I had a similar issue and wanted a "Google Photos" like product. So a web-interface with a time-based list and an phone-application that automatically back-ups.
I'm currently using Synology Moments/Photos which comes for free with a Synology NAS.
I've recently been on a trip with random strangers sailing on a boat and I could easily request the others' photos, import them in an album and share it with the rest of the group.
I'm struggling to find a better alternative that is workable and is almost set-and-forget.
If you’re feeling adventurous you can run the synology dsm os in a vm (qemu/kvm in my case). You use tinycore[0] as a boot loader to bootstrap the official Synology image[1]
It can be a bit of a pain to setup but once it’s up and running you can run all synology apps, including photos and even their nvr software, backup your home pcs to it, etc. If you pass through pci sata controllers you can bypass any disk virtualization layer and let synology manage raw disks exactly like a metal install in one of their nas machines would do. You could even swap the disks into an official nas later on if you wanted. The synology apps are highly polished and worth the setup imo.
There’s also a docker image that makes it all trivial, but it’s too many layers of abstraction for my tastes[2]
I understand your concerns and where you are coming from, but the privacy policy is refreshingly transparent, readable and clear: https://reclaimyourface.eu/privacy-policy/
Some key facts:
- "ECI signatories: your full first and last names, country of residence and date of signature. Depending on the signatory’s nationality, we will also collect a combination of the following data: residence (street, number, postal code, city, country), date of birth, national identity document type and national identity document number." This seems to indicate that the data requested is dependant on the country you live in. So blaming the organization is a bit unfair.
- "Your data will be stored by the group of organisers for a maximum retention period of one month after the submission of the initiative to the European Commission or 21 months after the beginning of the collection period, whichever is the earlier. It might be retained beyond these time limits in the case of administrative or legal proceedings, for a maximum of one month after the date of conclusion of these proceedings." They will remove your data whatever happens.
I've signed the petition and handed over my the equivalent of PESEL. I did that because I understand that if we want to enact change we have to be more than a signature on an online form, we have to be a living breathing person and not just another email-address in a database. They can sweep [email protected] under the rug rather easily but along with data that proves that I'm a citizen that becomes much harder to do.
Your last point, the additional order, is crucial. And media, Spiegel being one of the most outspoken, created enough pressure tp force that order. Not that overall quantity was an issue, so. But all people saw was shortages. There were no delivery schedules published, so that played a role. But I would have expected some more investigation and research.
Then thr EU ordered more, being under fire, and that let to a temporary shutdown of the plant and even more severe shortages.
Nobody is thinking about that. Instead, the Spiegel is using this to push an agenda against von der Leyen. I'll not defend her, she should never have gotten the presidency (EDIT: become head of the Commission) but what is going on now is just cheap propaganda. And definitely not helping in any way.
A TDP comparison is certainly reasonable, though we don't actually have real power consumption metrics so it's a challenging thing to really evaluate. But more to your question, it depends on whether you're trying to evaluate _this chip_ or the _chip family_. Personally I'm not going to be buying anything with the M1 in it because they aren't machines that fit what I need, but I'm extremely interested in benchmarks of the M1 because of what they tell us about the hypothetical M1X (or whatever it ends up being called) in a body that I would, in fact, purchase.
Some comments have touched on some possible issues such as the swapping of key-frames of someone else's face and possible funky effects by introducing other faces and or objects into the camera image.
But I haven't seen anybody touch on the compute cost required to implement this. As I'm not in the machine learning field I don't have a good idea what the compute cost is for something like this. Can anybody chime in on that?
If this "codec" were to require a somewhat beefy gpu I don't see the benefits at all. Current H264 is usually done by hardware decode and sometimes even encode. In areas where bandwidth is constrained I would imagine a lack of computing resources, thus nullifying the entire premise. That said, in current times it would save a substantial amount of data transmitted. But I'm not sure if we should lock-in our entire videoconferencing system to nvidia just to save some bandwith.
I suspected as much, but thank you for the link. That makes it easier. Now just to find some replacement keycaps. You don't happen to have a link for that, do you?
I'm extremely interested to know in what part of Europe you live because this is the exact opposite as to how I see a close friend and his #EVlife. Allow me to elaborate.
My friend lives near Brussels, Belgium. I currently live in between the cities of Hasselt and Antwerp also Belgium. The distance covered in a single trip is 83.2 Km. He drives and I quote: "a full spec Nissan Leaf" whatever that may mean.
During winter times, my friend has to take a look at traffic flows because if he has a traffic jam he'll run his battery flat and be stranded.
During summer, he's hot because the car can't sustain AC and drive the distance without running his battery flat and be stranded.
When he arrives, he has to find a charging pole in the middle of the city centre. He checks this in advance on his application/website/... before he leaves because else, he is stranded.
If we go out in the evening he has to spend the night or his car isn't charged and he's stranded.
To start charging he has to select one of the three cables he has in his car because of "standards".
In the end, I pick him up in my ICE because he's not even at his destination.
We have done this dance for about 5 times now and I can assure you that -to me- the EV market seems to be doing everything it possibly can to make me as uninterested as possible in buying an EV.
I'd rather take Belgian public transportation than deal with this nonsense. A train might get cancelled, but at least I know I'll be home that same day.
Some things that come to mind on a quick reading of the website you linked:
- you can only sign up by using github. This is equally nonsensical as requiring a facebook account to sign up. I have neither. But I have e-mail, so why can't I play along?
- I legitimately cannot tell what platform this is on. Is it a webapp or is it a OSX/mac only local application?
- Does it exist on mobile?
I mean this as constructive criticism and I hope that somebody related to the project/company reads this and improves the information. But from what I can see this application is locked down for those on github and who operate macs. That makes it useless to a whole lot of people.
Though I'm willing to agree with this as a general idea, I would be cautious to state it as a fact.
I've encountered many Flemish Belgians who openly admit they can understand English but cannot speak it well. A member of my close familiy who works in aviation occasionally rants about "having to do everything in English", a position that I cannot begin to understand.
Whereas I've worked for a Flemish Belgian company that also had Walloon Belgian customers who communicated not stubbornly in French (as the stereotype would suggest) but in professional English.
I believe that the language learning is affected by the generations. There has been a disregard, acceptance and now (what I believe) a new disregard of foreign languages in Flanders. Though I do not have any numbers to back that up. That said the news recently reported an all-time low for Flemish Belgian students with regard to reading and sciences (https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/12/03/_dutch-is-the-key-to...). So there might be a correlation between the two subjects.
It would be very interesting to have data on this subject as Belgium indeed is a great place to study this phenomenon.
