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hi author here, Screenmind is privacy first Microsoft recall alternative . It runs on gemma 4 which is one of the fewer models supporting vision audio and reasoning all 3, so your data never leaves you machine.

With screenmind you can keep a track of your timeline , how much time you spent on what..search any screenshot with any text on it.. and the coolest thing, you can chat with your screen history, like what did alex texted me on discord or did i received any mail from Microsoft, if it was on your screen , you can prompt it in the cha. and also you can make automations on top of it, like send me my whole day report on slack(it has integrations )..you can also write automation either though plain English for not so coders or use the python for devs who want to deep dive, and you can save voice memos(with a screenshot) with just a hotkey, and get you meeting transcribed and summarised(auto detects meeting)

the hardest part which i faced was keep running screenmind as a background service it would not have been not hard if chat feature didn't existed, as running local model requires compute ..and keep analyzing screenshots continuously will keep all the resouces hogged up for that i came up with a perceptual has cache .. the three tier cache system reduces inference upto 40% for an average user(which is me)..and to reduce the inference time more i came up with three modes..fast balanced and accurate..where the tradeoff is between time and accuracy

for now i use it daily on my 4gb gtx 1650 with fast mode, works pretty fine also it would be much faster on high end machine , it also has a mcp server so you can just ask claude desktop/cursor about the bug you saw in morning..

supports windows/mac/Linux

being upfront about rough edges , it is not extensively tested on mac and installation has some friction , for which i m working on one click installer thing

(reposting- i put up an earlier version a few months back, comments got flagged cuz of new account so couldn't reply to any )

repo:github.com/ayushh0110/ScreenMind

curious about anyone have idea for how to approach multi monitor support

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Hello HN! For a detailed list of protections provided by Privacy Magic, please see the README (along with the source code) at https://github.com/littletechllc/privacymagic-extension/

You can try the extension on desktop Chrome here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-magic/coboj...

I would be very grateful for feedback! I plan to continuously improve the privacy and usability of Privacy Magic.

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Just hit this today and I'm furious. I installed the Cursor iOS app to see what it had.

I've been on `Privacy Mode (Legacy)` for a long time, which is the "Do not store my code" setting. A year or so ago they marked this as "Legacy" and hid it under a "Extra options" menu. They added a new Privacy Mode which is significantly more wishy-washy about what it might store - it includes a clause of "Code may be stored for Background Agents or Other Features", so I've never touched it or wanted to enable it.

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Upon installing and logging in to the iOS app, my account was changed to the softer Privacy Mode and the previous setting I was on has disappeared from all menus. I contacted support and they've said:

> Really sorry about this. When you set up the mobile app, the prompt to turn on Cloud Agents switched you from Privacy Mode (Legacy) to our current Privacy Mode,

> without making clear what that meant or that it's hard to undo. That wasn't right, and we're working on making that prompt clearer.

>

> To be straight with you: I'm not able to switch your account back to Privacy Mode (Legacy). The option to move back isn't available in the app today.

So just a PSA I guess; do not install or set up the app if you want to keep your privacy settings.

I honestly don't understand how it's legal to make logging into the iOS app change your privacy settings at all. Making the option then disappear from all menus so you can't get it back is doubly ridiculous.

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