This fellow is free to be an activist but I don’t think that any employer, public or private, owes him a job. I respect the desire to push back against surveillance, and still see how such an employee could be a distraction for a company or institution. Hopefully he will find employment with a company or institution that is aligned with his advocacy.
"We've made some updates to improve the security and privacy experience" => "We've changed some of the options available and reset everyone to defaults"
So what happens when Mistral creates a collection of powerful AIs for different clients that have fundamentally different ethical frameworks from each other? Then those AI interact? Do they politely agree to disagree? Or do they goal seek against each other?
The UK is the counter example to this analysis. The NHS was a marvel in the early years, now however it is bogged down with so many layers of bureaucracy it is massively inefficient.
ITS A TRAP!
If your app is successful their infrastructure will see all the traffic, your responses and will be able to mimic what you do and kick the husk of your app in the weeds. (Unless your function comes from some massive unique dataset they can’t by access to.)
I’ve seen airline training videos about in flight battery fires. But I’ve never considered the risk of ear buds catching on fire. Normally, you should feel them heating up before they catch but they might just blow, that would be very sore. Also if you’re sleeping with buds in you could end up with a fire before you woke up.
