Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it
Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it
Just as we prepare wills for our physical possessions, we need to plan for our digital remains.The Conversation
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7 Tiny Street Dramas by Slinkachu
In the puddles, cracks, and cigarette butts of the city, Slinkachu builds entire worlds. These nine miniature installations—spotted in cities like London, Berlin, and beyond—turn everyday trash and sidewalks into unexpected stage sets.
From a bottle cap turned umbrella to kayakers paddling through spilled milk, each scene blends humor with sharp observation. Scroll down to explore some of his most brilliant work.
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Shelter in the Rain
A couple huddles under a green bottle cap propped up like an umbrella. The miniature figures stand on a rain-drenched surface, their delicate scale contrasting with the oversized texture of the metal cap.
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Blue Kiss
Two tiny lovers embrace beneath a blue bottle cap held aloft like a romantic umbrella. The background is softly blurred, focusing attention on their intimate moment.
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Spilled Rapids
A tipped-over cup spills its contents, becoming a rushing river for two tiny kayakers. The creative twist turns an accidental mess into an action-packed adventure.
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Beach Break
Two tiny vacationers lounge under a Thai beer bottle cap that serves as a beach umbrella, complete with folding chairs and a backdrop of real ocean and mountains.
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Big Proposal
A man kneels to propose with a candy ring, repurposed as a massive engagement ring for his tiny partner. The Houses of Parliament rise in the distance.
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Picnic by the Van
A miniature family enjoys a roadside picnic beside a classic green and white VW camper. Spread out on a cloth, their meal unfolds at the foot of a real boulder.
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Crime Scene
Dressed in hazmat suits, miniature forensic investigators examine a discarded cigarette butt as though it were the scene of a major crime.
By shrinking the human experience to fit the cracks of the sidewalk, Slinkachu reveals just how big small moments can feel. His miniature art invites us to pause, laugh, and look closer at the overlooked corners of our cities.
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14 Street Art 3D Masterpieces You Won't Believe Are Real - STREET ART UTOPIA
Get ready to be mesmerized by the fascinating world of 3D street art! In today’s blog post, we’ll delve into the mind-bending realm of anamorphic masterpieces, as we explore how these optical illusions are created and what makes them so captivating.Vidar (Street Art Utopia)
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UK government withholding details of Palantir contract
UK seems like it's getting a bit ahead of itself acting like their citizens have already agreed to hand over all regulations and oversight.
These people submitted a Freedom of Information request regarding the NHS Palantir contract and it keeps getting delayed (sounds familiar). However, might be worth noting that as of yesterday, a health trust in Britain turned down a Palantir contract, at least until they have more information about the risk vs benefit of the platform.
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has decided not to adopt a national data platform – prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir – until it has more evidence of the benefits and risks.The regional health leadership team heard that its existing data platform, which it had built over six years, exceeds the capabilities of the national Federated Data Platform (FDP), created by the US spy-tech firm under a much-criticized £330 million ($445 million) seven-year contract awarded in November 2023. Soon-to-be-defunct quango NHS England signed the Palantir contract after a series of non-competitive deals with the vendor totaling £60 million ($81 million) that established several use cases present in the FDP.
Seems like maybe people refusing to just give up and let things go can still make a difference, at least some places. So once again, I'm begging anyone in the U.S. to urge your Senators not to allow the ban on AI regulation to move forward.
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Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has decided not to adopt a national data platform – prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir – until it has more evidence of the benefits and risks.The regional health leadership team heard that its existing data platform, which it had built over six years, exceeds the capabilities of the national Federated Data Platform (FDP), created by the US spy-tech firm under a much-criticized £330 million ($445 million) seven-year contract awarded in November 2023. Soon-to-be-defunct quango NHS England signed the Palantir contract after a series of non-competitive deals with the vendor totaling £60 million ($81 million) that established several use cases present in the FDP.It’s been a good week for Palantir. The controversial spy-tech company, co-founded by Trump donor Peter Thiel, looks set to secure even more UK government work after the defence secretary pledged to expand the role of AI in the military.
Palantir already holds a £330 million NHS data contract. But as Democracy for Sale revealed last week, most hospitals in England are not using the software, with many complaining that it simply isn’t up to scratch.
To encourage hospitals to take it up, the government signed an £8 million deal with consultancy giant KPMG to "promote the adoption" of Palantir’s tech in the NHS.
We wanted to know more about how this money is being spent. How exactly has KPMG been promoting Palantir’s software to hospitals? And has it worked?
So, we submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), asking for reports produced by KPMG under its contract, as well as briefings prepared for Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who publicly supported the deal.
The government’s response? Silence. They’re refusing to release the information—so now we’re fighting for transparency.
Sue Hawley, executive director of Spotlight on Corruption, told us the government’s “impulse to secrecy around public money and public contracts” is “deeply concerning.”
"KPMG’s contract raises a real question: if [Palantir’s] software is so good, why does the government need to give £8 million of taxpayers’ money to a management consultancy to encourage NHS hospitals to use it?,” she added.
Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who previously sat on the health select committee, called on the government to “overhaul its procurement processes before another disastrous contract is signed with Palantir.”
We filed our FOI request in March. Under the law, public bodies must respond within 20 working days. But on the day the response was due, DHSC said it needed an extra month to “assess the public interest.”
Officials claimed that releasing details of KPMG’s work could damage the “formulation of government policy.”
A month later, the department delayed its response again—citing the same reasoning. Now it’s saying we can expect a response by mid-June.
While FOI law allows deadline extensions when public interest is involved, Democracy for Sale has seen this provision repeatedly abused to delay legitimate disclosures.
Just last year, DHSC withheld details of meetings with Tory mega-donor Frank Hester for four months—blaming “an administrative system error.”
Our case matters. Palantir’s £330 million NHS contract has been deeply controversial. Privacy campaigners warn that a company that is helping Trump’s migrant deportations should not have access to sensitive UK health data.
Yet Palantir continues to deepen its ties in the UK. The recent Strategic Defence Review—which relied on Palantir’s technology to “sift through submissions”—is expected to spark a wave of new AI investment, much of which will benefit firms like Palantir.
The company also enjoys top-tier political access in Westminster. Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel has advised Palantir, and the company has hired several former politicians, including ex-Tory Defence Minister Leo Docherty.
One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now
: Care board defers decision to adopt national systemLindsay Clark (The Register)
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Why are SSH keys better than passwords for authentication under #Linux ??
Because trying to brute-force a good SSH key is like trying to find a specific grain of sand on all the world's beaches... while blindfolded... and the beaches are on different planets 😂
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Humans step up as Texas steps back from autonomous trucking
Human operators, aka drivers, are back in the driver seat as partners have requested them says Aurora’s CEO.
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Humans step up as Texas steps back from autonomous trucking
Texas State lawmakers are reviewing House Bill 4402 – a proposed law just passed the House, effectively banning full self driving trucks.Jo Borrás (Electrek)
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Just rode Waymo through a crowed hilly part of SF. It was excellent. Missed having a driver, but the two Lyft rides we took were a guy who didn’t speak English, and a very confused young woman who told us crazy beliefs she had for 20 minutes.
Professional drivers - trucks, fork lifts, ride service, delivery service are all on the robotics/AI chopping block.
Manual labor is a thing of the past. Learn a skill that requires creative application of knowledge.
Software for Homeserver router combo
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Generally speaking I would avoid combining critical networking infrastructure with other services. Just from a reliability standpoint.
Let your router be just a router. Simple = reliable.
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That's a pretty good explanation, considering it was sent to me by a friend who's currently biking in Spain
So you're saying there are speed limits for bikers, and they use drones and helicopters to issue tickets to violators, or to warn them to slow down?
That sounds really crazy when I type it
Giant battery: first stage of Ruakākā Energy Park switched on
New Zealand's first super-sized grid-connected battery - built at a cost of $186 million - will help improve Northland's energy resilience in future power outages, Meridian Energy says.The company said its Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) would also help smooth out power peaks and troughs, by storing energy when electricity is cheap and releasing it at times of peak demand, such as early mornings and evenings.
The battery park consisted of 80 shipping-container-sized batteries spread over a two-hectare site at Marsden Point, next the former oil refinery south of Whangārei.
Project director Alan de Lima said at full capacity the giant battery could supply 100 megawatts (MW) of power, enough for 60,000 homes or about half Northland's population, for two hours.
It had been connected to the grid since the beginning of the year and would start operating as soon as final tests had been signed off.
It was also stage one of Meridian's planned Ruakākā Energy Park.
Stage two would involve building a $227m 130MW solar farm, with 250,000 panels spread over 172ha of land next to the battery.
Work was due to start in August with power expected to start flowing in early 2027.
Giant battery: first stage of Ruakākā Energy Park switched on
The country's first super-sized grid-connected battery will help improve Northland's energy resilience in future power outages, Meridian Energy says.Peter Degraaf (RNZ)
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Batteries will be a great way to cover peak shortfalls.
Pumped hydro might have been a better way, rather than all that battery manufacturing, but I haven't given up hope on the pumped hydro yet.
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I don't know much about pumped hydro but it sounds good!
This is really dumb of me but I just realized someone tried to describe this battery facility to me and I somehow thought they were talking about this fish farm.
Ruakākā kingfish farm a vision of sustainability for the future
The journey to this point has been one of scientific discovery and practical application.NZ Herald
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Pumped hydro is basically pumping the water from a hydro dam back to the top of the dam to be used again. It's basically a form of battery, use energy on days when you have too much so that you have water in your hydro lakes for days when you don't have enough power.
The incoming government cancelled it pretty early on, I think this long term thinking was getting in the way of tax cuts.
This is really dumb of me but I just realized someone tried to describe this battery facility to me and I somehow thought they were talking about this fish farm.
Ah interesting!
Ruakākā kingfish farm a vision of sustainability for the future
The journey to this point has been one of scientific discovery and practical application.NZ Herald
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Is there an active geothermal area in Northland? I once saw a proposal to use forestry slash in combination with geothermal. Use the slash as fuel to get the geothermal heated water up to the next level for better power generation, then capture the CO2 and pump it underground. I think this is the article I read.
I think Northland has a lot of forestry, so if you have geothermal you could do this idea!
How NZ could become a world leader in decarbonisation using forestry and geothermal technology
Our research shows NZ’s potential to burn forestry waste and capture the emissions in geothermal wells. But we’ll need new partnerships between power generators, manufacturers and the forestry sector.The Conversation
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Fascinating out of the box idea. It does have geothermal at Ngawha which is relatively near a forestry and could be expanded significantly.
While looking for that website I just stumbled on a tiny, rickety old hydro station
so turns out I was wrong about that!
Omiru / Wairua Falls | Maungatapere.nz
Find out more about the history of the 'Niagra Falls of New Zealand' and when is best to visit.Maungatapere.nz
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It does have geothermal at Ngawha which is relatively near a forestry and could be expanded significantly.
Opened in 2020! Your link also says "The Ngāwhā geothermal field is the only high temperature geothermal resource in New Zealand, outside the Taupo Volcanic Zone." so I think I'm allowed to be surprised 😅
While looking for that website I just stumbled on a tiny, rickety old hydro station so turns out I was wrong about that!
It can be fascinating reading the list of power stations in NZ.
I noticed one that's believed to be one of the oldest continually operating hydroelectric plants in the world. Mokopeka, since 1891. Some photos here.
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Its horses for courses. Pumped hydro is great in areas with suitable terrain and for longer term storage. In other areas / applications batteries make sense. NZ is of course capital constrained. It would be great to do everything altogether all at once but its a journey right and you have to bring people along with you.
There is also a weird effect with new tech where delaying actually makes economic sense if costs are going down so you get the most bang for your buck by holding off for a bit.
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I started a new job as a security guard last night. Before he left my boss told me I had to make sure I watched the office all night.
I am on season 2 already but I don't know what it has to do with security.
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City considers warning system for 'shark bridge'
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The city of Enid is looking at a system to take a bite out of the number of truckers falling victim to the East Maine "shark bridge."
The article is blocked by a paywall. If you were ever wondering why I don't often share links from local newspapers, this is why. Still, this famous truck-eating bridge is worth mentioning. Ha!
Support local news if you can.
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The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft underwent another surgery in March.
The team had to revive a thruster used for roll control whose heaters had failed in 2004. The tubes of the backup thrusters currently in use are getting clogged and may fail this year.
The delicate operation required turning on the failed thruster and flipping a switch to enable its heater and 🤞
All very tricky and risky operations, performed from 23 light-hours away on 1970’s era hardware.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause
The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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in reply to Pro • • •I'm lucky
I have no children, and never will
My family and I aren't close
My fiancée and I met through the erotic content that I create, and all my friends are well aware of it
My image has already been shared far and wide (without my permission), so that ship has already sailed
I'll be dead, and nobody will be worried about my digital legacy whatsoever
I know, however, that I'm very much the exception and not the rule
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in reply to Pro • • •My digital legacy is going in the dumpster, unless somebody figures out how to break encryption that I've never shared the password for.
Probate can figure out the rest.
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in reply to Pro • • •This is something that I've really been thinking about lately as I get older and my kids start to grow up. I've got 60TB+ of digital data, including all my families history of photos and videos digitized which are backed up to 3 separate cloud services, onenote filled with information, password managers filled with logins and details, etc, along with my Steam/Xbox/Playstation/Epic/GOG/etc accounts with 1000+ games on them.
I'm tempted to make a website/app to try and tie it all together in an easy way tbh.
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in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •Why so many?
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in reply to Flagstaff • • •I already pay for storage for one of them for other reasons (M365), but I much prefer Google Photos as a service, especially for sharing photos and albums, so I pay for that too. The third is just some crazy good deal with "iDrive Photos" where it's $5/year for unlimited upload from my phone haha.
Also in case anything happens to one of my accounts, especially since one is tied to my Xbox account and I have kids.
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in reply to sbv • • •Yup. My parents aren't even in ill health, let alone dead, but we recently took all the old VHS tapes, including a lot of OTA recordings, and a significant number of DVDs, and dumped them. Recordings of talking with relatives got digitized, same way you'd keep family photos.
I have no expectation that people keep my junk. I'll pass on a handful of stuff like identifying photos of people and places, but nobody wants or needs the 500 photos of my cat. Even I don't want that many, but storage is cheap enough that I don't bother to delete the useless ones.
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in reply to catloaf • • •You only have 500 photos of your cat? Is your camera broken? Got the cat yesterday?
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in reply to catloaf • • •I'm trying to curate a few hundred photos for my kids. I've written a couple of bios of relatives. I'd like to record something like a story for them. If they want to trash it, that's fine, but at least there will be something meaningful for them if they want it.
Assuming it survives the climate wars. 🫠
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in reply to catloaf • • •My wife’s parents recently passed. It took months to slog through their stuff and my wife was over it only weeks in. She dumped so much but constantly fights with herself for both taking more than she wanted/needed to and yet less that what she feels she should have. We’ve told our daughter multiple times “our stuff May mean a lot to us, it doesn’t have to mean anything at all to you. If you don’t want it, never feel bad dumping/selling/letting it go.” Out of all the stuff we all collect in life just by living, barely anything has any sentimental value.
On one hand I’ve got a huge collection of photos and albums I’ve taken and collected. I’m trying to clear some out as I go… but I’m not looking forward to that process when my parents go. My dad’s an avid photographer and I know he has a few hundred thousand photos, most of which are near duplicates and he rarely cleans them up.
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in reply to sbv • • •I think it would be interesting to have some kind of global archive. Even if descendants don't care "now" has the potential to be the beginning of the best documented era in history. Historians would kill for photographs by random average people from any other time.
A lot of people thought that that's what the Internet would be, but that's obviously not the case. And I know the "right to be forgotten" is a thing, and deservedly so, but at some point you're throwing out the wine with the amphora.
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in reply to sbv • • •Bear in mind, though, that the technology for dealing with these things are rapidly advancing.
I have an enormous amount of digital archives I've collected both from myself and from my now-deceased father. For years I just kept them stashed away. But about a year ago I downloaded the Whisper speech-to-text model from OpenAI and transcribed everything with audio into text form. I now have a Qwen3 LLM in the process of churning through all of those transcripts writing summaries of their contents and tagging them based on subject matter. I expect pretty soon I'll have something with good enough image recognition that I can turn loose on the piles of photographs to get those sorted out by subject matter too. Eventually I'll be able to tell my computer "give me a brief biography of Uncle Pete" and get something pretty good out of all that.
Yeah, boo AI, hallucinations, and so forth. This project has given me first-hand experience with what they're currently capable of and it's quite a lot. I'd be able to do a ton more if I wasn't restricting myself to what can run on my local GPU. Give it a few more years.
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in reply to FaceDeer • • •I agree. I keep loads of shot that I'm hoping one day will just be processed by an AI to pick out the stuff people might want to actually see.
"People" includes me. I don't delete anything (when it comes to photos, videos, etc) and just assume at some point technology will make it easy to find whatever.
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in reply to 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 • • •It's a bit technical, I haven't found any pre-packaged software to do what I'm doing yet.
First I installed github.com/openai/whisper , the speech-to-text model that OpenAI released back when they were less blinded by dollar signs. I wrote a Python script that used it to go through all of the audio files in the directory tree where I'm storing this stuff and produced a transcript that I stored in a .json file alongside it.
For the LLM, I installed github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp… and used the huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-3… model, which is just barely small enough to run smoothly on my RTX 4090. I wrote another Python script that methodically goes through those .json files that Whisper produced, takes the raw text of the transcript, and feeds it to the LLM with a couple of prompts explaining what the transcript is and what I'd like the LLM to do with it (write a summary, or write a bullet-point list of subject tags). Those get saved in the .json file too.
Most recently I've been experimenting with creating an index of the transcripts using those LLM results and the Whoosh library in Python, so that I can do local searches of the transcripts based on topics. I'm building towards writing up something where I can literally tell it "Tell me about Uncle Pete" and it'll first search for the relevant transcripts and then feed those into the LLM with a prompt to extract the relevant information from them.
If you don't find the idea of writing scripts for that sort of thing literally fun (like me) then you may need to wait a bit for someone more capable and more focused than I am to create a user-friendly application to do all this. In the meantime, though, hoard that data. Storage is cheap.
GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
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in reply to FaceDeer • • •That's awesome! Thank you!
I absolutely do. What I find as a potential showstopper for me right now, is that I don't have a nonintegrated GPU, which makes complex LLMs hard to run. Basically, if I can't push the processing to CPU, I'm looking at around 2-5 seconds per token; it's rough. But I like your workflow a lot, and I'm going to try to get something similar going with my incredibly old hardware, and see if CPU-only processing of this would be something feasible (though, I'm not super hopeful there).
And, yes, I, too, am aware of the hallucinations and such that come from the technology. But, honestly, for this non-critical use case, I don't really care.
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notfromhere
in reply to FaceDeer • • •It sounds like something similar to RAG (retrieval augmented generation) or a database lookup. Are you storing the transcripts in a SQL like database or noSQL db or doing semantic similarity on any of it?
I was thinking of a similar project and building a knowledge graph for each person.
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Plebcouncilman
in reply to 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 • • •If you’re interested in “chatting” with your writing there’s a couple of out of the box solutions right now, like Kortex or Reflect Notes. They are AI first note taking apps. I don’t use them out of privacy concerns but if you don’t care that much they might allow you to do what you want. They claim to be E2E encrypted and the AI unable to phone home but these are companies that sprung out of nowhere so I don’t trust they necessarily have done all their homework to actually provide full privacy.
Alternatively there’s an Obsidian plugin that I believe allows you to do such a thing as well with local LLMs if you wanted to which is the privacy first way to this. I’ve just moved to Obsidian from Capacities so I have yet to try it out as I’m still setting up my vault.
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in reply to 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 • • •GitHub - niehu2018/obsidian-ai-tagger-universe: An intelligent Obsidian plugin that leverages AI to automatically analyze note content and suggest relevant tags, supporting both local and cloud-based LLM services.
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in reply to Eggyhead • • •Yeah - I'm totally for full, real, actual ownership of digital stuff, and we should be able to give it away.
But I'd be surprised if my kids would be interested in more than a tiny fraction of it. Or anyone else, for that matter.
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in reply to Goretantath • • •My kids aren't really interested in the movies I like. They actively avoid the music I listen to. I've gotten them copies of the books I love and they give up after a few pages. They get bored with the games I played as a kid.
My dad loves Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the Whole Earth Catalog, and Bruce Springsteen. I do not. If he wills me his copies, I will keep some out of guilt and then my kids will have to throw them away.
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in reply to Pro • • •A long time ago, I had the idea for a startup to keep digital material, including accounts, passwords, old documents, etc. in a digital vault that would be released to the next-of-kin when someone dies. It would also convert documents to newer formats so your old unpublished WordPerfect novel could be opened and read by the grandkids (should they choose).
Problem is, nobody would (or should) trust a startup with that material. This is stuff that should be around for many decades and most startups go out of business.
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in reply to fubarx • • •Should it? 99.99% of my email doesn't need to be around for more than a few days, let alone decades. And that number will only go up when I'm dead. Really important stuff, like ownership titles, is on file in paper here in my house and with the relevant title agency.
fubarx
in reply to catloaf • • •Grandkids can just ask for a free-form search term without having to wade through everything.
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tibi
in reply to BlameTheAntifa • • •You can take ownership of a lot of it. Thanks to GDPR, major platforms offer ways to export data like photos, videos, activity on their platforms, messages etc. Store locally first, avoid over reliance on online platforms for safekeeping your data.
Also, we need to fight to keep ownership of digital media while we still can. Buy movies and music on physical media so they keep making them. Buy physical books. Buy from DRM free platforms like GoG. As convenient as it may be, avoid over reliance on streaming services.
And of course, make backups of anything you care about. Only you can keep your data safe. Online services will only keep your data as long as they can exploit it to make money.
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in reply to billwashere • • •I flat out told my family “when I die, just burn it all down and buy basic consumer stuff.
There’s no way my tech would survive for more than a handful of years without a proper sysadmin, and the entire thing would be two dead HDDs away from total data loss.
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in reply to Pro • • •My mother passed away before the internet evolved into something a middle aged woman would enjoy using.
I went searching for anything I could find, and I did manage to come across an ancient website for alumni of her highschool where her name and email were listed. Sort of blew my mind, she'd obviously come across the website and emailed the admin to add her contact info.
This would've been 8 or 9 years before Facebook blew up. Man, she would've loved Facebook and Farmville. She'd probably be doing Wordle every day and be a Rachel Maddow wine mom if she'd survived.
How much I wish she'd had a significant online presence so I could look her up and sort of connect with her again in some way.
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