EternalOS is building a durable, structured record of a person - in open formats, held in several places, designed to stay readable long after the platforms are gone.https://eternalos.comenhttps://eternalos.com/blog/your-life-is-in-accounts-that-end-when-you-dohttps://eternalos.com/blog/your-life-is-in-accounts-that-end-when-you-doAlmost everything a person leaves behind now sits inside services that were never designed to outlive them, under terms most people have never read.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTdigital estateplatformsaccessinheritancehttps://eternalos.com/blog/a-terabyte-of-photos-is-not-a-memoryhttps://eternalos.com/blog/a-terabyte-of-photos-is-not-a-memoryCapture got free and description did not. The result is enormous personal collections that nobody can meaningfully search, read or inherit.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetadatadescriptionselectionarchiveshttps://eternalos.com/blog/the-formats-that-will-still-open-in-2125https://eternalos.com/blog/the-formats-that-will-still-open-in-2125Format obsolescence is the failure mode nobody notices until it has already happened, and the defence is unglamorous, well understood and mostly ignored.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTfile formatsobsolescencemigrationstandardshttps://eternalos.com/blog/we-are-not-building-a-chatbot-of-your-grandmotherhttps://eternalos.com/blog/we-are-not-building-a-chatbot-of-your-grandmotherSystems that simulate the dead are being sold now. The objection is not that they are eerie — it is that they overwrite the record they were built from.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgriefbotssimulationrecord integrityethicshttps://eternalos.com/blog/designing-a-record-that-survives-its-own-contexthttps://eternalos.com/blog/designing-a-record-that-survives-its-own-contextThe hardest preservation question is not storage. It is what a record must contain to be understood by someone who shares nothing with the people who made it.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTself-describing archiveslong nowinterstellardesign constraints