@CablingOptional

Network Engineer specializing in Wireless LANS. Also experienced in design, implemetation, and support of DC and campus networks. https://xitter.cf/t.co/3NWyARIc80

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Joined March 2010
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Just registered for #AutoCon6, Nov 16-20 in Tucson!
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Monica Alleven@malleven33Aug 13
Helium CEO: SpaceX validates our mobile playbook 👇 🖇️tinyurl.com/4hyfv2tj 🖇️
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It's not often you find someone who's both strong in their technical discipline and also a brilliant writer. My fellow InfoSec colleague Rishoo is one of those rare examples though. Truly fun read about detecting AI in writing: linkedin.com/pulse/i-know-yo…

"I Know You Used ChatGPT." So Did the Article That Told You About the Em Dash.

I wrote an essay about how to spot AI text, and I spent two hours aggressively removing every em dash so you wouldn't accuse me of using ChatGPT. Except it probably wasn’t the em dash.

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Replying to @DiscoveryID
@DiscoveryID In the show See No Evil, why do you guys artificially degrade the quality of some of the security camera footage? It’s distracting, and reduces the integrity of the show. Some old cameras yield low quality video, but you guys pixellate footage of modern HD cams.
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Like, you know the security cameras in the Police Departments themselves are capable of much higher quality than you guys show. Pixellating these is a cheesey post-production decision that disrespects the tech knowledge of much of your audience.
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Today was peak #enshittification for me: -UHaul app hangs & crashes => 30 mins in cold -McDonald’s app fails 10x, then orders food it said it couldn’t -CoinTracker points to Coinbase, which points back -TurboTax jumps back to earlier sections again & again #idiocracy
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What are people thinking when they show PowerPoints while not in slideshow mode? This is so common and it drives me crazy!
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Re: AT&T reducing offload amounts on some hotspots, I’m wondering what the pattern is. My two are in quite busy (relative to my town) public areas, but ATT offload is much lower. I imagine their own towers can handle more load just fine. What are others seeing?
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wingbits
@wingbits7 Aug 2025
My new favorite sound? A plane flying overhead. Because now it sounds like: $WINGS $WINGS $WINGS $WINGS $WINGS $WINGS $WINGS $WINGS
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@wingbits17 Jul 2025
Think your flight tracker knows where planes really are? Unless it can prove where a signal was received, it’s just assumptions. 🛰️ Wingbits locks each signal to a GPS-verified device and cryptographically signs it. That’s not flight tracking. That’s proof-of-location intelligence. That's DePIN in action. And you can be part of it.
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Utah Wi-Fi friends - I’ve been to a lot of airports and cities, but so far SLC airport and the little bit of the city I’ve seen have impressed. So modern and clean!
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Replying to @DTWeetin
@DTWeetin A56, 3rd charging pole from counter, AC outlet facing ramp has issues. Bottom outlet inop, top is intermittent , & both are quite loose. Thanks in advance for keeping this terminal in tip-top shape!
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USB ports on this post also quite loose and cycle on and off - only providing power for seconds at a time
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In the last 5 mins UDR of Friday we got so close to a milli.... Oh it's Friday... And we got ATH for @helium Eyes on this for tomorrow
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Shakira’s hips lied to me about the concert start time at Little Caesar’s Arena in Detroit. We’re currently at 100 mins after scheduled start.
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Ready for Day 1 of the @WBAlliance in Dallas! @helium right on schedule at 11.40am to showcase and demo to the industry the results of the work on quality of service metrics that is live on the network. Quality is measureable. Put your money where your mouth is.
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Homemade Cellular Internet Backup – Part 2: The Build

Having set up the reason for this build in Part 1, let’s get right to how it was done! Below is the parts list with links to purchase: White Outdoor Waterproof Electrical Box 802.3at PoE Splitter D…

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…and Dole
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San Jose to Limón…Chiquita, Del Monte everywhere…have never seen so many shipping containers in my life
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Visiting the Starbucks R&D facility Hacienda Alsacia in Costa Rica - this place is so cool! Few thoughts: - LoRa or HaLo soil moisture and pH sensors could be used for higher res data on new varietals - Why doesn’t anyone ferment and distill the sugary pulp from the cherry?
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Homemade Cellular Internet Backup - Part 1: The Problem cablingoptional.com/2025/05/… (my first blog entry in several years)
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First iteration of flight paths now live on our @wingbits map! More cool functionality coming shortly 🚀
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