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Re: Project Naptha

#41

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I think windows and Mac both do this by default, no? Just disable the web search and your local full text is what you're left with.

I believe they meant they want something that searches only content the user has personally directly accessed, not ALL local content.

Spotlight on Mac will show you recently opened, or frequently opened, files first.

Re: Project Naptha

#42

This extension is a privacy nightmare. "By default, when you begin selecting text, it sends a secure HTTPS request containing the URL of the specific image... The server responds with a list of existing translations and OCR languages that have been done." That is some pretty sensitive data to keep around. There seems to be some rudimentary thinking around privacy: "no user tokens, no website information, no cookies o…

There are probably some hacking angles too, e.g. I wonder if the API will helpfully tell me the contents of https://mybank.com/user/latest-statement.jpg or whatever

Re: Project Naptha

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe they meant they want something that searches only content the user has personally directly accessed, not ALL local content.

Ordering by "Date Last Opened" or "Date Modified" does a fairly good job in some cases

This does introduce sorting contention though, what to sort for first? relevance or date accessed? Ideally you would want to introduce date accessed as an aspect of relevance itself.

Re: Project Naptha

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This makes me feel old. I saw it for the first time in 2014 on HN, just when it was announced. I felt kind of envious of Kevin Kwok, author of this project. I had just graduated and he was still an undergrad. He had already shipped so many complex projects, including a full-fledged Flash Animator[1] for the web. It's pretty surprising to see that his site hasn't been updated since 2015 and not many projects have been…

Ahh, I did an Algolia search just now and found the 2019 post[0] but thought that felt a bit recent for what I remember. I can't find that 2014 post, however - do you have a link? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20919147

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7629396

Re: Project Naptha

#49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think windows and Mac both do this by default, no? Just disable the web search and your local full text is what you're left with.

I believe they meant they want something that searches only content the user has personally directly accessed, not ALL local content.

I thought we all disabled access time (mounting with noatime) to avoid trashing SSDs so quickly.
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