I’ve been noticing a lot of counter-surveillance projects lately too. I.e. Flock-You, Chasing-You-Tail-NG, drone trackers. Most using ESP dev boards or rPis. The cardputer looks pretty cool too. Dunno if that stuff fits or not.

Would be less of an issue if everything wasn’t uploaded and analyzed by Meta, which will eventually be handed over to the feds and advertisers. If everything was done locally and not uploaded, there’s still the problem of it being like a “spy” cam. Lights can always be taped or painted over. There’s already been cases of people doing stuff like going to massage parlors and uploading the videos. There’s been reports of Meta employees and contractors having to analyze videos of people using the restroom, dressing/undressing, having sex (I assume these people didn’t realize they were recording, or they didn’t realize others would be able watch).

You really only need a little more RAM than your GPU’s VRAM (unless you’re doing CPU offloading, which is extremely slow). Otherwise, I did the same thing recently too, and was surprised I was able to get it a Qwen 9B to fix a bug in a script I had. I think Sonnet would’ve fixed in a lot fewer tries, but the 9B model was eventually able to fix it. I could’ve fixed it myself quicker and cleaner than both, but it was an interesting test.