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System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

39 points by handfuloflight

by danw1979

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Anything where an LLM has access to the shell on my personal laptop isn’t “secure” even if you do some hand waving around a split architecture.

by netsharc

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Seems like it needs higher level stuff, although that's a bit too sci-fi. Captain Picard can just ask "Computer, where is Commander Riker?" and the computer answers him, he doesn't need to say "Computer, launch people finder app" and "Computer, input 'Commander Riker' in the people finder app"...
I use Google Assistant for things like "add a reminder", "set an alarm", which is natural language processing but doesn't seem to need so many neurons as LLM. And faster than this Gemini crap, anyway.
I saw a social media clip of a woman in the passenger car of a Chinese car (her - presumably husband - is driving) asking the car "Has there been a woman in this car other than me?". The car seems to have an LLM app, because it responds saying "I can't see that", and then start giving tips how to find out (check the recent addresses list in th navigation, check the trips log if there has been long trips, see if the car is cleaner than he usually maintains it), and ending with talking about trust and communication in a relationship...
Hah, in our imagination we'd get KITT from Knight Rider. In reality...

by nancarrow

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love how clearly vibecoded this is. the cloudflare worker architecture + the ascii diagram is a dead giveaway. nothing wrong with that, it's just really obvious.
the split architecture offers absolutely zero security benefits outside of not exposing a server process on your mac to the open internet (assuming you only let it connect to cloudflare) - it's just a convenient place to spin up a thin JS layer that calls model APIs and connects to your mac.
anyways i think this is a neat weekend vibecoding project but IMO it needs a lot more design thought to really be useful and not be a huge security issue.

by voidUpdate

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Is the LLM guaranteed not to have an existential crisis and delete large amounts of data?

by peaseagee

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Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not (and I'm in the latter camp to be honest), the docs page is _way_ too low contrast to be readable. I'm all for dark mode but I shouldn't have to be in a completely darkened room to be able to read the fine manual!

by simonw

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The tools.ts is the best file to read to understand what this thing can do - it's mainly shell and AppleScript stuff: https://github.com/ygwyg/system/blob/main/src/bridge/tools.t...
I don't trust this list of "safe commands": https://github.com/ygwyg/system/blob/b5adfe526da7470cade61f7...
It includes python3 and node under the heading "Dev tools (read-only)" - but I don't think "read-only" is enforced anywhere.

by juancn

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Isn't this a gimmick? (I mean, it's still impressive)
I don't want natural language, way too ambiguous and too much typing (or worse, talking).
90% of the things I do repeat frequently. Brevity is key for me.
I like formal syntaxes with well defined semantics.

by vivzkestrel

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- this requires you to keep your mac turned on when you are 1000 kms away from home
- i am still waiting for an agent that turns your mac automatically on when you are away and then lets you control the machine.
- perhaps a robot arm operated by cloudflare agents with opencv camera to detect where your switch is present and where the plug is present remote controlled would do the job?
- it can also unplug the device when you are done using it

by hmokiguess

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What got you to build this? It seems ok but I can’t think of when or why I would want this, feels like something iOS has natively through Siri and it syncs to Mac via iCloud

by michaelbuckbee

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This seems very cool, but I'm not sure of the utility of using CF workers for it? Is that just a framework or is this being deployed to the internet?

by codenlearn

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This is exactly what I was working on last week. You have beaten me to it. Amazing work now time for me to find a new project.

by ssivark

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Completely ignoring what it does, the naming is obnoxious.
Also, good luck to any user who tries to google for help.

by GavinNewsom

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