Yeah caffeine has been around a long time. I’m sure these simple solutions won’t last much longer. They will us AI to monitor the actions are meaningful so people will use AI to make the actions look meaningful and so on…
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python@lemmy.world 1 day agoI don’t like having the mouse actually wiggle for teams to stay active. Makes it really annoying to jump back in when you get an impromptu call and have to fiddle with things to get the wiggler back off.
There’s a program called caffeine that instead simulates a button like F15 (so one that’s unlikely to show up on a real keyboard or be mapped to do anything) being pressed once a minute, so you can just set the program to run and it will never interfere with you actually using the computer.
vatlark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Or quit the fucking company come on
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yeah how dare i do work by hand for a minute or go pour myself a drink on one of my paid legally mandated breaks
python@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Luckily something like that is highly illegal here haha
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Wait, AI monitoring (that only outputs summary data) is illegal?
EU should get on that!
python@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Basically any kind of employee surveillance is illegal (here in Germany) unless the employee is suspected of serious misconduct or a crime. An employer is only allowed to check whether an employee fulfills the tasks given to them, not how they spend their time at work.
I make software that other companies use and we aren’t allowed to even build any user -> activity metrics, especially not if that users boss could access them. So i.e. for Datasets, we’re only allowed to show “This Dataset was last edited by User x” and not “User x has edited the following Datasets: […]”.
Here’s a German article about some specifics. Basically these things are very explicitly illegal: Keyloggers, surveilling browser data, surveilling email or phone call contents (unless explicit consent is given) and recording any part or the employees screen or from their webcam. Surveilling an employee with AI would definitely fall into one of these categories. oh, and the fine is around 300k€ or 1-2 years in prison.I’m pretty sure other European countries have similar laws 😄
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Microslop brought AI to Copilot or even just Teams to not only monitor minutes of activity but assess how active that activity was.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Yes, Caffeine is staple, I’ve been using it for decades (under windows too)!
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 day ago
I’m a fan of scroll lock, not too useful but powershell is more than happy to turn it on and then back off 200ms later at random intervals… All while showing me a countdown to quitting time and a day counter until I’m out the door.
Haquer@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I have had a scroll lock vbscript that I have used for years that just it on/off every minute. This is the way.
However, we are on Windows 10 still (I assume parent company is paying for LTS) and Microslop keeps breaking teams on Win 10 so we are all using the browser version right now which shows you away if you don’t have that specific window/tab active, so it just shows everyone as away nearly 24/7, so management can’t use it as a metric at the moment and it’s fantastic.