Category: tech related
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The Over-Inflated Tyre
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, for the first time during a bike ride, I had a tyre puncture. I suspect that it wasn’t a tyre puncture but rather that I over-inflated the tyre, and that due to the wet, gravelly conditions of the roads, the inner tube eventually failed. The irony is that it’s because I…
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Keeping kDrive Tidy Despite iOS
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the many iOS flaws is that if you download photos and videos it defaults to throwing them into your photo album, whether they’re yours, and that’s why it’s good to tidy up. For the tidying up effort today I used ffprobe, find and the kDrive desktop drive, as well as…
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On Familiar Faces and Forgotten Names
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s amusing. I look through Immich and Photoprism and I am struck by how many names I have forgotten, but how easily I remember certain faces. I’m also curious to see how I remember certain names after scrolling through faces yet to be identified. Decades ago when I was playing with iPhoto…
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On PhotoSync and Photo Uploader for Photoprism
Reading Time: 2 minutesPhotosync is a photo uploading app that allows you to upload to various devices and cloud solutions with ease. Photo Uploader for Photoprism is a specialist app for Photoprism. The reason for which I bring up both of these apps is that they allow you to sync to photoprism. When I was…
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The Limitations of AI – Dealing With Personality
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the last two weeks I have been playing with AI heavily, to get it to help with the task of re-organising my libraries. I played with Gemini, Le Chat and MyAI. I focused on Gemini because it gave me good results, whereas Le Chat gave good answers but I hit the…
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The KISS Chronological Photo Library
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am in the final stretch of consolidation between Immich and my main library but I hit a snag. I have 197 GB of files in the Immich library to reconcile with 390 GB of images in my main library. Due to the Immich folder structure I can’t run a simple…
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On Local Photo Management and the Command Line
Reading Time: 5 minutesPicasa and iPhoto Picasa and iPhoto were great apps. Both were free. Both allowed you to manage your photos locally and both allowed you to take pictures with photo cameras, or your phone, and sync them then you got home. Over time our phones synced via the cloud to these apps. We…
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Weaned from YouTube and Instagram
Reading Time: 3 minutesDe-Instagramification it amuses me to read about how Instagram and YouTube are addictive today, when the opposite is true. Imagine, you live alone. You’re in the middle of a pandemic. Your only social exchange is at a petrol station when buying a coke or similar. You exchange three sentences and then you…
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Sorting Photoprism Photos With the Mistral Cat
Reading Time: 3 minutesI chose to experiment with Le Chat by Mistral, the French AI alternative to Gemini, Claude and CatIFARTED (ChatGPT). For the experiment I copied my Photoprism photos from the drive I use that is connected a Raspberry pi to a laptop before running scripts to sort and remove duplicates. It worked well,…
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On the Topic of Vanishing Camera Operators and Photographers
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the Age of the AI bubble, but long before this, photographers and camera operators have been vanishing from television studios as well as from events. Where you would have hired a camera operator and video editor you now hire a video editor/graphist because video editing has moved from editing video footage…