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I like this a lot. We need more hard records of personal correspondence. It would be cool to do this as a service. Honestly when I read the title I thought it
by throwuwu 3y ago
I like this a lot. We need more hard records of personal correspondence. It would be cool to do this as a service.
Honestly when I read the title I thought it was going to be about using message history as a basis for generating a narrative account of the events using an LLM.
- trizoza 3y agoThe same, I expected a whole criminal AI generated novel based on a history of a chat.
- shawnc 3y agoDitto. Exactly what I pictured from the title and I was already thinking how interesting that would be. I’m curious to try something like it now.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoWith the EU's DMA law and the preceding GDPR, some services have to offer an API so that your hypothetical service can pull this data. However, iMessage was notably excluded from this law, and then there's the encryption thing where you can't just pull data from e.g. whatsapp.
- darkwater 3y agoMe too. But the real story is way better! Now I want to do the same with my Telegram chat history.
- thefourthchime 3y agoI love it as art, but it's usefulness is questionable. If you want a hard copy, just copy it to a microsd. Or three if you are worried about losing it.
- refulgentis 3y ago"Hard copy" means "a collection of paper sheets bound in some fashion" in the context of books. So they probably didn't mean it in a way where microSD is equivalent.
- tivert 3y ago> I love it as art, but it's usefulness is questionable. If you want a hard copy, just copy it to a microsd. Or three if you are worried about losing it. Hard copy means paper. Also microsd is a terrible for long term storage.
- henryaj 3y ago> Also microsd is a terrible for long term storage. How come? I would have thought flash would be better than e.g. a regular hard drive.
- Eiim 3y agoFlash memory relies on cells keeping charged, but the electrons can slowly leak and discharge the cells over time. It looks like the commonly claimed number is 10 years, but there's no clear answer. Hard drives also aren't great as a "set and forget" method. In either case you should refresh the data regularly (~yearly). Optical media is a great option for digital long-term storage, but paper is a very tried-and-true method, if stored in the right conditions.
- grepfru_it 3y agoMagnetic storage still rules all. Get a tape backup system and be happy. I rotate three tapes between offsite, my safe, and an active one in the tape drive. Don’t overthink “offsite”, your work office is good enough. Or your parents house. Or your neighbor on the other side of the neighborhood. Or backup once and throw the tape in the back of the closet. At least you can restore the magnetic backup. I would not be happy with the error rate of transcribing data from paper :-)
- Eiim 3y agoVery true! I have a friend with a tape backup system and it serves him well.
- demondemidi 3y agoOne of the great disadvantages of private emails (& texts) is the massive amount of correspondence that is lost to future historians. I have books of letters published by Feynmann, Feyeraband, Einstein, etc. Everything is now email that is behind a password, which means we'll likely never have troves of personal letters from which to contextualize modern people who become historical figures in the future.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoHow would you solve for this?