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PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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

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Post by lambda_matt »

Angostura wrote: post #75
jdthedisciple wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's strange. Why do private photos need to be reviewed? What am I missing? Is everyone just okay with giving up their privacy?

What you are missing is that these aren't private photos. The warning is specifically displayed when you upload photos to their demo server. I get a bit bored of the knee-jerk "Free Speech" stuff.

1. This is a feature of the base software, largely inherent to the core feature (see below)

2. Is is configurable and I believe mostly off by default, depending on install method

3. It is lit up in their demo instance

4. It is not a bespoke content filter, this is an `AI POWERED` app that classifies and labels photos so that they can be indexed for text search. Everything is processed through a NASNet and labeled. The upload filter just does some pretty rudimentary heuristics on the labels and decides if it will allow or quarantine the upload. To be clear, It is all server side-- the image is uploaded, its just quarantined.

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

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Post by cvwright »

acatton wrote: post #18
infinitezest wrote: post #6

This is a similar project but fully open source (and probably less mature). The lead dev is very active and responsive. https://immich.app/

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/

AFAIK PhotoPrism itself is open source, but the PhotoSync tool that they suggest for syncing your photos to it is not.

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

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Post by justsomehnguy »

secfirstmd wrote: post #5

Anyone also used Synology Photos and able to compare it's functionality to this? Which is better?

It's not a proper comparison, because I have ancient ds115, but Syno's app is really barebones. I tried it on Xpenology too, just to be sure, but overall it's... meh. PhotoPrism was way better compared to it.

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

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Post by kunwon1 »

r_p4rk wrote: post #70
kunwon1 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree with the contention that docker makes installs more simple. I would argue that it only makes installs more simple if you are already setup with Docker, and only when things go 100% correctly. When I see a software application that recommends Docker for deployment, I always assume that I'm going to need to do extra work to make it behave correctly. Whether that is figuring out how to make it auto-start, or…

Can't you just copy what the Dockerfile is doing bud? Plenty of home server enthusiasts love docker for the simplicity it brings to handling a bunch of software. Not trying to knock you, just wondering where the complexity is coming from for you.

Sure I can. But it's not always that simple. Let's look at the repository for the software discussed in this thread [1]

I see one dockerfile and 7 docker compose files (.yml)

The dockerfile does not apparently do anything useful. I'd be amazed if running that dockerfile by itself produced anything useful

Now, I don't know very much about docker compose, but I learned a bit of it in order to get this software running on my server. If I worked at it, I could almost certainly get a working install of PhotoPrism without using Docker, but it would be annoying work, and I wouldn't have any certainty. I wouldn't know that it was correct, and any time something didn't work the way I expect, I would worry that I screwed something up during the installation

Not to mention the added operational complexity involved in managing a dockerized application compared to managing e.g. an equivalent webapp deployed without containerization (systemd service file, configuration file, etc)

[1] https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

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

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Post by schwank »

I've been using Photoprism for perhaps 18 months, primarily as a basic way to categorize and browse my photos. Not a power user by any means but I found it easy to use and upgrade over time. I had a couple small issues like image deletion and easy sync to s3, which may have been addressed in recent builds. I actually need to get back into it to upload my recent summer vacation pics. Overall I was a happy user and the tool met my needs for a photo catalog that I control and run locally.

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

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Post by fl0id »

the_common_man wrote: post #65
kaashif wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

So all their features are open-source?

yes. there's at least 2 different ios apps, and one of those might not be (from another dev)

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

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Post by fl0id »

smallerfish wrote: post #25
nullcipher wrote: post #16

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

I second this - docker images are a horrible way to distribute applications. Please make an AppImage or flatpak for Linux. General question: does this have import from google photos? Please don't make me go through the google takeout pain.

it's a server app. flatpak or appimage is a terrible way for those.

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

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Post by blitz_skull »

Can it remove duplicates? That’s the holy grail along with storing my images. I’ve got so many damn photos, and I want to reduce the total amount I have but going through them is so daunting I’ll never do it without a computer-assisted organizer.

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

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Post by _a9 »

gigglesupstairs wrote: post #64
mcny wrote: post #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,…

Where is your quoted text from? I couldn't find it on linked github. Edit: Okay, found it. I think it's likely that those warnings are only for uploading on their demo server linked on github and not on the locally hosted product.

Theres an option to disable it on the local version. Just noticed mine also said that on the upload page and went looking in the options

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

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Post by [deleted] »

fl0id wrote: post #87
smallerfish wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this - docker images are a horrible way to distribute applications. Please make an AppImage or flatpak for Linux. General question: does this have import from google photos? Please don't make me go through the google takeout pain.

it's a server app. flatpak or appimage is a terrible way for those.

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