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I analysed 20 years of my chats

72 pointsby valzevulyesterday at 11:31 PM15 commentsview on HN

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Topgamer7today at 6:45 AM

I envy you that you manage to keep meaningful contact with dozens to hundreds of people.

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NDlurkertoday at 5:10 AM

I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it

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Cider9986today at 5:21 AM

I mostly text on Signal with disappearing messages so I wouldn't be able to do this. Most people are fine with disappearing messages at 4 weeks, but a few people like to keep their chats forever.

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danielpardotoday at 6:53 AM

I would like to do something similar, but I lost a lot of whatsapp historical chats switching phones...

Don't think there is a way to recover that.. right?

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dwedgetoday at 7:02 AM

Damn this is a nice reminder that even private chats I sent to someone else 10 years ago aren't safe from being harvested by AI