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

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Heads up, some of these are NSFW!

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Real Truman Show

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

  • What is being censored?

  • Wow not sure what to think. I know you’ve thought this out but it just seems like a huge info leak / privacy leak to me.

    Interesting though. I like seeing how others work!

  • Ok boomer