mceachen

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   by mceachen 6y ago

   Thanks for the heads-up, TIL.
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   Hi! If you were a sociologist, they'd called this a "generational gap in behavior norms." Greybeards would mutter something about "getting off my lawn" and "kids these days." Old people are used to people
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   That would help. I'd also make the teachers be the moderators for their class, so they can take responsibility and handle requests to un-post stuff. (I wish I had multi-user auth and album-level permissions ready for you!)
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   I think the effort is noble, but before you suggest to anyone else that you'll host it, I'd suggest you find a third-party cloud provider instead. (Know that I'm the author of a commercial, self-hosted photo and video library
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   A ~2017 i7 is only 4% slower than a ~2019 i7: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700-vs-...
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   I'd normally bristle against RegExp hate (unless the RegExp is complex), but in this case, please, just use `URLSearchParams`. It's well-adopted (unless you have to support IE: < https://caniuse.com/?search=URLSe
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   I think you're fighting activation energy. I'd find a way to make it cheap for you (in time and energy) to iterate such that the one-off content that you're providing can be used as stepping stones to a paragraph, and then a
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   by mceachen 6y ago

   You're absolutely correct. I'm not ancient enough to say first-hand. I know that threaded replies in BBSes in the early 80s at least coincided with usenet threaded replies. I didn't have a proper email address until years lat
9. 459.▲
   by mceachen 6y ago

   Nope, email via arpanet (1973) preceeded usenet (1980).
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    You're welcome to try PhotoStructure! Free during the beta in exchange for your feedback. https://photostructure.com/
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    For a concrete example of what 100x feels like, importing digital camera imagery into a gallery in 1999-2000 was on the order of 10-15 seconds per image (for a ~2 MP image, which was current state-of-the-art for resolution). Multi-core and
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    s/each and every single time/once when you instatiate a new database connection/ ftfy. You really shouldn't be needing to create new connections often. Really only once for any given process. There are some 20 PRAGMAs th
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Yup. I was surprised and did the same sleuthing for PhotoStructure when libraries are stored on remote filesystems. I had to add a "local db replica" mode to work around this issue. When running PhotoStructure under docker, it tur
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Really nice idea. Tomorrow is "self promotion Sunday" on /r/photography, I'd bet redditors there would appreciate this.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I'd hesitate to discount the value of photos. Photos have quite-accurate GPS and frequently-accurate compass heading. Add face detection and you have location tracking for everyone in frame. Online tracking is valuable for ad targeting
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about what I'd want for a subscription service. I've paid for subscriptions that allow you to continue to use the old version indefinitely, as well as subscriptions that comp
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I didn't set out to write a picasa replacement, but a number of PhotoStructure's beta testers are Picasa refugees. It's not anywhere near feature complete, but it's free to try in exchange for feedback: https:/&#x2
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    > you've accidentally deleted years of family photos Oof, that hurts. I'm going to add a check right now to PhotoStructure to assert that people's library is not stored within the container to prevent this from happening t
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Any stochastic data source may not (and almost certainly isn't) evenly distributed--it'll probably follow some normal distribution. Your PRNG that reads from your telescope would need to compensate for this. As far as using radiat
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    That's good feedback. I'm always afraid to overwhelm people with bullet lists. Here are two lists of unique features: * https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/... * https:/&#x2
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    I use PhotoStructure, but that shouldn't be surprising, as I'm the author. PhotoStructure is a self-hosted webserver that runs on macOS, Windows 10, Linux, and docker, with a user interface that works well on mobile and desktop di
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Ah. You can set up dash-suffixing if you're using a custom domain with gmail. Create a new "catch-all" email account. Log into that new catch-all account, and create forwarding rules for alice-* to go to alice@example.com, b
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Why can't you try it? You're certainly welcome to! Beta users get installation instructions emailed to them automatically as soon as they sign up. If you didn't receive that email, email me at hello@photostructure.com or send
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Many things are different. * This tool is designed to do one task, once: move photos from one directory structure, into another directory structure. It has no state persistence, so if you ask it to reorganize twice, it has to redo prior wor
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    If you're using gmail, plus-suffixing is a low-effort but effective countermeasure: username+servicename@gmail.com gets delivered to username@gmail.com.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Congrats and thanks for your work on Caddy! Great news that apilayer wants to keep it open source, and even better news that you can be less stressed and be happier about your work.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    To get your files from your phone backed up to your home server, SyncThing works, but if it gives you any attitude, try Resilio Sync. If you need a self-hosted photo management solution, you're welcome to try PhotoStructure. Here'
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    Holy crap: "18 HDD/SSDs plus five SSDs" That's a lot of spindles.
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    The "2 different media" heuristic became irrelevant as optical media capacity stagnated, tape drives didn't really drop in price, and spinning rust dropped below $20/TB. I wrote more about it here: https://pho
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    by mceachen 6y ago

    The fact that a number of my beta users came from nextcloud looking for an alternative is telling.