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With Farbfeld, it's possible to further reduce the size of image data to be 24 bytes, or 16 if you're ok with your image not being displayable Magic Number: 66 61 72 62 66 65 6c 64…

Kelley and Cro argue that bounties foster competition at the expense of cooperation. But isn’t it through competition that we Escape Big Tech’s clutches? Without competition, we’d …

I think I need to rethink the way I wrote this article, because the wrong message is being understood. Clearly I have done a bad job at writing it. I should rewrite this article en…

the point of immich and photoprism is that you host them on your computer, on your own network and it never goes through those centralized entities in the first place.

I've actually been looking for a good self hosted solution for pictures, that allows me to automatically upload pictures from my phones (I use both ios and android). I've been usin…

it says a lot about the state of society when I actually cannot tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I think it's sarcasm, I'm almost convinced it is, but at the same time it's a…

gitea is also a great self hosted alternative!

often people point out how unreliable self-hosted services are, well, hosted services are just as unreliable if not more. this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should always self …

Neeva did only one thing right: they cared about privacy, but otherwise they really did not do a good job. Their search results were worse than google, their load times were even s…

This is also my experience. I was ok in rust after using it for 2 weeks, I still had the weird issues here and there, sometimes but after just using it for as little as one month I…

absolutely disgusting, you're telling me that you don't want to be stalked 24/7? that you don't want the whole world to know everything you're doing? how dare you imply that you're…

couldn't have said it better myself!

> GDPR was a good start. Honestly, I agree with you, but GDPR is barely a start, it does little to actually protect people's privacy. It needs to expand a lot to be an actual weapo…

While historical precedent is informative, it should not constrain our conceptualization of fundamental rights. The context and needs of society evolve over time, and so should our…

> The mind-reading stuff is still a fantasy and will be so also in the future. Haha, of course they don't literally read our minds, but with enough data, it's possible to gather a …

I find that the software industry is one of those industries where all role names are made up and change meaning all the time. As you said, just a few years ago (ok maybe a decade)…

Agreed. If the risks were real they would just outright stop working on their AI products. This is nothing more than a PR statement