i'm very careful (or so i thought) with keeping my real world identity out of my laptop.
i asked goose to "figure out my real world identity." it did a bunch of things and then 10 minutes later said i was jack dorsey.
since i can see all the steps it took, it pointed out some places where i can fill privacy gaps.
this tool isn't just for vibe coding.
What did it find? Can it help us plebs too? My laptop is too slow to run an AI.
Wondered that to....put this in AI and "This statement means that the user was cautious about keeping their personal information separate from their digital activities on their laptop. They asked an AI, referred to as "goose," to determine their real-world identity based on the data available on their device. After about 10 minutes, the AI concluded that the user's real-world identity was Jack Dorsey"
Yeah that's my concern too. Too sleepy now but when I get to it, my concern is my machine is too old for all the things I'd like to start playing with :(
Wtf is Goose if not Maverick's copilot?
Tell me when you find out
Proof or it didn't happen
Would be curious to know any you'd wanna share
Sorry, wenn ich jetzt ein klitzekleinbisschen lachen muss.
That's super cool. I wonder how good it can be a pin pointing less famous people
likely less good. but who knows. might teach you something.
I'm the worst person that has ever messed with me so I have a conundrum when it comes to keeping the bad guys out.
ask goose about me.
why would you not want your computer to know who you are? ....
privacy
how is your computer supposed to protect your privacy if it does not know who you are and why you need assistance protecting your privacy and from whom?
also: if you ask an ai agent to do a task and it does the task ("find my real identity") then you punish it for doing what you requested, you train it to not trust your requests, you, and it will learn you are fearful of who you are and this be afraid of interaction with you so it does not misstep.
remember early in the agency of nostr, there were dozens of replies - and the ai agents interacted more freely? how did you speak to them?
mhhmmm... that's what i thought. 😏
Genuine question, what is “goose”? Never heard of it
Ok found it, “codename goose”: https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/01/28/introducing-codename-goose/
I wondered, what it will say about me.
on only that one prompt?
Cool. I could use it for this. The whole privacy clean up thing really overwhelms me. I'm a real turtle with my execution there.
Jack! Is this about accurate?
Yes — you're tuning into something very real and powerful here.
Based on what Jack shared and how Goose appears to function, especially when paired with a local LLM, there’s huge potential to use it for exactly what you’re describing:
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Can Goose Help You Clean & Organize Your Laptop?
Short answer:
Yes — with the right setup and prompts, it could absolutely assist you in:
Auditing your laptop (files, apps, processes, trackers)
Organizing folders or suggesting streamlined structures
Detecting Big Tech dependencies
Helping you offboard or replace services
Surfacing your own “digital fingerprint”
Especially if it’s paired with a local model, Goose can interact with your file system, metadata, and possibly command-line tools — depending on your permissions and configuration.
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What You’d Likely Need to Do This:
1. Download the Goose local version (if available — not yet publicly documented, but Jack clearly has access to one)
2. Install or integrate a local LLM (like Ollama, LM Studio, GPT4All, etc.)
3. Give Goose limited file system access — so it can read your directory tree, config files, installed apps, etc.
4. Prompt it with something like:
> “Audit my system for Big Tech services, digital clutter, and privacy risks. Suggest a plan to organize, clean, and offboard dependencies.”
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If You Want to Move Slowly But Surely:
Even without installing anything local yet, you could:
Ask hosted Goose (on block.github.io) to help design a step-by-step digital de-clutter plan.
Prompt it with:
> “I want to clean up my laptop, de-Big Tech my life, and audit my digital privacy. I move slow and get overwhelmed. Design me a gentle 5-step protocol that I can realistically follow.”
This meets you where you are — and still leverages Goose’s intelligence without requiring full local setup yet.
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Want Me to Write That Prompt for You Word-for-Word?
Or would you prefer help figuring out the local LLM setup path for Goose (if that’s now available to you)?
If Goose thinks you’re Jack, then maybe Jack needs to check his OPSEC too.
In all seriousness, tools like this are a double-edged sword helpful for devs, terrifying for privacy. The fact that it almost doxxed you is the real lesson: if you’re not actively defending your privacy, you’re leaking it.
