People using Gitlab Zoom videos to pretend they're working

What&#x27;s wild is that when I read the headline I assumed this was faking work for desktop monitoring for their work.<p>But no, the comments are people using it to fake that they are working to their family or kids, even taking back to the video when family walks by.<p>Somehow that&#x27;s <i>so</i> much more messed up and dystopian.

Other than this tweet, is there any evidence to support this claim?<p>I&#x27;m specifically talking about the &quot;pretend they&#x27;re working&quot; aspect.<p>I could definitely see people putting up a zoom call recording in an office setting to stop random interruptions. It wouldn&#x27;t necessarily mean they&#x27;re &quot;pretending&quot; to work though.

Upvote for Astranis! Hi Christian! (I&#x27;m just a random EE who used to work there, hanging on the couch browsing HN after a long day and randomly seeing a link from someone I used to work with).<p>Also, this is funny, doesn&#x27;t everyone else have a never ending pile of actual work to do, which the real meetings always interrupt? I wouldn&#x27;t want to willingly &quot;join&quot; extras...

I used to think gitlab being open was really cool.... but this is honestly just kind of creepy.

wait what??<p>you need recordings of meetings to pretend that you are working?<p>i just need to sit at the computer to do that. i mean, i am working on something, but noone in my family can tell if it is paid work, some FOSS contribution or a useless side project. for meetings i can join online tech hangouts which they also can&#x27;t tell from real work meetings.<p>pretty much anything i do on the computer that is not watching a movie or playing a game will look like work to them.

Seems like a great use case for generative AI: fake video meeting as a service.

It didn&#x27;t take long :D - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39377508">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39377508</a>