Personal digital sovereignty

Life is full of trade-offs, and some of the trade-offs involve relinquishing (part of) control for convenience. In tech, this can often be seen in using services instead of downloading software and using it locally. For example, I use Netflix or Spotify instead of maintaining my own media library. It’s much more convenient, even if it doesn’t have all the content I’d have, or isn’t laid out exactly as I’d prefer. A sneaky problem with relying more on services—thus relinquishing the choices and control over many details to them—is that we transform from active (human) agents to passive users who have to play by the providers’ rules. AI says “no” The frontier AI providers are under a lot of pressure to stop people from using their models for offensive security work: hacking, malware, exploits. Fair enough. The problem is that the filters can’t tell an attacker from a developer fixing their own code, so they catch a lot of people doing perfectly normal things. Since June, Claude Code has…