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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by tehlike »

luke-stanley wrote: post #256
tehlike wrote: post #164

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I am moving this direction, but for now as a redundancy purpose. Copied google take out into immich, who has its mountpoint use truenas iscsi backed by zfs. Zfs is set to take snapshots frequently.

Just a warning, I don't think that ZFS snapshots are sufficient for ZFS bitrot protection. Ensuring ZFS has at least 2 copies on physically separate disks and using scrub frequently is the way, right? Please correct me if I am wrong HN!

Right, zfs snapshots are for the case myself, or any of the software i use (e.g. immich) messes up something.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by PaulHoule »

KerrAvon wrote: post #282
SoftTalker wrote: post #199

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My phone is off at night and I don't have a watch. I try not to let these huge companies FUD me into thinking that I appreciably change my odds of surviving an accident by buying their technology, but I get that others see it differently.

Maybe you want to rethink that? You're literally responding to a testimonial that it likely saved someone's life. Seconds do matter in some medical emergencies. Also, you may not be aware of Car Crash Detection https://support.apple.com/en-us/104959

To be fair this kind of thing is emotionally manipulative.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has done a lot as a private organization to raise standards for automotive safety but the statistics they publish that show that larger vehicles are safer than larger vehicles are frequently wrongly interpreted -- in many of the cases where the large vehicle does better it's not that you die in the smaller vehicle but instead get a broken bone. Once something is seen as "life or death" some people will think they have no choice but to spend another $50,000, spew another 20 tons of carbon pollution, etc.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by TomaszZielinski »

ValentineC wrote: post #218
thewebguyd wrote: post #171

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I still don't under stand why Apple limits updates to their first party apps to OS updates. They could really benefit from how Google does it on Android and decouple it. Push updates to their first party apps via the app store like everyone else, and let the OS update on its own separate schedule.

They somehow separate out certain apps, like Safari (on occasion), the iWork suite, and the Pro apps, but I have no idea why they insist on coupling apps like Photos and Music to OS updates.

Safari is interesting. It's been separate, except for major macOS updates, which had it bundled. But if you had a newer Safari on an older macOS, and upgraded macOS to anything else that the latest version, then your Safari was downgraded, often causing data loss..

In Sonoma or Sequoia they started bundling all Safari updates with macOS, but right now Safari 26 appeared as a separate update in Sonoma/Sequoia—-and it will likely stay that way.

Each thing separately can be explained, but when put together it’s somewhat messy..

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by anal_reactor »

jrajav wrote: post #197
anal_reactor wrote: post #138

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I guess the reason why modern times feel so bland is because we all agree on the lowest common denominator, and then celebrate that as "iNcLuSiViTy". If anything you do has any personality, aka deviates from the standard workflow, it immediately gets a disadvantaged position on the free market. It's like, we collectively prioritize efficiency over fun and then we wonder why life is not fun even though it is efficient…

Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...

something something "things I don't find funny are objectively bad and wrong and you're a bad person, be a boring serious miserable adult like everyone else" something something

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by hobo_in_library »

devmor wrote: post #204
ryandrake wrote: post #129

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Unless one's title is going to be "VP" or "SVP", the chance that someone joins BigTech and gets to "improve the process" is usually miniscule. You're being hired as cog #21 on team #54 and there is a large backlog of JIRA (well, in this case, Radar) tickets to grind through. There will be people who tell you what the processes are, and to not deviate from them. And you shouldn't get mad at those people, either--they'…

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Clearly you've never worked at a large company before :)

Hold on to your optimism, but try not to let that turn into scorn for folks who've seen the other side.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by JadeNB »

Xss3 wrote: post #277
JadeNB wrote: post #196

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Purposely? Could you elaborate?

People, including me, had a lot of playlists of ripped cds and downloaded mp3s, all categorized, rated, and with years of play count history. Then apple fucked everyones libraries up completely in an auto update, destroying the metadata and making them unusable, except for songs bought via apple music that is...

"Purposely" seems strong, though. Is it believed that Apple intended this corruption?

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Post by masspro »

jiveturkey wrote: post #330
dmd wrote: post #113

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A five year old is going to find "just squeeze" easier than doing that.

five year olds shouldn't have a phone, and should be supervised. even if they have a phone, they are unlikely to handle it with the care it requires.

Thread is talking about kids knowing how to request emergency services with a nearby phone in case something happens to their parent(s). Nothing to do with giving kids their own phones.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by anal_reactor »

efilife wrote: post #292
jrajav wrote: post #197

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Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...

> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature

I feel like there's confusion regarding the word "mature". It's supposed to mean that someone has lots of experience and draws knowledge from it, but in reality often people use the word "mature" to describe a certain specific societal ideal of a person that we're supposed to grow into.

The problem is that societal consesus is often wrong, and that image of a perfectly mature person actually does have a lot of problems with it. Every generation discovers this, and redefines that ideal.

40 years ago in my country a "mature man" was expected to take part in alcohol drinking contests until blackout. Nowadays a "mature man" is expected to drink as little alcohol as possible.

Neither attitude is actually about learning and forming a personal, informed opinion, both of them are about following whatever is currently in fashion.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by jonny_eh »

BrtByte wrote: post #244
deviation wrote: post #12

It seems to be an import pipeline bug. Photos does a lot of extra work on import (merging RAW+JPEG pairs, generating previews, database indexing, optional deletion), so my guess is a concurrency bug where a buffer gets reused or a file handle is closed before the copy finishes. Rare, nondeterministic corruption fits the profile.

What’s wild is that this kind of bug feels like something that should’ve been caught with even minimal end-to-end integrity checks

Tests can be flaky, and then ignored
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