I've done a huge number of hours on sentry duty (unmedicated) and the the hour would either pass by in an instant and I wouldn't even realise it, or it would seem to drag on for hours.
One thing I certainly couldn't do was pay attention to nothing happening for an hour just incase something happened.
I stopped buying them when I saw users posting on reddit that they were logging in to their systems and seeing other peoples camera feeds and networks.
> Was it worth it? Yes, it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment.
Was it worth it to put all his customers at risk like that?
He is honestly lucky, the "hackers" could have done much worse, it would have been much more profitable for them to go after his customers via his software than to demand money from him had they been financially motivated.
> Third, the hacker has been trying to inject XSS attacks into app
> Now he's hiring a developer to shore it up.
So this is an ongoing attack? He should probably also hire some incident response and get some security consultancy.
I'm making a personal app to help me visualise time passing.
I get "time blind" when I'm fixated on something like work, programming, reading, research, etc. While it can be a good thing, it also means I forget to eat, don't take breaks, miss meetings, or just spend way too long doing one thing and end up wondering where the day went. Typical notifications don't seem to snap me out of it either.
The app creates a thin, always visible line at the bottom of my screen that shrinks inwards as time passes, at the end of the allotted time the screen will blur preventing me from doing whatever I was doing and snapping me out of my hyperfocus state. I can choose how long the timer runs for and how long the screen blurs for. Tonight I added a loop feature so I can use it like a pomodoro timer with enforced breaks.
It's a simple menu bar app for MacOS and could be better, but it does what I want it to do. I've been using it for the past week and found it really helpful.
I haven't used Swift before so it was a good learning experience too.
It's the same principle as a Time Timer (timetimer.com) which I used previously but I find my app works better as the screen blur actually prevents me from just continuing whatever I'm doing, and the bar is always in my line of sight.
I use alarms/timers on my phone for this. Almost always 3-5min before a meeting... I have to make a habit of setting them up each morning, but that isn't too bad. I tend to miss the highlight color on the status bar for calendar or even chat messages/notifications. So the loud/obnoxious alarm is best for me... at least as I work from home.
The idea is interesting, but I'm curious as to why you didn't consider trying a Pomodoro Technique timer app, as there are many available. These apps offer time tracking and reporting features that can help boost productivity. Why not consider using existing methods or tools to address the issue instead of developing something new from scratch?
I'm really interested in this if theres a way I could make use of this too? Word for word I have the same list of problems when it comes to me hyperfocusing on things, where I don't even just forget to eat but I can't feel that I'm hungry. Too busy hyperfixating to feel so.
i built something similar in spirit a while back, but instead of a bar, it uses 144 rectangles, each representing 10 minutes of your day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30881096
These apps were recently found to be collectind a huge amount of personal browsing data from the device, regardless of whether private browser mode was used or permission settings.
Unhook and Channel Block also make my youtube experience much better. I did pay for Premium at one point but they kept pushing "features" that couldn't be disabled, I provided feedback, but I imagine it goes nowhere, so I stopped paying them.
I put a youtube video on the TV last week and all the adverts were deep fakes of famous people saying you can get rich with this one trick and a QR code to scan. One of the videos was a deep fake of the UK PM Keir Starmer saying thousands of people can claim an unknown benefit. How are these adverts not considered harmful?
I also have a PiKVM with the switch for network level access which works really well too.