Tag: Google Photos

Bookmarked Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management (Ars Technica)

Our perhaps unsatisfying conclusion to this seven-app showdown exposes an important truth: the photo management software world is too complex for a one- or two-person dev team to properly handle. Unless we see some of these app-makers start to pool their resources together, it could be a while before we get a truly excellent self-hosted option to pry many of us away from Google.

Alex Kretzschmar takes a dive into the open source alternatives to Google Photos. Might be something to tinker with in regards to Reclaim Cloud, especially Nextcloud Photos.
Bookmarked Google Photos — Bait Meet Switch by Thomas Hawk (thomashawk.com)

Once burned shame on you. Twice, three times, four times, five times, six times burned, shame on me. I will never trust Google with another product again.

Thomas Hawk reflects on his experiences with Google Photos and explains why he will never trust another Google product.
Bookmarked Exodus: Google Photos (mguhlin.org)

To that end, I’ve migrated my critical, medical, purchasing and bill paying emails away from Google Mail to a service I pay for. The next big move is Google Photos. I have countless images stored there, and I blame it all on phone app backups. Every political meme, cartoon, etc. that was on my phone is stored online. I wish there was an easy way to nuke all of those, but Google’s Archive feature captures essential images as often as it does the other’s. Still, it does a nice job.

Miguel Guhlin discusses how he transferred from Google Photos to Amazon Photos.
Replied to A Beginner’s Guide To Google Photos by Sue Waters (The Edublogger)

Google Photos is an excellent free solution for storing, organizing, and sharing photos and videos. Let’s get you started with this step-by-step beginner’s guide!

Thorough as always Sue. I have touched on Photos in the past, my only concern relates to where it sits within Google. It is not a part of the core suite of apps, therefore if you are to use it with students you should really get signed consent first?
Liked When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (WIRED)

Google’s caution around images of gorillas illustrates a shortcoming of existing machine-learning technology. With enough data and computing power, software can be trained to categorize images or transcribe speech to a high level of accuracy. But it can’t easily go beyond the experience of that training. And even the very best algorithms lack the ability to use common sense, or abstract concepts, to refine their interpretation of the world as humans do.