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EfreetSK@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

TIL the DCIM directory stands for "Digital Camera Images"

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TIL the DCIM directory stands for "Digital Camera Images"

www.lifewire.com

EfreetSK@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago
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Why Are Photos Stored in a DCIM Folder?
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Your digital camera, smartphone, or other device that takes photos almost always stores those photos in a DCIM folder—but why?
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    It’s pronounced “Jim”.

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        Yeah I did

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        I don’t understand what his personal life has to do with this, although I cannot provide doubt as to whether he has some junk in his trunk.

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      If GIF is “Jiff”, then DCIM has to be “Jizz”.

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    neat

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      Futurama Bender Neat meme

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    For quite a long while search engines would return amazing results when you searched for

    Dsc-0001.jpg

    And so on, perhaps with some variations based on camera model. People uploaded their DCIM folders to their homedirs which were sometimes exposed to the web. You’d see so much private stuff this way.

    Just tried and it appears such functionality has been removed from Google, because of course it has.

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      Sad, you can still do this with youtube for the time being

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        Amazing.

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          Fantastic, that vid has 78 views as of now, I’m guessing 76 of them from today hahaha

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            It’s down to 70 views for me. Someone’s been disrupting the space-time continuum.

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              Up to 140 views now, plus 6 likes and a comment!

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      I bet Google themselves can still see them though, for training their AI.

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      Reminds me of how you used to be able to control various unsecured IP security cams by typing part of the URL that is common among them into Google.

      I remember stumbling upon some random office building in China and was able to fully control every camera in the place. I never did anything beyond pan them around a bit—and nobody ever reacted to my antics—so I guess the camera movements either weren’t very obvious or staff was just used to being watched by management/random people.

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      Why were their homedirs exposed to the web?

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        In the 90s and early 00’s it was really common for Universities (for their students and professors) to arrange Unix based shell accounts for email and storage.

        The Apache http server was easily configured to allow per user websites and this was commonly done to give everyone a website. They looked something like a “www.example.com/~username” URL which mapped to a public_html folder inside the user’s home directory. Apache would serve up any files or html that lived inside to the public.

        https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/public_html.html

        At the time, a lot of people didn’t worry about anyone finding their obscure files, so put them there freely for family and friends.

        Wild times!

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      It looks like you can still search for private directories with specific keywords.

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    So simple, yet so far away.

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    So it should have been DCI all this time. Or DICAIM.

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      Dick aim? 🤔

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      Digital Camera Images, Man.

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    I pronounce it as Daysim and you can’t stop me

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