Cool project. I've done something similar using defunct crypto Awair AQI sensors tied into Home Assistant. They have an LED panel in the front that can show overall AQI or any of the pollutants they track:
https://www.getawair.com/products/element
The sky is the limit as to what you can do with Home Assistant automations.
It's surprising how quickly a room with a closed door and one person can go from ~ambient CO2 levels to 1000ppm+.
> It's surprising how quickly a room with a closed door and one person can go from ~ambient CO2 levels to 1000ppm+.
Yeah, having seen myself how quickly it happens i've recently been thinking of finding automatic window openers that would respond to CO2 levels reported from either my aranet or on its own.
were you able to repurpose your Awair device? Mine has sat bricked since they discontinued supporting it. I'd love to use it for anything if you're able to point to any docs on how to make it useful again?
Even mundane recordings become interesting to me once enough time passes. I've watched a bunch of Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network programming from early days and to be honest, the commercials are more interesting than the cartoons because they so perfectly capture where we were as a society -- toys starting to integrate new technology, sugary cereals being touted as part of daily breakfast, etc. Fascinating stuff.
I'm just guessing but it might have to do with the concerns raised by the first commenter in the reply by textfiles (Jason Scott) in that reddit thread
tl;dr seems to be they received a massive (71,000 tapes) archive that hasn't seen any activity or communication in 7 years.
If you read further in the thread, you'll also find other concerns about Jason's reliability
This was one of my (as a layperson) irritations with this process. Words matter -- the fact that this was rolled out as a "vaccine" gave a lot of people the initial impression that once they got the shot, they'd be immune. Myself included.
I believe that the word vaccine was misunderstood on a large scale, much to our detriment. I don't know what it should have been called otherwise, but I think the messaging around the mRNA treatments was handled poorly.
> Words matter -- the fact that this was rolled out as a "vaccine" gave a lot of people the initial impression that once they got the shot, they'd be immune.
If you're going to be upset about word choice, the thing to be upset about is that it has no connection to cows at all.
No vaccine grants 100% immunity. Some are more effective than others. It's hard to predict efficacy for a novel type of vaccination for a novel virus and there's no vaccines for other viruses in the same family.
Certainly, this could have been communicated better, but it's not like flu vaccines have 100% efficacy either and they've been around for decades.
But "every member of the government needs to communicate flawlessly 100% of the time during a once-in-a-century pandemic alongside a never-before-seen social media misinformation environment, even in their internal communication" is just not a bar that we can meet.
Imagine if they didn't call it a vaccine. "Of course this thing won't work, Fauci isn't even willing to call it a vaccine!"
If we're going to go by this, literally every vaccine should stop being called a vaccine. That's not the right answer. The right answer is to not have a population of ignorant people.
That can be a noble goal, but I wouldn't be so hand-wavy about how people understand words and their meanings. I'm firmly in the camp that the mRNA covid vaccine was a wonder of modern science, and on the whole it had net positives for society. Don't misunderstand, it was not rolled out, or messaged perfectly and wasn't without risk that we're likely to wrap our arms around some day in the future.
But we can learn from the experience. And in my view, telling a captive, emotional, and concerned audience "we have a vaccine!" and then not absolutely being a broken record about what that means was a miss.
My point was that there was absolutely nothing different about the covid vaccine in this regard from literally any other vaccine. So I'm not sure why you're putting it into a special bin here.
If the point is that the average person is uneducated and doesn't understand how vaccines work, sure. But if the solution is to use a different word, that new word would need to be applied to every vaccine on the market. And what's the point if that's the case?
Also, I don't recall ever hearing people with actual knowledge claiming it provided a cloak of invulnerability. So again, I'm not sure what those people should have done different. I'd agree that the media distorted scientific truths, but they always do that.
It is/was a vaccine, I think the terminology is correct. It just didn't work effectively because the variants mutated too quickly because you're not supposed to vaccinate in the middle of a pandemic. This cause an explosion of variants and they couldn't make vaccines that tracked the new variants fast enough.
So instead they decided to change the goalposts and said "This vaccine that worked on the variant 2 years ago will still protect from severe symptoms" when in fact it did nothing and people kept getting infected.
It wasn't the vaccine itself it was how it was sold to us by Pfizer, Moderna and the politicians.
This is what I'd like to get to - I think I would be bored stiff being fully retired, but I don't want to need to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. A day or two would be ideal. There are numerous permutations of "FIRE" but I think this is called "Barista Fire"
I logged in just to respond to this - I could not disagree more. FB's faceted search is truly awful. I regularly search for specific items on FB and get totally different results if I run the same query multiple times. Sometimes, I'll even get "suggested" items that 100% match my search query and have been posted for weeks but still don't appear in my original search.
I loathe using FBMP, but it has been slowly absorbing all the CL traffic. On one hand, I like that CL charges for high value items now (ex: Cars) because it means you're getting better quality, but on the other hand it has absolutely hastened people's abandonment of CL for FBMP.
Maybe I have a different perspective, but I find both platforms to be absolutely awful. I had to find a car with CL years ago ... uggh, what a shite platform.
Now - FB is decidedly worse though. These walled gardens, I swear the spartan simplicity of Usenet was better than these.
The general pattern with these sorts of things is that it's a combination of temperature and time. For any given microorganism there's some temperature it thrives at, some temperature at which it will start dying and if left for long enough will completely kill it off, and some temperature at which you can be assured that even brief exposure will completely kill it off.
Most microorganisms start dying above 50C (122F) or so. Roughly an hour at 50C should sufficiently pasteurize water for drinking. Or around 15 minutes at 60C and so forth. As the temperature increases the required time decreases. The common advice to boil water to render it safe for drinking is conservative and is given for a number of reasons: to err on the side of caution; because there are extremophiles that can survive at higher temperatures; because water boiling is an easily visible cue; and because by the time water reaches boiling it is sterilized so there's no need to time it (which is something people can screw up).
I found two sources on the temperature resistance of Naegleria fowleri. First the CDC [0] says it grows best at 46C (115F) and survives minutes or hours at 50-65C (122-149F). I also found a paper [1] which showed no detectable Naegleria fowleri after pasteurization at 68C (154F), unfortunately it didn't give a time though.
The upshot of all this is that Naegleria fowleri is somewhat temperature tolerant but isn't an extremophile; it's killed off on a temperature-time scale that's reasonably typical for water-borne pathogens. By the time water reaches 95C (203F) it is 100% dead and probably was already by the time the water reached 70-80C (158-176F).
> For nasal rinsing, the CDC recommends using boiled, sterile, or distilled water. "If tap water is used, it should be boiled for a minimum of 1 minute, or 3 minutes in elevations >1,980 meters, and cooled before use,"
I wonder how they came to those numbers; on a typical stove, if you heat a pot of water to boiling, and then immediately let it cool off, it will spend almost 3 minutes at (or above) 200F (the boiling point of water at 1980 meters) so the sea-level recommendation seems more conservative than the altitude recommendation.
"one minute" is much easier to mentally estimate than "43 seconds" or whatever. Can even be readily timed with an old school analog clock... just wait for it move from one tick mark to the next.
Bingo - you hit the nail on the head. Keeping the investor pool small and close-in is how you avoid this. If you go public, eventually you will succumb to this "growth above all" mindset, even if your culture was set up to resist it.
I appreciate all that publicly-traded companies have contributed to society, but rarely is "going public" ever not the first sign of an objectively downward trend of the company trajectory.
The sky is the limit as to what you can do with Home Assistant automations.
It's surprising how quickly a room with a closed door and one person can go from ~ambient CO2 levels to 1000ppm+.
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