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Mozilla grants Ente $100k

ente.io Mozilla grants Ente $100k

Ente has received a non-dilutive grant of $100,000 from Mozilla

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Technical question, if it's e2ee, it means videos can't be transcoded? Modern smartphones encode video at a bitrate that doesn't allow real time streaming on 4g
Ente is a beautiful, private cloud for your memories, with apps for mobile, desktop and web.

At Ente, we use Local AI to deliver features like face recognition and magic search, while respecting the privacy of your photos.

We'll now join a cohort of builders pushing technology forward for an AI that is light, private and accessible.
- So… like Immich?
  
  Every time an open-source cloud gallery like Ente or PhotoPrism is mentioned, someone is sure to come along and talk about Immich.
  
  I mean, Immich is cool, yeah, but it definetly is not a gold standard or something. Ente is a much more finished product.
  
  But with fewer breaking changes.
  
  Yes, except it's encrypted and funded by an actual business.
  
  No, like a duck.
- This being self hostable makes me instantly like this. Something like G photos that I could self host and dump a lot of shit off my phone storage would be amazing.
  
  I use Immich. It does what you described as well.
  
  Check out immich, I use that self hosted and it's exactly like Google photos. It even has optional facial recognition.
Ente supports all files that have a mime type of image/* or video/* regardless of their specific format.

so it handles raw images too?
- Since it's end to end encrypted, Ente just sees some raw bytes, it has no way to tell if what you uploaded is an image or not. So in practice it supports whatever the client can display, so your browser for the web version.
  
  Ohhh that makes more sense, thank you
- Considering you can assign any IME to any file, that means technically it supports everything from plain text to proprietary binary data.
Been using it for a while, works well
https://github.com/ente-io/ente
So Ente, like duck?

Edit: just checked it out (yes it's duck), what's the appeal over a self hosted nextcloud?
- Well ente means "mine"
- This is a photo gallery that can replace Google photos, while using nextcloud as a photo gallery is a proof of concept that can't be even considered alpha quality
  
  Hang on there. Yes, NextCloud photos is kinda a dump, not gonna lie. Do not like.
  
  But Nextcloud Memories is a labor of love, and it's been freaking AWESOME. A little bit of Docker knowhow and the NextCloud AiO image is a great combo.
  
  This can also be self hosted and is a much better photo gallery than nextcloud.
I'm not sure why every time I look at this project, it rubs me the wrong way. Anyone found anything wrong with it?
- Its self hostable now, and I'm my playing around with the self hosted version it seems fine
- Any guesses why that is?
- I just hate the comic style that is used in presentations like this, it is just too cutsey, and I can't take it seriously
  
  I want more ducks
  
  It's named "duck," what do you expect?

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