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Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PhotoPrism is under AGPL, how is that not fully open source? https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/LICENS... https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3/

I believe OP meant some features of PhotoPrism is paid.

Maybe that's what they meant. If so, they are confused about what open source means.

Selling open source or free software is fine.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

#32

Having it running is more complex than to be put as: All you need is a Web browser and Docker... This makes it sound like average users make use of Docker everyday.

That marketing is clearly aimed at the self hosting crowd. Lots of self hosted apps don't have prebuilt docker images.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

#33

I am extremely happy with my photoprism setup. I tried to degoogle my life and found their docker setup to be great. I use FolderSync on my android phone to copy any pictures I take to my photoprism WebDAV

> I use FolderSync on my android phone Genuinely curious, if you use Android can you truly de google your life?

To add to that second point, stock android is tied to google still. last I checked, it would phone home on internet connectivity check, I think hal but I could be wrong, and a few more.

But, if you use grapheneos, they replace the google services with their own alternatives and sometimes let you disable the feature entirely. Also, on any rooted android. You can use AFwall+ to firewall any google connection or app. This way, even system services can't make network requests.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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I tried this about a year ago and it was alright. I wanted to like Photonix, as it was a python library and I expected would be easier to hack, but I couldn't lie to myself. PhotoPrism is very clearly and very obviously the most mature of the available projects for this.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

#36
post #2

Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.

I’m curious how this works with AGPL. Do they not have to release the source of the paid version?

They have a contributor licence agreement that allows them to relicense incoming contributions, so they can release the paid version under a proprietary licence, if they so wish.

https://www.photoprism.app/cla

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

#37
Am I the only one who is amazed by this technology?

> Please don't upload photos containing offensive content. Uploads that may contain such images will be rejected automatically.

> Non-photographic and low-quality images require a review before they appear in search results.

How does it know what is "offensive"? Is this configurable? I don't want to upload photos of people (for obvious reasons) but other than that, does it even know the contents of a photo to tell if a photo is offensive?

Is a photo of a shelf at a grocery story selling beer offensive?

Is a photo of ice on the sidewalk offensive?

Or is it just about human nudity and porn?

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

#38
I deployed this recently and added a bunch of pictures to it. PhotoPrism prominently features an AI-generated (?) 'description' on each photo, but for 98% of my photos, it was unable to come up with any description. The install procedure is needlessly complicated, there's no good reason for an app like this to require docker.

Overall, I was underwhelmed

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

#39

I have tried to install this from source but it's quite difficult. I don't like deploying opaque docker images.

You can always build and tag your own docker image using the docker files included from source. Or simply follow the docker files as install instructions:

[0] https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/docker...

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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post #38

I deployed this recently and added a bunch of pictures to it. PhotoPrism prominently features an AI-generated (?) 'description' on each photo, but for 98% of my photos, it was unable to come up with any description. The install procedure is needlessly complicated, there's no good reason for an app like this to require docker. Overall, I was underwhelmed

It did the same for me, and (at least when I looked at it) there was no way to just manually tag photos/identify subjects.
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