.
In terms of pricing it feels like the core of your product is an outside vendor's computer-operating AI model, and you've written a prompt wrapper and plumbing around it that ferries screenshots and directives back and forth. This could be totally awesome for a small scale customer that wants to dip their toes into AI automation and try it out as a turnkey solution. But the moat doesn't seem very big, and I'd need to be convinced it's a really slick solution in order to favour that route instead of rolling my own wrapper.
Please don't take this the wrong way, it's just one datapoint of feedback and I do wish you luck with your venture.
rkagerer commented on Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps · Posted by u/mahmoud-almadi
Personally I think this approach is flawed because it runs in the cloud. If it were an agent I could run locally I'd be much more interested.
Tried this search: What is an sbert embedding?
Google still gave me a better result: https://towardsdatascience.com/sbert-deb3d4aef8a4/
Nevertheless this project looks great and I'd love to see it continue to improve.