I think I got the difference in my head. How about this:

Obscurity is decreasingly effective as more people use it. Security is more effective as more people use it.

That's fine as long you are really clear in your mind about what's going on.

It IT there are a lot of people tossing a blanket over the scooter and believing they're affecting the ability of the the attacker when they're really changing the likelihood of an attack.

Imagine if every single person put a blanket over their bike. Now imagine if everyone got a chain that was 10 times stronger. Which world would you rather live in?

Honey pots, tar pits, bot motels, janky configs, visible telemetry (for example): these slow down adversaries in two ways. 1) They directly slow the adversary down and force them to navigate deliberately. 2) They increase uncertainty in uncomfortable ways, the effectiveness of this depends on how important it is for the adversary to remain undiscovered, not "poke the bear". Together, the effect is more than additive.

In addition to likelihood, attacks have shape. And proper installations can force your adversaries' maneuvers to take a certain shape. I've heard this referred to as terraforming.

If you're going to "do it in the road" (a highly visible bike rack), your lock or chain works much better when it is better / stronger than the herd. If everyone has a chain which is 10x stronger, then a better grinder becomes a cost of doing business. Maybe I'd rather live in a world where I didn't use that bike rack.

Just for fun and bitterness I checked on Google Fiber.

"Google Fiber generally hands out a /56 IPv6 prefix delegation to residential customers, which allows for 256 subnets of \64's) each."

Totally confused as to why XFinity only gives me a /60. I think it's a benefit for people who get the business class - that is a /56.

Man a /56 is not as big as you think. I'm an IPv6 neophyte but I'm starting to think about /64's the way I think I think about IPv4 /24's but 802.11 /24's y'know?

So Google Fiber giving a you a /64 is the same as saying - would you run your home network on a single /24. I mean ... you could but it feel like saying could you have one pair of shoes. XFinitity gives me a /60 and honestly I feel unhappy about it.

At my modestly sized job site we're easily using a couple 100 /24's - and I'm not in network operations so that number is probably wrong.

Dual stack isn't a terrible experience it's just usually bad. I wonder if more effort should have been put into making dual stack good instead of making IPv6 good?

Would that have been possible? No clue but my instinct is that most design decisions are trade offs and if you can imagine a trade there's someone out there clever enough to make it happen.

IMHO, the worst thing about dual-stack is that you have to do it at all. There are translation mechanisms but that doesn’t help when you have local devices (maybe IoT?) that don’t support IPv6.

I think that's why this new IPv6-Mostly stuff is so exciting. You can dual stack a network segment if some of those v4-only devices exist there, but IPv6-Mostly will make sure that the other devices stay on v6 (translated or native).

Never ascended but my main strategy revolved around something fixed in 3.7. Bummed me out so much that I stopped playing.

Now though. Maybe I'll go back to it

Sounds like their release strategy of renaming it to 5.0 worked for you! 3.7 really had developed a bad reputation, so they needed a clean break.

The more political a page becomes the greater the temptation to abandon a neutral viewpoint (consciously or unconsciously) and to limit the number of people making edits.

When it comes to politics Feyman's line about "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool" is times 10.

I'd go to you for information before I'd go to the people who say, "It's really all pretty simple..."

The analogy isn't a perfect one.

For Climate Change it's a question of opportunity costs. With expected inputs how much will temperature change? What are the effects of that change? How much effort to you put into changing the inputs? How much effort do you put into dealing with the effects?

The biggest difference is that Climate Change is a deeply political question with a bit of science tossed in. Alzheimer's is the mirror opposite - it's a scientific question with politics added to the same degree of most other things.

If you get a camera ticket at 41 mph it's because you're driving in a zone where the limit is 30 which sounds pretty residential to me. Is that more or less dangerous then doing 76 mph on a highway? I don't know, it's the difference between hitting a pedestrian and another car so less dangerous for you but more dangerous for the other person involved.

Seems like they should have phrased it differently, like "...he pilots a 4,800-pound RAM 1500 truck at more than 41 mph across through residential areas..."