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Devil's advocate: That is mentioned in a section of what they aren't trying to do in this repo. That said, I agree that is something this will inevitably be used for and wish for a day that will probably never come where technology isn't sending us head first into a fairly dystopian future.
We don't stab people not because we don't have knives, but because of laws and penalties. It's always been possible to spy on employees, well before AI/LLMs.
... or because I don't want to stab people.

My dad told me once "Son. You don't get in trouble if you don't get caught". He was in real life expressing annoyance at having to punish me for something dumb, but my preferred interpretation is that morality transcends law.

Maybe a jest at those who are self-employed..?
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The (post) title mentions a Rust library, I see code in TypeScript, and the installation instructions involve Python. Frankly, I am confused.

EDIT: To make it clear, my point is that the description could have been clearer, especially regarding the Python dependency.

The library is written in Rust, can be used (via WASM) in Typescript and uses an OCR API which is running locally on a python server
GitHub shows a chart of which languages are used in a repo. It’s clearly majority Rust.
I just use python temporarily for the OCR. But the plan is to implement Apple Vision & other OS native impl
FWIW, I have been working on a variation that is supposed to be eventually on a similar topic, but it is confined to a specific terminal - https://github.com/ayourtch/prompter

For the time being it doesn’t do much other than intercepting the input/output, and is a bit buggy at that - so, no LLM there :)

But posting anyhow in case it can be useful for someone to avoid reinventing the plumbing.

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I feel like they meant it in a more tongue in cheek manner given right above that they said that kind of tool will not be built into theirs?
You are quoting out of context. OP has "UI to spy on your employees" on a list of "interfaces" that are "out of scope" of OP's project.

Why so quick to condemn?