It’s regrettable that Obsidian isn’t open source. But the nice thing about it is that its data store is just a bunch of markdown files in a folder structure, and very easily migrated to any other application. They may have the code but they don’t take the data hostage like a lot of commercial software does.

but it will protect itself.

Or, facing conditions where it can no longer do this, it will boil off into fascist autocracy, which seems to be where we’re headed.

Yes, and I’ve heard people say “It’ll be OK; the strain that goes pandemic won’t be as lethal as the current strains.” There’s some truth in this, that extremely deadly viruses will tend to burn themselves out by killing their hosts so not spread so widely. So perhaps bird flu transmitted from person to person would not sustain the extremely high death rates this type of flu has shown in people in the past. But as the 1918 flu and even the COVID pandemic show, there’s a lot of wiggle room for a virus between utterly deadly and utterly harmless, and even something that’s far from the worst can still go pandemic and cause huge amounts of death, disruption and misery.

I agree with the taladar@sh.itjust.works elsewhere in this thread. Corporations are the dangerous artificial intelligence, and “line go up” is the paperclip problem. We’re already facing it, and it’s destroying the planet and everything we depend on to stay alive.

it is just a matter of very carefully the drive before booting it up

I’m curious about what the missing word is. Cleaning? Inspecting?

What are the chances the hard drive would still be readable, I wonder?

And keep backups, folks.

But how can techbros get rich from bees? Bees just make themselves for free then serve the greater good, the little buzzing communists.

That’s their problem

Unfortunately, with how pandemics work, it would be everyone’s problem.

This would be much worse than COVID. Bird flu is far more deadly.

We all saw this coming from a mile off.