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Re: Personal Encyclopedias

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you give it to an LLM run by Chinese, Russian, or European corporation?

I'm not OP, but I find the American threat more real and immediate than the more abstract Chinese and Russian threats. From my perspective, the American President has threatened to annex my country, American businesses have repeatedly violated my trust, spyed on me and leaked my data, and American big tech is meddling in my country's politics. No other country has demonstrated such an ability and willingness to colle…

Same.

Given the US' NSA's long-standing violation of human rights at massive scale, and the proclivity of American society to be reasonable about kidnapping people, deemed unsavory, off the streets by jackboot thugs - and the fact that China builds roads, hospitals, ports, and communities around the world in nations considered 'inferior' by America's military junta/oligarch ruling class, while America bombs them into oblivion - I'm fine with the idea of eschewing American AI.

Its kind of necessary, I think, to resist this at the moment - at scale too, I might add.

If Americans want to fix this they still can - time is running out, however.

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I do something similar with my wife; at the start of every year we take around 50 sheets of paper and bind them into a little notebook. The binding cloth we use is usually a combination of clothes that tore, fell into abject disrepair the previous year. She then finds little things (ex: matchbox from a restaurant we visited and loved) and decorates it. Throughout the year we keep writing in it, things we learnt, disc…

Great example of a commonplace book. Jillian Hess has written extensively about this -- her books are well-researched and organized.

Oh I had no idea it was formalised to such a degree, we just thought we were doing an extreme form of scrapbooking haha.

Thanks for the resource!

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The project itself is cool if you have access to a LLM API endpoint with good privacy (perhaps your own GPU server). I wouldn't give a LLM run by a US corporation access to my private photographs.

Which US smartphone operating system do you use?

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The project itself is cool if you have access to a LLM API endpoint with good privacy (perhaps your own GPU server). I wouldn't give a LLM run by a US corporation access to my private photographs.

Which US smartphone operating system do you use?

A reputable company will follow the GDPR and not share my personal data without explicit opt-in consent. Dodgy LLMs are anybody's guess.

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The project itself is cool if you have access to a LLM API endpoint with good privacy (perhaps your own GPU server). I wouldn't give a LLM run by a US corporation access to my private photographs.

I guess PPQ.AI or OpenRouter.AI be of use to you here? Or maybe Apfel (Apple on-device AI) is powerful enough to do this?

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You’re gonna really wish you recorded the voice of your grandma telling those tales. Video >photo >audio >text

Take more videos, including random moments of your daily life. Just short ones are fine. Your future self will thank you.

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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.

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I like the idea. I like the way it uses existing framework. If I was going to offer a suggestion, I would try to incorporate a way to use local inference ( or is that accomplished through opencode? I have not used it yet so I don't really know ).

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This is awesome, dude. I love it. One of my personal points of friction is that I want almost all of my life to be public in whichever way it is, but I don't want to subject my friends to that without asking, and my life is pretty intertwined with that of my friends. I suppose I could add a new namespace and protect it, but for now I just keep my private notes in my Google Drive and my public notes on my blog. My blo…

Perhaps a tangent question, but coming from a country with an authoritarian regime I am very careful about what information is public about myself. How do you feel for example about encryption in your chats? I do not mind to make most of my life public, but I care that companies do not use this for what I feel is not right. Example being Meta, using people's lack of care for their privacy to perfect their addiction algorithms. If I can use a secure private messenger like Signal, then I will. Curious how you feel about this?
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