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April 13, 2016 at 10:34 am

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General Lighting

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I use Flickr quite a lot for storing and sharing photos as it is easy to deeplink the resized versions whilst keeping a full size one available on line; even with the changes Yahoo made about 10 years ago there is still a useable tag/commenting system and I don’t want to cane all of DR B’s bandwidth on this server.

The bulk of my photos are taken for educational rather than artistic reasons; I do not use much processing / HDR / editing on them they are often obscure items like electronic circuit boards (a full size photo is useful to identify small components which are hard to see); although some appear to be more popular than I expected (Flickr has always tended to attract folk who are tech aware but also have artistic interests)

If I get the rare chance to attend something like a party at the housing co-op I try and take along my DSLR – I do use one sort of image enhancement but otherwise use it just like a film camera with a motordrive and endless supply of film. Other than geotags I leave the EXIF data in my pictures so anyone interested in photography can learn from it.

Instagram, facebook etc as well as privacy issues mangle the photos and metadata which I don’t want.

Unfortunately Yahoo are going tits up and might be selling out to Daily Mail group and Flickr is being downsized; which is a shame.

Anyone know of any other equivalent services that I could use?
April 13, 2016 at 10:47 am

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Benj@min

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I have everything on OneDrive from Outlook

But I’m not sure if there are a limit to file sizes or the amount you can upload.
April 13, 2016 at 11:19 am

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tryptameanie

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Skydrive, google-drive, dropbox…….
April 13, 2016 at 2:38 pm

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General Lighting

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I use both business and personal Onedrive and dropbox – although it seems possible to share photos they appear to link directly to a full size version of the photo (although I may ahve missed some obscure setting) – plus although I do not keep anything particularly controversial on these services I do also use them for work data which is classified to OFFICIAL status (MS services are approved for this use) and I am ethically obliged to protect this (as there may be info about vulnerable people).

A bug in flickr would at worst case just show up someone elses photos (more likely just the bad panda picture) – although Dropbox and Onedrive are fairly well protected and monitored (MS offer a bounty for any bugs) errors here could have worse consequences.

Thus I am looking for somewhere that hosts photos / videos and nothing else. I suppose I could use my personal blog and/or some spare capacity on a VPS I have access to but the automatic resizing and metadata storage of Flickr is useful (I’m surprised Yahoo hasn’t been able to make it sustainable or profitable simply by working with the Japanese and Korean camera manufacturers, as EXIF data and users pictures can be good advertisments for decent cameras!)
April 13, 2016 at 2:40 pm

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tryptameanie

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Well, you choose what is shared in your dropbox/google drive/skydrive etc., you could also keep sensitive data in encrypted containers but that has it’s hassles.

What about imgur?
April 13, 2016 at 2:59 pm

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Benj@min

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Why don’t you buy some server space for your things?

Should be possible to find a trusted host.
April 13, 2016 at 4:21 pm

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tryptameanie

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If he controls the server, why would the host matter? He could set it up at home no?
April 13, 2016 at 4:24 pm

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Benj@min

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True, if it’s set up at home.
April 13, 2016 at 4:25 pm

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tryptameanie

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@Benj@min 981567 wrote:

True, if it’s set up at home.

Thanks, I have no clue lol.
April 13, 2016 at 4:38 pm

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Benj@min

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My brother rent out server space and maintain it for his customers, so he really have access to a lot of information.

He have a little one man compagny 🙂
April 13, 2016 at 4:41 pm

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EPICLULZ

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@General Lighting 981531 wrote:

I use Flickr quite a lot for storing and sharing photos as it is easy to deeplink the resized versions whilst keeping a full size one available on line; even with the changes Yahoo made about 10 years ago there is still a useable tag/commenting system and I don’t want to cane all of DR B’s bandwidth on this server.

The bulk of my photos are taken for educational rather than artistic reasons; I do not use much processing / HDR / editing on them they are often obscure items like electronic circuit boards (a full size photo is useful to identify small components which are hard to see); although some appear to be more popular than I expected (Flickr has always tended to attract folk who are tech aware but also have artistic interests)

If I get the rare chance to attend something like a party at the housing co-op I try and take along my DSLR – I do use one sort of image enhancement but otherwise use it just like a film camera with a motordrive and endless supply of film. Other than geotags I leave the EXIF data in my pictures so anyone interested in photography can learn from it.

Instagram, facebook etc as well as privacy issues mangle the photos and metadata which I don’t want.

Unfortunately Yahoo are going tits up and might be selling out to Daily Mail group and Flickr is being downsized; which is a shame.

Anyone know of any other equivalent services that I could use?

This post just found me hundrades of photos i thought i lost. I used photobucket.com it’s just like fliker. Photobucket gives you 2gb free if you download the app they give you another 8gb free. there are upgrade options too.
April 13, 2016 at 4:46 pm

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Benj@min

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I forgot all about photobucket 🙂

I have a huge amount of pics there too
April 13, 2016 at 5:01 pm

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tryptameanie

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@Benj@min 981572 wrote:

My brother rent out server space and maintain it for his customers, so he really have access to a lot of information.

He have a little one man compagny 🙂

Surely measures can be taken to protect the server against people physically accessing a system? I understand the hardware needs maintaining but it sees like madness that people would allow anyone with access to a datacentre to access their system….
April 13, 2016 at 5:15 pm

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Benj@min

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im sure there are some closed areas, but if he would he could, he’s the brainy one in the family.
But he would never
April 16, 2016 at 10:10 pm

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General Lighting

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I just happens I already have access to a VPS in NL which I had obtained with some domains for a work project (it was going to be used for some groupware; and as a backup host for the helpdesk system I run via a similar one from the same company)

My employers decided in the end to use the business grade Office 365 (which to be fair is actually half decent for a medium sized business where end users are not as IT literate and once set up less of a hassle for sysadmins); I had got a spare domain “just in case” and managed to track down an open source gallery (GNU Mediagoblin) which does just what I need; does not require browser plugins and unlike many others development has not stalled.

Took me a while to configure it as I had to upgrade debian to jessie and use systemd instead of init (or you have to start the web server manually from the command line) – I remember the old beardies all arguing about this (as it meant changing loads of distros) a couple of years ago, although the Germans thought this is a good idea and Linus eventually accepted the change.

Curiously systemd scripts remind me of some old Unix systems I encountered at University in the 1990s so I was just about able to get everything working…

I wasn’t sure if I needed to use https (which means getting a valid certificate as a snakeoil one would likely cause deeplinked photos to trigger security warnings and make folk more suspicious) – and it seemed like overkill for a server hosting photos I would be uploading for everyone to see without any intent to track users closely for marketing. The link is below and some of my recent posts are also from there – I am just testing it at present as I have to keep an eye on the bandwidth but it should hopefully keep running smoothly..

alextheengineer’s profile â€” GNU MediaGoblin
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