▲ 201 ▼ photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads (discuss.tchncs.de) submitted 11 months ago by lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 103 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children) The only infrastructure I’m using is the bit of Javascript and HTML If Photopea was so simple, you could just download the necessary parts and self-host. This won't work because there is actual server-side code running, meaning you're hogging someone else's resources to do your commercial-grade tasks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de [S] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) This won’t work because there is actual server-side code running That is not true! You can figure that out for yourself - open up the site, disconnect your internet and resize/crop some images. It will do it just fine, because all of that code runs in your own browser. permalink fedilink source parent [–] percent@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago (1 child) The image processing happens locally in the web browser. Not to imply that hosting the static assets to power that (JS and WebAssembly binaries) is free, but it's definitely much cheaper than the compute resources that would be required to do the heavy lifting server-side. (Still worth paying for or allowing ads though. Photopea clearly took a lot of work to build) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 child) The completely insane claim was "The only infrastructure I'm using is the bit of Javascript and HTML", meaning one could just save the page and run it fully locally. This is of course BS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 point 11 months ago There was a repo that did just that for self hosting photopea. But it got shut down permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de [S] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) This won’t work because there is actual server-side code running That is not true! You can figure that out for yourself - open up the site, disconnect your internet and resize/crop some images. It will do it just fine, because all of that code runs in your own browser. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] percent@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago (1 child) The image processing happens locally in the web browser. Not to imply that hosting the static assets to power that (JS and WebAssembly binaries) is free, but it's definitely much cheaper than the compute resources that would be required to do the heavy lifting server-side. (Still worth paying for or allowing ads though. Photopea clearly took a lot of work to build) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 child) The completely insane claim was "The only infrastructure I'm using is the bit of Javascript and HTML", meaning one could just save the page and run it fully locally. This is of course BS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 point 11 months ago There was a repo that did just that for self hosting photopea. But it got shut down permalink fedilink source parent
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 child) The completely insane claim was "The only infrastructure I'm using is the bit of Javascript and HTML", meaning one could just save the page and run it fully locally. This is of course BS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 point 11 months ago There was a repo that did just that for self hosting photopea. But it got shut down permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 point 11 months ago There was a repo that did just that for self hosting photopea. But it got shut down permalink fedilink source parent
