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Re: Daytripper

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Post by [deleted] »

momokoko wrote: post #72
war1025 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you are salaried, you are paid to solve problems, not run out the clock. Personally, I often have what I suppose you could think of as a "priority queue" of things going on in my head. Some of those may not be work related. If I have something "high priority" that I cannot get my mind off of, it is to everyone's benefit that I take care of that item so I can get on to work-related tasks. I think being distra…

> It is just incredibly difficult to be actively providing value for a full work day. Then go home? Otherwise you are just lying to your employer and perpetuating a false pretense that their employees are being productive for a full day. If I'm not being productive and I can't finish any more work, I just go home. I don't sit there and lie about what I'm doing and pretend to be doing something I'm not. I should clari…

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Re: Daytripper

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Post by tptacek »

Fnoord wrote: post #80
tptacek wrote: post #40

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Start by not relying on Full Disk Encryption, which you should absolutely have enabled but should probably, from an OPSEC perspective, pretend does not exist. On modern operating systems you can generally mount and unmount virtual encrypted volumes that are open (ideally) only when you're actually using them to do work with their contents. There used to be a great macOS tool, called Knox, that did this graphically.

> On modern operating systems you can generally mount and unmount virtual encrypted volumes that are open (ideally) only when you're actually using them to do work with their contents. There used to be a great macOS tool, called Knox, that did this graphically. Cryptomator [1], cross-platform as well. [1] https://cryptomator.org/

The nice thing about Knox is that it just wrapped macOS's built in XTS support. XTS sucks, but you didn't have to think much about what Knox itself was doing. Cryptomator implemented their own FUSE filesystem, and it's a strange collection of SIV, CTR, HMAC, and scrypt. I should like it a lot because I generally like filesystem encryption, but I'd have to actually read it carefully before using it.

There's a Cure53 "audit" of it, like for everything else, but to give a sense of how reliable it was, they flagged ECB mode... in the project's implementation of SIV mode.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by adrianmonk »

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?

Re: Daytripper

#104

Post by SketchySeaBeast »

hinkley wrote: post #49
the_watcher wrote: post #10

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. 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? EDIT: Read more of the usage…

There used to be variations on this that tied to your smart phone or watch. I don't recall if this is currently supported by iOS. But I got a Symbian phone shortly before working at a place where you had to keep your desktop locked at all times. There was an app that would lock your desktop on loss of Bluetooth connection at that time BT range was for all practical purposes less than 30 feet.

Did it care if there was activity on your machine? I always worry about the system failing with these sorts of things.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by nf8nnfufuu »

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.

In any case, I wonder if detecting vibrations and recognizing the boss via machine learning wouldn't be more elegant.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by zelly »

kempbellt wrote: post #62
jszymborski wrote: post #14

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> * Execute a custom script rm -rf /*

Reading this written on a screen stresses me out a little bit. Just knowing that you likely typed those letters on your keyboard...

why? the data is easily recoverable.

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev
now that's more like it.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by xvector »

onemoresoop wrote: post #95
kempbellt wrote: post #66

If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? 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…

I agree, this is basically the recipe to wither oneself. Getting lazy and doing nothing becomes a habit hard to get rid of...

And yet I'm browsing HN during work... hmm...

Re: Daytripper

#108

Post by beatgammit »

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.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by jacobush »

momokoko wrote: post #75
snazz wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of jobs (even as developers) in large companies have a positive correlation between butt in seat time and the perception of getting work done, but there usually isn’t enough work to do to fill the entire time. Most people work jobs that they aren’t truly passionate about.

But again, why lie about it?

To not embarrass everybody else who are also doing it, not least your boss.
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