Can’t stand to read this. The parts of a person’s story they’ve chosen to keep private are the parts most likely to get interpreted and twisted—fragile, subjective, even mutable truths they’ve chosen to hold private. That choice is sacred. Shame on those who trespass.
Hacking My Mother’s Phone to Save Her Memories
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#82In a related vein, I created a thing called VMSave a few years ago to let people easily save outgoing voicemail messages, something that the carriers make significantly harder than it should be. It’s saved almost 15,000 messages so far. https://vmsave.petekeen.net
So it saves the "hi, this is John Doe. I'm currently not available. Leave a message after the beep!", correct?
Yep, exactly.
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#84I'd feel a bit weirded out at the prospect of someone going through my digital records after I pass. Not so much for my own embarrassment (I'd be too dead to feel that, after all), but to protect the trust and confidentiality of everyone I've communicated with.
On the other hand it would be super interesting if we _could_ get in to people's data maybe several generations after they've passed. Imagine what historians could learn about what life was like hundreds of years ago if those people left the same digital footprints that we're creating today.
With people sharing so much publicly (social media et al), can't historians learn about what life was hundreds of years ago without having to dig into private data ? :-)
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#86There's no reason to snoop on a dead person's personal data. It's a backstab to privacy.
Nothing to be proud of.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
A phone is particularly terrible as a single copy of data because it has a high exposure to theft, physical damage, and water damage.
And just as importantly, phones are practically irreparable. Phone dropped and screen cracked? Good luck, unless it's an old Android (which don't prompt before allowing their storage to be mounted). Laptop dropped and snapped in half? Just take out the drive and put it in another computer.
I don't know what kind of phone you have but that's just not true. OnePlus for instance will replace your screen for £89 even on a brand new OnePlus 7 Pro, and it takes about 5 days to get it back.
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Yeah, I had to clean off a computer of a friend who passed to make it "safe" for his son to use. That was an eye-opener experience.
Can you share more on this? I'm assuming embarrassing content viewed or created?
He had some pay websites. He had told me once that his biggest revenue generator was girls dressed in superhero costumes, not PG-13 stuff.
However, one surprise was the VAST quantity of photos of women's feet.
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Thanks. Ripe old age of 36 too. I'm optimistic though.
Oh wow :-(. I am around your age and this literally sent a shiver down my spine. More strength to you. Hope all will be well.
There is a startling statistic that shows colon cancer for older people is dropping, due to routine colonoscopies recommended for those 50+, but is increasing in those that are in their 20's and 30's. It's a more aggressive type too.
All I can recommend is that if one has previously unexplained constipation, thinning stools and/or blood in the stool, get checked right away and insist on a referral for a colonoscopy. My doctor initially thought it was constipation or IBS and it was two months before a referral to gastro.
In 5-10 years I think medicine will start to recommend a colonoscopy at age 30.