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Alex Kretzschmar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
808 total appearances

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

into that post PC era, that post Linus era, um, hopefully tailscale won't suffer from that problem.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Cause I, I don't really, I don't really chase the fame aspect of it, or I don't want to be famous or anything like that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

I do want people to be as excited about stuff that I am as I am.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And that's really my driving goal is to just, you know, like this week, for example, I set up a self-hosted image instance.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

You know, the photo, Google photos replacement.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Done by Alex and his team at Futo and Lewis Rossman in Austin, no less.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So they're on your doorstep, dude.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So I set this up and I was like, I can delete Google photos now.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

I've actually finally deleted my quarter of a million pictures in Google Photos.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

It took me all weekend.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

You have to go through the web UI and select a maximum of like 10,000 images at a time.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

It's... Really one million for real?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Yeah, it was like quarter of a million pictures.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Yeah, it was quite a lot.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

But Google make it really difficult to leave.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

But anyway, I'm off the Google source, finally.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

It's about time the self-hosted guy actually did that.