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My kid swears by train-crossing channels on YT.
Came across Openvibe. Mobile client that works across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and soon, Threads. Not perfect, but a good start.
May be one way to handle service migration fragmentation.
Somewhere out there, there is a technical solution to not letting this sort of intimidation happen. I don't know what that is, but I'm fairly sure it can be done.
Security theater: Shoes and belts off.
Security circus: Pilot Captain Bobby Tables.
I've always kept a strict separation between work and personal projects, including a personal laptop, accounts, and yes, paying for AI services. For a while, a few years ago, while commuting on the company shuttle, I even had my own MiFi cell access point and a laptop battery booster so I could work on my own projects on the bus and not be accused of using company resources.
Most employment contracts spell out that anything you create using company resources is the property of the company. Legally, they own everything that passes though their computers, software, and networks.
Also, many corporations run system monitoring services on their laptops and MDM mobile data management on mobile phones (for example JAMF on Apple devices). These monitor things like file access, copying, communications, and web access. This data is sent to central servers for processing and looking for anomalies based on pre-set rules. This might sound tin-foily, but it's mandated by legal in a lot of companies, including small and medium sized ones.
If you want to use non-company data to do AI work, or develop a service or idea on your own, or even keep your text messages and email private, you'll want to use your own equipment, accounts, and services.
Edit: also, if you get laid-off or fired, you'll want to have a decent personal rig so you can continue working on your own projects while looking for work. Even if working on a novel on the side, suggest keeping everything off company systems.
- Lisa Hannigan at the Independent.
- Manu Chao at the Greek.
- Jorge Drexler at Bimbo's.
That cold shiver running down your spine once you start on a project, and you realize how much data you need to train the models, then realizing you have no idea how to get any of it, and you have to go into production before the big trade show/analyst report deadline. mwah
God, I hope so!
She was the co-author of the second edition of Bunnie Huang's New Essential Guide to Electronics, for those looking to make hardware in Shenzhen: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/a-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-by-naomi-wu-details-a-different-shenzen/