[digiKam-users] either face recognition screen is buggy or I still don't understand it - at least I can say that more convenient bulk change of face tags (no auto refresh / set faces via context menu) is neccessary #V5.9.0 Windows Feb 27 2018

[J Albrecht]

“killfiled”? How ironically appropriate.



> On 5 Feb 2019, at 14:07, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> On mardi 5 février 2019 18:32:03 CET J Albrecht wrote:
> (...)
>> As I had alluded to earlier: “Are you okay with telling your kids that you
>> willingly chose to participate in the development of the technology which
>> is used to not only oppresses others in the world but possibly oppress them
>> in the future as well?”
> 
> That cat is well end truly out of the bag now, face recognition is already
> used in certain airports to speed up passport controls. So developing it for
> Digikam is not going to suddenly provide orders of magnitudes faster or better
> face recognition (the more as Digikam devels don't invent the algorithms used,
> afaik...)
> 
> While the concerns are valid, attacking a project like Digikam as if they are
> (out to help) the next batch of totalitarians is a bit over the top.
> 
> You might consider that the *users* have  the responsability of learning their
> tools and using them correctly, and that they can't hold others responsable
> for their unwillingness to learn
> 
> Remco.
> 
> (P.S. heviiguy is killfiled)
> 
> 

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