Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Gribnit said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
2023: The Year Of Horses On The Desktop
Way ahead of you.
Do they react to windows and such like good old eSheep?
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@Tsaukpaetra Good thing I have so many windows open that I never see my desktop.
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@Parody said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Gribnit said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
2023: The Year Of Horses On The Desktop
Way ahead of you.
Do they react to windows and such like good old eSheep?
Pretty sure they do.
@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Tsaukpaetra Good thing I have so many windows open that I never see my desktop.
They are above the desktop.
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Tsaukpaetra Good thing I have so many windows open that I never see my desktop.
The only desktop I ever see is the wooden kind that my computers rest on.
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From Wumo
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Tsaukpaetra Good thing I have so many windows open that I never see my desktop.
Soon.
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I haven't watched this, and I don't like coffee, so I don't care if it's good, bad, or evil, but I'm sure some of you will be intrigued and/or offended:
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@boomzilla Working our way towards Snow Crash, one little baby step at a time.
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@ixvedeusi Juggalos are already pretty much immune to facial recognition, for another sign of technological dystopia.
Juggalos sui generis for another sign of dystopia sui generis
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@boomzilla damn, he didn't mention cocaine until the second sentence. Must've been having a down day.
he's like a 19th century Dr. Roxxo
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@boomzilla It sounds like the type of thing that will force companies (e.g. Comcast) to take steps that will ultimately be bad for the customers.
Almost every rule in the world exists because someone abused a loophole.
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@jinpa said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
It sounds like the type of thing that will force companies (e.g. Comcast) to take steps that will ultimately be bad for the customers.
As if companies like Comcast needed any excuse to take steps that are bad for the customers
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@boomzilla much safer than the "lean a whiskey bottle against the TV and..." variant, but not as much fun.
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That's garbage. It's missing the retention clip.
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@Gustav yeah...charcoal grill inside is definitely a bad idea.
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@boomzilla Eh, what's a little carbon monoxide between friends?
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@HardwareGeek calm down. Get some sleep.
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@boomzilla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Gustav yeah...charcoal grill inside is definitely a bad idea.
Not too bad for storage. (Or on it's way to or from storage.)
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@dkf said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@boomzilla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Gustav yeah...charcoal grill inside is definitely a bad idea.
Not too bad for storage. (Or on it's way to or from storage.)
Although CO does render persons requiring storage eventually more labile, there can be opposite reactions (dosage dependent) in the short term, it does not act as a preservative, and no means of recovering persons so stored is currently known.
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@jinpa alright, they're getting worse.
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@jinpa I used a small script (done with, uh, can't remember which scripting language it was I found that day) to do that for years, because our IT had set a ridiculously low timer before locking the screen (something like 1 or 2 min) and it kept triggering when I was just staring at my screen trying to figure out a bug.
(it was on Windows but I also wanted to do the same on Linux to allow reading a long article while just scrolling with the mouse wheel as IIRC for some arcane X11 reason (there are probably things about that in some of jwz rants about
xscreensaver
) the mouse wheel event is (was?) not classified like other "user activity" events)I always idly wondered about physical devices to do that, and while I'm not surprised that they exist, I'm surprised by the price. The two models in TFA are around $100 (despite TFA saying $30-50), that's quite a lot! (the USB thingies are cheaper)
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@remi Price is determined a lot by how many they make. There's not much demand for them, so there's not much competition or economies of scale.
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If you don't want to buy a mouse-jiggling device, you can use a cat.
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@Zerosquare Unfortunately it does not work very well. The jiggling has to be bootstrapped manually every time, and it times out fairly quickly.
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@loopback0 said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Definitely a good idea.
… though I'd just use a rounded consulation rate for everybody (by position) to avoid arguments about who makes how much and that it's showing sensitive information.
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@Zerosquare said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
If you don't want
to buya mouse-jiggling device, you can use a cat.
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Zerosquare Unfortunately it does not work very well. The jiggling has to be bootstrapped manually every time, and it times out fairly quickly.
But they will sit on the keyboard and endlessly generate random characters. Which might empty your bank account (see story about the fish).
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The wage gap thread is .
Don't worry. Everything is normal. Olivia is a man and Alex is a woman.
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@remi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The two models in TFA are around $100 (despite TFA saying $30-50), that's quite a lot! (the USB thingies are cheaper)
The fuck? I made a mouse jiggler with a piece-of-shit Arduino for like $9...
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The wage gap thread is .
You need seniority and market data to make any headway there. It's a common surname so you can't tell if they're even in the same timezone.
I'm more interested in the complexities due to people being paid in different currencies and the possibility of differential charges for meetings at unsociable hours. Yes, that means handling both money and the worst parts of time parsing in the same codebase...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The fuck? I made a mouse jiggler with a piece-of-shit Arduino for like $9...
Here's a business opportunity for you. Except I would recommend making a slightly different device.
Don't want to work today? Hate your IT services? Just plug in @Tsaukpaetra's Magic USB Stick™. It'll instantly create myriads of perplexing computer problems that will drive your IT services crazy while you relax.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@remi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The two models in TFA are around $100 (despite TFA saying $30-50), that's quite a lot! (the USB thingies are cheaper)
The fuck? I made a mouse jiggler with a piece-of-shit Arduino for like $9...
I assume you made it emulate a mouse instead of physically jiggling one. Plugging programmable kit to work laptops is probably against the security policy in any place where the screen savers have been locked to short minutes.
Not that you couldn't make a physical mouse-jiggler from a DC motor and some wood. But I don't see a use for an Arduino in one of those.
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@Zerosquare said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The fuck? I made a mouse jiggler with a piece-of-shit Arduino for like $9...
Here's a business opportunity for you. Except I would recommend making a slightly different device.
Don't want to work today? Hate your IT services? Just plug in @Tsaukpaetra's Magic USB Stick™. It'll instantly create myriads of perplexing computer problems that will drive your IT services crazy while you relax.
You mean these?
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Those are primitive tools that simply fry the machine. Tsaukpaetra's Magic USB Stick™ is much more advanced. It's capable of creating a whole range of hardware and software issues, from "just slightly broken" to "how the hell is that even possible?!".
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@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I assume you made it emulate a mouse instead of physically jiggling one.
Virtual devices are a thing; you could write a service which identifies as a second mouse and jiggles the cursor without involving hardware at all.
@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Not that you couldn't make a physical mouse-jiggler from a DC motor and some wood. But I don't see a use for an Arduino in one of those.
I think I'd dig into my lego technic collection and build something to oscillate a tile front of the sensor. I suspect that would be more reliable than moving the mouse itself around, since I'd need to move less weight.
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Have they invented jiggler detection software yet?
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Status: My mouse don't jiggle jiggle....
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Have they invented jiggler detection software yet?
Social media has been trying and failing spectacularly at this very task.
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Idea: record mouse movements from real users and from various mouse jiggling devices and scripts. Train AI to discriminate between the two. Ride AI buzzword wave and sell for $$$ to large companies.
Edit: and on the side train another AI to generate mouse movements that fool the first one. It slightly misses peak GAN buzzwordiness, but maybe it's worth a few $$ as an app to some people regardless.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@remi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The two models in TFA are around $100 (despite TFA saying $30-50), that's quite a lot! (the USB thingies are cheaper)
The fuck? I made a mouse jiggler with a piece-of-shit Arduino for like $9...
But was it an enterprise mouse jiggler?