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Apple Photos in iCloud can also be E2E encrypted (though not by default: you have to explicitly enable that), are indexed locally, and Apple's pricing for storage is about half of this service.
That assumes you only use apple devices for everything.
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That phrasing raises my weasel-word hackles… first of all, it’s unclear what it would mean to “use your photos and videos for advertising.” That sounds to me like reprinting your photos to advertise something—which nobody accused them of doing. Perhaps more importantly, it only mentions the photos and videos themselves in relation to the advertising. Analyzing the photos (as per the demo in TFA) isn’t “advertising,”…
Cleverly lawyered weasel words are usually complex, highly specific and don't cover all possible uses. This statement is so simple and so general that it covers everything.
Nowhere does it say they stop using your data.
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Embeddings (and other derived metadata) will sync across all your devices e2ee. So you could use our desktop app[1] to import and index your existing library. Newer photos will get indexed during upload on respective clients. Search is yet to be implemented on web and indexing is turned off by default on devices with General > Advanced > Machine learning. [1]: https://ente.io/download/desktop
Why should people not turn to https://permanent.org , a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that that claims to care about your photos even after you die?
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Exifpurge.com. A portable Windows app to remove all exif data from multiple photos.
Cool. Can anyone recommend a linux tool for removing exif data from images and metadata from pdfs?
(The more boring use case for this: putting images up on a web page - if you use jhead -autorot to correct the orientation, then the browser sees the metadata and rotates it again...)
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No it isn't. A democracy only works with informed voters. The amount of lies and obfuscation spewed by Trump's campaign is a successful attempt to deliberately break democracy. They don't have a mandate to do much besides mass deportation because they didn't talk about firing the entire federal workforce during the campaign. Project 2025 does talk about that but Trump lied during the campaign and said he disavowed it…
> No it isn't. A democracy only works with informed voters. By that logic we can never have a working democracy because collectively voters will always be ignorant and misinformed to some extent. We can't force voters to educate themselves on the issues and can't stop them from lying to themselves or to each other. We can do things to improve the situation, just as there has been a sustained and coordinated effort to…
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Exifpurge.com. A portable Windows app to remove all exif data from multiple photos.
Cool. Can anyone recommend a linux tool for removing exif data from images and metadata from pdfs?
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Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. Also Google does not have a monopoly on object/face recognition in photos. There are self-hosted solutions that readily provide you with that without feeding a faceless AI with your photos while boiling the ocean.
Could you please tell some? I am about to switch to a self-hosted solution.
magick convert IMG_1111.HEIC -strip -quality 87 -shave 10x10 -resize 91% -attenuate 1.1 +noise Uniform out.jpg
Some additional notes:
- attenuate needs to come before the +noise switch in the command line
- the worse the jpeg quality figure, the harder it is to detect image modifications[1]
- resize percentage can be a real number - so 91.5% or 92.1% ...
So, AI image detection notwithstanding, you can not only remove metadata but also make each image you publish different from one another - and certainly very different than the original picture you took.
It'd be more terrifying if it didn't hallucinate earrings on somebody whose ears are out of frame , make comments about the left shoe of a barefoot child being out of focus, and so forth...
> The image centers on a single snow leopard; there are no humans present. The leopard's expression is alert and slightly wary but not aggressive. It's difficult to definitively determine the leopard's age or exact health from the image, but it appears to be an adult in relatively good physical condition. There are no clear indications of its economic status or lifestyle
This is just an ad for their photo service. Which presumably has terrible search features, if it doesn't use AI to analyse them. That's one of the best features in Google Photos!
Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. Also Google does not have a monopoly on object/face recognition in photos. There are self-hosted solutions that readily provide you with that without feeding a faceless AI with your photos while boiling the ocean.
How so? I was looking for a photo of a grave I took some years ago. In Google photos I just searched for "grave" and if found 2 photos, including the one I wanted.
Without AI I would have to search all my photos. Maybe I could narrow it down by date and location but it would take a lot longer.