It sounds like they’re just encrypting it twice (once with each algorithm), but I could be wrong.

Just horses.

Only several thousand? There was a guy when I worked for Facebook who pushed a config change incrementing a timeout from 5 seconds to 30 seconds in the caching layer. Config changes roll out instantly. Brought down all of Facebook for about two hours. Probably cost them many millions. I mean, good for him.

Simple solution: buy a smart TV and never connect it to the internet.

If it’s using AI, I’m not interested. AI is garbage and produces garbage code. I definitely don’t want some LLM fucking up my database.

You might want to think about running a “stable” or “LTS” OS and spin up things in Docker instead. That way you only have to do OS level updates very rarely.

I run https://port87.com/

It’s not end to end encrypted like Proton, but it has features that help you stay private online, like everywhere you sign up with gets a different email address, so they can’t track you by address.

Just giving another option. :)

I use QuickDAV and OwlFiles.

Thanks. It took about 10 minutes to do each set of 1000 photos, because she wanted to keep both the originals and the modified versions, so 2000 individual per 1000 photos. It took roughly 22 hours to do them all, which I did over the span of about four days. I never want to do that again! xD

Immich does have a command line uploader, and you can download photos 1000 at a time from the iCloud website. It’s an extremely tedious process, especially when your mom has 130,000 photos to migrate, and she’s not techie enough to do it herself.

I’ve been using Immich for a while now. It is amazing. Better than iPhotos and Google Photos.

One thing to note is that your photos are stored on disk unencrypted, so if anyone has access to your server, they have access to your photos. This can be partially mitigated with LUKS or some other full disk encryption, but unless you configure it with TPM, your server won’t be able to come up automatically.

A good UX design will guide the user’s eyes to certain places, just like a good painting.

I think we can both agree that graphic design is art, and UX design, in my opinion, is an extension of graphic design, with the requirement that the user be able to navigate and interact with the graphics, not just receive and understand the information it contains.

I don’t think that terminal interface design, even though it requires creativity, is art in this sense, because the creative expression is solely meant to be functional. In a good UX design, the creative expression is not only meant to be functional, but also to evoke certain feelings and convey certain attitudes. Think about how the McDonalds self order kiosks need to both be functional, in that you can find what you want and place your order, but also evoke feelings about each item and convey an attitude of friendliness to the user. This is a different type of UX design than, say, a bank, which needs to convey an attitude of professionalism and evoke a feeling of safety.

I am a software engineer, and when I used to design a user interface, it was always pretty terrible for your average user. For an example, look at PNotify, which I designed over a decade ago. I am learning art (I’ve been painting for a few years), and through that, I think I’ve gotten better at UX design. You can see the progression in SMUI, which I made several years later, around 2018, then in Port87, which I made recently. I’m still not great at UX design, but learning more about the visual arts has definitely helped me improve.

UX designers are artists. UX design is art.

If you think artists are non-essential, try teaching a technophobic boomer to renew their driver license through a terminal command.

Windows is the greatest and best operating system that the Windows team at Microsoft has ever made.

Windows will not connect to a WebDAV server with a self signed cert without making a lot of registry changes.

It also will not connect to a WebDAV server with https using an IP address. It must be a hostname.

I tried and I got the following error:

Invalid \`prisma.tool.findFirst()\` invocation: Can't reach database server at \`5.161.113.232:5432\` Please make sure your database server is running at \`5.161.113.232:5432\`.

Can you add Nephele to the list? It’s not a full fledged replacement for cloud storage, but with something like OwlFiles on your phone, it’s close. And it’s very useful.

https://hub.docker.com/r/sciactive/nephele

Also, I wrote it. :)

Not yet, but that’s definitely planned.

Yeah, that does work, but then you have to manage all of the filters yourself, and some places don’t accept a + in an email.

I wrote an article that talks about that here:

https://sciactive.com/2023/07/17/the-best-email-for-those-who-struggle-with-organization/