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Take more screenshots (2022)

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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by BlueTemplar »

andreygrehov wrote: post #88

Here is a fun story about screenshots. All of us had that feeling: you are browsing the Internet and suddenly see something cool. You either forget to bookmark it or that cool thing is not cool enough to be amongst your bookmark items (which are clearly much cooler). Sometimes you may also think: "Whatever, I have my browser's history, I'll find it later if needed". Later, you want to show that cool website or app or…

Sorry, but the risk that there's a backdoor (that doesn't phone home, or at least not regularly enough to be easily spotted) would be just way too high for my liking.

This is orders of magnitude worse than using Windows8+ !!

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by BlueTemplar »

dirtyid wrote: post #104

Want an archival program that would take 25% size screen shots every X or seconds (or fraction of) and record low bitrate sound when computer active. Index to searchable text and have system up sample data later. Maybe black and white with very limited color info for recolouring as well. So many link rot content that's too hard or difficult to track down online vs being assured there's some fragment of local version…

For link rot, automatic website backups when making a bookmark seems to be a better idea ?

P.S.: Shame of everyone involved that something like SingleFile is not a web standard yet.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by dewey »

I take a lot of screenshots, even if it's just for reason as "oh I have to remember that". I automatically store them in a directory that's synced via Syncthing between my work laptop and home NAS. That way I have access to all of these from everywhere.

Sometimes I just jump back to some point in time and scroll through them, it's very easy to get "stuck" after looking at old screenshots for 15 min. Old websites, old projects, screenshots from IRC. It's always fun and I feel like I get a lot of value out of that simple workflow.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by whartung »

KronisLV wrote: post #113
whartung wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For software, side project or not, it should probably come with dependency configurations (granted, in early 2000s this isn't as mature as it is today) and some tests. These may or may not help. Things have certainly changed in the past several years, but if we have learned anything, the "infinite memory of the internet" is anything but. Dependencies vanish and die all the time. So, while you may have a list of dep…

> These may or may not help. Things have certainly changed in the past several years, but if we have learned anything, the "infinite memory of the internet" is anything but. Dependencies vanish and die all the time. So, while you may have a list of dependencies, if you don't have those actual dependencies locally with you, you may be out of luck. Even if the actual project still exists, the older versions you depend…

In a related matter it behooves open projects to do a very clean build before they do a release.

By that I simply mean they should take a source distribution of their project and perform a build with their repository caches cleared to ensure the project actually still builds in the wild.

Dependencies can silently vanish behind the facade of a local proxy or cache.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by touisteur »

kaetemi wrote: post #127
andai wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to use TimeSnapper for that. The classic version is free. It did use a crapload of disk space though (20GB per week?), and most of the data is almost identical, so I started designing an algorithm to store only the differences between images before realizing I had reinvented video codecs... so I just made a ffmpeg one liner to convert the image sequences to mp4 :)

You can capture straight from the GPU into the GPU's video encoder and directly get h265 frames efficiently without laundering the whole framebuffer through system RAM each time.

Nvenc is actually quite nice and easy to use for that, but if you want to do any serious post processing you'll need to parse h265 (headers at least) and it's not the easiest parser to write.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by pxoe »

thejarren wrote: post #4

I take screenshots all the time, and sync them to iCloud so I can access them immediately on my phone/iPad. I also back up previous years of screenshots, I think I have back to 2015 right now. But one thing that I've been keeping my eye on as well (and used for a month) is https://www.rewind.ai/ which records everything that happens on your M1/M2 mac screen and is immediately searchable. Just like Alex says here "The…

one kinda similar app on windows is ManicTime https://www.manictime.com/ which can track opened apps, documents and URLs, and put them on a timeline. it can also automatically take screenshots (on a rolling period, limited to paid version), but I find the limited free version to be quite useful in itself.

though, while it's neat to have activity history be accessible like this, it still doesn't compare to the value of intentionality of manual screenshots, and bookmarks, and notes, and files, and stuff like that. while it may be neat to be able to get back like this to something you missed while you browse, if it's done only to find it and put it down as a note/bookmark/screenshot/file, you just come back to systems that are already present and searchable.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by marcellus23 »

sneak wrote: post #128
brandon272 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From Dec 7, 2022: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/07/apple-advanced-data-pro...

Approximately nobody has this turned on. It's opt-in, so approximately nobody ever will. Everyone you iMessage with will still be putting all of your conversations and attachments and iCloud message sync keys into non-e2ee backups from their end, so turning this on won't accomplish much even if you know about it.

> Approximately nobody has this turned on.

It doesn't matter as long as the person storing screenshots in iCloud turns it on.

> Everyone you iMessage with will still be putting all of your conversations and attachments and iCloud message sync keys into non-e2ee backups from their end

Weren't we talking about storing screenshots in iCloud photos?

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by ty_2k »

magicbuzz wrote: post #10

Absolutely. When I do front-end work, I screenshot every visual change in the PR. Boss wants a look at the current work -> screenshot Users want to see a difference -> screenshot. But the most valuable it that it builds up a visual history of changes in my Screenshots dir.

This is my favorite use case as well. There's nothing better than starting a pull request review on someone else's front-end work and seeing the changes they've made before looking at the code.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by andreygrehov »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #141
andreygrehov wrote: post #88

Here is a fun story about screenshots. All of us had that feeling: you are browsing the Internet and suddenly see something cool. You either forget to bookmark it or that cool thing is not cool enough to be amongst your bookmark items (which are clearly much cooler). Sometimes you may also think: "Whatever, I have my browser's history, I'll find it later if needed". Later, you want to show that cool website or app or…

Sorry, but the risk that there's a backdoor (that doesn't phone home, or at least not regularly enough to be easily spotted) would be just way too high for my liking. This is orders of magnitude worse than using Windows8+ !!

Agreed. That's also one of the reasons I wouldn't want to install anything of that sort these days. The risk is too high. Back then (10+ years ago), just to stay on the safer side, I think I even firewalled all the outbound network traffic originating from the spyware, even though there was none.
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