It's encrypted (on top of Bitlocker) and local. There's all this competition who makes the best, most articulate LLM. But the truth is that off-the-shelf 7B models can put sentences together with no problem. It's the context they're missing.
For example, consider the classic situation of accidentally giving someone the same Christmas that you did a few years back. A sufficiently powerful personal LLM that 'remembers everything' could absolutely help with that (maybe even give you a nice table of the gifts you've purchased online, who they were for, and what categories of items would complement a previous gift), but only if it can practically store that memory for a multi-year time period.
And if you want to use the data for LLM only, then you don't need to store the screenshots at all. Then it's ~ 15MB a month
Cries in MacBook Pro
Shipped to the UK for me added a bit to the overall price with shipping and import duty but it was still better value for money and hugely reliable brand than anything I could have bought domestically.
“Purchased socks from Amazon for $10 on 12/4/2024 at 5:04PM, shipped to Mom, 1600 Pennsylvania Av NW, Washington DC 20500, order number 1463355337
Probably stored in a vector DB for RAG.
Just did the second phase of using ocrmac (vision kit cli on GitHub) that extracts text and dumps it in a SQLite with FTS5.
It’s simplistic but does the job for now.
I looked at reducing storage requirements by using image magik to only store the difference between images - some 5 min sequence are essentially the same screen - but let that one go.
Well, that's basically how video codecs work... So might as well just find some codec params which work well with screen capture, and use an existing encoder.
No mention of using any LLMs in there at all which is how you are presenting it in your comment here.
Any idea what would make you feel safe? 3rd party verification? I had it verified and published by the Microsoft Store. I feel eventually it all comes down to me being a decent person.
because I'm sure you and people like you will succeed in your endeavors, naively thinking you're doing good. and you or someone like you will sell out, the most ruthless investor will take what you've built and use it as one more cludgel of power to beat the rest of us with.
For a reality check, name one instance of policy that has stopped the amoral march of tech being a tool of power to the hands of the few? Last one I can name is when they broke up Ma Bell. Now of course you can pick Verizon or AT&T, so that worked. /s
And that was 42 years ago.
* In-depth technical explanation with architecture diagrams
* Open-source and self-hosted version
Also I didn't understand if it talks to a remote server or not. Because that's a big blocker for me.
This is my application, it does not have AI running on top.
I didn't see the benefit when the OCR content is fully searchable, in addition to not wanting to pay OpenAI to spy on me.