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Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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$25 for this app is quite expensive. not sure how much I would pay for it. I would consider this only if it was completely free, open-source, and self-deployed. so would use it only at $0.

I am pretty sure the guy spent more effort making it than was put into 2 of these bottle openers: https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/recycled-record-bottle...

$25 is worth month of food...

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/arti...

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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+1. cannot scroll in Firefox

Scrolling works fine in Firefox here. However, there's a consent dialog in front of the website content that some unsophisticated ad blockers will try to hide by making it invisible (without restoring scrolling capabilities), which can cause problems.

I use uBlock Origin... guess that is the most sophisticated OG ad blocker, isn't it?

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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+1. cannot scroll in Firefox

Scrolling works fine in Firefox here. However, there's a consent dialog in front of the website content that some unsophisticated ad blockers will try to hide by making it invisible (without restoring scrolling capabilities), which can cause problems.

besides, blaming users (who spend their time going to website, and bringing up the issue to developer) for broken website, is not the best way to go.

maybe there should not be consent screens popups that break? or any popups? or any consent screens? and why there is consent for something anyways? and maybe there should not be any tracking (or at least not broken one)

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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As far as I can tell so far, its functionality isn't much beyond a a short script that Claude could generate for me in 30 seconds or I could write myself in 20 minutes.

If you trust Claude for this, you deserve to accidentally nuke every picture you’ve ever owned.

Nonsense.

I've done this multiple times and Claude explicitly provided a config parameter in the script to make it "read only" by default.

Regardless, why wouldn't anyone test it on a small subset of your photos before trying it on a full collection? You would do it with a script you wrote personally and you should do it with an LLM script as well.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Scrolling works fine in Firefox here. However, there's a consent dialog in front of the website content that some unsophisticated ad blockers will try to hide by making it invisible (without restoring scrolling capabilities), which can cause problems.

I use uBlock Origin... guess that is the most sophisticated OG ad blocker, isn't it?

Sorry. I’m on Safari. I use AdGuard with NextDNS as the DNS option inside. I bought the AdGuard Lifetime Subscription long back. AdGuard works well in Safari.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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I've always wanted a sort of "semantic image store" that I can dump all my photos into and then search for content in English or by similarity metrics. Have you played around with anything like that? Seems like a locally running CLIP model could do the job.

It's not exactly plain English, but tools like Photoprism run tagging models on their servers so you can search your pictures.

Thanks, I didn't know about Photoprism! My phone seems to do similar auto-tagging but I found it to not be flexible enough.

Honestly might do a CLIP powered version myself. I only need image ("similar picture") and language search, doesn't seem that difficult.

Re: Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

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Apple tried this, but The Internet got mad again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584856

And for good reason, since this way you'd be poking your nose into other people's photo collection... It's easy to imagine merging photos of people in the same scenic spot, but how about the photos of those people in the same hotel room bed doing whatever? :)

Again, in pure Apple style, they had SO MUCH complex math and proxies between them and the image detection system that there would be no way - mathematically proven - that they could see anything.

But the headline says "APPLE SPYING ON YOUR PHOTOS!!11" and that's it. Nobody bothered to spend 5 minutes reading the whitepaper. It was on-device CSAM detection all over again.

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