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You know you are in HN when people use S3 to upload photos, and not imgur.

by jacooper 4y ago

londons_explore 4y ago
S3... Harder to use... Gotta pay egress.... It seems worse all round.
- skimo8 4y ago
  Throw it behind cloudfront. You now get a terabyte of egress free.
- LaputanMachine 4y ago
  On top of that, Imgur automatically deletes EXIF data, which would've prevented GGP from leaking their home address.
  - westmeal 4y ago
    I am not a machine.
    - metadaemon 4y ago
      I'm not a cat.
  - whalesalad 4y ago
    oh ya rookie move - stripped that and wiped my CF cache
  - graftak 4y ago
    This touches a semi-related nerve. When you share a photo on iOS there’s an option to remove exif data—or at least the photo’s location—but there’s no way to always have it removed by default. Really annoying and easy to forget. /rant
    - jheuel 4y ago
      I think the default is to remove everything. I like to archive nice photos and because of that always have to ask family members to resend the image with metadata enabled.
      - graftak 4y ago
        I’ll have to investigate that somehow, whenever I open the share panel the location option is enabled.
    - Buraksr 4y ago
      I think that you can at least choose for photos you take to not have location data at all in camera settings. I found out because the feature of mapping of where your pictures where your pictures were taken did not work for me, because I stopped the camera from having location data.
      - graftak 4y ago
        Sure but I like that feature for myself, but not for apps that snoop your photos’ location data for illegitimate reasons, WhatsApp for example.
  - trombone5000 4y ago
    Who or what is GGP?
    - gertrunde 4y ago
      Grand grand parent I suspect.
Arubis 4y ago
If you’ve already got a bucket ready to roll for this sort of thing, S3 is cheap, straightforward, with a stable interface and API, ownership over your assets, and a much lower chance your content will end up placed on-page and strongly associated with stuff that isn’t yours.
- Filligree 4y ago
  Higher chance they'll get hotlinked somewhere and you'll get a huge bill, however.
- slg 4y ago
  Free beats cheap. Imgur and its comeptitors are also straightforward. You don't really need an API for a single upload. The ownership and control argument is great in theory, but this is now an image on the internet. Anyone can link to it which will cost you money. Anyone can download it and upload to somewhere else. That means all appearances of control are artificial. I don't see much benefit here.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - inopinatus 4y ago
    > You don't really need an API for a single upload. Au contraire, what I “didn’t really need” was an entire image processing and sharing platform run for someone else’s benefit. That image sharing platform is itself primarily accessed via the use of a grossly overweight multiple-API client called a “web browser”. No, what I want is a programmatic interface with multiple language bindings and a command line tool, so I don’t even have to leave the terminal. When I share an image, my preferred service for this is a bucket.
    - slg 4y ago
      >what I “didn’t really need” was an entire image processing and sharing platform run for someone else’s benefit. Do you think AWS is run as a public service? If you aren't hosting it on your own hardware, someone else is benefiting. >That image sharing platform is itself only accessible via the use of a grossly overweight multiple-API client called a “web browser”. The web browser that you are using to post this comment? It takes two clicks of the mouse to upload something to Imgur. Maybe you have built an S3 workflow that is nearly as seamless, but it would be tough to beat Imgur for simplicity. I got no problem if anyone prefers to upload images like this. People have their own preferences and I can't argue with "I prefer to stay in the terminal". However "I like this better" is a different statement than "this is better" and the comment I replied to was closer to the latter.
dang 4y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521279. (Nothing wrong with a whimsically off-topic observation like this, but boy did the subthread turn lame.)

You know you are in HN when people use S3 to upload photos, and not imgur.

londons_explore 4y ago

S3... Harder to use... Gotta pay egress.... It seems worse all round.

skimo8 4y ago
Throw it behind cloudfront. You now get a terabyte of egress free.
LaputanMachine 4y ago
On top of that, Imgur automatically deletes EXIF data, which would've prevented GGP from leaking their home address.
- westmeal 4y ago
  I am not a machine.
  - metadaemon 4y ago
    I'm not a cat.
- whalesalad 4y ago
  oh ya rookie move - stripped that and wiped my CF cache
- graftak 4y ago
  This touches a semi-related nerve. When you share a photo on iOS there’s an option to remove exif data—or at least the photo’s location—but there’s no way to always have it removed by default. Really annoying and easy to forget. /rant
  - jheuel 4y ago
    I think the default is to remove everything. I like to archive nice photos and because of that always have to ask family members to resend the image with metadata enabled.
    - graftak 4y ago
      I’ll have to investigate that somehow, whenever I open the share panel the location option is enabled.
  - Buraksr 4y ago
    I think that you can at least choose for photos you take to not have location data at all in camera settings. I found out because the feature of mapping of where your pictures where your pictures were taken did not work for me, because I stopped the camera from having location data.
    - graftak 4y ago
      Sure but I like that feature for myself, but not for apps that snoop your photos’ location data for illegitimate reasons, WhatsApp for example.
- trombone5000 4y ago
  Who or what is GGP?
  - gertrunde 4y ago
    Grand grand parent I suspect.

Arubis 4y ago

If you’ve already got a bucket ready to roll for this sort of thing, S3 is cheap, straightforward, with a stable interface and API, ownership over your assets, and a much lower chance your content will end up placed on-page and strongly associated with stuff that isn’t yours.

Filligree 4y ago
Higher chance they'll get hotlinked somewhere and you'll get a huge bill, however.
slg 4y ago
Free beats cheap. Imgur and its comeptitors are also straightforward. You don't really need an API for a single upload. The ownership and control argument is great in theory, but this is now an image on the internet. Anyone can link to it which will cost you money. Anyone can download it and upload to somewhere else. That means all appearances of control are artificial. I don't see much benefit here.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- inopinatus 4y ago
  > You don't really need an API for a single upload. Au contraire, what I “didn’t really need” was an entire image processing and sharing platform run for someone else’s benefit. That image sharing platform is itself primarily accessed via the use of a grossly overweight multiple-API client called a “web browser”. No, what I want is a programmatic interface with multiple language bindings and a command line tool, so I don’t even have to leave the terminal. When I share an image, my preferred service for this is a bucket.
  - slg 4y ago
    >what I “didn’t really need” was an entire image processing and sharing platform run for someone else’s benefit. Do you think AWS is run as a public service? If you aren't hosting it on your own hardware, someone else is benefiting. >That image sharing platform is itself only accessible via the use of a grossly overweight multiple-API client called a “web browser”. The web browser that you are using to post this comment? It takes two clicks of the mouse to upload something to Imgur. Maybe you have built an S3 workflow that is nearly as seamless, but it would be tough to beat Imgur for simplicity. I got no problem if anyone prefers to upload images like this. People have their own preferences and I can't argue with "I prefer to stay in the terminal". However "I like this better" is a different statement than "this is better" and the comment I replied to was closer to the latter.

dang 4y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521279. (Nothing wrong with a whimsically off-topic observation like this, but boy did the subthread turn lame.)