✨This talk was recorded at Code BEAM Europe 2023. If you're curious about our upcoming event, check https://codebeameurope.com ✨ Abstract: Today's world is one where all of our information is increasingly locked behind centralized services, and mined as training data for large machine learning models. A better world is possible though, and we first glimpsed it in the mid 90s, with the release of an unassuming update to Microsoft Office that changed our conception of virtual assistants forever. His name is Clippy, and I have a copy of him loaded onto a computer chip embedded in my body. Let's keep in touch! Follow us on: 💥 Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio 💥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CodeSyncGlobal 💥 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-sync 💥 Mastodon: https://genserver.social/codesync "