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

29 points by kaielvin 7y ago

bobbydreamer 7y ago
Can I know, what stack you are using, it's fast for soo many images and Webdesign is good .
kaielvin 7y ago
This is part of a social experiment on radical transparency, of which I am the guinea pig.
- pysxul 7y ago
  You should probably freeze your credit card before someone spot the one screenshot you didn't know about
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
- Santosh83 7y ago
  Radical transparency yet a lot is censored? :-) Nice concept but if the aim is to just document your ideas and travels why not just a plain blog or website? What do random screenshots bring to the table, or a list of all locations on your mobile device, that a deliberate, structured blog post can't?
  - skoll43 7y ago
    yeah, why dont you gave me your bank account password too, dude this is not transparent enough /s
- jstanley 7y ago
  What hypothesis are you testing?
- rl3 7y ago
  >This is part of a social experiment on radical transparency, of which I am the guinea pig. Bravo. This is really incredible. A few questions: 1. Can you talk about the impetus for this, as well as its evolution and development? 2. I presume the software is custom. Is it open source by chance? 3. People here freaked out and flagged this submission for including other people's PII, potentially without permission. Can you allay these concerns, if at least from an ethical standpoint?
- lostmsu 7y ago
  Is there a way to download all of them in a single archive? I am tempted to train a GAN. What is the license?
- kaielvin 7y ago
  Sorry guys, I dropped that link and then got fairly busy (while keeping an eye on the traffic). I am writing a bulk answer to your questions, coming within 24 hours.
  - catacombs 7y ago
    It's been more than a week. Where are the answers?
saber6 7y ago
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!
jordache 7y ago
huh? I don't get the concept. What is the benefit of revealing yourself like this to the world?
templain 7y ago
Ok boomer
close04 7y ago
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).
space_ghost 7y ago
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.
code6fun 7y ago
Real Truman Show
sixothree 7y ago
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.
tcd 7y ago
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.
- rl3 7y ago
  I noticed that even with NSFW content not hidden, some posts were still censored. Hopefully that means all content was reviewed prior to release, with proper permissions obtained.
catacombs 7y ago
What is being censored?
jmkni 7y ago
Heads up, some of these are NSFW! Scrolling screenshots of code/Youtube then boom, naked guy.
Blahah 7y ago
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.
bootloop 7y 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.
fsiefken 7y ago
I'm interested in the scrollable timeline code. I also used to do this with a cronjob every minute or so.
x3b0c 7y ago
This is not the "transparency" we want or we need.

29 points by kaielvin 7y ago

bobbydreamer 7y ago

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

kaielvin 7y ago

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

pysxul 7y ago
You should probably freeze your credit card before someone spot the one screenshot you didn't know about
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
Santosh83 7y ago
Radical transparency yet a lot is censored? :-) Nice concept but if the aim is to just document your ideas and travels why not just a plain blog or website? What do random screenshots bring to the table, or a list of all locations on your mobile device, that a deliberate, structured blog post can't?
- skoll43 7y ago
  yeah, why dont you gave me your bank account password too, dude this is not transparent enough /s
jstanley 7y ago
What hypothesis are you testing?
rl3 7y ago
>This is part of a social experiment on radical transparency, of which I am the guinea pig. Bravo. This is really incredible. A few questions: 1. Can you talk about the impetus for this, as well as its evolution and development? 2. I presume the software is custom. Is it open source by chance? 3. People here freaked out and flagged this submission for including other people's PII, potentially without permission. Can you allay these concerns, if at least from an ethical standpoint?
lostmsu 7y ago
Is there a way to download all of them in a single archive? I am tempted to train a GAN. What is the license?
kaielvin 7y ago
Sorry guys, I dropped that link and then got fairly busy (while keeping an eye on the traffic). I am writing a bulk answer to your questions, coming within 24 hours.
- catacombs 7y ago
  It's been more than a week. Where are the answers?

saber6 7y ago

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!

jordache 7y ago

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

templain 7y ago

Ok boomer

close04 7y ago

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).

space_ghost 7y ago

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.

code6fun 7y ago

Real Truman Show

sixothree 7y ago

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.

tcd 7y ago

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.

rl3 7y ago
I noticed that even with NSFW content not hidden, some posts were still censored. Hopefully that means all content was reviewed prior to release, with proper permissions obtained.

catacombs 7y ago

What is being censored?

jmkni 7y ago

Heads up, some of these are NSFW! Scrolling screenshots of code/Youtube then boom, naked guy.

Blahah 7y ago

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.

bootloop 7y 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.

fsiefken 7y ago

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

x3b0c 7y ago

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