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I got sick of site after site closing down along with my albums, or, worse, using my metadata to feed the panopticon, so I quit my job to build an alternative.
by mceachen 7y ago
I got sick of site after site closing down along with my albums, or, worse, using my metadata to feed the panopticon, so I quit my job to build an alternative. It's early days still, but ML auto tagging is on the horizon. Runs on desktops, servers, and within docker. Details in my profile.
- xwowsersx 7y agoThis looks promising, thanks for sharing. Enjoyed reading about how you use metadata to tag everything and make it easy to find related photos.
- lonelappde 7y agoJoin up with this person https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842347 We don't need more half-attempts.
- mceachen 7y agoThanks for your suggestion. PhotoStructure already has the best metadata inference and asset de-duplicating system that I'm aware of. It scales to millions of asset files, works cross-platform, handles JPG, RAW, and transcodes videos to web-browsable formats automatically. I haven't used an open-source project yet that didn't fall over after the first several thousand imports, and none de-dupe (not just the same SHA, mind you, but the semantically equivalent image, based on both metadata and rotation-invariant image content). They also tend to be abandoned when the original author moves on due personal reasons, toxic comments, or the "v2 rewrite" effort collapses under it's own weight.