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Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by robertoandred »

throwawayay02 wrote: post #54
samrolken wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately that’s not how it works. You would have to have a whole collection of known and identified CSAM to be classified as anything at all with the system Apple has announced.

No, their AI accepts some deviation. And we don't know how many false positives it takes to start a human review. And for privacy of course different people will evaluate different photos. And a human without context will flag a picture of a kid on the bath as child pornography. It is a very real possibility OP is made a suspect because of this.

The deviation it accepts are about crops, rotations, resizing, etc. It's not "gee, this bridge looks orange, so I'll just say it's the Golden Gate."

Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by thedanbob »

e12e wrote: post #32

I have not found a good option yet, but next on my list is: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism Doesn't look like it's available as a paid service, unfortunately.

I’ve been self-hosting this for a few months, it’s really good. I was disappointed at first when I realized it didn’t have native apps, so uploading new photos was a sub-par experience. But then I found the app PhotoSync which has Photoprism integration. Would be nice to have it all in one but I’m happy.

Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by orf »

stuaxo wrote: post #59
jcun4128 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dumb question but would an S3 bucket be scanned by CSAM? Ehh idk seems like a dumb concern/losing battle. My thing is about IP. I picked up this e-ink tablet and it syncs to their cloud service for example. Which you can stop but still... Ahh. Just feels like going in circles, ISP knows your content, VPN, is your device actually secure, etc... Do you have anything to hide anyway. I'm probably just paranoid ha I quest…

An s3 bucket will give you back an ETAG header for each file it holds, which is more or less the MD5 of a set of chunks that make up the file. You can use that to identify files.

Only if the file is not uploaded via a multipart upload, which all SDKs do for any files larger than a megabyte.

If the object is encrypted with KMS, which almost everything is, then the hash is the encrypted contents and not the original contents.

Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by aprdm »

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #60

Personally I don't trust anything that I don't self-host. With Hetzner I chose full-metal instead of VPS. I pay €40 for 4 TB (2x4 TB mirrored to be precise) shared among a large number of services, including Minecraft servers for kids. The load is very low and the maintenance is a pleasure. Plus I love tinkering with and learning new things, so this part of mine is fully satisfied. I learned with Hetzner that every 3…

Do you worry about the data being on Hetzner servers?

Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by fraXis »

shuckles wrote: post #9

You want an end to end encrypted cloud provider like ProtonDrive or Sync.com. You can also consider using rclone or Cryptomator to encrypt data before adding it to a consumer cloud sync solution. All come with the usual caveats (do you really trust Sync.com to withstand a state actor?) and user experience compromises.

Sync.com also has zero knowledge end to end encryption:

https://www.sync.com/pdf/sync-privacy-whitepaper.pdf

Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by wilsonfiifi »

alexfromapex wrote: post #73

Synology NAS

Yep. More precisely Moments [0] which is great for photos and videos. But the Synology app ecosystem as a whole isn't bad at all. Just remember to buy a NAS with an x86 processor so you can also take advantage of docker based apps. I believe the DS220+ is a good device to start with if your budget is around $300.

[0] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/moments

Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by windthrown »

shuckles wrote: post #9

You want an end to end encrypted cloud provider like ProtonDrive or Sync.com. You can also consider using rclone or Cryptomator to encrypt data before adding it to a consumer cloud sync solution. All come with the usual caveats (do you really trust Sync.com to withstand a state actor?) and user experience compromises.

I similarly use Tresorit (https://tresorit.com/) and share photo albums but these are general cloud storage as opposed to being optimized for viewing photos in a browser.

Re: Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

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Post by jonathantf2 »

whalesalad wrote: post #64
hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #60

Personally I don't trust anything that I don't self-host. With Hetzner I chose full-metal instead of VPS. I pay €40 for 4 TB (2x4 TB mirrored to be precise) shared among a large number of services, including Minecraft servers for kids. The load is very low and the maintenance is a pleasure. Plus I love tinkering with and learning new things, so this part of mine is fully satisfied. I learned with Hetzner that every 3…

Hetzner is cool unless you are in the US. Latency sucks across the Atlantic.

Even in Europe their network isn't particularly good, but I guess you get what you pay for.
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