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Dr. Bruce Simpson

@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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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.

My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture.
My work: professional practice & communication.
Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs.

P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Joined July 23, 2026
FreeBSD People Page:
https://people.freebsd.org/~bms/
ORCiD:
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6447-9025

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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 07, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bowdlerize
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 06, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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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're both connected to. https://www.eaton.com/gb/en-gb/catalog/backup-power-ups-surge-it-power-distribution/eaton-3s-ups-emea.html
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 05, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @NyxKai@ieji.de
@NyxKai@ieji.de @foone@digipres.club deferring to Neal Stephenson on that
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 03, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @atax1a@infosec.exchange
@atax1a@infosec.exchange It's just fascinating to me that these people make these burden-of-proof arguments about how productive their new appeal-to-novelty generative systems are, yet keep omitting evidence, and when you call them on it, they try to paint you as some kind of Anti-Christ. This is a recurring theme.
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 03, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @atax1a@infosec.exchange
@atax1a@infosec.exchange How is he measuring his productivity and did he apply e.g. SonarSource or McCabe metrics to it? That's a rhetorical question of course... because it sounds like this person has developed the symptoms of a habitual cocaine user?
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 03, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @giacomo@snac.tesio.it
@giacomo @riverpunk@defcon.social @akareilly@hachyderm.io @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange s/Adam Smith/Edsger Dijsktra/g s/market economy/computer science/g
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 03, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @atax1a@infosec.exchange
@atax1a@infosec.exchange "Drop down, integrate the Gaussian PDF, and give me 20, Marine!" /s
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 01, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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There is no "Singularity". 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 "AI" 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.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqs-WFq88uE We know what LLMs are, how they are constructed, trained, and used. And how THEY DO NOT GENERATE ROI. Do they think we're stupid?
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 31, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @larsmb@mastodon.online
@larsmb@mastodon.online @cstross@wandering.shop @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @davidgerard@circumstances.run "sealing ourselves in via Kessler Syndrome might be a kindness to the rest of the universe." Thus, the plot of Greg Egan's "Quarantine" is recapitulated. @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 29, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe
@mcc@mastodon.social @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Also, lctamtuf thank you for all your hard work on AFL over the years.
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 29, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @mcc@mastodon.social
@mcc@mastodon.social @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange It is possible for some to opt out of Gemini training itself due to a UK CMA ruling enforceable by statutory instrument, which may have wider applicability due to how Google have been forced to implement it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fku2tzBTNnI I do recommend not using ACME or TLS certificates issued in the CT chain if you want to evade bot discovery. I can't be 100% sure but circumstantial evidence points towards CT logs being used for scraper bot discovery. Shifting the trust root to DANE and using a different trust anchor might help this.
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 29, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @pmb00cs@mastodon.online
@pmb00cs@mastodon.online @alda@topspicy.social The concepts of process and domain knowledge are often lost on them, as they do not manage at that level. Consider the views of Alan Carter and Colston Sanger in "The Programmer's Stone" from ~1999 on these issues, as well as Ward Cunningham on Technical Debt, Fred Brooks on The Mythical Man Month, and Nik Suresh on the current recapitulation of "people managing stuff they just don't understand".
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 28, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run
@davidgerard@circumstances.run Every time I am forced to hear of Raymond Kurzweil's wank fantasy in public discourse becoming "strategy", I go running for the sick bag. (Been busy watching Adam Curtis' back catalogue including The Trap (2007) while I hack KDE related stuff)
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 27, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @bakachu@infosec.exchange
@bakachu@infosec.exchange I have found the process of distilling value from an otherwise dead and bitrotted code base boiled down to iteratively applying the dismantling of Chesteron's Fences. Some of the state beyond the code, design motivations and approaches and so forth, involved a person who is now sadly quite dead; he crashed his motorcycle just outside San Francisco over 10 years ago. Also the Don't Repeat Yourself principle from "The Pragmatic Programmer".
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 27, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Please heed Dijkstra's wisdom nearly 50 years after he spoke the words: "...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 "how to discover the unexpected" towards "how to avoid unmastered complexity", towards "how to reduce the demands made on our quantitatively limited powers of reasoning". "You must take my word for it, that past experience has made me a firm believer that this newer aspect of thinking, i.e. how to avoid unmastered complexity, can indeed be taught. ... Among other things it can be done by the identification and subsequent description of the more productive "complexity generators"." Those last two words keep looping around at the back of my mind every day now... and if you mine Dijkstra's secondary references, you'll find gold. The man was an expert at the very act of thinking, and he was well read to boot. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD480.html
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 27, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

mastodon.bsd.cafe
Replying to @alexkidman@aus.social
@alexkidman@aus.social He will forever be remembered for funky gibboness and comic genius in "The Goodies", and the best misheard lyric of all time, from Madonna's "Erotica": "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, Put your hands all over my body."
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 27, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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LowEndBox author on "The Economics of AI and Why Cost-Conscious Companies Hate It"; 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/
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 26, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

mastodon.bsd.cafe
Replying to @oatmeal@kolektiva.social
@oatmeal@kolektiva.social I have completely removed Ubuntu from my infrastructure over the past week. Not without change cost, a key network modeling tool has gone kaput and I'm up against other vendor's functional regressions now but it's 90% dealt with. I use the key Firefox forks, never Firefox itself; one distro I installed this week was bundled with it. "Take what is useful. Destroy the rest." It got uninstalled pretty quickly.
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Dr. Bruce Simpson @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 24, 2026
Dr. Bruce Simpson
@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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. My research: cybersecurity & Internet architecture. My work: professional practice & communication. Every time someone connects to IPv6 with iPhone, my code runs. P.S. Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

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Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
@mxchara@seattle.pink "Facts are stupid things." -- The Gipper
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