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Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by Semaphor »

dimator wrote: post #95
iscrewyou wrote: post #82

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I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

I use TT-RSS (selfhosted) and it gives me everything I used GReader for. GReader closing was the best thing to happen to the RSS ecosystem as it lead to an explosion of new tools, most still up today.

I don’t think GReader led to a closing of feeds. It was simply a thing already happening. And even today the vast majority of sites still offer RSS feeds, I can’t even remember the last time I wanted to follow something, and it didn’t have a feed available.

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Post by jhoechtl »

dwohnitmok wrote: post #83
gruez wrote: post #63

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shucked hard drives go for around $15/TB on sale. Buy three for redundancy and it's $45/TB. The break-even point for that setup would be 9 months.

You're also paying for spatial distance and independence. Redundant backups in the same location can all fail together. See https://youtu.be/OAI8S2houW4?t=285 for one amusing case.

Ipfs eventually.

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Post by londons_explore »

ignoramous wrote: post #121
laurent92 wrote: post #108

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https://theoldreader.com Excellent. But what Google took away was the culture of blog-RSSing. It gave an enormous advantage to Facebook and Instagram. Which are competitors to Google. What a bad move from Google.

Google built Chrome and then AMP. I assume, Reader fell short where Chrome excelled, and hence the Google axe.

Reader was always a pet project by a few engineers who worked on it in their spare time.

When they moved on, nobody else wanted to take on support in their free time, and no department wanted to pay someone full-time to work on it, so it was killed.

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Post by willis936 »

misterchrister wrote: post #122
noAnswer wrote: post #27

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> I use iCloud now. As long as you don't use it to store music... Basically same story, different file type: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250315803

Google Music shut down on the 24th, and almost took with it my hoard of 2001-2011 mp3s. The iCloud is walled, but back then I took my collection from machine to machine until they offered a service to upload it all to. Fortunately I caught the email on the 24th and pulled 15gb of tracks via Takeout, because I would have lost a lot of personal works that I just knew would be there. It’s been a nostalgic week. The clou…

That post was about deduplication incorrectly identifying rare tracks as not unique. I’ve ran into that on play music and it is very annoying.

That said, play music was replaced by youtube music. My collection of 10k uploaded songs was moved into the new app without issue. Playlists and all.

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Post by pfortuny »

gundmc wrote: post #129
IshKebab wrote: post #23

High Quality is not just limited to 16 megapixels, the photos are also re-encoded at a lower bitrate.

> High Quality is not just limited to 16 megapixels, the photos are also re-encoded at a lower bitrate. How exactly do you encode a photo at a bitrate? Do you mean videos?

He’s probably referring to the colorspace? 24 bits instead of 32 (say)?

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Post by throwaway20148 »

dimator wrote: post #95
iscrewyou wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

There was a social component to reader that was very similar in ways to how people share news on Facebook. It was one of googles only solid social graphs. That they wasted that was a real misstep.

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Post by i_am_proteus »

hetspookjee wrote: post #111
jjav wrote: post #109

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I hope you had local copies! All cloud storage should be treated as ephemeral (some more than others, particularly google). It will change terms or go away at some point. Only local storage owned by you is actually, well, owned by you. If it is something that matters, keep it locally.

Local storage doesn't mean a lot these days anymore. Good luck with your DRM'd products when the validating server goes offline.

Local copies of 4x5 film don't have any DRM.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by globular-toast »

jrockway wrote: post #13

I got burned by this. I take 4x5 film photos and stored my library in Google Photos as 80 megapixel TIFF scans. One day, they told me I was out of storage, and that all the files were converted to phone-quality jpegs. They look awful. I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your pe…

> I use iCloud now.

Didn't learn your lesson then, I see.

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Post by mav3rick »

eru wrote: post #73
coolspot wrote: post #2

Google seems to be in some “cut all expenses” mode recently: + cancelled stadia game studio + cancelled free unlimited google photos + closed Chromium APIs for derived browsers + closed Google Music (replaced with YT Music) + froze hiring + cancelled new office leases

They also no longer hand out Christmas presents. But those had been on a downhill slope for a while.

$400 dollar donations to charities we can choose from is fine by me and A LOT of other Googlers.
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