Our family has had its own google workspace for over a decade. A month ago I set a goal to have drive, photos, email, every-frickin-thing migrated to sovereign tech by the end of the year. Start9, syncthing, Borg and Rclone for multilevel/multisite backups.
Its a slog.
Its a big slog.
But if we don't do it the AI convenience trap will hook us deeper.
The agentic AI is getting so the convenience trap will pervade every part of your existence.
- Agentic AI automates tasks but requires extensive access to personal data.
- The integration of AI into daily life risks compromising user privacy and security.
- These systems operate through cloud processing, increasing vulnerability to data breaches.
- The convenience of AI agents undermines privacy protections in messaging and other applications.
Caution is needed when adopting agentic AI to avoid potential surveillance issues
But you people know this.
The convenience creates a cognitive dissonance.
I forgot to mention I need to replace Google home too. 🤦
I quite like where Emad Mostaque is going. With open weight models only 6 months behind and DAPT pretraining, their is huge potential to unhook from the data harvesters (for now, for a while)
