Comment by 2Gkashmiri | Hacker News Reader

Comment by 2Gkashmiri | Hacker News Reader

I dont know... I find this sketchy as anything. Why do I need to keep a track of my purchases at a particular shop? Its not like I dont already know which shop sells cheapest bread, I dont want to track it at all.

I dont care how I drove or rode because I already did it and know. Keeping track of it for what? So my spouse can keep an eye on me? Or track of children?

What this project is "aiming" for is IMO solution to a problem that doesnt exist. Why? To build a market for themselves otherwise all this "smarts" that is thrown with iot is just used for data mining at a mass scale. Only projects like openhab make it selfhosted and your own.

Nothing personal about the team behind this but I am not sold. Sorry. I'd rather my data not be anywhere in the first place than be in a central location which now I have to guard against people. Sorry

> I dont want to track it at all.

Then this project isn't for you.

> What this project is "aiming" for is IMO solution to a problem that doesnt exist.

No, there are many people who like to track all kinds of data that would find this project useful. I use Perkeep, DayOne, IFTTT, LifeCycle, Exist, Gyroscope, RescueTime, Pinboard, Pocket, OwnTracks, and probably some others I've forgotten to track everything I possibly can and keep it logged. Why? Because a) I forget things and it's nice to have an external memory, and b) I like to play around with the data and do things like "what's the biggest geographical span I've visited per month in a given year?" or "which roads within a 2km radius have I not yet walked down?"

Just because you don't have a need for a project or understand why other might doesn't mean it's "a problem that doesn't exist".

... and probably some others I've forgotten to track everything...

What you need is a personal data tracking tracking app.

You can't imagine reasons why people would want to keep their data? Which includes posts, photos, likes, etc. Many people aren't that scared of their spouses :D [1]

[1] "So my spouse can keep an eye on me?"

I mean. If you explicitly don’t want the data , then maybe nobody needs to track it (unless you’re using a cc or similar). The point is that that falls on you and you can choose not to.

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