The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)

Post by ineedasername » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 10:22 PM UTC

mceachen wrote: post #80

ineedasername wrote: post #79

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I'm honestly not criticizing, I think I'm just missing something here. It seems like a good service in the interface offered, but where are the photos actually stored? Am I correctly interpreting this to mean that there's no cloud involved, everything runs off your own computer? Is anything accessible from another computer?

No problem! It's not a traditional SaaS website, nor traditional desktop app, so I need to some practice with describing it so it's clear to people. PhotoStructure runs on a computer you own, or in the cloud, on a computer you rent. That could be a laptop you have, or a home server, your NAS, or a digitalocean droplet. Your photos need to be available to that computer when they are imported into your library, either…

Post by NateEag » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 11:10 AM UTC

forgottenpass wrote: post #72

NateEag wrote: post #70

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If your photos live on the service's servers, they are no longer yours. That's intrinsic to the nature of software as a service. I realize that makes me sound crazy, but after years of reflecting on software, privacy, data ownership, and decentralization, I have not been able to avoid the conclusion that Stallman was basically right. If your data lives in a cluster with a bunch of other people's, it's a tempting targ…

>If your photos live on the service's servers, they are no longer yours. They very easily could be, if the service wanted to write it's contract of adhesion to allow the user meaningful control over the scope of how the service can use the photos. But conventional wisdom believes there is less money in that route, and nobody in "tech" is willing to settle for less than maximum exploitation of assets.