Oh does * mean every minute anyway.

The sysadmin version of

if(predicate) { return true; } else { return false; }

How to add a picture from the Webcam?

The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

nice, i always wanted a telescreen in my house

Something like: > sftp://telemetry.microsoft.com that would be even better.

Are you on 16k resolution or something?

When i take a screenshot of my 3440x1440 display it's 1MB big. I mean this doesn't change the issue in its core but dramatically downsizes it

Running OCR every second sounds like a great way to choke your CPU

That's what recall is... It's literally screenshotring and. Ocr / ai parsing Combined with a sqllite database

I mean taking the screenshot is the easy part, getting reliable OCR on the other hand ...

In my experience (tesseract) current OCR works well for continuous text blocks but it has a hard time with tables, illustrations, graphs, gui widgets, etc.

I suppose you could check the previous screenshot and if it’s the same

Hmmm... this gives me an idea... maybe we could even write a special algorithm that checks whether only certain parts of picture have changed, and store only those, while re-using the parts that haven't changed. It would be a specialized compression algorithm for Moving Pictures. But that sounds difficult, it would probably need a whole Group of Experts to implement. Maybe we can call it something like Moving Picture Experts Group, or MPEG for short : )

Takes a screenshot every minute and saves it

its a cronjob that runs each minute (*/1) in any hour, any day, any month, on any weekday, gnome-screenshot obviously takes a screenshot and outputs it to the given file path and filename, where the filename is written as the current date as string and .png as format

It's a crontab entry which, once a minute, uses the gnome-screenshot program to take a screenshot of your monitor and save it to /Microsoft/yourPrivacy.

It does not work like shown here, but with the same line in a script and the script as crontab it works.

I've never heard a single good thing said about recall from anyone lol. Maybe my social media feed a bit of an echo chamber 😅

The problem is, knowing Microsft, its gonna be turned on by default. And half the people who use Windows barely know how to turn the computer on and off. Let alone dive deep into some half baked settings app to figure out where to turn it off.