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Love to see Crosspoint get a callout here, loving it on my X4 - and a tiny bugfix PR of mine made it into latest :)

Not as I see it - this is a generally undocumented API surface not meant to be called programmatically like this, unfortunately. Every iCloud photos sync tool does/will hit this same restriction (icloudpd, rclone, etc).

The only possible unproven alternative is adopting the one-hour token generated by Apple which goes through ADP, but assuming that even works, that defeats the purpose of the app being more than a one-shot.

I continue to be working on kei, my cloud->local photo/video sync engine.

iCloud Photos is fully baked along with implementing their completely undocumented SyncToken. I’m doing some QoL work in the next few weeks, tightening up some early architecture decisions, and then adding more providers (Immich, NextCloud, Google Takeout… else TBD).

Since last time I posted this, two other people contributed and I’m almost at 100 stars! That’s some dopamine.

https://github.com/rhoopr/kei

This is an interesting perspective on something I haven’t considered at all for applications I’ve built, honestly. I’m going to take it in and make changes wherever possible.

iCloud-photos-downloader is unmaintained and starting to crack due to Apple API changes so I’m working on my own fork/rewrite/take on iCloud sync, with ambitions to add Google Takeout, Immich, and other services too.

https://github.com/rhoopr/kei

Named after my ‘96 Subaru Sambar kei truck, small and mighty. The other thing I’m constantly tinkering with :)

Hemingway’s Rule 5: don’t blatantly use LLM output in an article about writing.

“The camera is the least important element in photography.”

There’s an interesting conversation to be had about ad sponsorship on web content when the share of people just getting summarized results from {LLM chatbot of choice} is increasing and siphoning actual views.

This site features one of the worst fonts I’ve ever seen.

This is chaotic. I love it.

Unfortunately, icloudpd is now unmaintained -- alternatives are around, though

Live photos are just .mov sidecar files. There are a variety of iCloud export tools you can use to move to self hosting, including mine (shameless plug) - http://www.github.com/rhoopr/icloudpd-rs

Let me tell you about my rock that keeps tigers away…

This seems more like he is bad at describing what he wants and is prompting for “a UI” and then iterating “no, not like that” for 99 hours.

Reticulating Splines…

> You have been so generous, so unreasonably, almost suspiciously generous, that you have made it possible for an entire global economy to run on software that nobody technically owns, maintained by people that nobody technically employs, governed by licenses that nobody technically reads. It is a miracle of human cooperation. It is also, from a fiduciary standpoint, completely insane.

Funny but true.

A surveillance tech company asserting that they know better, based on 'big data'. Shocking.

The family has proof of residence (which is its own absurdity we won't discuss), and this third party can arbitrarily override that based on a black box argument.

Fair enough! It's an extremely hard problem to solve.

Looking forward to the first LLM&M coding agent

Can you clarify how Statphone deals with the problem of random spam calls hitting the number by chance and ringing everyone? I assume that’s how most spam operates these days, just brute force on number permutations. I love the idea!

You registered just to post this. Reconsider your choices.

icloudpd-rs - Fast iCloud Photos downloader, Rust alternative to icloudpd

The original Python icloudpd is looking for a new maintainer. I’ve been building a ground-up Rust replacement with parallel downloads, SQLite state tracking, and resumable transfers. 5x faster downloads in benchmarks, single binary, Docker and Homebrew ready.

https://github.com/rhoopr/icloudpd-rs

Sloppy vibe infra management and no backups, peanut butter and chocolate.

It’s generous to call this a review when it can be summarized to “I opened an account and look forward to trying it.”

Sounds like you’re describing ADHD symptoms, in my experience

I’d like the website to show me actual screenshots of the application instead of a mile long scroll.

Let’s not anthropomorphize silicon now. It’s wrong, not hallucinating.

All of the things ChatGPT, allegedly, emergently said to her sound like modern romantasy tropes. This is obviously a result of her use as a writing tool and I’d be willing to bet she’s not being honest about her prompting and context history.

ChatGPT isn’t going to “name itself” without being led down that path.

Absolutely not. Humanoids aren’t an ideal form for robotics in nearly every application. Not to mention the lack of progress in commercializing robots.

World population is estimated to be 8.9b in 2035. There won’t be 8.9m humanoid robots in active use at that point, I’d bet.

The simplicity of the animation makes this hilariously charming.