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8000 screenshots of my PC and phone over the past 365 days

by kaielvin on 3/3/20, 2:17 PM with 23 comments

• by kaielvin on 3/3/20, 2:18 PM

  This is part of a social experiment on radical transparency, of which I am the guinea pig.

• by close04 on 3/3/20, 3:34 PM

  I immediately got a browser popup from the site to install an esoteric "Kai Elvin" app (classy) but not before I got to see a thumbnail of a naked guy shaving, private bits barely covered by a bathroom sink (even more classy).

• by tcd on 3/3/20, 3:35 PM

  I'm going to flag this (hopefully that's the same as report)?

  It's pretty irresponsible to publish this if you haven't:

  a) Checked ALL the screenshots yourself

  b) got permission for all the PII (names, mobile numbers) of everyone in your screenshot.

  Should be removed until such time as that's established.

• by sixothree on 3/3/20, 3:35 PM

  I use Automatic Screenshotter on my work pc to capture a screenshot every 15 seconds. I currently keep about a year of screenshots.

  We do a lot of consulting and I move between clients many times a day. So I keep the screenshots to be sure we are billing correctly. And also it comes in handy if there's every a question about billable hours.

  I thought it would be fun to make movies out of it, but it only becomes interesting when I work on one thing for extended periods of time. I just move between windows far to often for interesting videos. But when I'm nose down developing, it's relatively neat.

  edit: I'm not revealing this to the world. But I'm not afraid of higher-ups coming across this. I work pretty damn hard.

• by jmkni on 3/3/20, 3:40 PM

  Heads up, some of these are NSFW!

  Scrolling screenshots of code/Youtube then boom, naked guy.

• by space_ghost on 3/3/20, 3:34 PM

  For many years I had a cronjob configured to take a full screenshot once an hour during business hours on my office workstation. Nearly 20k in total, before I left that position. I still have them. It's sometimes quite amusing to scroll through the old ones and gawk at how things were and how I did things 10+ years ago.

• by bootloop on 3/3/20, 3:43 PM

  I think that this is an interisting idea and in general I welcome it that you shared this. However, based on the quick look I just had I doubt that you asked for permission to publish these from all the persons present in the pictures.

  These kind of things can have real consequences.

• by fsiefken on 3/3/20, 3:48 PM

  I'm interested in the scrollable timeline code. I also used to do this with a cronjob every minute or so.

• by Blahah on 3/3/20, 3:42 PM

  After two screen-scrolls I was not comfortable that the author could have obtained consent for all of the captures. Did they?

  I don't think this is appropriate for HN honestly, it's probably not legal in most jurisdictions. Viewing it could be a crime.

• by bobbydreamer on 3/9/20, 12:47 AM

  Can I know, what stack you are using, it's fast for soo many images and Webdesign is good .

• by x3b0c on 3/4/20, 8:50 AM

  This is not the "transparency" we want or we need.

• by code6fun on 3/3/20, 3:35 PM

  Real Truman Show

• by jordache on 3/3/20, 3:27 PM

  huh? I don't get the concept. What is the benefit of revealing yourself like this to the world?

• by catacombs on 3/3/20, 3:39 PM

  What is being censored?