Always always always close your tabs. Double-check what icons are there in your control bar, keep track of what icons are on your desktop, and generally make sure that you have nothing incriminating, embarrassing, or humiliating visible that can distract from the screenshot that you’re making. Do this every time.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, I saw that story. This is me being exceptionally kind. After all, mercy is the mark of a great man.
That actually should come natural to people with filters. #JustSaying
It is my experience that apparently NOTHING comes naturally for 90% of people online. Self-protection, virus vigilance, keeping anonymous, basic security: it’s all something that other people do.
Heh. Remember to do this during screen shares as well .. seen some stuff when managers share their screens to show a team task list, pop up their email, and .. umm .. did you *really* mean to show us *that* one?
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Mew
Also, dude, this is getting dangerously close to The Life, yes?
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Mew
It does approach the yellow zone, but as a literal card-carrying member of the counter-culture* I have something of an obligation to remind my fellow nerds, weirdos, freaks, sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and [expletive deleted]heads that they can lose jobs over not being careful about things like this. It’s unfair, but so is the world.
*SCA member since the mid-90s, my droogies.
Some folks scoff at my using multiple browsers for various tasks. General web browsing in one. Twitch in another. Sports events in a third, because iHeart is picky on some browsers. And while this kills my performance at times, it does keep stuff like this from happening. It doesn’t keep me from having the wrong window selected and typing my passwords into Twitch streams though.
Pretty much. IE for work, Firefox for work involving antiquated gear, Chrome for pestering Moe.
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Mew
But his wife* backs up his cheesy explanation.
Just like she* backed up the claim that an animated gif gave him a seizure.
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*Who totally exists.
I actually feel almost sorry for the guy. In his haste to escape the mockery of his professional colleagues, he has now gone and gotten the attention of obsessive hentai fans, who will feel obligated to inexorably explain to him the precise difference between what he was viewing, and tentacle porn.
…FOREVER.
If he wasn’t suing someone for sending him a meme on Twitter, I might join you.
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But he is.
He deserves what he’s getting. And more.
As I said, *almost*.
Virtual desktops, people. I’ve been using them since 1989 with tvtwm back then, now most desktops have them in some form. They also work wonders for dealing with windows that are larger than your screen.