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by tripzilch 1 day ago
> extreme data privacy requirement

so I have a a few decades worth of creative coding projects, many personal notes + writing, pictures, video clips, renders, projects, backups of the previous laptop's home folder that contains the laptop before it in the ~/dump folder and so on, spread out over several harddisks, laptops and storage media

it's a mess that I've wanted to organize for years, but I can't seem to manage it

but I might be able to sketch out a plan or task for a local multi-modal LLM to slowly chug through all the files (read-only), catalog and index them, copy to a clean external SSD, de-dupe and tidy everything up

I mean, some of this data is already highly personal, and there might be stuff I forgot was there

... is it an "extreme data privacy requirement" to not want to share running an LLM for this task, and wanna do it locally?