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I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

hysan wrote: post #26
compsciphd wrote: post #23

We built in almost 2 decades ago now (including the ability to scrub to a point in the past and resume execution from there) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orenl/papers/sosp07-dejaview.pdf Abstract: As users interact with the world and their peers through their computers, it is becoming important to archive and later search the information that they have viewed. We present DejaView, a personal virtual computer recorder…

Is the url correct? I get a file not found when I try to open it.

HTTPS isn't a drop-in replacement for HTTP. Try visiting the HTTP site.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by nerdile »

poisonborz wrote: post #8

Congrats on the great execution of this novel idea! Inspiring for everyone with a "why isn't there an app that does x" idea.

The easiest way to find an app that does X, is to build a new one and then post it to HN and check the comments.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by nurple »

wongarsu wrote: post #19
adzm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah just add the bin directory to the %path%. A lot of things have installed it to their own directory in appdata or program files.

> A lot of things have installed it to their own directory in appdata or program files This is the windows way. In the early days (Windows 95/98) it was indeed common practice to put shared dlls and exes in C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32, but without central oversight this was a nightmare: version conflicts were rampant, and uninstallers didn't know what could be safely removed. Everyone switched to installing eve…

This is what's always confused me about the Unix FHS. A unified hierarchy makes (un)install complex and error-prone indeed. One of my favorite things about Nix is that it threw FHS away.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by water-data-dude »

hysan wrote: post #26
compsciphd wrote: post #23

We built in almost 2 decades ago now (including the ability to scrub to a point in the past and resume execution from there) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orenl/papers/sosp07-dejaview.pdf Abstract: As users interact with the world and their peers through their computers, it is becoming important to archive and later search the information that they have viewed. We present DejaView, a personal virtual computer recorder…

Is the url correct? I get a file not found when I try to open it.

Ah, gotta love link rot.

This one works : https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/pubs/sosp2007_dejaview.pdf

This one’s broken: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orenl/papers/sosp07-dejaview.pd...

When I search for “dejaview” in the main index, I get the same broken link in the search results[0]. At first I thought they’d changed the URL structure (/pubs/ to /papers/), but if you visit [1] it works, but [2] doesn’t work. I guess “orenl” isn’t a member of the faculty anymore, so they tore down their page and removed all the associated resources.

[0] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/g-search/?q=dejaview#gsc.tab=0&g...

[1] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/

[2] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orenl/

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by beeboobaa3 »

compsciphd wrote: post #23

We built in almost 2 decades ago now (including the ability to scrub to a point in the past and resume execution from there) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orenl/papers/sosp07-dejaview.pdf Abstract: As users interact with the world and their peers through their computers, it is becoming important to archive and later search the information that they have viewed. We present DejaView, a personal virtual computer recorder…

Did you actually build it or just write a paper? Where can I download it?

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by drdaeman »

bee_rider wrote: post #30
hu3 wrote: post #22

It would be cool to: 1) Make a Meta Smart Glasses take a photo every 2 seconds. 2) Send images to some server in the cloud. 3) Run OCR and object detection/labeling on these images. 4) Then present an app that allows searching (and chatting with) your past. I could then ask the LLM things like: 1) Where did I left my wallet? 2) Did I get my credit card back after paying the restaurant yesterday? (ADHD things, don't a…

Generally Black Mirror episodes are not intended to be aspirational.

Black Mirror is fiction, a lot of it works well thanks to our suspension of disbelief.

Remove cloud from the equation, replacing it with a properly safeguarded fully owned hardware located on your own premises - basically make it privacy-respecting, minimizing abuse potential, do a proper audit, and it becomes a super desirable system for people with neurological differences (or just stressed folks - attention and memory suffer under the stress too), a glasses that enhance memory rather than vision. Sure, not without caveats and gotchas (don’t bring it to a poker night lol), but not that cyberpunky-bad either.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by wingerlang »

yogorenapan wrote: post #7
aspenmayer wrote: post #5

Similar project for macOS which is also open source: https://rem.ing https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem Previously submitted on HN by the dev with some decent discussion 3 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787892

Is there anyone here that has used it for an extended period of time? Would be interested to see if it’s actually helpful.

I can't speak for the mentioned app (rem), but I built my own app with a similar feature set called ScreenMemory (https://screenmemory.app). Which I have obviously used for an extended period of time (coming up on 7 months I believe).

My main and daily use case it to look back at the previous day - this is helpful for standups, retros, and so on. I skim through my days (sometimes weeks) to pick up on what I was working on - it's incredible how much "untracked" work is performed that you pick up on. Sometimes I forget who exactly I talked to about something, but just knowing the rough date I can usually find something to jog my memory.

Obviously I am biased, but still!

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by dbish »

namanyayg wrote: post #27
hu3 wrote: post #22

It would be cool to: 1) Make a Meta Smart Glasses take a photo every 2 seconds. 2) Send images to some server in the cloud. 3) Run OCR and object detection/labeling on these images. 4) Then present an app that allows searching (and chatting with) your past. I could then ask the LLM things like: 1) Where did I left my wallet? 2) Did I get my credit card back after paying the restaurant yesterday? (ADHD things, don't a…

That is exactly what the (highly criticised) Humane AI Pin does

It really doesn’t. It has no history or proactive understanding, it only runs a query when you ask it

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by cableshaft »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #20

This could easily be sold for $5/seat to giant corporations who want to stick spyware all over their employee workstations.

If I knew companies were recording my screen constantly I would just quit and save everyone the trouble of them getting on my case for not coding 100% of the time.

I know my screen can be checked at my current client, but I also know the product owners don't really care as long as the work is getting done on time (or at least they haven't bugged me about it since I've starting working with them a year ago and have given very positive reviews about me to my company).

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