All the ones I see are reactors through water shielding, in which case you’d be fine.

If you see a noticeable cherenkov effect from something that close that wasn’t heavily shielded by something like water, your camera sensor will likely be destroyed and you’d be dead pretty soon.

Strontium-90 is a major component of fallout and strongly in the ‘really not good for you’ category.

Nothing I wrote refutes that

fallout is present in dust in the air. it’s radiation would not be coming only from below the helicopter.

what helicopter do you expect EXCEPT a navy helicopter to be flying through the fallout from a nuclear explosion?

especially with all the nuclear tests they were doing for decades?

Ambulance and rescue helicopters, if there are any left, and the crew didn't just take the helicopter and run as far as possible...

Which will almost certainly be military, because civilian helicopters and staff aren’t equipped or trained for that kind of environment except for perhaps a every couple of years hazmat/mass casualty training.

Why do you think the current admin is always creating so many distractions?

That has been happening for years.

uh, that is just all the iphones acting as a mesh network for airtag ID’s?

it means you can’t block the tracking by doing anything yourself - you’d also need to block everyone else’s devices too.

Mesh network typically means… a network. Unidirectional, best-effort, randomized IDs are not a network.

And of course you can block the tracking yourself, even though nobody is actually tracking because Apple can’t tell who owns what ID. Just turn off find my on your device.

They definitely meet the definition for a network. there is no requirement for determinism, bi-directional communication, etc. at least in the definitions I see for the word.

and turning it off on your device doesn’t actually block the info being communicated, merely the association where you can see it. and hopefully on their backend, but there is no technical requirement for it.

the whole point is everyone’s iphones forward airtag info for every airtag.

Fair point on the forwarding being non-disable-able. But I don’t see any privacy issue there. The forwarder provides observed obfuscated ID and location, which seems less fraught than even the signal strength metadata returned to cell towers.

I had misinterpreted “you can’t block the tracking” to mean of your own phone, rather than of devices that other people want tracked.

It joins phone location + tagid to provide location info of all tags. the backend then (hopefully) filters out tags people don’t want to track.

‘obfusication’ of IDs isn’t a meaningful thing here, or literally none of it would work.

the whole point of airtags is your phone doesn’t need to be anywhere near the tag to find it.

why would it do that?

Then they get picked up by an ALPR scan and have their car impounded?

Seen it happen many times.

An ALPR doesn't know who's driving.

You don't need a valid drivers' license to renew a car registration in most areas.

In most US cities the cops won't even pull you over if you don't have a license plate, much less track you down and impound a vehicle.

If the registration is to someone without a license, they’ll definitely pull you over. Seen it happen in a couple cities now.

But sure, some cities won’t even do felony warrant service.

‘Shoulding’?

Because they haven’t been sued enough yet?

ICANN should not approve such an obviously fraudulent move even without anyone being sued. Neither should Verisign even consider that they'll be able to get away with it. If you need to sue for this something else is already very wrong with the system.

A lack of consequences (getting sued and losing) is what leads to this.

Is it corrupt? Yes. Is there a factor making corruption inevitable? Yes.

I guess I’m confused why the author isn’t pursuing this legally.

The post ends with: “Time to lawyer up...”

He is.

Whatever system it is on will die, etc.

unlike Photos, you don’t have a team of professionals managing it 24/7.

(that said, takeout your Google Photos too, because single point of failure, etc).