Percipience
@percipience.bsky.social
Percipience is both my means and my end. Husband, ally, and friend. Lifelong learner and technologist in the areas of telecommunications, infosec, and IT. M.Ed. American/Canadian dreaming of a more equitable world.
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I wish elected Republicans cared a fraction as much for the health and well-being of Republican voters as Democrats do.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I wish elected Republicans cared a fraction as much for the health and well-being of Republican voters as Democrats do.
You're welcome, {miscodedApp}.
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You're welcome, {miscodedApp}.
God I hate LinkedIn so much. I avoided it for a decade but circumstances are what they are and I've recently had to make one. My feed is riddled with AI slop like this described as "real world diagrams" with hundreds of likes and sycophantic "Love this" comments. What a useless site.
August 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
God I hate LinkedIn so much. I avoided it for a decade but circumstances are what they are and I've recently had to make one. My feed is riddled with AI slop like this described as "real world diagrams" with hundreds of likes and sycophantic "Love this" comments. What a useless site.
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
If you've ever looked at Wi-Fi traffic you've likely seen RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) values with numbers such as -63 dBm. Even a lot of professionals without a wireless background are often times lost conceptually at just what this number means, or the relative scale of these figures.
April 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you've ever looked at Wi-Fi traffic you've likely seen RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) values with numbers such as -63 dBm. Even a lot of professionals without a wireless background are often times lost conceptually at just what this number means, or the relative scale of these figures.
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This is how you know we aren't surrounded by real tech people and hackers: no one in that field would ban 2600.
March 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is how you know we aren't surrounded by real tech people and hackers: no one in that field would ban 2600.
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A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.
Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!
February 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.
Yes, yes, it's from the bad place, but for the love of god can my party please stop turning to the absolute worst, most chronically wrong people to cast them as the heroes of the resistance? Can we stop trying to win the imaginary center?
CC: @driftglass.bsky.social @proleftpodcast.bsky.social
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February 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Yes, yes, it's from the bad place, but for the love of god can my party please stop turning to the absolute worst, most chronically wrong people to cast them as the heroes of the resistance? Can we stop trying to win the imaginary center?
CC: @driftglass.bsky.social @proleftpodcast.bsky.social
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"Canada is going to lose this trade war" Yeah, they/we will. The US will too. Nobody wins with tariffs.
Will more pain be inflicted on the Canadian economy than the US one? Sure. Americans will pay a bunch more, Canadians will too, and America's biggest ally gets a recession. Congrats, I guess?
Will more pain be inflicted on the Canadian economy than the US one? Sure. Americans will pay a bunch more, Canadians will too, and America's biggest ally gets a recession. Congrats, I guess?
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"Canada is going to lose this trade war" Yeah, they/we will. The US will too. Nobody wins with tariffs.
Will more pain be inflicted on the Canadian economy than the US one? Sure. Americans will pay a bunch more, Canadians will too, and America's biggest ally gets a recession. Congrats, I guess?
Will more pain be inflicted on the Canadian economy than the US one? Sure. Americans will pay a bunch more, Canadians will too, and America's biggest ally gets a recession. Congrats, I guess?
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Sigh. It wasn’t a nonevent BUT we took it seriously. It was a nonevent BECAUSE we took it seriously. Same dangerous attitude I’ve seen about ozone layer deterioration: if a major campaign of concerted action averted the problem, it must have been a fake problem. Not the correct lesson to draw!
Yes, the Y2K software problem turned out to be a nonevent. But 25 years ago, The New York Times took it seriously, publishing over 100 stories.
Our tech reporter who wrote a front-page article on Jan. 1, 2000, reflects on the crisis that never was.
Our tech reporter who wrote a front-page article on Jan. 1, 2000, reflects on the crisis that never was.
Inside the Y2K Crisis That Never Was, 25 Years Later
Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Sigh. It wasn’t a nonevent BUT we took it seriously. It was a nonevent BECAUSE we took it seriously. Same dangerous attitude I’ve seen about ozone layer deterioration: if a major campaign of concerted action averted the problem, it must have been a fake problem. Not the correct lesson to draw!
I couldn't agree with this more.
Cybersecurity people loves to focus on zeroday exploits instead of basic security hygiene, but in a lot of cases where threat actors do actually use zeroday exploits, their impact would have been significantly blunted by basic security hygiene.
Neuberger explained that, in one telecom company’s case, a single administrator account had access to over 100,000 routers, so when the Chinese compromised the account, they gained broad access across the entire network.
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December 28, 2024 at 4:50 AM
I couldn't agree with this more.
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I just want to say that I’m really fucking tired of downloading apps. Want to park? Download an app. Want to see kids school band concert? Download this app for tickets! Want to talk to kids teacher? No more emails, download this app! Oh, and each school subject will have a different app!
FUCK
FUCK
December 28, 2024 at 2:09 AM
I just want to say that I’m really fucking tired of downloading apps. Want to park? Download an app. Want to see kids school band concert? Download this app for tickets! Want to talk to kids teacher? No more emails, download this app! Oh, and each school subject will have a different app!
FUCK
FUCK
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This is the game. Be mad if you want, but if the IC pulled this off in China, you’d think it was based. This is SolarWinds and OPM and a dozen other examples: espionage at scale facilitated by poor code in products and lack of security hygiene. Be mad if you want, but don’t pretend this is unfair.
Neuberger explained that, in one telecom company’s case, a single administrator account had access to over 100,000 routers, so when the Chinese compromised the account, they gained broad access across the entire network.
therecord.media/nine-us-comp...
therecord.media/nine-us-comp...
December 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
This is the game. Be mad if you want, but if the IC pulled this off in China, you’d think it was based. This is SolarWinds and OPM and a dozen other examples: espionage at scale facilitated by poor code in products and lack of security hygiene. Be mad if you want, but don’t pretend this is unfair.
For my classes I recognize and have to directly approach the quite literal question of “why do I need to know anything?”
There are many students who openly place an extremely low value on knowledge and/or thinking because of their view of AI and the internet.
I have to convince them first.
There are many students who openly place an extremely low value on knowledge and/or thinking because of their view of AI and the internet.
I have to convince them first.
my #1 duty to students is to teach them how to think. AI makes this job harder not easier. A closely related duty I owe is to not let students become accomplices in their own future irrelevance just because it’s easier short term to cheat thinking w AI
No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.
December 27, 2024 at 7:54 PM
For my classes I recognize and have to directly approach the quite literal question of “why do I need to know anything?”
There are many students who openly place an extremely low value on knowledge and/or thinking because of their view of AI and the internet.
I have to convince them first.
There are many students who openly place an extremely low value on knowledge and/or thinking because of their view of AI and the internet.
I have to convince them first.
Yep, this sounds about right. Once upon a time in my telecom career I had to explain why this major provider’s network was susceptible to simple OSPF route injection attacks and other interior routing and switching flaws. It was mostly met with shrugs that people wouldn’t gain initial access. 🤷♂️
Neuberger explained that, in one telecom company’s case, a single administrator account had access to over 100,000 routers, so when the Chinese compromised the account, they gained broad access across the entire network.
therecord.media/nine-us-comp...
therecord.media/nine-us-comp...
December 27, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Yep, this sounds about right. Once upon a time in my telecom career I had to explain why this major provider’s network was susceptible to simple OSPF route injection attacks and other interior routing and switching flaws. It was mostly met with shrugs that people wouldn’t gain initial access. 🤷♂️
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oh hey that thing we said was a bad idea is a bad idea
Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled
Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.
www.tomshardware.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:51 AM
oh hey that thing we said was a bad idea is a bad idea
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Yeeeeeaaah, the doomerism thing is real bullshit. As a nation we were collectively stupid enough to let him get back into a seat of power, but it's now our responsibility to collectively put as many goddamn tacks onto that seat as we possibly can. Make Power Fucking Painful is the mantra for 2025.
a lot of you seem to basically believe that politics is over, history has ended and the absence of legal or electoral consequences for trump means that he is the only person with agency. you all are recapitulating the basic conceit of trump’s alleged invincibility, but from the center left
December 9, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Yeeeeeaaah, the doomerism thing is real bullshit. As a nation we were collectively stupid enough to let him get back into a seat of power, but it's now our responsibility to collectively put as many goddamn tacks onto that seat as we possibly can. Make Power Fucking Painful is the mantra for 2025.
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get every single one of these people out of leadership and put them on a farm somewhere i don’t give a shit www.msnbc.com/jonathan-cap...
Clyburn urges Biden to pardon Trump 'so we can clean the slate'
After convincing President Biden to pardon his son Hunter, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn is now calling for clemency for Donald Trump. "If we keep digging at things in the past, I'm not too sure the...
www.msnbc.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:36 AM
get every single one of these people out of leadership and put them on a farm somewhere i don’t give a shit www.msnbc.com/jonathan-cap...
It’s not that we shouldn’t use every legal avenue we can to fight the illegalities that Trump will undoubtedly bring about. It’s not that we shouldn’t have hope. It’s just highly naive to think it’s all going to be just fine just because of existing laws, standards, and norms. Don’t bank on it.
December 9, 2024 at 2:25 AM
It’s not that we shouldn’t use every legal avenue we can to fight the illegalities that Trump will undoubtedly bring about. It’s not that we shouldn’t have hope. It’s just highly naive to think it’s all going to be just fine just because of existing laws, standards, and norms. Don’t bank on it.
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Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Cybersecurity education didn't exist until the last decade. If you were going to get into hacking and you are my age or older, you had to self train or come through the military or intelligence.
Self training meant joining the subculture. It was like if being goth taught you rocket science.
Self training meant joining the subculture. It was like if being goth taught you rocket science.
December 5, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Cybersecurity education didn't exist until the last decade. If you were going to get into hacking and you are my age or older, you had to self train or come through the military or intelligence.
Self training meant joining the subculture. It was like if being goth taught you rocket science.
Self training meant joining the subculture. It was like if being goth taught you rocket science.