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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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It looks really cool, best of luck commercializing it however it seems a little too simple for that. It produces an image almost exactly like I've takes a photo of my monitor, so I could just take a photo of my monitor rather than buying the HD option? It's also possibly a bit too easy to replicate in an hour or so (e.g. apply image as a surface texture in threejs and screenshot/canvas-capture that, together with sta…

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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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There _is_ no protection. the source is publicly accessible.

The conditional in the code _is_ a protection. It is not fair of you to consider it non-existent just because _you_ can easily bypass it. Using your argument, it would be fair to circumvent any protection as long as a specialist can trivially bypass it? Remember that 99% of internet users have no idea what "Show page source" actually does, much less what "javascript" is. You are the top 1 percentile power user here.…

> Arguably a lot of things are not strongly protected per se but rely on specialists not trying to actively trick the system

If a system has a vulnerability, it is the system's fault, not the specialist's. I'm a bit sensitive to this line of argument because it and arguments like it have been used in the past to try and demonize the efforts of security researchers. However, I also believe we should have good norms around responsible disclosure.

> much less posting their techniques on public forums.

Perhaps it could've been more responsibly disclosed to the OP, agreed. However, the public internet is a public forum. OP posted his code there, and it was found. Any number of web crawlers have probably already found it. Not the least painful way to learn this lesson, but hopefully it was learned.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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If you've the security consciousness to not upload then there's no way you trust that.

This critique makes no sense. Just monitor the traffic by using a random image if you don't trust the disclaimer?

Monitoring the traffic is consequent to distrusting the site, surely. I too would use an arbitrary image with no PII.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Would be cool if I could just ctrl+v my screenshot instead of having to open an image editor, saving it, and then manually uploading it to the website. I think snag.gy uses some simple method to collect screenshots from a paste command, maybe there is some easy way to implement it.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Interesting tool. But, for me, literally just the administration of managing the monthly charge is not worth signing up for this - highly suggest adding a yearly payment option.

+1000 to more examples. This is a visual tool, show us the visuals.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Do you think I give a shit about what you think of my superfluous words? Huh? Do you have anything substantive to say about the comments themselves as opposed to a hyperfixated diatribe based on a single superfluous word? Because everyone and their grandmothers is bored of your “holier than thou” soapbox ramblings about how you perceive random people on the internet. And just because you clearly don’t get it, the wor…

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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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What is this paid subscription to be able to rotate the screenshot a certain way?

Yes, you pay for the "your mother who takes screenshots by photographing her screen" effect.

Ooh, I used to take 21MP photographs of LCDs as a cool effect. I really loved doing that. It looked so aesthetic.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think I give a shit about what you think of my superfluous words? Huh? Do you have anything substantive to say about the comments themselves as opposed to a hyperfixated diatribe based on a single superfluous word? Because everyone and their grandmothers is bored of your “holier than thou” soapbox ramblings about how you perceive random people on the internet. And just because you clearly don’t get it, the wor…

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Nobody’s ass is hanging out except the whiny pedant who has nothing better to do than to go on ad hominem-filled diatribes based on nothing that is grounded in reality. And who’s comments are clearly absurd enough to get downvoted and flagged. Because they in no way shape or form are about the topic at hand.

I wonder who that person is in this conversation.

Once again, and for the last time, do you have anything to say about the comments themselves, or are you just going to keep breaking the guidelines to get your rocks off on insulting others and their grammar over a single word?

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