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Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist. https://berthub.eu/

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Struggling with my followup CO₂/climate blog post. Turns out that we very fundamentally lack data/understanding of water. Here measurements that differ by AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE for H₂O. From https://hal.science/hal-03854932/document

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@jpmens very impressive!

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Almost all the foundational climate science papers lament how hard it is to deal with the complicated & variable absorption spectra of H2O, O3, CO2. And these days that is all "just a few library calls away", thanks to https://www.hitran.org/

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). With apologies, it turned out the climate blog post had an open parenthesis, creating needless tension.

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Some of my more skeptical contacts still do not believe in global warming. Does anyone have a REALLY good link that explains how more CO₂ still causes more warming, despite the atmosphere already being "saturated"? I do know this is the case, but I am looking for a very good explainer. Thanks!

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@markmccaughrean - Thanks! I'm aware of the theory, but I need something authoritative that I can point people to. Sadly the realclimate link is not quite it, and some of the references it cites are now dead. Also there is a bit more vagueness in there than I'd like "the models are probably getting the broader picture reasonably correct.". But, a reasonable start!

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@markmccaughrean this also looks very useful! Will study. And the thing is, I know the deniers won't really read the references. But I don't want to be in a position where I don't have something authoritative at hand beyond "well I'm sure they thought about it real hard". Again, thanks for the help!

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Do people care about climate change? Apparently they do, my recent post has more reading hours (over 3000) than anything I've published all year:

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And in even better news, over half of readers who make it past the introduction end up finishing the entire 6000+ word article, full of graphs and schematics and numbers:

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Do people care about climate change news? Apparently only Europeans read my blog post, given the timing of visits:

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A wizard prang 🧙‍♂️🛰️🇦🇶

ESA’s pioneering wind mission, , was guided to a re-entry over Antarctica last night, ensuring that any remaining hardware landed safely in the Atlantic 🌊🌍

This successfully demonstrated new techniques for mitigation – kudos to our colleagues at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt 🖖🤘

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Aeolus/Aeolus_a_historic_end_to_a_trailblazing_mission

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@markmccaughrean well done! But I’m a bit confused what is so unique about this deorbiting? Is this the first time it happened actively managed? Thanks!

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Sometimes it is better not to know: “Sumner and the drummer, Stephen Morris, learnt how to use the sampler by spending hours recording their flatulence” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(New_Order_song)

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I stumbled across today (https://github.com/plausible/analytics).

It appears to entail temporarily storing and running Javascript on a user's device, for analytics purposes.

Do I know anyone who has deployed it? Is this how it works, or have I misunderstood and, in fact, it is completely server side?

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@neil it looks like the JavaScript bit is only the reporter. The data is still stored in a central server. They can run that server for you or you can download a free as in beer server that you can run yourself.

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I would also like a pony. EU requirements for detecting child sexual abuse material or the solicitation of children. Article 10 of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2022%3A209%3AFIN&qid=1652451192472

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I & many of my friends are struggling to be, or at least feel, useful. Especially in a world where so much is going badly. While I have no concrete solutions, this post goes over some challenges and opportunities of trying to be useful in your working life: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-being-useful/

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The Netherlands has a worryingly complete database of all buildings & addresses. It is not that easy to access though, especially if you don't speak Dutch (and even then). Introducing bagconv: software to convert the XML to SQLite, CSV or serve it locally: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-postcode-and-building-database/

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@simeon yes. Not easy to use and no data you can download.

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The Dutch government is launching a new national security law that will grant automatic permission to do targeted surveillance of victims of hackers, or to hack the victims: https://aboutintel.eu/nl-government-wants-to-abandon-key-safeguards-for-hacking-of-non-targets/

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Dutch agencies can, under exceptional circumstances, already do targeted surveillance of "non-targets" who themselves are not of national security interest. However, because of the European human rights concept of subsidiarity, this is only allowed if other things didn't work

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Under the existing law, agencies have to ask permission to target (state sponsored) hackers. If they want to do surveillance on non-targets (for example, victims), a more stringent test applies: might these people be doctors, lawyers or otherwise sensitive groups?

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Under the new law, paradoxically, surveillance on non-targets no longer needs special permission. No permission is required at all! Not even internal permission. Adding hacking victims to a warrant becomes a purely administrative procedure.

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Yet another green power record shattered - Dutch coal powered plants are all off, solar and wind sufficed for our own electrical needs and we exported >6 GW of green electricity on top. Live data on https://berthub.eu/nlelec/

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“The problem with French mêmes is that they are all the same”

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Very pleased to announce that the @nluug gave me their lifetime achievement award yesterday! They also hope I won't retire now, which I won't. I'll do a blog post later, but this is a great addition to my birthday today! https://www.nluug.nl/award-2023/bert-award-motivatie.pdf

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