Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
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Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#2I see strong potential in this feature, however given Microsoft's history in some regards I believe this feature should be (a) fully auditable and (b) not dependent on specific hardware (like Recall requires a special NPU chip) and (c) OS independent. There's still a lot of room of improvement but ultimately we believe that the community should decide what is important (is it encryption? is it blacklisting apps?) rather than the features are dictated by a megacorp.
Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#3FOSS is the way to go, to quote Elon Musk: closed source recall is a "Black Mirror Episode"
Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#4I see strong potential in this feature, however given Microsoft's history in some regards I believe this feature should be (a) fully auditable and (b) not dependent on specific hardware (like Recall requires a special NPU chip) and (c) OS independent. There's still a lot of room of improvement but ultimately we believe that the community should decide what is important (is it encryption? is it blacklisting apps?) rat…
This first version is very much scotch-taped/hacked together of some 'AI' models for OCR/semantic embeddings and some OS API calls which get dropped in a SQLite db and screenshots stored as webp (lossless compression). We believe that there is a lot of potential to improve.
Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#5Here's a better idea: don't
FOSS is great, but the idea here is not great in the first place. FOSS or not.
Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#6Here's a better idea: don't FOSS is great, but the idea here is not great in the first place. FOSS or not.
Well, it's entirely optional. I understand why people wouldn't want this, but for those who do see the benefit of accessing this additional layer of memory we want to give them complete control over their data (screenshots, OCR'd text, embeddings) and auditability of the software.
Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#7Why the FOSS world needs a spy??
Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#8Here's a better idea: don't FOSS is great, but the idea here is not great in the first place. FOSS or not.
Speak for yourself.
Re: Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature
#9I see strong potential in this feature, however given Microsoft's history in some regards I believe this feature should be (a) fully auditable and (b) not dependent on specific hardware (like Recall requires a special NPU chip) and (c) OS independent. There's still a lot of room of improvement but ultimately we believe that the community should decide what is important (is it encryption? is it blacklisting apps?) rat…
> I see strong potential in this feature
This is an honest question, not criticism.