Someone a short ELI ? I read the article and the comments... But I have no idea what this is about.
Maybe someone has an article that explains for someone not being educated as computer scientist ?
Someone a short ELI ? I read the article and the comments... But I have no idea what this is about.
Maybe someone has an article that explains for someone not being educated as computer scientist ?
Nobody ever talking about lychee ?
Yes okay it's not GPL or written in a fancy new language (PHP is still alive xD). But it's simple, elegant, no UX bloat, no ML or IA stuff... Just a plain simple self-hosted photo manager.
One thing I really liked about it, you can import you external photo's with .xmp files, just one checkbox away.
The tag feature is simple but working as expected. Nothing fancy but it does best what's it's supposed to do !!
Call me old boomer but I really like the simplicity of lychee. It's a bit like how reading an article from miniflux or wallabag... Simple html files without bloating your eyes or your brain...
Just my 2c, nothing to see here !
Meanwhile me with my Freezed Firefox version...
"So what crazy stuff is going to be discussed in arkenfoxe's Github repo this time?"
For those interested, John Hammond did a video a few months ago about .lnk
extension (and other 16 hidden extensions on Windows).
He doesn't go to much and to deep into the subject, but you get a general view how this could be exploitable.
In case you missed the point 🤙
I don't know about all the details but yeah I had a bad feeling with manjaro and a lot of people argued against it. Followed my guts and a happy EndeavourOS user :)
I do use a Mac and I hate it... It's a birthday gift from my family, because owning a Mac makes the "man"...
Uuhg, I always need to learn things twice... First how it works on Linux and than how to reproduce the same on Mac...
There are to many shitty workarounds that do not behave the same way Linux does even though it's UNIX based.
I fucking hate it... And after 4 years of intense use I still do not understand why people would willingly buy something like that closed crap ecosystem. Maybe just a hipster thing...
To expand on my previous comment I dug a bit deeper the rabbit hole with exiftool to showcase how powerful meta tags
are over conventional tags
. I was curious how It would work and find an "universal" embedded tag system that works nearly on any software.
First thing first,from my personal research there are 4 important types of metadata fields:
It's also possible to copy one over to the other. The most important ones are IPTC
and XMP
which are read by most image manager. XPkeywords
and MDItemUserTags
are OS specific to windows and macos respectively.
After some reading and fiddling around I used the following commands:
exiftool -IPTC:Keywords="Phil's Exif" Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -XMP:Subject+=one Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -XMP:Subject+=two Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -EXIF:XPKeywords="tagtest" Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -MacOS:MDItemUserTags+=tagging Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
I spun up a lychee docker container to test if my tags are automatically recognized:
What does that mean ? Does are embedded meta tags that works with every software capable of reading the IPTC or XMP metadata. Those tags will follow your pictures rather than being bound to a specific software database. So your tags are portable and embedded into you files which is in my opinion a better long term solution.
There's probably way more to it and something that could be further explored is to export your metadata as .xmp
file, add those tags into the OS (XPKeywords, MDItemUserTags), bash script to manipulates even further....
Hope it helps to give you a sneak peak on what exiftool is capable. I'm a noob with this tool but it already shines and shows it's power and capabilities with some basic commands.
Here are some resources if you want to give it a try and follow my trails:
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=15344.0
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=1752.0
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=15802.0
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=8591.0
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=13102.0
An other solution could be exiftool by Phil Harvey. Don't judge by how the website looks... It's probably the best and most complete tool to edit the metadata directly into your images (and way to much other formats xD).
Even though it's very well documented, exiftool is very complex and there's a lot to read and grasp before getting comfortable with it. There's always the forum if you have any question, but before asking the forum go through the FAQ (yes I know it's huge... But as starting point look at number 11) and search a similar question in the forum.
Here I found a topic that looks like what you're a looking for:
Thank you :)) ! I have the same question as @umbrella if your have any other insights to share !