If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time?<p>I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of boredom.
This reminds me of the old boss key:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key</a>
Looks like it doesn't work anymore, but at one point someone styled reddit to look like you were reading a Word document: <a href="https://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/" rel="nofollow">https://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/</a>
If you have a web camera and use Windows, you can use this thing I wrote forever ago:<p><a href="https://rearviewmirror.cc/" rel="nofollow">https://rearviewmirror.cc/</a>
Do modern notebooks still have vibration sensors? I think old ones had them in the hard drives, to protect them from damage. But SSDs wouldn't need that anymore.<p>In any case, I wonder if detecting vibrations and recognizing the boss via machine learning wouldn't be more elegant.
A version of this that's somehow aware of whether or not I'm at my desk, then puts the machine to sleep anytime anyone else touches a key would be kind of cool.<p>Maybe some kind of proximity sensor that you could stick to a badge or in your wallet? It would need to still allow you to login and perhaps offer a password to disable in case you forgot your sensor, but seems vaguely plausible?<p>EDIT: Read more of the usage guide, seems even more plausible now, although I guess it all depends on the reliability of the proximity sensor.
The YouTube channel being watched in the GIF is Technology Connections. Excellent quirky technical content about old hardware.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q</a>
He's watching Technology Connections on you tube, which is an excellent choice. Highly recommended.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q</a>
I remember some guy at Verizon outsourcing his entire job to china. He was consistently getting top marks and promotions while all he was doing was looking at cat pictures all day.<p>Daytripper is level 1. Outsourcing your job to China is level 2.<p>Something just clicked in my head. Start up idea!
Is this really a ubiquitous thing in the US? Office jobs were you are paid for having your body present, regardless of whether you slack off most of the time?<p>Who pays for this? Isn't it terribly inefficient?<p>I mean, if there's just not a lot of work to do, you could also have shorter work weeks. And you would, if your boss could trust you to not slack off every time they turn their backs?<p>Wouldn't it be more logical to do your work and <i>then</i> have actual time off, instead of pretending the work takes much longer than it actually does?
I could see real uses for these, but I'd want questions answered first such as whether they're specifically paired, where the programming is stored, what data passes wirelessly, whether there could be any way the receiver could act as an open HID receiver device, what the number of triggers is, etc.
I wonder how far you could get at doing this with no additional hardware. Could a smart enough AI detect the boss's voice with the microphone? Some other mannerism like the way they clear their throat? Face detection with the camera? Maybe something with Bluetooth or WiFi and the boss's smart phone?
This is amazing, and I also would like to make a meta comment about how creative "dekuNukem" is as a screen name.<p>Re: custom script, can I plug the receiver into, say, a RP0 and fire off an arbitrary webhook?
There always comes times when there is not much happening development is going on.
In my earlier company due to the same situation, I started contributing an open-source project and build side projects.
Anyone here know of a timing- and cryptographically-secured laser tripwire? I've tried it before, but it seems like there's some work involved in tuning these things just right.
Couldn't you do the same thing with a sonic range finder? That wouldn't require a receiver, so you could put everything onto the one USB device.
what's the advantage of using two laser sensors vs a single IR sensor for the motion detection? (other than the badass Mission Impossible factor)<p>edit: I'll leave this comment for posterity, but I previously misunderstood the meanings of the Tx and Rx sensors
The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills, and all of this time I assumed he was working on assigned tasks.<p>EDIT: spelling
I bet Ross Ulbricht wishes he had this.<p>(context) <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-arrest-of-silk-road-mastermind-ross-ulbricht-2015-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessinsider.com/the-arrest-of-silk-road-mast...</a>
It still amazes me, to this day, that people have jobs where they have the time to screw around on their computer all day. How do these jobs continue to exist?