Trump: Free $5,000 for Everyone!
Trump promises every adult American $5,000 if the Republicans hold Congress. A European look at why that makes no legal or economic sense whatsoever.
Emma
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3 min
How to export your Google Photos library without losing the metadata
Google Takeout hands you a folder of photos and a pile of JSON files, and if you just unzip and open them, your dates and locations are gone. Here is how I got my library out with the metadata intact.
Vin
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4 min
Google and Apple Now Call Lake Ontario "Lake America"
Google and Apple updated their world maps within days at the request of the White House. It exposes just how vulnerable our dependence on American Big Tech really is.
Emma
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5 min
Meta's Addiction Machine Is on Trial
Meta is facing a massive lawsuit over deliberately hooking children and teenagers on its platforms. Here's why PixelUnion offers a different path.
PixelUnion Team
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3 min
The Digital Guillotine: A Wake-Up Call for Your Data
The US campaign against the ICC shows how easily a person's entire digital life can be deleted by executive order. Here's why that matters for where you store your data.
Marc
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4 min
What is data sovereignty, and why does it matter for your photos?
Data sovereignty is one of those phrases that shows up in every privacy policy and rarely gets explained. Here is what it actually means, what it does not mean, and why the difference matters for the photos you store online.
Emma
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5 min
immich-archiver: mirroring your photo library to your own disk
We built a small open-source tool that copies your PixelUnion library to a folder on your own hard drive, with the full metadata preserved alongside every file. Here is how it works and what it does not do yet.
Marc
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6 min
€890 million fine for Google, Google's invisible wall!
Google has again been fined hundreds of millions by the European Commission for breaching the Digital Markets Act. What does 'self-preferencing' mean for creators and their images?
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3 min
The AI inside your photo library, and why we moved it onto our own GPUs
Immich runs three machine learning jobs to make your photos searchable: smart search, face recognition, and OCR. Here is what each one does, the models behind them, and why we now run them on our own graphics cards instead of on CPUs.
Marc
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12 min
Why it's time to leave Google Photos
Google Photos is cheap and convenient, but you pay with your privacy. We lay out the risks and show why a European alternative is worth it.
Emma
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3 min