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Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

#14

Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window. Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an o…

Reminds me of http://hackertyper.com/ where you can pretend to program if someone comes around.

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

#16

Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window. Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an o…

I remember back in the 90's there were some pretty high-profile computer games that had "boss keys" where you could smack F1 or something and the game would pause and the screen would show a spreadsheet. Can anyone remember any of them?

leisure suit larry, for one.

being a child at the time of its release, the boss key made absolutely no sense to me. neither did any of the humor in the game.

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

#17
post #7

It makes me sad when WebExtensions are limited to Chrome for no real reason :(

70% market share is reason enough. Start with chrome, and if there's traction, port to other browsers

>port to other browsers

Except it requires literally no 'porting' at all: it runs fine out of the box without modification https://lol768.com/i/ReveilleAgitationsIncurablesBicyclist

This is just laziness.

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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post #5

Genius! My old employer blocked Netflix though. I didn't want to watch movies, but they had some interesting looking machine learning blog articles that I couldn't read

One of my old eployers did the same and so I resorted to using one of those convert url to pdf sites to read the such blogs.

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

#19

Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window. Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an o…

Reminds me of http://hackertyper.com/ where you can pretend to program if someone comes around.

Please note, .net is the real original hacker typer without ads I made a long time ago

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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post #11

anyone have any clue what the mschf.xyz/venmo link at the bottom is about? a little skeptical about the concept of being paid (a nominal sum?) via venmo as a substitute to an email newsletter subscription. for example, how would I unsubscribe?

people are more likely to check their venmo push notifs than email

i suppose you could just block them to unsubscribe?

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