Apparently totally useless when you don’t enable history or don’t use the services (Google, Facebook, etc.) at all.
Boy does that ever make my skin crawl.
I didn’t like it when it was a Microsoft product, and even as an open-source one do I ever not want an app collating everything about me, where I go, what I look at, and who I talk to into a single database.
Especially since they don’t talk about how they secure the local data; this is just making a one-stop shop for someone to steal and then learn absolutely everything there is to know about you.
Especially since they don’t talk about how they secure the local data
They don’t because they don’t
All the data you import is indexed in a SQLite database and stored on disk organized by date, without obfuscation or anything complicated.
Probably because this is still in early alpha and “the schema is still changing”.
It is dockerized but that doesn’t really matter since the DB which is probably one of the most private things on your server is also stored in the container. So a hacker who got into the container can steal your timelinize DB
Your best bet is running this LAN-only but that kind of destroys the whole point of it. This thing should never be connected to the internet
From looking at the github, I think you don’t need to/want to host this publicly. It doesn’t automatically get and store your information. It’s more a tool for visualizing and cross referencing your takeout/exported data from a variety of tech platforms. It’s just developed as a web app for ease of UI/cross platform/ locally hostable.
