SMS. Ruins the quality but they don't know or care. I'll ask them to email it to me if I really need the high res.
Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#32Mastodon is good, as suggested by others, but I also use XMPP (jabber) for real-time chat, sending pictures, files, video. You can easily host your own instance of both of these with YunoHost.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#33We use WhatsApp, which I don't really trust but if I'm sharing a picture to my family I don't expect each member to keep it in a vault.
Have you considered using Signal instead of WhatsApp for secure messaging?
Why do people trust signal isn't it as black box as everything else? Or did they add reproduceable builds already?
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#34I'm surprised that only 2 comments mention using iCloud shared album. I myself use that too and I have no complain. Zero assistance required for elder family members.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you considered using Signal instead of WhatsApp for secure messaging?
Why do people trust signal isn't it as black box as everything else? Or did they add reproduceable builds already?
Encryption on Signal is all client side, the server can't see the plain text, says Signal.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#36I'm surprised that only 2 comments mention using iCloud shared album. I myself use that too and I have no complain. Zero assistance required for elder family members.
All my immediate family have an iPhone. I have a public album for sharing family pictures. It allows for comments and 'likes'.
I have talked to my family about my privacy concerns and that I don't want pictures of my kids on Facebook unless I approve or my kids approve. I think it is important to respect children privacy requests (my son sometimes don't want pictures being shared) but it is a way to share memories with close family members that would enjoy the moment.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#37I burn pics to cds and hand them over in person. It's nice to also be giving them a backup imho.
I used to use firefox send but that's gone now I think.
I have used a self hosted buddypress - upload and only share with "friends" and with that user account the only "friends" are one or two people.
I've considered trying to deploy a buddypress with added plugins to harden it and offer it as a SaaS hosting for family circles and friend circles just to share stuff like private pics and such.. I still think about it. Pretty I know how it can work and people will use it and some will pay for it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#38Signal, and I’ve gotten nearly the whole family and friends on it now and it is glorious!
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#39Linphone.
Works on cell phones, and desktops. You can text, telephone, video, with security.
(Iphone, Android, f-droid.)
(Signal had too many intrusive updates.)
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#40I burn pics to cds and hand them over in person. It's nice to also be giving them a backup imho. I used to use firefox send but that's gone now I think. I have used a self hosted buddypress - upload and only share with "friends" and with that user account the only "friends" are one or two people. I've considered trying to deploy a buddypress with added plugins to harden it and offer it as a SaaS hosting for family ci…
Do you mean USB drives? Who has CD drives anymore?