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Dr. Bruce Simpson

bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

<p>1994 era Internet user. Onsite cybersecurity JPMorganChase 2001. Principal FreeBSD networking contributor from 2003; Security Team alumnus; helped land PF firewall. GSoC 2026 student mentor.</p><p>My research: cybersecurity &amp; Internet architecture.<br />My work: professional practice &amp; communication.<br />Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs.</p><p>P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.</p>

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  • Post #4431931

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bowdlerize

  • Post #4421118

    Layer 1 robustness: learning how to do Network UPS Tools (NUT) properly here with an Eaton 3S. 2nd BeagleBone Black, powered from a powered USB hub, plugged into the BBB itself. Thence, an FTDI serial cable plugged into the hub, to the primary FreeBSD dev system. The UPS itself, repatched to the BBB via the hub. So 3 things are on the 3 BS1363 mains sockets on the Eaton UPS: the FreeBSD box, the BBB via the hub, and the FS S3900 switch they&#39;re both connected to. https://www.eaton.com/gb/en-g...

  • Post #4309623

    There is no &quot;Singularity&quot;. If you believe this, you are a fool. Desperation camouflaged by utter science fiction tripe begets only the response: Sam Altman needs to get his fucking shine box, his desperation to IPO to externalize the &quot;AI&quot; con grows every day. Same with Mark Zuckerberg committing material falsehood in his WSJ op-ed this week. The manchild-CEO-for-life needs to get his shine box. Mark Shuttleworth, ignoring his user base: Shine box for you too. https://www.y...

  • Post #4144290

    Please heed Dijkstra&#39;s wisdom nearly 50 years after he spoke the words: &quot;...after careful consideration I concluded that the intellectual challenge presented by the programming task is, indeed, as unprecedented as the high-speed automatic computer itself. And it had caused in my mind a shift of attention from &quot;how to discover the unexpected&quot; towards &quot;how to avoid unmastered complexity&quot;, towards &quot;how to reduce the demands made on our quantitatively limited powers...

  • Post #4133619

    LowEndBox author on &quot;The Economics of AI and Why Cost-Conscious Companies Hate It&quot;; basically, no demonstrable ROI, even when negative externalities are not taken into account. https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-economics-of-ai-and-why-cost-conscious-companies-hate-it/