Daniel Berman 🇨🇦

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(He/Him)

Network System Administrator | Sec+ | I help companies ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data. Solving problems since 2009.

I have a profound fascination with technology, encompassing its practical applications and ethical considerations. This intrigue is complemented by a passion for exploration and a strong sense of responsibility towards both the environment and society at large.

My interests include in alphabetical order but not neccessarily passion,

#Computers, #CulturalExploration, #Cybersecurity, #DroneFlying, #Emacs, #HamRadio #Geocaching, #GlobalTravel, #Hiking, #Linux, #Lisp, #NetworkAdmin, #Photography, #Privacy, #ScienceFiction, #Stargazing, #SustainableLiving, #Sysadmin, #TechnologyEthics

Originally joined mastodon.social September 2018

Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcberman
Websitehttps://www.danielcberman.com
Daniel Berman 🇨🇦1d ago
TIL Security groups in M365 can be used to set Sharepoint Site or Library permissions.
Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Apr 22

Having grown up around farmers and watching the right to repair movement, I believe this is a welcome addition to the farm equipment market.

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/

Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Apr 16

Files hidden in satellite TV broadcasts are bypassing Iran’s Internet blackout to keep information flowing.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iran-internet-blackout-satellite-tv

Stealth Satellite TV Defeats Iran's Internet Blackout

Files hidden in satellite TV broadcasts keep information flowing

IEEE Spectrum
Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Mar 28
Show threadNeil BrownMar 28

Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.

Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.

* No age or ID verification

* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run

* No third party accounts

Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Mar 22

Know your systems, know your data.

“Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.

A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

ProPublica
Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Mar 22
Mr. Funk E. Dude 🤡Mar 21

If you’re tired of feeling like there’s nothing that you can do to help make the world a better place besides voting, I’m here to tell you that there is…

Volunteer.

Food banks, soup kitchens, senior centers, blood banks, animal shelters, and more. Find a place where you can be in the service of others. Where you can give back to the community that you live in.

It’s a great way to get out of your own head. Serve others, and serve the better parts of yourself in return

Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Feb 14
Just configured a second phone number in voip.ms to give my wife a 🇨🇦 number as we prepare to move in a couple of months.
Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Feb 12
High intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 11

“What do you have to hide?“

Everything.

Full stop. Period.

Every. Thing.

What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world.

Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces.

It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”.

Every. Thing.

It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with.

#privacy #surveillance

Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Jan 11
European CommissionJan 10

80 years ago, the UN General Assembly started with a dream: to maintain peace and security in the world.

The good?
Eight decades without World War III.

Where do we stand today?
It’s complicated.

But in a world of 8 billion people, it’s the only room where everyone gets a seat.

80 years ago, we chose dialogue over force.
Today, we must choose it again.

Daniel Berman 🇨🇦Jan 7
When you apply the common critiques of LLMs to humans. https://embd.cc/llm-problems-observed-in-humans
LLM problems observed in humans

A reflective essay exploring how classic LLM failure modes---limited context, overgeneration, poor generalization, and hallucination---are increasingly recognizable in everyday human conversation.