Anyone know how to trick slack into thinking im active, even when im not?
I have some sleep issues and often take accidental naps. Which... i persinally hate.
But, it turns out my boss is monitoring slack activity. Is there a way to make my computer do something every 30min so it looks like im online? Pr something on my phone?
Help me lie to my employer!!
@sunflower_avenue What OS are you running?
Linux has a program called 'xdotool' that lets you simulate key presses. I bet there is an accessibility app like that for your OS, where you could write a small script to have it generate keypresses in a slack window every few minutes.
@sunflower_avenue https://www.autohotkey.com/ looks like a good place to perhaps start
@penny @sunflower_avenue oh! Physically moving the mouse via some mechanism is an interesting angle to approach this problem from!
Heck, that means you could just tape a vibrator or massager to your mouse while you take a nap.
@penny @sunflower_avenue You could also try a javascript approach. If you run this in the developer console on the slack web app, it will dispatch a keypress event every 10 seconds, which may / may not be enough to trick Slack:
setInterval(() => {
window.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown', {
'key': 'a'
}));
}, 10000)
@tty thatd be sweet! Im running a windows machine for work