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Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024
Gitlab's meeting recordings on YouTube have tens of thousands of views by people pretending to work. Now you can appear to be in the meeting using your own webcam.
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- Panini_Jones 3y agoI saw this on Twitter the other day and saw all of the comments were about people use this video to reduce how much people bother them. The squares in the video reorganize about halfway through, but the overlay self-view video that's been added awkwardly stays the same. Maybe it would make more sense if it was fixed in the bottom right corner like normal Zoom calls?
- brikym 3y agoI hacked it together while waiting for Windows updates. It also doesn't work well on iOS and the video is a bit squished. If it takes off I'll fix these issues. It would be nice to have display modes for all the popular meeting apps like Zoom, Google, MS Teams etc.
- hyperific 3y agoYou hacked this together right quick! The post about Gitlab meetings was just on HN yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358
- davely 3y agoHaha, brilliant! I never actually realized this was a thing. Last year, I took a screen recording of an hour long Zoom meeting on my work machine and sometimes play that on screen in my home office when I need to set aside a bit of extra quiet time. Family will walk in, see the meeting on screen and immediately walk out. I felt really bad about doing this, but now seeing that other people do it (and you've made a website solely dedicated to this purpose), I feel less bad. :) But seriously, great job on this!
- globular-toast 3y agoCould you not just tell them not to? And close the door?
- voakbasda 3y agoThat does not work for some people. They just don’t get it. They will open the door and walk right in. Doesn’t matter how many times you ask them to do otherwise. I have this problem. I plan to try this trick myself. Sad that it’s necessary, but happy that this may be a solution.
- lagt_t 3y agoLock the door?
- globular-toast 3y agoI think being able to make such people understand is an important social skill. They obviously understand the meeting thing. Why is that? You need to react to every interruption in the same way you would if they interrupted a meeting. Allow yourself to be genuinely outraged that they would even think about crossing the threshold. It's OK to have boundaries.
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- whoomp12341 3y agofound a bug! control + scroll. when you zoom in and out it doesn't scale well
- theogravity 3y agoIs this something you'd use when you're in the office, or working remotely when you live with others and want to not be distributed?
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoThis reminds me of the scam reported on here last week, where scammers raised a false large invoice, then invited the mid-level manager to a zoom meeting where the CFO and CEO of the public company were on the call (very public as they needed enough video to deepfake them) and told the guy to approve the invoice. The gitlab thing is just “harmless” fun but real scams will force chnage - I predict in five years - every large and maybe small companies will have public private key based approvals (not “I approve” in an email from an iPhone). - PKIs will then be everywhere (at last!) - meetings will be recorded and transcribed (which will have huge knock on effects) - the push back against remote work will be real and large. Not sure what side I am on
- john-radio 3y agoThis is not a deepfake, though, to be clear; it's a YouTube video of a real GitLab data science staff meeting.
- geek_at 3y agothey were talking about the scam, not the gitlab meeting simulator
- armchairhacker 3y agoWhy the pushback against remote work? When it works it works, and it’s cheaper for everyone involved.
- mattl 3y agoWhen I was at GitLab the meetings had about 20x more people and everyone spoke for 45 seconds
- mhh__ 3y agoQuite funny although as a user of gitlab tinged with a slight pain in that I think gitlab is just pure wasted opportunity (i.e. my experiences of using it versus certain other tools give me certain opinions of gitlab co.)
- jiocrag 3y agowhat
- adorton 3y agoWe need to hook this up to a boss key stat
- eru 3y agoMore like wife-key, judging by the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358 from yesterday.
- tester457 3y agoThe capacity for gitlab's video meetings to say both nothing and everything at the same time amazes me.
- stkdump 3y agoI think at least one participant is visibly uncomfortable with the fact that a f*g internal meeting is posted for the entire world to watch.
- gregorvand 3y agoPlay Joe Goddard's 'Lasers' as background music while using this and it turns into a pretty fun experience.
- mvkel 3y agoThis is hilarious and a perfect capsule of the times we live in
- neom 3y agoThey link to a Twitter post that has a YT video showing the example of a video used, the comments section is... interesting... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVtvOpU80Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVtvOpU80Q
- 2d8a875f-39a2-4 3y agoI clicked the link and watched a bit thinking that the whole thing was a quality AI production. I thought that the visuals and audio were really believable and well synced but the script was just a little too content-free and gave it away. Turns out it's not AI, just a recording of generic desk jockeys using generic corporate meeting-jargon.
- eru 3y agoSlight tangent: I recently got accused of writing like GPT, and I had to inform the accuser that, alas, I've been uncool since long before GPT.
- underscoring 3y agoI dont have a need for this as I work from home and dont have people bothering me. What I need is the inverse of this, a virtual me that I can send to zoom meetings where I 100% won't have to interact
- ryandrake 3y agoI guess I’d ask why you are going to a meeting (let alone a zoom meeting) where you don’t interact? If you’re not contributing, and you don’t need to listen, why go at all? Maybe I am lucky but I’ve never worked anywhere that people are expected to show up for meetings that are totally irrelevant to their work. I decline meetings all the time.
- underscoring 3y agowe're not all lucky enough to work in places like that. Most of the meetings I go to are interactive ones where I'm contributing to the conversation, but every now and then we have these company-wide meetings that we all have to be at. They are a total waste of time and money, where 300+ employees are lectured on the sales performance stats and our business goals, and our CEO gets angry when people have their cameras off
- hyperhopper 3y agoThe thing is given enough beiracracy there are always meetings that are _technically_ relevant but not really. An all hands where a director lays out a strategy that was already laid out in an email and will be reiterated in another email and also will be the OKRs? Sure that's relevant to my work but I'm not going to say anything, but nobody can really say they have better things to do that go to the directors meeting about the whole purpose of our job (even if it doesn't change my personal work) Or even sometimes things like stand-ups where half the people are going to say something along the lines of "working on the same thing I've been working on all week with slight incremental progress"
- julesvr 3y agoThere was a guy who applied to YC with this idea and although he didn't get in I think, the app was quite successful. I think it was called Beulr, but looking at their website it seems they have pivoted.
- BerislavLopac 3y agoThat was quick! I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358 just yesterday. :D
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThis is absolutely brilliant and well acted capturing the essence of the entire 30 years of my career. Mon Rey is brilliant.
- brikym 3y agoHaha looks like Gitlab blocked me from embedding the video!