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Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by Communitivity »

Kudos - this looks like a great project and is fully usable now.

I have a similar project, DL, that's unfinished. Mine revolves around using a custom API in both Rust and REST to aggregate all my digital life events using ActivityStreams 2.0 and extensions to that, in a manner that is decentralized and ranked/categorized through machine learning. I am still working on it and releasing it Open Source is one of this year's goals.

My motivation is that the amount of information I receive from Twitter,Mastodon,Facebook,Reddit,HN,various Stack exchanges,blog postings,etc. has gotten to the point where it's too easy to miss things.

Jeremie Miller, one of the creators of XMPP, had something similar revolving around the Telehash protocol. As far as I can tell, that effort is discontinued, or at least no longer Open Source.

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by karlicoss »

pheme1 wrote: post #19

I wish to see some kind of encryption and token access for each module. A quick glance of the setup.py, it seems to rely on appdirs to store user data unencrypted?

appdirs is just a module to find the config directory in a portable way, the data can be stored anywhere you point the config to, but you're right that there is no encryption involved.

Note that it's meant to be running on your own computer, and it's using the filesystem to access the data, no network interactions involved. Ultimately it's about how you're protecting the data on your disk and whether you trust youself with it. Of course, my code has to be trusted too, but it's at least possible to run it in a sandbox/use Docker, etc.

The modules run untrusted Python code, so if you keep your token on the disk, they can potentially steal it token too, unless you use some elaborate authentication system.

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by chrisma0 »

nicbou wrote: post #13

I have been toying with a similar idea for a very long time. I want to have an all-encompassing personal history for the same reasons I want good access and error logs. I want to see when something wrong happens, and I want the means to diagnose the problem and fix the damage. A few good examples: - Did I forget to write down any tax-deductible expenses? - What is my net worth? Is my current lifestyle sustainable? -…

> Which parts of my city have I yet to explore?

> Can I search all my conversation with John across 3 messaging apps, email, SMS and phone?

These are totally pain points for me / questions I'd love to have some answers for... Anyone tried to get the historic iOS location data to answer the first question?

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by AJRF »

Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again.

Wondering if anyone else does this?

I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I wonder if that says something about me - I'm not really sure. It's probably just another form of procrastination.

I once read Stephen Wolframs post about how he has a key logger that backs up every keystroke he types and its all indexed and he has a little front end over his enormous amount of data and it made me feel anxious just even reading it.

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by karlicoss »

GistNoesis wrote: post #20

Is there a myDigitalLifeInAGlimpse function that would generate a full synthetic report, ready to be shared on social networks ? If you can add some social scoring, it would be great too. Maybe if you have a way of certifying it too, it would be great indicator to put on resumes to show how much better you are than those other candidates. What about the next step ? Have you considered just putting screen recording (+…

Hey, I've got a crude timeline of events (simply rendered as giant HTMLs), but it's private at the moment. I'll probably share some of it in the future, especially considering that some of the data is public anyway (e.g. online comments or tweets), it makes sense.

Next step: yep, I throught about it a bit [0], agree that it would be great as a service-agnostic way of accessing the data, the same way we can see it with our eyes.

But figured I should start with strictly easier problems for now, ones that I can solve at least to some extent. For now my goal is simply enjoying using it, making the setup simpler (to make it accessible to more people), making sure it's robust to the changes, flexible enough, etc. I want to inspire people to own their data. In many ways, I'm advocating an approach to owning it and working with it, rather than a specific set of tools, formats, etc. It would be great to have more people experimenting in the same area and trying to loosely integrate with existing efforts.

Optimizer: to some extents, yes! Not sure about 'general happiness', but I'd happily let the computer dictate me what to eat, how to exercise and how to sleep. Maintenance is probably one of the most annoying things in my life.

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#future

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by slightwinder »

amelius wrote: post #8

If only we had well-maintained open source projects for scraping every data type.

Maybe something in the spirit of Home Assistant? But for general service-interaction, not only home automation.

That would be so useful, as also kinda dangerous. It would be also a damn amount of work, just for managing it. Maybe building some general framework and API and let people build it decentral?

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by graphpapa »

AJRF wrote: post #26

Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again. Wondering if anyone else does this? I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I won…

I do something halfway in between - i routinely get frustrated with everything that’s not relevant to my present concerns, and just throw it into a folder called ‘archive’ and then move THAT into the big central archive folder.

I never really look back through any of it but when I do it’s quite nostalgic.

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by brian_herman »

AJRF wrote: post #26

Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again. Wondering if anyone else does this? I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I won…

I love deleting my accounts every year, It feels so liberating and cathartic to just click that button and have my information go to /dev/null.
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