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> Private by default > Your wiki and archive live on your machine. Nothing is stored remotely. Sure, the wiki is private. However, in the process your data is being uploaded straight to an AI company. Of course local LLMs exist but that’s seemingly not supported here and I think the statement on privacy could be clearer.
you can also use opencode with local models for a fully offline setup
I like the idea, but I'm curious where to draw the boundary. If only I can read it, it can be my full recollection of everything. If I add my siblings, parents, cousins, etc, then some articles become painful or controversial (e.g. divorce, disease). Or I just ommit all the unhappy parts.
A good wiki like MediaWiki supports various levels of visibility. For example, you could define a namespace for each group of readers like 'Family:'. Or use transclusions from subpages. (This might sound like a bit of a hassle but you can use a template to set it up once and for all: a page transcludes a public sub page followed by the distant relatives material followed by parents / siblings followed by your-eyes-on…
the transclusion pattern for layered visibility is something I haven't implemented yet but stumbled upon when I was evaluating mediawiki
thanks for pointing to pmwiki's approach, I'll look at how said set it up!
I like my memories ephemeral and fragile. Reading AI-generated articles about my loved ones in the typical apathetic Wikipedia tone sounds like a deeply unnerving experience to me.
Would there be any obligation to read the bits concerning yourself ? I see this more as a digital artifact for future generations. I would love to read all about the events in the lives of my ancestors (no matter how detached the narration) going back generations. Imagine if you could read in detail about your parental ancestors in 1500s, what they worked as, what they liked doing, where they spent their first holida…
I actually spent a weekend last yr doing something similar. Went through a box of old photos with my dad and wrote things down before the stories were lost. Never thought to structure it as a wiki though. Way better than the Google doc I ended up with. The bank transaction + location cross referencing to figure out which restaurants you went to is pretty cool. Would be great if this could pull in social media exports…
I did use some of my facebook and instagram exports! I was active on those platforms during college so it dug out a lot of fun stories from there haha timeline view is interesting, I’ll hack around!
My grandfather left five moving cartons of diaries written by typewriter, every single day of his adult life documented, an achievement, to be sure. When he passed away he left them to my mother to be scanned, transcribed and moved online, something that weighed her down for the last 15 years of her life. When he died there was no way of transcribing them automatically (there still isn't really). The boxes stood in m…
But you basically ripped out a partial root grounding your family, your kids, their kids. Sometimes these roots give strength in difficult times. Thats just my opinion and self-observation.
Whats done is done. But I could not imagine myself doing that.
A good story I stopped reading when it became agentic. The product naming is becoming harassment. When it's in the title, at least we know. When it's in the intro, we know what we are getting into. What really pinch is that this project could have easily been done with some scripting, open sourced, and anyone could do it at zero cost, with total privacy.
the things people are comfortable delegating are really surprising, but the emotional reaction here is even more so: people are genuinely moved, it is bizarre
e.g what is more important for most travelers, to travel or to get likes on their holiday shots on Instagram?
Something to keep secure though. With AI scams taking off, this kind of context could make it very easy for someone to scam your friends/family