The main technical way I know of doing this would be by putting TLS public keys in DNS (DANE, RFC 6698), but then you have to make sure that DNS packets are not fiddled with, so you need to bring in DNSSEC.

How's the support for X.509 "Name Constraints" these days:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1....

Would restricting it to only dot-ir domains be a mitigation?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ir

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* iOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ios/

* iPadOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ipados/

* macOS: https://www.apple.com/os/macos/

* watchOS: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/

* visionOS: https://www.apple.com/os/visionos/

* tvOS 27: no link.

* Overview: https://www.apple.com/os/?version=no-hero

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> Rope is easy to take for granted. It seems obvious and straightforward. But of course, it had to be invented. Early humans discovered that by twisting fibers around each other, the resulting structure would be something durable and strong. Without rope, all kinds of things aren't possible, from lifting objects into the air to whaling or modern bridges. So how was rope developed and what were the big breakthroughs in its history? On this episode, we speak with Tim Queeney, the author of 'Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization.' He walks us through the history of the technology, and its ongoing evolution, including how it might one day allow us to build elevators into outer space.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JThQIaluXPg

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-invention-of-r...

* https://open.spotify.com/episode/5PWgwDb3lHUJFBOUDln5yN

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/how-the-invention-of-rope-gav...

Schooner Association interview:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4n92rHkXzA

Interviewee / author:

* https://timqueeney.com

As someone who originally ran it on Solaris when it came out ~20 years ago, and have continued to run it on FreeBSD and Linux, I would disagree.

…by default. It can be disabled via a sysctl:

* https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accou...

By draining aquifers, for one:

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06879-8

* https://unu.edu/inweh/news/world-enters-era-of-global-water-...

Certain desalination exists, but can get expensive and energy-intensive (and they it may be necessary to transport the fresh water great distances).

Really wish I had a better memory so I could memorize these as a lot of them would be really fun as everyday quips.

As someone who drives a 2003 Golf TDI, I'm currently looking at CAD 2.40/L: EUR1.49/USD1.73 per L.

* https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/diesel_prices/

* https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

Except it wasn't just a change in the name in the department: the Department of War actually became the Department of the Army, the DoNavy was merged with, the Air Force was split off from being with-in the Army (USAAF -> USAF), creation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and CIA, etc:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947

> But whether a war was actually offensive or defensive still came down to what story we wanted to tell ourselves at the end of the day.

And sometimes a war does not happen because someone has a big enough stick that other people don't want to risk it being used on them. It's not like the 'other side' was passively sitting around:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_empire

There needed to be various measures done (on a spectrum from more to less 'active') to keep things in check:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment

* https://www.bryant.com/en/ca/products/heat-pumps/33nm3/

* https://www.arcticheatpumps.com/high-temperature-heat-pump.h...

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The mission of the Department of War, which was its name pre-WW2, and the mission of the Department of Defence (post-WW2) is completely different: this is evidenced by the number of military personnel in the two time periods (and the draw-down in personal post-1990, after the Cold War ended):

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/1066986/us-armed-forces-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_military_personnel_and...

No, it was not. Tom Nichols, professor emiritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College:

> It is almost impossible to overstate the inanity of this move. The United States has a Department of Defense for a reason. It was called the “War” Department until 1947, when the dictates of a new and more dangerous world required the creation of a much larger military organization than any in American history. Harry Truman and the American leaders who destroyed the Axis, and who now were facing the Soviet empire, realized that national security had become a larger undertaking than the previous American tradition of moving, as needed, between discrete conditions of “war” and “peace.”

> These leaders understood that America could no longer afford the isolationist luxury of militarizing itself during times of threat and then making soldiers train with wooden sticks[1] when the storm clouds passed. Now, they knew, the security of the country would be a daily undertaking, a matter of ongoing national defense, in which the actual exercise of military force would be only part of preserving the freedom and independence of the United States and its allies.

> In 1949, after two years that included a massive reorganization of the U.S. military (and the establishment of an air force), Truman christened the new United States Department of Defense, which consolidated elements of the previous War and Navy Departments. […]

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...

The Department of War had a different function for a different geopolitical outlook that no longer matched reality in the post-WW2 world.

What are the (current?) foreign policy goals of the country in question? If it leans more defensive, like Japan, that's different than a country that may have a more interventionist bent.

Also what product(s) is the company developing or offering (field hospital equipment or are we talking about Palantir)?

Perhaps look into "air to water" heat pumps.

Compared to other refrigerants it's a paradise:

* https://www.epa.gov/hfcs/technology-transitions-gwp-referenc...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential#Calcu...