For the last 10(ish) years I've been using Greenshot [1]. I haven't found any issues with it but it is only available on Windows and Mac.
Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
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#62I don't understand the fascination with blur. It's terrible from a security/privacy perspective. The data is still in the image. Sure you can add randomization to the blur to make it less easy to undo(I haven't looked if Flameshot does or not, most don't). If you crop the stuff you want out of the image, there is no data there to do anything with.
Every screenshot tool I've ever come across has a blur tool but no cut tool. So I just use the OS specific screenshoter and then load it up in an image editor and cut to my hearts content.
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#63I don't understand the fascination with blur. It's terrible from a security/privacy perspective. The data is still in the image. Sure you can add randomization to the blur to make it less easy to undo(I haven't looked if Flameshot does or not, most don't). If you crop the stuff you want out of the image, there is no data there to do anything with. Every screenshot tool I've ever come across has a blur tool but no cut…
Flameshot has a draw-rectangle function. So you can just draw a red or black rectangle on top of things.
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#64For screenshots I use 'scrot' and then open the image in gimp if I need to crop or edit further.
Seems very simple to me and avoids browsers, cloud storage, and other potential pitfalls.
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#65I use the following script (activated by a system-level shortcut key) to take a screenshot, upload to S3 bucket (using the minio client[0]) and place the URL in the X selection buffer, ready to be pasted: #!/bin/bash set -e dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY FNAME=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32`.png flameshot gui --raw > /tmp/$FNAME ~/go/bin/mc -q cp --attr x-amz-acl=public-read /…
I wonder: if we set a TTL on the image, and also make it require a signed link that gets copied the same way, is it now a secure & ephemeral service?
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#66For screenshots I use 'scrot' and then open the image in gimp if I need to crop or edit further. Seems very simple to me and avoids browsers, cloud storage, and other potential pitfalls. https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot
Flameshot is local. May have a subscription service, not sure.
But flameshot is extremely fast and does 95% of what I'd do in gimp anyway, without having to open a whole image editor and saving a picture. I can directly copy it to the clipboard and paste it somewhere.
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#67For screenshots I use 'scrot' and then open the image in gimp if I need to crop or edit further. Seems very simple to me and avoids browsers, cloud storage, and other potential pitfalls. https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot
Flameshot is local. May have a subscription service, not sure. But flameshot is extremely fast and does 95% of what I'd do in gimp anyway, without having to open a whole image editor and saving a picture. I can directly copy it to the clipboard and paste it somewhere.
Yeah it sounds good, I just rarely do screenshots so I stick with what I know. If my workflow required a lot of screenshots I might either automate it a bit more or look at other tools.
I'm actually about as likely to just pull out my phone and take a picture of the screen as to use software-based screenshots.
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#68For the last 10(ish) years I've been using Greenshot [1]. I haven't found any issues with it but it is only available on Windows and Mac. [1] https://getgreenshot.org/
Greenshot is great! I use it on Windows, and ksnip on everything else atm as it has similar draw arrows/annotation features.
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#69I don't understand the fascination with blur. It's terrible from a security/privacy perspective. The data is still in the image. Sure you can add randomization to the blur to make it less easy to undo(I haven't looked if Flameshot does or not, most don't). If you crop the stuff you want out of the image, there is no data there to do anything with. Every screenshot tool I've ever come across has a blur tool but no cut…
With blur there can also be no data (as you said -with randomization, you can even blur randomized text instead of the real one).
But the fascination is easily explained - it looks better as it "fits" the rest of your image vs having some jarring black rectangle
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#70I use the following script (activated by a system-level shortcut key) to take a screenshot, upload to S3 bucket (using the minio client[0]) and place the URL in the X selection buffer, ready to be pasted: #!/bin/bash set -e dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY FNAME=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32`.png flameshot gui --raw > /tmp/$FNAME ~/go/bin/mc -q cp --attr x-amz-acl=public-read /…
I forget, do you pay for bandwidth serving from S3 in this case? I have been looking for a good screenshot hosting solution to replace Cloudup, which was perfect and still usually works but I figure it might stop any day now. My only worry would be the unlikely case of a surprise high bill from a screenshot gone viral or something along those lines.
Implement a cloudflare cache infront?