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I wanted to show a friend a picture of our cat sitting on top of our TV (which is hanging on the wall). I spent a few minutes scrolling through my photos unable

I wanted to show a friend a picture of our cat sitting on top of our TV (which is hanging on the wall). I spent a few minutes scrolling through my photos unable to find it. Ended up searching for "TV cat" and it came up right away. Wish I had started with that. I just don't trust myself enough to not fuck up and lose all my photos if I self hosted something that was equal. I run a small home lab and I never store anything on it I cannot afford to lose.

com2kid 7y ago
Google Photos can tag individual pets, it does facial recognition of animals! Blew my mind when I first saw they had added it. You have to tag your pets (I think it'll prompt you at some point, or IIRC you can tap your pet's face) and name them, but after that it'll also create an auto-category (label? album? Whatever) for each pet. Super cool stuff.
- CobrastanJorji 7y ago
  My favorite piece of this is how it tracks my kid across all of their ages. My kids look nothing like what they looked like as infants, and when they were infants, they looked very similar, but I can choose a kid and it shows me photos of them going back to their birth, and it doesn't confuse the kids at all.
reaperducer 7y ago
I do such searches on my iPhone all the time. Especially cat photos. According to the Photos app, my recent searches include "cowboys," "april 2019," "colorado," "trains," "canyons," and "cat." The iPhone was able to complete all of those searches without sending my data to Apple. When companies like Google say they have to have a copy of your pictures, they are lying.
- cromwellian 7y ago
  And you used to be able to find stuff on Lycos too, but the search quality between Lycos, Altavista, and Google were dramatically different.
- chaz 7y ago
  That's only useful if all of the photos that I want to search are already on my iPhone. I can't search from a different device, and I can't search the hundreds of GB of photos from years ago because they don't fit. > When companies like Google say they have to have a copy of your pictures, they are lying. Did Google actually say that? I think they just built a product with different trade-offs than Apple Photos.
  - reaperducer 7y ago
    If I need to search hundreds of GB of photos, I can with an iPhone, too. The phone automatically offloads the full-resolution images to iCloud while retaining thumbnails and metadata. The photos on iCloud are encrypted so that even Apple can't see them. Moving the goalposts doesn't change the fact that everything you want can be done on-device, with none of the privacy-destroying methods that Google has imposed on the world.
aembleton 7y ago
I self host, but then back that up to Wasabi [1] every night using rclone [2]. 1. https://wasabi.com/ https://wasabi.com/ 2. https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/

com2kid 7y ago

Google Photos can tag individual pets, it does facial recognition of animals! Blew my mind when I first saw they had added it. You have to tag your pets (I think it'll prompt you at some point, or IIRC you can tap your pet's face) and name them, but after that it'll also create an auto-category (label? album? Whatever) for each pet. Super cool stuff.

CobrastanJorji 7y ago
My favorite piece of this is how it tracks my kid across all of their ages. My kids look nothing like what they looked like as infants, and when they were infants, they looked very similar, but I can choose a kid and it shows me photos of them going back to their birth, and it doesn't confuse the kids at all.

reaperducer 7y ago

I do such searches on my iPhone all the time. Especially cat photos. According to the Photos app, my recent searches include "cowboys," "april 2019," "colorado," "trains," "canyons," and "cat." The iPhone was able to complete all of those searches without sending my data to Apple. When companies like Google say they have to have a copy of your pictures, they are lying.

cromwellian 7y ago
And you used to be able to find stuff on Lycos too, but the search quality between Lycos, Altavista, and Google were dramatically different.
chaz 7y ago
That's only useful if all of the photos that I want to search are already on my iPhone. I can't search from a different device, and I can't search the hundreds of GB of photos from years ago because they don't fit. > When companies like Google say they have to have a copy of your pictures, they are lying. Did Google actually say that? I think they just built a product with different trade-offs than Apple Photos.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  If I need to search hundreds of GB of photos, I can with an iPhone, too. The phone automatically offloads the full-resolution images to iCloud while retaining thumbnails and metadata. The photos on iCloud are encrypted so that even Apple can't see them. Moving the goalposts doesn't change the fact that everything you want can be done on-device, with none of the privacy-destroying methods that Google has imposed on the world.

aembleton 7y ago

I self host, but then back that up to Wasabi [1] every night using rclone [2]. 1. https://wasabi.com/ https://wasabi.com/ 2. https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/