Jake lived in Idaho - It's not a huge part of the book, but it's described as mentioned.
"Corvallis had, a few minutes ago, picked Jake Forthrast up at the train
station downtown. He was in his late forties—a straggler, much younger
than the other three Forthrast siblings. He lived in northern Idaho, in a
remote community of like-minded people, which was to say extreme
libertarians with a religious bent. He had a wife and a brood of kids there."
"Our security model is utterly game-changing. Olvid is the first and only messaging system whose security no longer relies on any trusted third party, either operators or their servers."
I bought a CD from an artist (The Burning Leaves) through Bandcamp. Even though the artist lives, like 500m from me and I could have just asked her. Just to give Bandcamp my business and their cut to help them along (also it would have been weird).
I've discovered so much through Bandcamp that I would have otherwise not known about, and bought so much I otherwise would have pirated.
I think it's the help the platform help the artist thing that gets me. It means nothing in the end.
I tend to go digging through the artist you might like list on pages of music I’ve purchased. It’s not guaranteed I’ll stumble across something, but I do tend to find other artists I end up purchasing from.
Lots of indie musicians are on small labels and often multiple small labels so looking at the other artists on the same labels is often a good method (link usually pops up in the upper left corner).
Yeah, I'm serious. Lots of people were happy throwing money directly at the people who were making the music they enjoyed, either through live jigs or Bandcamp.
Not sure why we're discussing this like it's serious, but people work from home these days and can connect to work via VPN from anywhere. And given the chaos, assuming all digital accounts/permissions were immediately shut down is a big question mark. Especially when everyone at OpenAI was on his side.
His accounts would have been shut down the moment he was fired, that is always the case everywhere. There was no chaos when he was fired. There was chaos after he was fired.
I've noticed something about reality. You know what makes sense in reality. You know the procedures, the logic, the rules. You expect the world to evolve according to them. But it rarely does. Case in point this entire episode of firing and rehiring Altman in the span of less than a week.
There are those things that happen in life, if a writer puts it in a screenplay, you'd think "what a bad writer". And yet...
Even if they didn't revoke his access, he'd be smart enough not to access their systems and leave audit logs, thus leaving a window open to be sued/prosecuted for exfiltrating trade secrets and proprietary IP (even if he didn't do so). That being said, knowing where the bodies are buried and having insider knowledge of IP are powerful motivators for retention
You can literally wake up your laptop from sleep and it restores the connection by logging you into the last session with the same auth. Not that easy to get sued for something as basic as that.
"Corvallis had, a few minutes ago, picked Jake Forthrast up at the train station downtown. He was in his late forties—a straggler, much younger than the other three Forthrast siblings. He lived in northern Idaho, in a remote community of like-minded people, which was to say extreme libertarians with a religious bent. He had a wife and a brood of kids there."