which would be better in terms of dependence on an US company that can shutdown operations at any time, if one (!) person in charge says so.
And, as we can see, its obviosly a weapon that hasn't been used right now - in oppposit to (stupid) tariffs calculations.
The germans should foster the development of OpenDesk based on OSS like it is proposed and already done. MSFT should be ditched, Linux and open source should be welcomed.
I have noticed this tendency in development, where creators write some open alternative to a service, but nowhere in their README have any description of what the alternative they are providing actually does.
So if you don't know the product or service it is an alternative to, you are just out of luck.
I wonder if it is intentional, or just devs being to deep into deving
I tried out gpt4all with the mistral orca and atleast that was able to answer my basic use cases which are not that advanced and very factual based. So I am hoping another alternative could do the same.
I have had a plan on my list for years now, to write a medium for IoT devices, that would route all traffic through TOR as a layer of security, while it would also help the TOR network with a lot of fuzzing traffic.
The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to.
> The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to
“Wuhan lab workers were sick in November 2019, intelligence suggests”
Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.
It's amazing that people are still repeating this line. Dr. Shi's sampling trips were to Yunnan and surroundings, ~900 miles away. Expected prevalence of SARS-like coronaviruses in the Wuhan population was low enough that they used blood samples from Wuhan as negative controls in antibody studies. (Of course that expectation could have been incorrect; but the idea that her research group was deliberately based in a region of expected natural spillover is unquestionably wrong.)
Also, the WIV was more than 2 km from the market; the grandparent is probably thinking of a different, closer lab. The market was definitely the first big super-spreader event, but not necessarily the site of introduction into humans; the earliest cases show much less clear geographic distribution.
There's no conclusive evidence for any origin of SARS-CoV-2 yet. The ODNI report clearly leans against a research-related origin, but no one except the LA Times's "business columnist" is claiming that they "debunked" anything.
The us government is motivated to attribute the outbreak to natural causes, because if the leak came from the wuhan lab, us policy and action is partially responsible. No one in power benefits from covid being the result of careless isolation protocols in GOF experimentation.
YMMV but to me the spike protein encoding on the original covid strains was just a little too close for comfort to fall into the random mutation category for my armchair opinion. I would have expected to see a non-human variant of the spike protein if it was a natural occurrence.
Either way, it is doubtful to me that we will ever know for sure.
> Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.
The bat virus they were doing gain-of-function research on at the Wuhan Lab came from miles away.
"Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan"
