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Comment by lnxg33k1 | Hacker News Reader

I feel like recording everything is like recording nothing in practical terms

Think of it as closed circuit tv for your computer. You don’t need to watch 24:7 but you can go back for specific incidents/information.

Yeah I understand that, it seems that it tries to classify activity in order to help finding relevant stuff seeing

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                    let nsImage = NSImage(cgImage: image, size: NSSize(width: image.width, height: image.height))
                    let analysis = try await ImageAnalyzer().analyze(nsImage, orientation: CGImagePropertyOrientation.up, configuration: configuration)
                    let textToAssociate = analysis.transcript
                    let newClipboardText = ClipboardManager.shared.getClipboardIfChanged() ?? ""

It lets you query any data once you realize what is important (which might vary depending on the question you're trying to answer).

It's like law enforcement tracking everything we say. They aren't catching many people right now, but wait until the future when they start working backwards with logs.

And when things are illegal which weren’t illegal when they were said.

i record every command in .zsh_history (like everybody else does by default, but mine is configured to not have a size limit)

i often do things like

history | rg ..

it helps when you roughly know what you want to find, but want to check some detail you forgot

For those unaware: CTRL+R in terminal will also change your prompt to search your command history. After typing, CTRL+R again to cycle through matches.

what you really want though is fzf with C-r

Would agree 100%

fzf supercharges your shell history I can’t imagine my life without it since I spend most of my day in terminal

...and if you're like me - I live on the terminal - tools like atuin[^1] are very handy.

[^1]: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

Okay that's interesting, thanks

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