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by mceachen 6y ago
You just described the architecture of PhotoStructure: https://photostructure.com/server/photostructure-for-servers... (Not a dozen components, though; just four. A main/watchdog service, a web service, a volume w
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by mceachen 6y ago
ELI5 please?
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by mceachen 6y ago
If you booted single-user or didn't have a graphical login manager, you'd see this on the console on SunOS 4 and earlier (80s and 90s, pre-Solaris). I think by the time Solaris (or even open look) rolled around, it had a graphical
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by mceachen 6y ago
I'm sorry, I should have clarified: as far as I know, mdadm on RAID1 with consumer-grade spinning rust will not be able to save you from bit rot (or at least I haven't seen evidence to that effect). I haven't tried on RAID6 (
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by mceachen 6y ago
I enjoyed docker compose as well (enough to use it for PhotoStructure), but was bit by breaking changes even when I had specified a version in my docker-compose.yml. It meant that a bunch of my beta users suddenly had broken PhotoStructure
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Xfinity is now charging $10/50gb bandwidth overage fees(twitter.com)
3 points by mceachen 6y ago|0 comments
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by mceachen 6y ago
Excellent! Expect an invite email today or tomorrow. Ping me (there's a chat button on the website) if it doesn't go through, I'll set you up.
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by mceachen 6y ago
> Your blog post suggest btrfs, ZFS or XFS. Which one should I pick next time around? All three are available to recent linux distributions, but know they all have very different ergonomics. Spend a minute or two looking at a getting-sta
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by mceachen 6y ago
Thanks! BTW, I just released v0.8 last night: make sure you check it out, it's quite an upgrade.
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Why 3-2-1 isn't enough; or, How do I safely store my files?(photostructure.com)
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by mceachen 6y ago
Oops. Pretend I said BackBlaze instead of CrashPlan.
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by mceachen 6y ago
RAID won't save you from bit rot, and after I added bit rot detection in PhotoStructure, I was surprised to see how many of my files on older spindles had succumbed to minor corruption. Using a filesystem that supports data scrubbing d
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by mceachen 6y ago
If you look at the CrashPlan drive reports, that doesn't seem to be their experience (and I don't know of a current, larger, public hard drive reliability report). It seems that newer models trend with priors from that brand, with
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by mceachen 6y ago
How fast does that setup run in practice? I have an odroid hc2 (which is a wholy different chipset than the h2plus, I know), and that's about as pokey as my pi4.
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by mceachen 6y ago
> I would be happy to see an open source photo library app structured the same way. PhotoStructure libraries are set up this way, except you can choose to either keep all your assets where they were, or import them into a single, dedupli
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by mceachen 6y ago
In designing PhotoStructure, I've wrestled with many of the issues you outline in your article. * I pretty quickly switched from flat tags to hierarchical tags, though, for expressiveness, presentation, and organization. * I also found
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by mceachen 6y ago
1) the chance that the US government is going to break up Google or Facebook is nil. 2) if you actually care about privacy, stop feeding those beast with your data. Self-host what you can, use alternative services for the rest. (That said,
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by mceachen 6y ago
PNG is always a lossless format. You can only control the level of compression. There are tools that let you re-encode a PNG after applying a lossy filter, but the PNG still encodes it losslessly.
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by mceachen 6y ago
TIFF is just a image container. I'd make sure when you save as TIFF, you specify a bit depth equal to your source image, and a format that isn't lossy (like standard JPEG). If you've got a standard sRGB 8-bit-per-channel imag
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by mceachen 6y ago
You're right: PhotoStructure for Desktops is currently packaged with Electron, but I'm not happy with how heavyweight it is. I see it as a way to "kick the tires" and a way for my Grandma to run it without opening a term
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by mceachen 6y ago
For file backups (not device backups) I typically suggest to my beta users that they use Resilio Sync for this. SyncThing on non-iOS works well too. They both run on headless boxes, too. I wonder if whole-device backups are really necessary
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by mceachen 6y ago
I've meant to write this up for my beta users for ages. Here you go: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/
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by mceachen 6y ago
You probably signed a clause with your employer that stated that the company owns all work/inventions/art produced on company hardware. If you use company hardware to work on your own projects, you're muddying who now owns th
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by mceachen 6y ago
You didn't say which OS, but I wrote a set of cross-platform instructions for my PhotoStructure users: https://photostructure.com/getting-started/video-support/ tldr: if you're on Windows, use Chocolate
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by mceachen 6y ago
You can disable automatic image loading on the settings page via a desktop browser.
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by mceachen 6y ago
For PhotoStructure, I'm using * GitHub and GitLab for private and public repos * Just switched from GitLab CI to GitHub Actions (as self-hosted runners, especially on Windows, can be flaky) * MailChimp (free tier) * Drift for chat supp
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by mceachen 6y ago
It's excellent advice, but you still need to test that the wiring of all those functions works as well. As an example, PhotoStructure has over 4,000 tests which test isolated functions: classical "unit" tests, which run under
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by mceachen 6y ago
In a startup you may be only needing to convince yourself, or, maybe, a co-founder. Comms are mostly 1-1. In a larger company you'll need to persuade a set of people to greenlight your project, or convince your executive chain that you
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What is a programming language community and what does it value?(medium.com)
5 points by mceachen 6y ago|0 comments
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by mceachen 6y ago
I've been working on digital archiving for a while now (check my profile for my current project). Here are some points to consider: 1. Don't delete your originals. Your conversion process may end up being lossy in some way (like w

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