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Dentropy Daemon Listicle

I am interested in two problems.

  1. How does one put all data they have personally generated into an single accessible API with RBAC(Rule Based Access Control).
  2. Once all one's data is all easily queryable what do you do with it.
    1. Ask yourself, what is Data For?

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Use algorithms to enhance human agency while building infrastructure cypherpunks would admire.

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I am on a mission to make tools so that all data an individual personally ever generated into a a queryable, secure, and shareable API. I am tackling this problem from three levels application, platform, and infrastructure.

  • Application, Question Engine:
    • Make all data annotatable, linkable, taggable via recursive name spaces.
  • Platform, Dentropy Daemon:
    • The software and API's that allows for consolidating, processing, and secure sharing of personal data.
  • Infrastructure, DentropyCloud:
    • The tooling, scripts, and services to run Dentropy Daemon and other Self Hosted applications yourself.

I have long been looking for a tool that will force self awareness upon me. So far having been unable to find one that fits my needs I have started various projects over the years under various names such as Dentropy Daemon Listicle, Dentropy Cloud, Algorithmic Reflection, Semantic Forum, Mimetic File System, Question Engine, Context Feed, Tulpa Manager, Social Media Singularity and The Ultimate Tagging Machine all in a vain attempt to build a Memex.

This note exists to consolidate all my attempts to build a memex over the years and orient myself so I can add value to the universe.

So what is a memex, what does it do, what is it used for, why do you care if one exists or not? A memex is simply all of ones digital data stored and indexed within a single queryable system.

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