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Comment Re: Obvious motivation (Score 1) 155

Promoting nuclear power is opposing taking the most effective steps to reduce CO2 emissions because 1) we use money to control production and therefore it matters and 2) for the same amount of money we can achieve greater CO2 reduction with wind and solar than with nuclear.

There are two kinds of people. Those who don't understand the difference between dispatchable and non-dispatchable energy and those who are unable to accept the implications.

You can't provide any credible modeling that says you can shift to wind/solar exclusively and do so cheaper than inclusion of a substantial contingent of nuclear. The reason you can't do so is your position is entirely without merit.

Comment Re:I never liked this head fake (Score 1) 155

CO2 is poisonous and directly endangers public health. Increased CO2 levels do direct harm. The levels at which they do obvious measurable harm to anyone are significantly higher than where they are in the atmosphere on average now, but levels which affect health commonly occur in poorly ventilated spaces with lots of people in them.

The issue of CO2 concentrations on human health has been the subject of extensive study by both military and civilian agencies spanning decades. There is still nothing to support the notion public health is endangered by CO2 levels that could ever reasonably be anticipated as a consequence of human activity. Submarines for example routinely have CO2 concentrations 20x that of current outdoor average with no ill effects observed. The studies I'm aware of that noted superficial effects indicated they are temporary and pass after a brief acclimation period.

Your confusion with regards to ventilation is understandable and widespread. Recommendations from ASHRE et el. with respect to ventilation and CO2 are based on the use of CO2 as a **PROXY** for reasoning about the general load of indoor air pollution as a function of human occupancy vs air exchanges. CO2 is easy and cheap to measure while direct measurements of the legions of possible indoor pollutants which actually have valid health concerns are not.

However, your premise also is based on a falsehood. The definition of pollution is not and never was "poisonous shit".

The relevant context is of course not merely a single word. It is overall statement in the text of the legislation "pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare". So yes I very much stand by my "poisonous shit" remarks.

Comment Re:I never liked this head fake (Score 0) 155

If people think green house gases like those emitted as a result of breathing are harmful to public health due to contributions to climate change and they want regulation to that effect then lawmakers should vote on legislation to implement such regulation.

Referring to the human impact of increased CO2 levels as similar to "gases emitted as a result of breathing" is a dumb take.

How does one even go about extracting such conclusions from my statement? I've neither offered or implied any such comparisons of impacts. It is telling when people can't even quote a complete sentence and must resort to injecting context that didn't even exist in the first place.

The increase in global CO2 levels since the beginning of industrialization, which has been on a staggering and indisputable level, is a result of industrialization, not as a result of people breathing. Go with the science and statistics, not dumb "I emit CO2 and I'm not dead yet" arguments.

No shit Sherlock. While you are off in your own world responding to a strawman of your own invention this does bring up an interesting hypothetical.

Let's say car exhaust released pheromones that resulted in people having more sex. As a result the earths population increased and with it climate change. Would such emissions therefore endanger public health or welfare?

Comment I never liked this head fake (Score 2) 155

The Administrator shall by regulation prescribe (and from time to time revise) in accordance with the provisions of this section, standards applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from any class or classes of new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in his judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

It is telling to see text from the 60s reinterpreted to include climate change in the 2000's. Personally I think the text was obviously intended to address pollution (poisonous shit) that directly endangers public health......not contributes to global changes in the earths climate that can then endanger public health or welfare.

Personally I think the reinterpretation in the 2000s was wrong and opportunistic. If people think green house gases like those emitted as a result of breathing are harmful to public health due to contributions to climate change and they want regulation to that effect then lawmakers should vote on legislation to implement such regulation.

If one political faction is allowed to intrepret legislation one way it is hard to care about hurt feelings when another faction comes in and is allowed to reinterpret it in another. I am not addressing the merits of the underlying issue only my view that the process being utilized here sucks.

Comment Re:Meshtastic (Score 1) 30

You can get a meshtastic dongle for like 20 bucks you clueless twit. The range of that is 1 mile and bounces from node to node so you can text just about anywhere in your city to anywhere else in your city. Compared to bluetooth low energy which only gives you 10-20 meters of range and certainly won't let you text long distance.

Bluetooth is good for about a half mile LOS in ideal conditions using coded PHY. Not nearly as good as LoRa but not terrible.

Comment Re:Meshtastic (Score 1) 30

I'd rather use Meshtastic. 915mhz range not 10 foot BTLE, and sounds like the exact same deal.

If you want secure local communications for example a cruise ship (WiFi), airplane or camping in BFE Briar is a good option... Bluetooth coded PHY isn't terrible. Otherwise I agree Meshtastic is a better fit for longer range and the hardware is basically free.

Comment Re:Cloud = Servers (Score 1) 115

Your statements apply to self-managed VMs, yes. But in that cause, security is still on you, just as it is when you have an on-prem server farm. Being in the cloud doesn't help or hurt you.

Now we are getting closer to reality. Of course it hurts. It costs more money, adds unnecessary latency and there are new burdens in the form of controls, payment, management portals and vendor maintenance windows.

The story is very different with managed services. The provider has deep knowledge of what your software does. They know if you are hosting a website, and what security protocols are permitted for accessing your website. They know what version of web hosting software is being run, and (when you are using managed services)

Nice, so if I just plop my website content on someone else's web server they are running for me I don't have to worry about it. This begs the question what such a sentiment has to do with the statement "Simply switching to someone else's servers accomplishes none of the above" how does one presume "websites" from my statement?

they actively perform security updates on your behalf.

So does every Linux distro.

Comment Re:Cloud = Servers (Score 1) 115

Sure, cloud hosting providers aren't going to prevent you from accidentally leaving your database open without credentials. That's not an advantage of either on-prem or cloud, they are both exactly the same in that regard. What cloud providers DO do, is make sure you don't run unpatched code with known vulnerabilities, and that you don't use obsolete vulnerable protocols. At least, not unless you're literally just renting hardware and managing it yourself. But then again, that's your own fault.

What you say is not credible, the provider has no way of knowing what your software does, whether it is patched or not or has known vulnerabilities. All they can do is auto update the underlying OS the same as would be done with any Linux distro.

We have some customers using AWS and it shocking how out of date their VM images are. Some of them using Amazon Linux don't even have systemd support. I remember having to patch our system to not be fooled by Amazon's half assed head fake where they pretend to have some systemd files for "compatibility" without actually supporting it. What a clusterfuck.

Comment Re:Cloud = Servers (Score 1) 115

Nope, but switching to a major cloud provider's servers, does. Nobody understands server security better, or spends more money and manpower on security, than the big cloud providers. *Certainly* not your in-house 50-server farm with a couple of IT staff.

This is nonsense, to get any useful administrative benefits you need to move from running your own software to using someone else's service otherwise it is no different than any of your run of the mill Linux distros with auto update.

Comment Re:Cloud = Servers (Score 1) 115

At the same time, your on-prem IT staff is probably stretched thin and is unlikely to do *everything* needed to keep the servers safe. You know, like failing to remove support for obsolete/insecure encryption protocols, or leaving back doors open for the convenience of IT staff. That small IT staff probably doesn't have the time or skillset to automate all the security deployments that cloud providers do.

Simply switching to someone else's servers accomplishes none of the above.

Comment Re: Easy Answer (Score 1) 71

It is the same draft. Revision 25. Encrypted Client Hello and Encrypted SNI is one and the same and this is and was always deployable by everyone; this is not "for large providers" - it is for All providers. They simply had to revise the spec to protect more than the SNI.

I have one web server, one domain and there is one URL to access my website. How would I deploy this technology? If a useful answer can't be provided to this question then the technology clearly isn't deployable by everyone.

This scheme works for those in a position to be able to hide multiple identities behind a single platform like hosting providers and cloudflares of the world. It does nothing useful for a single self-hosted site.

Comment Re: Easy Answer (Score 1) 71

Apparently you are a bit clueless. Because you see there is an IESG action already on draft-ietf-tls-esni which approves it to proposed standard, effective July 9, 2025. In other words the standards process has already finalized on the TLS-ESNI draft (TLS1.3 Encrypted Helo) and it is simply waiting in the RFC editor's queue for final publication.

The draft in the editor queue is entitled "TLS Encrypted Client Hello" this is ECH which I already addressed and is a radically thing than ESNI.

ESNI was deployable by everyone, ECH is for large providers.

Comment Re:Selection bias (Score 1) 34

And you do understand what a meta study is?

What is the deal with the derisive commentary? First it was baselessly jumping to an absurd conclusion I was reading a news article and now this. Why? Do you think shitting on people makes your statements more believable?

You have to go through all 32 analyzed studies to look how they corrected for other factors (of which age is just one).

Is this my job or the job of those who did the analysis?

What they did is, they accessed how those 32 studies corrected for possible bias (not only selection bias). But for you, here a relevant quote:

Simply asserting they corrected for possible bias therefore there is no possible bias is not a useful statement. Where is the evidence of corrections responsive to my concern?

Appendix 1 (pp 65â"75) provides a summary of each study. In 34 (67%) of 51 studies, the minimum age of participants was 55, 60, or 65 years. The maximum reported age of a participant was 115 years and the minimum reported was 37 years, although not all studies recorded minimum and maximum age. For studies that recorded information on the distribution of sex, the proportion of female participants was between 43% and 72%. Three studies were exclusively in female participants6,64,67 and one study was exclusively in male participants.29 Reported follow-up periods ranged from 3 to 23 years, although many studies reported follow-up either as a median or mean. 20 (39%) studies were done in Europe, 17 (33%) in North America, 12 (24%) in Asia, and two (4%) in Oceania (both in Australia). Several studies reported on different dementia subtypes. 43 (84%) studies reported on dementia (including one study on non-Alzheimerâ(TM)s dementia55), 24 (47%) on Alzheimerâ(TM)s disease, 16 (31%) on vascular dementia, one (2%) on frontotemporal dementia, and one (2%) on mixed vascular dementia and Alzheimerâ(TM)s disease. The studies reported on one or more pollutant exposures, with 40 (78%) reporting on PM25, 28 (55%) on NO2, 17 (33%) on PM10, 12 (24%) on NOx, ten (20%) on black carbon (BC)/PM25 absorbance, ten (20%) on annual O3 (O3 was reported on as warm-season or annual exposure, with two [4%] studies reporting on warm-season O3), six (12%) on PM25â"10, five (10%) on carbon monoxide, five (10%) on sulphur dioxide, and three (6%) on nitrogen oxide. Additional pollutants were reported in two or fewer studies. 48 (94%) studies were cohort studies, two (4%) were cohort studies with a nested caseâ"control analysis, and one (2%) was a caseâ"control study.

None of the above addresses the issue. Knowing min / max ages is irrelevant and the rest is not responsive to the issue I outlined. If you look at the underlying protocol they were at least supposed to look at those under and over 65 years of age yet there is no age stratification whatsoever in the figures provided.

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