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Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window.

Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an outlook draft.

AT my current job I could probably get away with playing a MUD, I'm in AS400 terminal windows all day so I could sit there with CMUD on a monitor and no one would have a clue unless they came up and actually read the window (Edit: and actually when I first started here sometimes I'd open a CMD and watch telnet Star Wars).

By using green instead of white as a termainl color, you can do almost anything (Lynx, MUD, IRC...) and people think it's an AS400 window.

Having HN posts + comments in excel would be awesome too.

I remember back in the 90's there were some pretty high-profile computer games that had "boss keys" where you could smack F1 or something and the game would pause and the screen would show a spreadsheet.

Can anyone remember any of them?

leisure suit larry, for one.

being a child at the time of its release, the boss key made absolutely no sense to me. neither did any of the humor in the game.

I don't know how complete it is, but there's a list on MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/games-with-boss-key/off...

It came out in 2006 but Defcon had a similar feature, as well as status updates in the system tray so you'd be able to follow some of what was going on even when it wasn't active.

Reminds me of http://hackertyper.com/ where you can pretend to program if someone comes around.

Please note, .net is the real original hacker typer without ads I made a long time ago

Genius!

My old employer blocked Netflix though. I didn't want to watch movies, but they had some interesting looking machine learning blog articles that I couldn't read

One of my old eployers did the same and so I resorted to using one of those convert url to pdf sites to read the such blogs.

It makes me sad when WebExtensions are limited to Chrome for no real reason :(

70% market share is reason enough. Start with chrome, and if there's traction, port to other browsers

>port to other browsers

Except it requires literally no 'porting' at all: it runs fine out of the box without modification https://lol768.com/i/ReveilleAgitationsIncurablesBicyclist

This is just laziness.

I've had one or two compatibility issues.

Good point. Scrap the whole thing.

anyone have any clue what the mschf.xyz/venmo link at the bottom is about?

a little skeptical about the concept of being paid (a nominal sum?) via venmo as a substitute to an email newsletter subscription. for example, how would I unsubscribe?

people are more likely to check their venmo push notifs than email

i suppose you could just block them to unsubscribe?

that’s an interesting approach to getting around “notification fatigue”, I wonder if there are any other successful examples of this.

preposterous!

i wonder how many people who welcome this idea as a work thing, actually had to pay someone's salary some point in their carreer...

Let people go home when they’re done for the day? Not care what people do all day as long as they complete their tasks? Why does “work” have to 9-5 once you get a fancy degree? Some people like working nights.

very well executed!

>gets my ip banned

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