I do understand and share people’s hatred of corporate-owned, centralised cloud AI.

I understand (though share to a lesser degree) people’s ethical concerns about how these models were trained (copyright has been broken for a while now, this just exacerbates it).

But this level of outrage about using local models on an opt-in basis strikes me as hysterical.

Feel free to change my mind.

I’ve seen Immich mentioned around here before, but I’ve honestly never set up even a real homelab or sever before, so that’s a bit daunting.

I haven’t been in this space for too long either, but immich is what brought me here. I tried it out locally - no deecated server, just spun up immich on my desktop machine to try it out. And it was just so good it made me want to have a server and learn the ropes.

I’d recommend you try it out this way too. We’ll see each other on the other side of that rabbit hole. ;)

I’m the violence.

Great, I’ll probably do just that this summer. Thanks for the info!

I’ve got a second deployment of immich that also got stuck somewhere on v1.x. May I ask how you upgraded to the most recent version? Did you just go for 3.0, or did you do “baby steps” in between? (e.g. 1.138 > 2.0 > 3.0)

I do still read the changelogs and compare compose files thoroughly on every major update. With that in place, Immich has not once broken down on me, and I’ve been here from almost the very start.

unless you rip the movie out into a single file first

I don’t see the problem with that. It’s what I’ve done with every single disk I own. Why would I bother with badly-written menus, pointless extra content and tons of ads and copyright warnings I need to sit through before I can watch what I paid for?

You patched the annoying “crash-on-start” bug! 😍 I was collecting diagnostics to help nail it down, but you guys were faster. Keep up the great work! 👍👍👍

Thank you! While that does allay most security concerns, it does beg the question how useful such a vulnerability tracker is if it doesn’t actually show any relevant vulnerabilies and you constantly have to second-guess what it says. Warning signs that aren’t actually warnings because it’s “just a false alarm” quickly teach personell to not take warnings seriously - unti, onel day, it’s not a false alarm…

Thanks for your detailed reply!

To make that happen, the attacker must […] already have access to the server to upload and process the file, which means that security has already failed.

Do I correctly assume that by axis you mean shell or even root level access? If not, any of my regular users (turned rogue…) could upload a poisoned raw file which nextcloud would process to, for instance, generate a thumbnail.