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frangonf 2 hours ago [-]
This has real demand, I ended up in the Gitlab secondary youtube channel one day, ordering by most views, and I found a video [0] of a seemingly normal uninteresting meeting with millions of views. Turns out people were using this as an excuse for looking like they were busy. They disabled comments now but I saved some of them because I thought it was hilarious:
I play this when I need my family to leave me alone - so helpful
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I play this when I pretend to be busy. This meeting is literally about anything you want it to be about lol
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I love that we all arrived at this video for the same reason
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Every now and then I'll pause it at a good point in between them talking to make my own voice heard contributing to the "meeting" lol. Gets the full effect in! And the beautiful thing is their conversation just flows with it like they heard me lol.
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For people without adblocker the trick will be ruined at some point by something like loud enthusiastic ClickUp ad.
twoodfin 60 minutes ago [-]
I was one of those people skeptical that ad-free YouTube was worth the high price, but now firmly a convert.
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tyromaniac 51 minutes ago [-]
Why not just block ads?
stackskipton 33 minutes ago [-]
At some point, paying for something and knowing it will work is worth it. In particular, ad blocking YouTube on mobile is frustrating.
bluGill 5 minutes ago [-]
If you can. A lot of subscription TV channels have ads even though you have to pay to get them. Does paying for youtube block all ads, and if so will it continue to, or will they change as so many others have and just make your payment remove some ads? I'm not even counting sponsored content in a lot of videos as ads, but they are annoying too.
pimlottc 5 minutes ago [-]
Not getting sucked into YouTube on mobile is a feature, not a bug
busssard 3 minutes ago [-]
NewPipe is the way to do that on android...
globular-toast 2 minutes ago [-]
They could raise the price or start having ads even if you pay. You're a renter. You have no rights.
Taurenking 53 minutes ago [-]
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ruszki 58 minutes ago [-]
Why don't you just decline calls with text messages, or just ignore them, or simply mute your phone?
bonoboTP 50 minutes ago [-]
People take offense.
ubermonkey 45 minutes ago [-]
So?
seb1204 25 minutes ago [-]
You would not know as you declined?
cheonic4040 13 minutes ago [-]
> People take offense.
Sounds like something a W-2 wage slave would say
tacostakohashi 1 hours ago [-]
Reminds me of the "boss mode" / "boss key" in old games, like MS-DOS days, which would switch the screen to some spreadsheet mockup or suchlike, updated for the current century.
jnovek 23 minutes ago [-]
This was tickling something in my brain and this was it! Thank you.
filcuk 16 minutes ago [-]
The scripts are hilarious, yet not inaccurate. I can't stop chuckling.
'Are you happy with that?'
'Happy is a strong word'
'OK' moves on to the next topic
ghusto 6 minutes ago [-]
If you can't tell people you want to concentrate on your work, there's either something very wrong with where you work, or you.
jvanderbot 2 minutes ago [-]
Where's the HR-faced "Can everyone turn on their cameras please?" one with 200 people in the call.
voidUpdate 1 hours ago [-]
Do people in offices typically just blast meetings out of their computer speakers? Everyone I work with uses headphones so we're not disturbing other people in the office...
p_l 59 minutes ago [-]
Unless you have good ANC headphones, or find something like pink noise that fits you, you're still dealing with all the talking to microphone of your colleagues.
Tajnymag 47 minutes ago [-]
It's less noisy when you hear 5 people talk in 5 meetings than when you hear 50 people talk in those 5 remote meetings.
voidUpdate 49 minutes ago [-]
I have reasonably good headphones and nice music
roryirvine 3 hours ago [-]
Truly uncanny!
Only the British audio works for me, though - if I try American or International, the relevant meetings are silent with a "Join Audio" button which doesn't appear to do anything. (Firefox on MacOS, if that's useful)
moritzwarhier 39 minutes ago [-]
Same, console says something about missing or "unsuitable" audio resources.
Sad, I wanted the international broken Zoom call
fliglr 1 hours ago [-]
Same here - Brave browser. Only British works
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TrackerFF 27 minutes ago [-]
We need a fake teams / zoom UI with faces talking. You know, for those working in open plan.
ninkendo 1 hours ago [-]
Audio seems broken now, maybe hugged to death. Console:
HTTP load failed with status 404. Load of media resource https://iminafleeting.com/media/people/standup-a.mp4 failed
mystifyingpoi 6 minutes ago [-]
Reminds me of the fake Windows Update page.
karim79 13 minutes ago [-]
Fantastic product! Needs people talking over each other for greater authenticity, I reckon.
whilenot-dev 1 hours ago [-]
What are all the names for the category of such software... "Self-defense Software", "Busy Simulation Software", "Faux Work Software", "Fake Meeting Software"[0], "Virtual Meeting Simulator"[1], "Prank Screens"[2], ...? Are there many others?
I'd say a quintessentially British, tactical-yet-polite social interaction deterrent
TeMPOraL 57 minutes ago [-]
Computer-Aided Boundaries? Social Assistive Software?
aronhegedus 24 minutes ago [-]
Minor but when I took myself off mute, my box didn't reflect that. Not sure if bug or a feature.
arjonagelhout 53 minutes ago [-]
Brilliant, this website is blocked at my work: "This content is blocked by your organization".
esikich 39 minutes ago [-]
It's because it's a new domain. Very common in corporate IT.
arjonagelhout 1 minutes ago [-]
I didn't know that was a thing, but that makes sense. Thanks!
tome 37 minutes ago [-]
Maybe a silly question, but without video isn't this obviously fake? Or is it normal for all participants on a call to be audio only?
mcbuilder 2 minutes ago [-]
Pretty normal. Camera's usually stay off unless it's a 1-1, presentation, or maybe a VP level call.
dirkc 30 minutes ago [-]
If you find use for this tool, chances are good that you're in an place where all the participants would be audio only
ghusto 5 minutes ago [-]
You get it.
seb1204 23 minutes ago [-]
Depends on the company, the team, the agenda etc
p_l 34 minutes ago [-]
It's normal in many places for the only video to be shared screen
vermooten 46 minutes ago [-]
I retired a few months ago. These calls have taken me back to the horror of working in tech. It must be what PTSD is like.
niek_pas 40 minutes ago [-]
I'm not getting any audio, bunch of 404s on loop.m4a... anyone else?
EDIT: seems like British audio does work
DharmaPolice 1 hours ago [-]
Trying to access this site on my corporate Windows laptop and it was blocked "by your IT admin" (in Windows itself, not the browser/proxy). So it's already on some kind of list.
whh 1 hours ago [-]
New domain registrations typically aren't on a list yet, which, in itself gets blocked.
jonwinstanley 1 hours ago [-]
This is fun. The audio isn’t particularly believable. Not that it matters for this project.
I’ve used a few tts providers and although a technical marvel they are all still easily identifiable as ai. Humans are very good at spotting fakes.
This project might work better with mostly canned audio clips of real humans.
martythemaniak 17 minutes ago [-]
Nice, it's got real Interdimensional Cable vibes.
spuz 1 hours ago [-]
I am missing something about how this could hypothetically be useful. If I played this in the background it would be far too distracting to get any actual work done.
soltanov 1 hours ago [-]
Simple solution for focus time. If it stops people from setting up an actual meeting for something that fits in an email, it is already doing critical infrastructure work.
wkumfer 55 minutes ago [-]
Please add other language versions! Should be easy to do, and would help us from non-English speaking countries.
I play this when I need my family to leave me alone - so helpful 4.5K I play this when I pretend to be busy. This meeting is literally about anything you want it to be about lol 1.5K I love that we all arrived at this video for the same reason 2.6K Every now and then I'll pause it at a good point in between them talking to make my own voice heard contributing to the "meeting" lol. Gets the full effect in! And the beautiful thing is their conversation just flows with it like they heard me lol. 562
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVtvOpU80Q
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Sounds like something a W-2 wage slave would say
Only the British audio works for me, though - if I try American or International, the relevant meetings are silent with a "Join Audio" button which doesn't appear to do anything. (Firefox on MacOS, if that's useful)
Sad, I wanted the international broken Zoom call
[0]: https://fakemeeting.app/
[1]: https://z.tools/t/fake-meeting
[2]: https://www.whitescreen.online/
EDIT: seems like British audio does work
I’ve used a few tts providers and although a technical marvel they are all still easily identifiable as ai. Humans are very good at spotting fakes.
This project might work better with mostly canned audio clips of real humans.