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Comment · 29 days ago
I did something similar years ago but for live satellite imagery https://earth.wooleys.us. I wanted to show my kids hurricane/typhoon imagery live. Worked great to throw up on a chromecast and let it run.
Comment · 3 months ago
I can confirm it works on iOS 27. I haven’t tried elsewhere though
Comment · 1 year ago
iOS 26 fixes this with an option to only show photos not in an album.

Additionally, if you are backing up photos to a hard drive you will be much better off using an app like PhotoSync. It has a one time payment and transfers direct to whatever you want with far less errors and more control than Apple’s terrible buggy disaster that is transferring photos by wire.

Comment · 1 year ago
I spent some more time hunting due to this conversation and I’m hopeful that yjs + y-WebRTC + PeerJS will solve this. I also see that there are a few libraries that enable QR codes to replace PeerJS as a truly offline WebRTC initialization with true p2p connectivity. Looks quite promising
Comment · 1 year ago
I may end up doing that, but I really wish there was a true p2p option that doesn’t have me relying on someone not rug pulling their free tier sync server.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been working on a small browser app that is local first and have been trying to figure out how to pair it with static hosting. It feels like this should be possible but so far the tooling all seems stuck in the mindset of having a server somewhere.

My use case is scoring live events that may or may not have Internet connection. So normal usage is a single person but sometimes it would be nice to allow for multi person scoring without relying on centralized infrastructure.

Comment · 1 year ago
This reminds me so much of what I really wanted to do after reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. It seems like such a perfect setting for an ambient soundscape like this with the ocean sounds crashing through the rooms, various birds passing through or collecting, you could even add drones for the statues. The rooms, ocean, and wildlife are perfect for procedural generation. Only the sculptures would be a bit tricky to infinity vary. In short thank you :-)
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Enjoy yourself! Don’t let me spoil your fun :-)
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Comment · 1 year ago
They make it super simple for someone on the move to do a zoom out teams call with one screen and still have access to PowerPoint’s presenter view.

Basically use the dummy plug screen for PowerPoint’s output and the laptop screen for the presenter notes. Then share the dummy plug’s screen.

Might not be the best answer for the citizens of Hacker News but so, so easy for teachers and salespeople.

Comment · 1 year ago
Confusingly this does exist but is super weird to get to.

Select some photos and then select merge. The pop up that follows will let you merge only the exact duplicates.

So you can first merge all your exact duplicates, and then when that is done manually review the visually similar matches.

Comment · 1 year ago
Kind of. The default behavior is to create a new link. So when you grant someone access you are actually creating a new link. However, you can find the buried manage access settings and change the permissions on the original link. If you do that then they can use the original link.

(Teams makes this Byzantine in the extreme to accomplish as you have to go find the folder it drops all shared files in to gain access to manage access settings. But it does allow you to retro change access even for things shared in Teams)

Comment · 1 year ago
Technically, you could do this in Mylio but probably not in the way you want.

Mylio stores “Live Photos” as Photo.extension <- the “photo” it shows in the interface Photo.xmp <- all the metatdata Photo.myb <- everything else

Literally the myb is just a zip of everything else associated with the photo. So in the “Live Photo” case that would be the associated video file. If you have edited the file in Apple photos that also includes the XML Apple uses to non destructively perform the edit. As well as a copy of the original photo.

In your case you could just manually create the myb file by zipping up all the associated extra photos and changing the extension. However the interface would only show the single main photo.

Comment · 1 year ago
Per the link. Yes. Here the specific statement.

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