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Open Me Daily (Telemetry Trap)

A background telemetry application that monitors its own execution frequency and penalizes user inactivity by artificially bloating disk space.

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Why I built it

Developed as an experimental concept to test behavioral enforcement via software. I wanted to see how a program could track user engagement over time and autonomously trigger a 'punishment' mechanism (disk bloating) if specific conditions weren't met.

Architecture & decisions

Written in C++, the program acts as a lightweight daemon. It interfaces with a local SQLite database (log.db) to record timestamps, boot counts, and authentication flags. If the expected passphrase ('ben buradayım ve mutluyum') is missing for a given day, the software initiates a controlled, high-speed disk write loop to fill storage space.

Key features

  1. 01Persistent SQLite telemetry logging
  2. 02Conditional passphrase validation
  3. 03Autonomous disk-fill (I/O stress) mechanism