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ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
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Apparently MacOS apps can be sandboxed and store data securely such that no other apps can access it, in an encrypted format. I wasn't aware of this either, but it's been a while since I've used MacOS. It sounds like the ChatGPT app explicitly opted out from this sandboxing model.
Okay in that case I’m even more okay with this. I like the idea of having text files on my computer representing my stuff. Like, plain text I can explore using cd, tree, and less.
I’ve actually wanted to make myself a to-do app that stores the to-do items as nested bullets in markdown so that if I want I can make lists in markdown and access them from my gui and vice-versa.
So basically Apple wants to kill the filesystem on Mac as well.