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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by noduerme on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:29PM (#28352310)
As someone who's never used cloud-based photo browsers... I always assumed the facial recognition aspect was primarily for social media apps that try to tag known faces from a user's friends group, to put it in those people's news feeds or something. It's one reason I avoid being photographed and ask people not to tag my name to my face if they do post a photo I'm in. I'm wondering, what's the utility of facial recognition if you're storing/sharing photos on a service that has no database of known faces? Or is this just for image editing or red eye removal or something?

[edit] as I'm rethinking it, would this just be for searching your own images for a particular person...?

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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by skinkestek on Monday August 30, 2021 @12:58AM (#28352918)
> as I'm rethinking it, would this just be for searching your own images for a particular person...?

My Synology NAS has face recognition and it is wonderful even if (actually: especially since) it has no pre-existing database and doesn't (to the best of my knowledge) share its database.

For someone like me who manages family photos for the entire family but isn't to good at recognizing faces it is just brilliant.

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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by kingsloi on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:57AM (#28355704)
I agree, Moments isn't a bad piece of software, especially being able to group/combine the same person, that is tagged as a different person. My newborn was like 50 different people when I first uploaded our pics, merging them together was as easy as a few clicks.

I wonder if it's a good idea to use Synology as onsite, and ente as 123 backup solution?

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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by jetofff on Monday August 30, 2021 @11:45PM (#28363750)
It's so incredibly useful to be able to bring up pictures but you don't remember the exact time or date that you took it.

Google photos has come in so clutch when you're searching through 50k photos.

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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by thinkloop on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:47PM (#28352641)
To be able to categorize by person, ex: "list all photos of Jim".
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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by hulahoof on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:25PM (#28352544)
This would be a useful feature for myself, I am also loathe to tag faces on social media with all that entails; but I find myself approaching a friends birthday or other events wishing I could search my images for everything that included them from the past year
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