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A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by IshKebab »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #7
xfactorial wrote: post #3

I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me. Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well). Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.

While I disagree with you, thank you for sharing your decision-making process: you're probably not the only one who thinks this way. In general, would you pay for a notorised build of free software, if you had use for that software, even if an un-notorised build or the source code were available?

I seriously doubt that he actually would. And in that unlikely event he'd be in a miniscule minority. Not a good open source monetisation strategy.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by hashmap »

blauditore wrote: post #13

Does anyone ever reach a high level of productivity with correct posture? I can't.

if im not sitting on my right foot with left knee under my chin my thinking takes a hit, but i also have to constantly switch how im sitting so i dont get annoyed. its hard not to slouch/melt into whatever im sitting on and i think the only way to offset all that is the gym.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by louthy »

blauditore wrote: post #13

Does anyone ever reach a high level of productivity with correct posture? I can't.

Sure, but getting the right environment is a prerequisite. In my case it’s a Herman Miller Embody chair [1] that stops me getting into a bad position (it’s not impossible, it just encourages good posture).

[1] https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/office-c...

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by esskay »

louthy wrote: post #33
blauditore wrote: post #13

Does anyone ever reach a high level of productivity with correct posture? I can't.

Sure, but getting the right environment is a prerequisite. In my case it’s a Herman Miller Embody chair [1] that stops me getting into a bad position (it’s not impossible, it just encourages good posture). [1] https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/office-c...

Totally a tangent here but it amazes me how a company as big as Herman Miller could screw a product page up so much by not even having a picture of the damn product.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by StilesCrisis »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #27
xpasky wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's literally a single .swift file. Ask your LLM to audit it.

then I need to get someone to audit the LLM, which is considerably more difficult

Do you expect this programmer is in cahoots with Anthropic?

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by duckruu »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #21

I'm not sure how you can use a laptop with good posture. An external monitor at the right height seems like a necessity. I'm also optimistic about monitors in the form of glasses- even less effort needed to set yourself up for perfect posture. But the sweet spot problem is still very much a thing from what I've seen- can't wait until it's normal for them to have eye tracking, foveated rendering and streaming, and be…

My Apple Vision Pro has all that, and it’s perfect for posture when using a MacBook.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by gcanyon »

VadimPR wrote: post #12

How can you tell if a short person is slouching? Or a tall person?

I'm not the author, but I assume it benchmarks the highest height of your head, blurs from there, and updates its baseline if you ever appear higher.

Meaning that the way to have "perfect posture" is never to sit up straight in the first place :-)

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by burnerthrow008 »

alin23 wrote: post #17
xfactorial wrote: post #3

I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me. Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well). Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.

Notarization is mostly a glorified malware scan. There's no Apple engineer auditing what's being sent for notarization. Even clever malware can evade notarization scans and be distributed as a notarized binary, it has happened in the past [0] There's no better way for auditing such an app than having the code easily available and looking through it, and compiling it yourself. Which is already the case here. [0] https…

Your link says that Apple revoked the certificate used to sign the malware by the time the story was published.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by hypeatei »

esskay wrote: post #34
louthy wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but getting the right environment is a prerequisite. In my case it’s a Herman Miller Embody chair [1] that stops me getting into a bad position (it’s not impossible, it just encourages good posture). [1] https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/office-c...

Totally a tangent here but it amazes me how a company as big as Herman Miller could screw a product page up so much by not even having a picture of the damn product.

Something might be wrong with your client (ad-blocker, NoScript maybe?) because there a ton of pictures on that page.
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