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A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by kazen44 »

amelius wrote: post #9

Why use a proprietary stack for building this when there is a far more capable open ecosystem available at your fingertips? https://huggingface.co/models?other=human-pose-estimation https://huggingface.co/models?other=3d-human-mesh-recovery

do any more open applications like this exist? The idea seems great

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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xfactorial wrote: post #3

I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me. Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well). Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.

Notarization is mostly a glorified malware scan. There's no Apple engineer auditing what's being sent for notarization. Even clever malware can evade notarization scans and be distributed as a notarized binary, it has happened in the past [0]

There's no better way for auditing such an app than having the code easily available and looking through it, and compiling it yourself. Which is already the case here.

[0] https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/new-macsync-macos-stealer-...

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