>have a doctors appointment
>ask to do a phone appointment
>they said no and that it had to be over zoom
>say i dont have a webcam (lie, i just dont want my face to be shown over spyware)
>they say that in order to access their (medical) services they need a webcam
>come up with an idea
>make the quality so bad that its useless
>technically have a webcam with my face
>write an ffmpeg script that heavily compresses and shrinks the video
>it works

Get owned losers.
Also, backup plans:
>if they ask me to switch webcams i have a second one i can use with the same script that will look different but have the same "problem"
>my story is that on my end it looks fine, so i need to make fake screenshots of the webcam looking correct ahead of time
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@w
> make fake screenshots of the webcam looking correct
Won't this involve showing your face over spyware? 🤔

@m0xee Not if the screenshots don't have my face. I can frame them to avoid that.

@w They might not believe it's okay on your end in this case 😉

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@w But other than that — a solid plan!

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