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That's just a non-binding promise. If that's enough for you, you don't need encryption at all.
I think the correct link is: https://ente.io/architecture
Again, just a promise.
Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
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#182Your homepage says "protect your photos/faces etc. from algorithms" The algorithms are what makes Google Photos; Google Photos. If I wanted to just store my photos I'd throw them in a S3 bucket or Dropbox or something. Google Photos lets me automatically categorise my photos by person, lets me search my library using text search for anything (e.g. I can search 'museum' and see pictures I've taken in museums). That is…
Besides search another feature of Google Photos that I would need is automatically inclusion of photos in shared albums based upon who is in them. Some examples:
I have an album shared with my parents which photos of my daughter are automatically added to.
I have an album shared with my daughter which photos of our dog is automatically added to.
I also like the collages, slideshows, movies and this day x years ago photos which Google Photos automatically creates and notifies me of.
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For at-home NAS, is Synology the best for recreating Google services?
It's the best I've found so far. They have a number of apps (docs, drive, moments, etc), and I wouldn't say they are as good as Google right now, but they are quite workable.
In Love my synology. The differentiator between NAS devices is not the hardware but the software.
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#184you have a warning during sign up that says “you will lose everything if you forget your password”.
naturally this is off-putting to most normal people. any plans to implement a social-recovery system like we see in the ethereum world?
if i can share photos with friends, i should be able to use those friends to recover my account too.
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> So you're going to implement algorithms then? Yes, we will implement the algorithms, purely on the client side, such that we don't hold indexes to your personal data. But I understand how that piece of text could have thrown you off, I'll think of ways to rephrase it. Thanks for pointing it out.
You can run algorithms locally and still violate privacy by uploading private facts derived from the data with algorithms. Saying you won’t hold “indexes” doesn’t begin to cover it.
Well, it does begin to cover it. Do you have to be so strident?
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#186The monthly storage costs are too high. For the price of 1TB from you (15€), I can buy more than 2 TB just about anywhere else. Commercially, Apple and Google are both 2TB for 10 CHF and Amazon gives you unlimited as part of a Prime membership. Storage providers like Backblaze and Wasabi both charge around $5/TB and that's really the table-stakes price. For the more DIY-inclined, Hetzner sells a 2TB OwnCloud instance…
With Amazon and Google you’re paying half in monthly fees and half with your mineable data. This service seems geared towards people who don’t want that.
Rolling your own on top of a cloud storage provider is great too but for an incremental $100-$200/year some people would pay for something that “just works”.
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The search is really quite fun to play with, and very useful! I also like searching on the map and seeing where I’ve taken photos. Especially if I’m looking for one particular photo, it’s fun to zoom in from the world map
Thanks for pointing that out. I actually had the opportunity to sync my iPhone photos to Google Photos, but opted to decline. This made me reconsider; cheers.
Why would this feature , that is also apart of Photos, make you reconsider ?
Re: Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
#188Your homepage says "protect your photos/faces etc. from algorithms" The algorithms are what makes Google Photos; Google Photos. If I wanted to just store my photos I'd throw them in a S3 bucket or Dropbox or something. Google Photos lets me automatically categorise my photos by person, lets me search my library using text search for anything (e.g. I can search 'museum' and see pictures I've taken in museums). That is…
Personally I'd find the pure storage and basic categories suitable. I dislike almost all the algorithms. Especially "memories" and shit like that.
Simple and reliable backup and reasonably speedy browsing is what I need.
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Am I the only one who never realized you can search "museum" and see your museum photos? Now that you've mentioned it, yes, I'd like to try that. But as a counterpoint to your argument, I've never needed it, and I suspect that a lot of people may not actually be getting the same value propositions that you're getting. On the other hand, Google Photos is Google Photos. But it's often a mistake to compete directly with…
I use it all the time - it's the killer feature of google photos. The premise is that if you come back from vacation with 300 photos, it's unlikely that you (the average non photography-nerd user) are going to sit there and tag them all. If in a few years you want to find "that photo of me you took on the beach in north carolina", with a quick search you can. There are annoying limitations though, probably because th…
Nah, a couple gigs of free storage is Google's killer feature. Photo organization is braindead simple and barely requires more than S3.
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Am I the only one who never realized you can search "museum" and see your museum photos? Now that you've mentioned it, yes, I'd like to try that. But as a counterpoint to your argument, I've never needed it, and I suspect that a lot of people may not actually be getting the same value propositions that you're getting. On the other hand, Google Photos is Google Photos. But it's often a mistake to compete directly with…
I use it all the time - it's the killer feature of google photos. The premise is that if you come back from vacation with 300 photos, it's unlikely that you (the average non photography-nerd user) are going to sit there and tag them all. If in a few years you want to find "that photo of me you took on the beach in north carolina", with a quick search you can. There are annoying limitations though, probably because th…
I try to use it often but it works pretty poorly and I always have to scroll through years of photos to look for what I need.
For me the killer feature of Google photos are: - Free storage of photos (hence why I'll move after I run out of free space) - Tagging faces - Sharing albums