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I work from home - with a 5 minute screensaver with complicated password required by corporate - USB MouseJiggler - https://www.amazon.com/Undetectable-Computer
by jannw 4y ago
I work from home - with a 5 minute screensaver with complicated password required by corporate - USB MouseJiggler - https://www.amazon.com/Undetectable-Computer-Simulate-Movement-Entering/dp/B097ZXZLVR/ https://www.amazon.com/Undetectable-Computer-Simulate-Moveme...
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- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoI was worried that would be detectable so I programmed the onboard memory of my Logitech mouse to jiggle itself.
- danuker 4y agoBeautiful! Any tips on where to start learning to hack mice? I have a few where I'd love to tune the debounce algorithm (switch wear).
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoIt's way easier than it sounds. Logitech provides a tool that lets you program their gaming mouses. They use Lua. I don't know Lua but there were plenty of guides for different gaming macros like recoil compensation and the Logitech documentation was decent enough.
- WithinReason 4y agoIs the program uploaded to the mouse, so does it still work if you plug it into a different computer that lacks the software?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoYes.
- danuker 4y agoOh. I was thinking you were rewriting the firmware against the manufacturer's wishes. I am not interested in installing bloatware drivers. Embedded IDEs OTOH...
- NegativeLatency 4y agoGot one of these recently, they run qmk so easy to modify if that’s your thing: https://ploopy.co/ https://ploopy.co/
- bobleeswagger 4y ago> macros like recoil compensation Isn't this cheating?
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoIt 100% is. The problem is that preventing it is difficult to impossible. You can't calculate recoil server-side because the latency would make it nigh unplayable. But once it's done client-side, it's cheatable.
- bobleeswagger 4y agoThis is making me feel old. Totally agree it is difficult, but not impossible. Logitech is the problem here for even allowing this in the first place. No CRC checks for mouse firmware or anything? It screams poor implementation. I will not be surprised if anti-cheat software starts banning people or companies like Logitech. Kind of sad to see the number of threads and communities online encouraging this. The point of games is to have fun, when you cheat all that goes out the door.
- Gigachad 4y agoThere are multiple mice vendors that allow this. And you can’t ban them because the cheater focused ones will just set their device ID to match some common device.
- nulld3v 4y agoThe last thing I want is to have to buy a "certified/trusted" mouse to play a game.
- danuker 4y agoWhich won't work without a subscription
- bobleeswagger 4y agoNobody said they wanted this, but I'd rather that than play with a bunch of cheaters.
- patates 4y agoYou can also put your mouse on a rough surface like I do. Optical mice are natural-born jigglers (my "stuff HN says" candidate).
- ebrewste 4y agoPutting my glasses on my laptop trackpad does the trick, too. I guess the metal confuses the trackpad sensor.
- samwestdev 4y agoSame except I used to avoid my employer detecting me going AFK
- jannw 4y agocough! - well, yes, that too - cough!
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- your employer can know this? - why they want to - you are paid by the minute? - never heard of a company monitoring this --
- JakobH 4y agoMany employer do it over the teams activity status.
- andrewinardeer 4y agoOpen new email, a weight on the space bar.
- lucb1e 4y agoPretty sure that isn't legal in most countries where HN'ers work from Which is not to say that it is not done, but personally I have enough options that I would like to see them try to fire me over something like that. If I'm staring off into the distance to think about something or reading source code without pgdn'ing for five minutes, yes it's not uncommon that my screen turns off while reading something (until I get around to setting the timeout higher at least) but that doesn't mean I'm not working.
- theshrike79 4y agoIt's 100% a US only thing. It was almost a meme on TikTok during the pandemic, (American) people figured out the weirdest ways to keep their Teams bubble green.
- denvermullets 4y agomy wife took my $5 timex watch and just put her mouse on the face of it. kinda blew my mind because her request was very out of left field. but it works!
- xcubic 4y agoI'm speechless on how simple this solution is
- mdip 4y agoOoooohhh, that's clever. I've never had a need for such a device, but I worked for a company that wrote Skype for Business plug-ins, many of which revolved around "presence". You were considered active on your computer[0] when your mouse moved. We had a tool that we used for billing our time which included a graph of your Skype for Business presence state for the day you were entering time for[1]. I noticed, one week, that I was active 24-hours a day for three days in a row. I discovered that I left my mouse plugged in, it had fallen onto the carpet, and the minor vibrations that would occur in the house mixed with difficulty tracking would cause the mouse to move on its own "little enough" for me to not notice but frequently enough that it kept the computer from sleeping and kept my Skype for Business state bright green. [0] Similar to Teams, today, you could be logged in from multiple devices; unlike Teams, a toast message might not reach your phone (or appear and be dismissed immediately) if you were active on a computer. [1] This was entirely to assist in accurately filling out time sheets; it was never used to make sure "butts were in chairs".
- shagie 4y agoProduct idea - active mousepad. The mousepad itself has an eink or similar display to change it over time and have the mouse detect some motion. The "active" part is turned off (to just be a regular display) when there is pressure on the wrist rest. The mousepad is a USB hub (to get power for itself) that you can also plug the mouse and keyboard into so that its one less cord back to the computer.
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- voidmain0001 4y agoUse an Excel macro[0]. No sketchy USB hardware to buy that's really a keystroke logger in disguise. ;-) [0] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/c19a5644-ef3b-447b-9b4f-5990c3595db7/move-the-mouse-pointer-from-excel-vba?forum=exceldev https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/c19a56...
- factsarelolz 4y agoUntil you realize most corps turn off macros or only have macros on for a small subset of users.
- albert_e 4y agoI open a PowerPoint and put it in screenshow mode. this usually keeps the laptop from going to lock screen bonus: press B to blackout the screenshow to avoid monitor burn-in
- thedougd 4y agoOpening a YouTube live stream also works to keep my screen from sleeping.
- tsol 4y agoAll these people are putting out all sorts of complex solutions, I love the simplicity of this one.
- raffraffraff 4y agoOn Linux, KDE has a built-in presentation mode on the power/battery indicator
- kjerzyk 4y agoIt does, but it doesn't stop Teams from changing my status to 'away'
- SwanandK 4y agoOpen Notepad/editor of your choice Place a 9V battery on the spacebar Go about what you want to do
- ianbutler 4y agoThis is my goto for the same reason, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caffeine-keep-awake/fcblbbbkcneogddmpmfdchnocbpfpmag?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caffeine-keep-awak...
- stefap2 4y agoI used "Don't Sleep" with a good success http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/DontSleep http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/DontSleep
- swader999 4y agoMy cat sleeps on a mat by my workstation. I put the mouse on the mat. Its a win for him and me.
- gausswho 4y agoProof that avoiding corporate surveillance is a cat and mouse game!
- redditor98654 4y agoDoes this eventually "wear out" our monitors/displays because now they never turn off. I have expensive monitors and I work from home and keep my laptop always docked. Never turning off the displays makes me wonder if I am rushing them to going bad too soon.
- coreyp_1 4y agohttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ If on Windows, I use their "Power Toys" (free, btw), which has a keep awake function. My company user policies do not allow me to manage my energy policy, which is what kept shutting off my screen (and therefore necessitating the complicated password). Power Toys solves this problem.
- unmole 4y agoEarly in the pandemic, I built a mouse jiggler for my roommate for a similar reason: https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/mouse-jiggler/ https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/mouse-jiggler/
- adamhp 4y agoAn easier solution is to simply not work for a shitty company that requires this Orwellian monitoring to prove you're doing work...