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by mceachen 5y ago
Howdy, I'm the author of PhotoStructure, and was interviewed for this article. AMA about photo metadata, deduping, asset management, or hierarchical folksonomies.
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I recently switched to the 465 driver (on Ubuntu 20.04) and had issues: try downgrading back to 460 if you're in the same boat.
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At least in the case of https://www.electricmountain.co.uk/Dinorwig-Power-Station it provides near-instantaneous peak power (especially at the top of the hour when everyone turns on their kettle for tea), and is recharged t
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- Automatically generated unit and integration tests - Useable VRML (Minority Report was 2002!) - CPUs that could directly run Java bytecode (Sun never shipped it, but everything had a "powered by Java" sticker on it back then)
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I made fun of my friend for buying a 9600 baud modem. Because, _duh_: nobody can read faster than 600 baud.
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The depth map is actually stored as an image: PhotoStructure accidentally used them as preview images several versions back (when depth maps were fairly novel) and I had some interesting discussions with users complaining about "ghosts
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Apple used to have a spectacular record with stable formats: see HFS+. Unfortunately, over the last several years, that's gone out the window. Mojave can't read some Big Sur volumes, even though both are using "Apple File Sys
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> any recommendations for a beginner NAS? I did a bit of research and wrote it up here: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#...
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I implemented this after dinner tonight: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/show-video-icon-and-or-vi...
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This approach requires 1. a _huge_ amount of trust and respect for the acquired team to not meddle/interfere, and 2. a huge amount of restraint to not force the acquired team into conforming to whatever standards and norms are present
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Neat! Are you using `photostructure sync $DIR` to import the new directories after they're copied over?
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Yeah, it's part of automatic organization: https://photostructure.com/getting-started/automatic-library...
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Yes: you can use `exiftool -all: $file` to strip all metadata, but please have backups before you do anything: ExifTool is both powerful and fast.
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The bitrot detection is via libjpeg, libraw, and ffmpeg (to handle both photo and video validation): they can be run in verbose modes that can report decoding errors which are due to file truncation or outright corruption.
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by mceachen 5y ago
WARNING! Some users don't know that there are two other editions of PhotoStructure (docker and "bare metal" node) that run on macOS, Windows and Linux, all of which don't include Electron. https://photostructu
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> if I browse using the PhotoStructure app it will guide the dupes Yes: out of an abundance of caution, the unique (by SHA) variations of each asset are copied into your library. There are heuristics that pick which is the "best,&qu
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Details are here: https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupe/
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(I just had a family member ask for this feature today in our family's PhotoStructure library: I'll get it into the next beta build which I hope to release in a day or two)
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Oof, yeah, I've got to sit down and record some screencasts. Thanks for the reminder.
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I had boxes and boxes of old drives that I wanted to get organized which drove that feature: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/... It's also why I implemented bitrot detection and me
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Make sure you stay on top of QNAP security updates, and don't expose any services online: they're hit regularly and repeatedly by cryptolocker malware. https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/22/qnap_nas
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by mceachen 5y ago
You're certainly welcome to try PhotoStructure! It's got very robust de-duplication, supports portable libraries (so you can automatically sweep your photos scattered across many drives and computers into a single timestamped fold
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Take a RAW image with your phone, take a JPEG of the same scene, and then compare. If the scene is challenging at all, the JPEG may look fine, but the RAW will look like it came out of a 1990s webcam. No dynamic range. Fuzzy focus. Harsh&#x
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This calculus makes sense, unless what you're moving away from has no functional delivery assurances and regularly has server errors and downtime. And customer service that denies their own problems.
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Ford also hasn't sold that many EVs (yet), so it's still eligible for the US $7500 federal tax rebate (unlike Tesla). (BTW: It seems like such an arbitrary and ultimately bad decision to cap rebates by manufacturer. Rebate caps fo
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My AMD 3900x. So. Many. Cores.
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You can certainly use par2 or something you cook up yourself using SHAs, but it'd be a whole lot easier if you just used a filesystem that handles this for you. I wrote up a lengthy description of the problem and several different solu
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Use and semantics of TODOs are decidedly not consistent across these projects. Just because you (and I) see correlation with our expected biases shouldn't be construed as proof: merely interesting chart wiggles. I think the shape (mo
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I needed a good Node wrapper for ExifTool and wrote https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js When I saw how slow it is to fork child processes in Windows, I then realized I wanted to run ExifTool in &quot
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You can set up PhotoStructure to build smaller (4k, 1080p, whatever you want) previews on your home server, and rsync just the previews dir and DB periodically up to your VPS. A couple of my beta users do this. (I'm the author, btw).

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