Kinda have to dig a bit into the website to see what it is. Users can record and upload a 10 minute video out their window. The website allows one to view those videos. No site news since 9/21. Interesting idea, though.
I really like this site. I also wanted to call out the smart UI decision to map the space bar to the "new window" button (which is itself long like a space bar.) I discovered this intuitively after going fullscreen just because of the shape of the on-screen button.
Edit: I realized after using the site a while longer that the space bar is just activating the last button pressed, which is normal browser behavior. I still appreciate that the site uses the native browser buttons so that this behavior works out that way.
https://www.insecam.org/ (now dead) was fun while it lasted. It listed all unsecured security cameras by country, so you could stare at a forklift moving pallets around in a Chinese factory or people parking in a Japanese car park, and similar things.
I cant remember them now, but there used to he some specific google searches you could do to get even more unsecured cams. Wont lie though, it was really creepy finding cameras people had in their houses, just unsecured.
Yeah I found one of those searches, must have been late 2000s, looks like most of them were in Asia. Mostly streets, supermarkets, but I found one in someone's bedroom (unoccupied) and promptly shat myself.
It bugged me that there was apparently no way to contact the owners and let them know, "hey you should probably do something about this..." This was like, first page of Google, so I'm sure I wasn't the first or the last to find it...
Thankfully, some of the cameras have a speaker you can play audio through. So you can let them know in band. Assuming you speak whatever language they know.
>If you do not want to contact us by e-mail, you can still remove your camera from Insecam. The only thing you need to do is to set the password of your camera.
I'm working on a product that is the total opposite of this and I hope I can add a "Slow TV" option to it, so I don't feel that bad about exploiting people's FOMO
I’d love to see this idea but with 360° environments for Apple Vision. Choose your desk, your view, your ambience.
If anyone would like to fund me, I’d be happy to lug a desk and a 360° camera to remote locations: a rain forest, beaches, alps, tundra, a Scottish glen, beside a water tower on a rooftop in Manhattan…
I’m late to the party but can bring mad AI skills to locale determination and specifying the direction the desk should face. Where do I get my employee #2 badge?
Add complex metadata via on-site collection and AI. I’d like to choose a time and location that matches my location. Rainy 1 hour before sunset. Sunrise on a clear winter day. Lunch rush where most are in good spirits.
A couple of years ago, when this was last posted, it was really easy to extract the name and surname of the window-owner. Still, they had a privacy policy saying they would not share your identity... I have to investigate this again.
The window I watched had a name and surname printed in the top left corner. Maybe it's part of the design? I'd assume window-owners can submit whatever name they feel comfortable with.
I thought something similar, but it said "swap" so I was wondering what we were swapping, and I thought "I give you a commandline window onto my box, and you give me a commandline window onto your box, and we see who can create more mischief/mayhem most quickly"
but then I came up with a cool "network war" game: there's a shared window on our two boxes over the net (one window on your box, one window on my box) but inside the window are bash cmdlines for both of our boxes. Whatever commands you type get executed on both machines; whatever commands I type get executed by both shells too... stdout outputs are intermingled? atomic interspersed? it should be confusing but not impossibly so
Hmm... You can run different CTF environments i to a VM, wouldnt take much to stream input back and forth to both machines. I just saw another item featured on HN for piped keyboard streams between multiple users on the same shell.
The site keeps repeating video. Try the share button, copy the link, past and open it and you’ll see the same footage again and again. I’m not convinced it is live at all.
Definitely isn't live as it has shown me Paris which is in the same time zone as I am and it's already way past midnight and it's been bright daylight there
TikTok Live can be interesting for this. I always run across this Australian DJ jamming on his balcony at about 3AM EST and its always amusing watching his sunset at that late hour.
There is also a trend of morning news TV hosts doing a Live of their broadcast. Its odd seeing the morning news of some other city/country at midnight my time. Also interesting seeing the behind-the-scenes and from their perspective.
Discussed numerous times on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23815460