[pmlnr]

These are all features for companies - no liability of haunting, written word.

I'm desperately trying to connect to "modern" chat services via things like Pidgin to have logs - while on some level, remembering everything exactly the way it was is unnatural, links and knowledge is important to be possible to be kept.

I think people are starting to realize that actually having a copy is important. Hosting things for yourself, taking care of backups, etc, are painful, hard problems, but they worth it in the long run.

One more thing: many digital media is significantly more ephemeral, than a lot of us realizes. Out of countless CD from the past 20 years, I can only still read a few of them (the ones written with a 1x Plextor SCSI drive are all still fine). If you truly value an photo, make a proper print, archival grade tint, archival grade paper.

[c4h8o3del]

> If you truly value an photo, make a proper print, archival grade tint, archival grade paper.

Or you could parity-pad your backups so even 20% corruption is still recoverable and periodically renew them. Several orders of magnitude cheaper.

[rabidrat]

Then there is a house fire and your computers are destroyed and you're in a coma. Would your spouse know how to retrieve your wedding photo from your parity-padded offsite backups? Does anyone in your life know where they are, and the access information, and the encryption key/password, and how they're organized, and how to find specific content within them?