This is utterly horrific holy fuck
@ebassi this basically reads "hello I'm writing malware plz help"
@elad either that, or it’s a case of somebody working in a terrible environment

@ebassi @elad I can actually see the use for this in another context (and have considered designing something like it): a timelapse app for artists.

In this context, their “work” is their art, not something imposed by an employer.

It should probably be built into the drawing app or whatever, but I could see the niftiness of a workflow timelapse that captures the various apps you use and whatnot over a long period of time, without having to sit and record an actual video of the entire process.

@ebassi @elad that said, I think such an app could actually just request the screen share portal and then only actually capture an image every minute or however often?
@cassidy @elad that’s probably a better option, given that the screen share portal has a permanent user visible component, unlike the screenshot for which only the flash can be used

@ebassi @elad yeah, makes sense. So perhaps they're using some old tool for artists that uses screenshots when it really should use the screen share portal. It sounds terrifying at first but I sometimes watch those kinds of timelapses and feel like it would be a neat tool. 😅

But uh, yeah, hacking the Shell or whatever to just *not* give any feedback of a screenshot is the wrong way for them to go about it. 😜