To be fair, I think he is mostly endorsing the concept of the implementation, lined out in his seven points, not the actual implementation since it isn’t available yet.

Hehe no it was actually surprisingly light when I looked it up, sorry for being lazy and just referencing it still.

He’s just one of the top 3-10 AI scientists in the world. If you want to start up a groundbreaking new AI research company, he’d probably be top 3 on your headhunting list. Anyone of Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Tesla etc would hire him asap if he was available, probably as their new chief AI scientist.

But yeah, my whole title was fairly narrow in only making sense for people who already knew who he is. Maybe it would have made more sense to most if I just said “Top AI scientist endorses AI” or something. Uh, without abbreviating Apple Intelligence to AI I guess. I hate their naming on this.

F me if I do / F me if I don’t?

You don’t have to like him. He’s still regarded as one of the most capable and knowledgeable person in the AI space and a thought leader, so to most his words in that area will be listened to. There are almost zero other persons Apple could have hoped more for an endorsement from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy

That’s awesome! How do you use Topaz in this flow?

It’s just utterly amazing how well that picture represents each of the actors personalities.

I did not plan to upgrade this year, but also didn’t expect Spatial Video capture until next year. I’d like to start capturing video for the Apple Vision Pro as soon as possible.

Pricing though… translating my local price back to US it will be $2245 for the Max with 1TB 🤢

I’m sure it’s better now than last I tried it years ago, but I like a solution that works also when I’m away traveling. And I get a lot of power and control over metadata as well.

I don’t do anything on import, I let Apple Photos handle it. I have not actually checked that it gets converted, but I cannot imagine anything else that can explain the reduction on size.

Performance, basically. There are a lot of fancy functionality and image processing, memories, search, content recognition, edits, different timeline views, smart albums, people albums etc… You have to take a lot of care to make all of this work smoothly with 1 million pictures!

Amazingly, so far it seems just about as snappy and smooth as always.

OSXPhotos

You can use it from the command line, but I use the Python interface with a custom script to handle some of my custom stuff like making sure the NAS volume is mounted, tweak some naming, more robust duplication handling etc.

I used to run iCloudPD through docker on my NAS, which works great and can sync down everything directly from iCloud. However, if you turn on Advanced Data Protection like I did, software like icloudpd can no longer access your photos.

I’ve instead added an external SSD to a Mac Mini server and set it to download all originals, then I run the script on a schedule every night to export anything new to my NAS. Then the backup of my NAS to an encrypted cloud location will kick in a few hours later.

To be honest, I can’t remember the last time I used the lightning plug to transfer any data, so it’s not a current feature I will miss. But it’s a huge, missed opportunity for sure.

1. I have backups.
2. I have multiple libraries. This is the main one. I don’t need to split it up as long as it’s already manageable :)

Says the squid! I do not trust your intentions. The location of the penguins will not be revealed.

I’ve never heard of data loss. From the local machine or the cloud, or both?

Nevertheless, I make a nightly export to my own file structure which is stored on a NAS and also backed up to a third party cloud, so I’m not very concerned.

Check out Warp as well if you love your command line!

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Thanks, I didn’t know about !lemmyapps - that will cover my own needs at least.

I think it has been very useful with promotion of the various Lemmy apps coming out for iOS / macOS and don’t mind them at all. Maybe they could be allowed for a time still so new apps in the space still get a fair chance to grow and become alternatives?

I have for some reason not watched any Startrek this year, but based on your post I’m looking forward to it.

Could you give me the highlights? What’s good so far and what’s coming?