Immich

Google's wording says it will not use data from these services for ads "unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads."

Commenters argued over what counts as choosing, given how many Google products nag you to turn sharing on.

In today’s GitHub Trending: Immich manages self-hosted photos and video; Qlib supports quantitative ML research; Trivy scans containers, repositories, and cloud configurations.

Immich supplied the clear spike with 636 stars. The pattern is not a single new category; it is developers choosing more inspectable control points around data, compute, and operational risk.

In August’s GitHub Trending: Tailscale connects private networks, Immich manages self-hosted photos, whisper.cpp runs speech recognition locally, Coolify deploys apps on your servers, and PostHog bundles product analytics and observability.

The shared appeal is an operational bargain: replace a collection of managed services with software you can inspect and adapt—then accept the maintenance, migration, and support work that comes with it.

In today’s GitHub Trending: Immich (self-hosted photo and video management), Tailscale (WireGuard networking), microservices-demo (a Kubernetes and Istio sample), awesome-systematic-trading (quant-trading resources), and Awesome Lists (SOC/CERT references).

The surprise is that the most useful entries are not competing products. They are working systems and maps of accumulated practice, where adoption depends on clarity, maintenance, and the limits the community has already found.

In today's GitHub Trending: Immich, the self-hosted photo library now at 3.0; two builds of OpenAI's Whisper for transcription on your own machine; Helix, a Rust terminal editor with a language server built in; and NautilusTrader, a Rust trading engine you run yourself.

Four of the five swap a cloud service for something you host. The loudest thread isn't praise but a bug: Whisper hallucinating a stranger's name into perfectly silent audio.

Version 3.0 is a real step: non-destructive crop/rotate/adjust on mobile, a Workflows automation engine, HLS on-the-fly transcoding, and integrity checks that catch missing or mismatched files. Breaking changes hit third-party integrations.

Encryption was the fault line. Several users said the lack of E2EE is why they picked Ente instead. A contrarian pushed back hard: for a home photo library, end-to-end encryption is arguably pointless — lose your keys and you lose the only copy of grandma. The sharpest bug report was an operator finding 20% of his disk eaten by duplicated per-user thumbnails.

The recovery wall offered $5/month or $50/year to 'save $10'. He paid, the bucket was empty, and the cancellation came too late for a refund.

The thread's lawyers had a cheaper answer than the subscription: in the EU a GDPR request forces them to hand over your data for free. And since the site itself claimed to be holding his photos, several readers called it textbook chargeback territory — refund or dispute the charge.