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by mceachen 5y ago
Deduplication is a hard problem: what constitutes a "dupe" is somewhat arguable. My first approach just used metadata, but that doesn't aggregate the files stripped of their original metadata, like what you get from a Google
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent...
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It may be a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra... The idea is that you grit your teeth and let code be deduplicated twice (but no more), rather than immediately DRYing up code, so
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by mceachen 5y ago
Unfortunately, Google doesn't support good API read access of your files: pulling them down via their API results in several bits of metadata being stripped (including GPS coordinates). (If someone knows otherwise, I'd love to be
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by mceachen 5y ago
Author of PhotoStructure here: I'm really looking forward to adding that button to the site! I'm hoping that KubeSail can help my less-technical users self-host the stuff they care about. It's certainly a tall order, but it s
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by mceachen 5y ago
I'm writing PhotoStructure to do exactly this task! My to-do list is still long, but I'm plugging through it and I believe PhotoStructure already has the most robust tag extraction, inference, and image deduplication heuristics ar
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by mceachen 5y ago
Can confirm. SD cards can fall in 5-7 years due to cell voltage drift, and unplugged SSDs can have bitrot that overwhelms onboard ECC in less than a year. HDDs don't fare substantially better, though: bitrot can happen in under a decad
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by mceachen 5y ago
Howdy! I'm an early digital photography adopter (1998), so I started feeling this pain a while back. After the fourth photo service I had migrated to went out of business (and Picasa was then cancelled), I realized I needed something t
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by mceachen 5y ago
Make sure that whatever solution you go with, that it puts your files into a sensible folder structure so you're not beholden to that solution forevermore. The idea of associating an audio commentary to an image or album is great: it&#
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by mceachen 5y ago
You're describing a "distributed filesystem with client-side whole-file caching". The Andrew File System (AFSv2) did this back in the 1990s. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/dist-afs.pdf FWIW,
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by mceachen 5y ago
I feel your pain. Two different possible solutions: 1. Turn off automatic image conversion, and then retry copying over USB: it takes a while to convert HEIC to JPEG, and an eternity to convert HEIC to MP4. It's something like Settings
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by mceachen 5y ago
I'd recommend using one of several mobile phone apps to sync your phone's camera/DCIM directory with a computer/NAS at home, so you have your originals. https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely
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by mceachen 5y ago
(...he _should_ be using PhotoStructure, but I _may_ be biased...)
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by mceachen 5y ago
The only way to prevent reflow is to give the browser your image dimensions or aspect ratio: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/aspect-rati... Using a css flexbox or grid layout means you d
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by mceachen 5y ago
They may have tried to open arbitrary mp4s and had Firefox not render it. Firefox seems to only render MP4 files that use yuv colorspace and aa3 audio channels, which require specific ffmpeg flags during transcoding. It took me a day of gri
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by mceachen 5y ago
It _should_ work just fine. I have several Fedora users (because they emailed me, not because of any analytics: nothing "phones home" with usage, but I do use Sentry for error reporting, and that can be disabled). If you see any
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by mceachen 5y ago
FWIW, PhotoStructure has an AppImage edition and it can upgrade automatically in-place. (There's also a docker image, a macOS DMG, a Windows installer, and other editions as well--and yes, you can configure any edition to _not_ upgrade
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by mceachen 5y ago
I'm building PhotoStructure, which easily scales to track hundreds of thousands of assets. It's self-hosted, but there's an easy recipe to run it on a digital ocean droplet, or any VPS that hosts docker images. https:/&
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by mceachen 5y ago
I'm building that! Some of the features that make PhotoStructure unique: - self-hosted on docker, Linux, macOS, or Windows - cross-platform libraries that can track assets across volumes without duplication [1] - supports reading and w
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by mceachen 5y ago
Agreed with not overloading fields: that way leads to madness. I really like the LOC standard: it follows already-used conventions for inexact dates. Thanks for the pointer!
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by mceachen 5y ago
ExifTool handles zeroes in datetime strings (I had to add that support to PhotoStructure a couple months ago!), but I suspect most other applications will croak on those values. I'd also really like a way to identify very-rough dating.
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by mceachen 5y ago
Howdy! I'm the author of PhotoStructure. Hierarchical tags are fundamental to PhotoStructure! Read more here: https://photostructure.com/faq/whats-a-hierarchical-tag/ Any change you make to your assets in the
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by mceachen 5y ago
Agreed, it's a tricky balance. To be clear, I don't believe I've ever said these "rules" aloud. When someone comes to me for help, the first step is for them to explain the problem. The next step is for them to disc
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by mceachen 5y ago
Please ask me any question, regardless of how dumb you think it will make you look, after you've spent at least 5 minutes trying to answer it yourself. Bonus Points if you summarize your quick research efforts. Extra Bonus Points if th
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by mceachen 5y ago
<pushes glasses up nose> Actually, the Correct Answer is a bloom filter. (And, yes, we had math in the early 2000s.) Snark aside, I'm frustrated for the author. Her completely-reasonable schema wasn't "terrible" (
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by mceachen 5y ago
Your result is surprising: I suspect your wide table with an index wasn't in cache, and your timestamp-only table was. The whole point is that indexes (can) prevent full table scans, which are expensive. This is true even if the column
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by mceachen 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! I expect the demo works with or without the await on the listen promise because the listen code runs regardless (and prevents main from exiting).
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I lost my Mom to cancer several years ago. I'm really sorry you have to go through this. 0) make sure legal stuff is taken care of, like her medical directive, a family trust, and a will. It won't be a fun discussion, but make sur
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by mceachen 5y ago
> it's a healthy market Isn't it just Western Digital and Seagate at this point? IBM, Hitachi, and Toshiba storage groups merged to HSGT and was then bought by Western Digital [1] followed by SanDisk [2]. Quantum was bought by
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by mceachen 5y ago
I think it'd be hard to back into that number only based on the analytics of one top-page link. I had almost a quarter million hits from a #7 post in January. Here are more details: https://forum.photostructure.com/t&#x

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