Patrick Doyle
@pcdoyle.com
Systems Engineer—Infrastructure/Cybersecurity
IT and OT
I like talking about space, tech, the environment, books, dogs, and the oxford comma. 🇨🇦 He/Him.
IT and OT
I like talking about space, tech, the environment, books, dogs, and the oxford comma. 🇨🇦 He/Him.
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Someone is currently arguing with me that the UK is a surveillance state because it has lots of security cameras, and the US isn't because it doesn't. So, since I'm going to have to explain constitutional law anyway, I may as well just give a free lecture on how the 4th amendment really works: 🧵 1/?
October 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Someone is currently arguing with me that the UK is a surveillance state because it has lots of security cameras, and the US isn't because it doesn't. So, since I'm going to have to explain constitutional law anyway, I may as well just give a free lecture on how the 4th amendment really works: 🧵 1/?
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A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
June 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
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The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
January 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
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I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own.
The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...
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Are there any keyboard shortcuts you wish you'd known about sooner? ⌨️
For me, one of those is ALT + SHIFT + Up/Down - moves the selected item up or down in a list in Word and OneNote. Works on tables too!
So much time wasted copying and pasting
This is Keyboard Shortcut Advent Calendar Day 20 🎁🎄
For me, one of those is ALT + SHIFT + Up/Down - moves the selected item up or down in a list in Word and OneNote. Works on tables too!
So much time wasted copying and pasting
This is Keyboard Shortcut Advent Calendar Day 20 🎁🎄
December 20, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Are there any keyboard shortcuts you wish you'd known about sooner? ⌨️
For me, one of those is ALT + SHIFT + Up/Down - moves the selected item up or down in a list in Word and OneNote. Works on tables too!
So much time wasted copying and pasting
This is Keyboard Shortcut Advent Calendar Day 20 🎁🎄
For me, one of those is ALT + SHIFT + Up/Down - moves the selected item up or down in a list in Word and OneNote. Works on tables too!
So much time wasted copying and pasting
This is Keyboard Shortcut Advent Calendar Day 20 🎁🎄
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Some helpful tools for image posting on this app.
November 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Some helpful tools for image posting on this app.
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18M + 1.
💙, Mar🐫
💙, Mar🐫
November 17, 2024 at 8:46 PM
🥳
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I just posted the latest ~ this week in security ~, my free weekly cybersecurity newsletter that has all the cyber news you need to know from the week, plus fun stuff and cats. It's goes out every Sunday, and doesn't track opens or link-clicks.
Sign up / RSS / read online: this.weekinsecurity.com
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~this week in security~
a free cybersecurity newsletter by @zackwhittaker, delivered weekly.
this.weekinsecurity.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:24 PM
I just posted the latest ~ this week in security ~, my free weekly cybersecurity newsletter that has all the cyber news you need to know from the week, plus fun stuff and cats. It's goes out every Sunday, and doesn't track opens or link-clicks.
Sign up / RSS / read online: this.weekinsecurity.com
Sign up / RSS / read online: this.weekinsecurity.com
This list is full of great people from the InfoSec community.
Same! And consider this CTI list of folks if you haven’t already seen it, you’re on it 😅 go.bsky.app/TxQYHap
November 17, 2024 at 7:54 PM
This list is full of great people from the InfoSec community.
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For folks new to BlueSky, @davidosmond.bsky.social has been running a near real time simulation of a near 100% RE grid for Australia using data lagged by 1 wk. The current scaling factors are 4.5x Wind, 2.7x grid PV and 2.1x rooftop PV. Storage is 5 hrs of demand. That gets 98% RE. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 168 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/n)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 168 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/n)
November 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM
For folks new to BlueSky, @davidosmond.bsky.social has been running a near real time simulation of a near 100% RE grid for Australia using data lagged by 1 wk. The current scaling factors are 4.5x Wind, 2.7x grid PV and 2.1x rooftop PV. Storage is 5 hrs of demand. That gets 98% RE. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋
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Happy Sunday BlueSky🦋. I thought it would be nice to find a protein that looks like a butterfly to honor this new place🙂. This is a protein from brewers yeast. 3KEY.pdb.🧪⚗️🧬🧶🐡 #CompChemSky #SciComm #coverart #SciArt
November 17, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Happy Sunday BlueSky🦋. I thought it would be nice to find a protein that looks like a butterfly to honor this new place🙂. This is a protein from brewers yeast. 3KEY.pdb.🧪⚗️🧬🧶🐡 #CompChemSky #SciComm #coverart #SciArt
Trying to find the cybersecurity community after leaving the other place.
If you are in cybersecurity repost this so we can all follow each other 😬
November 16, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Trying to find the cybersecurity community after leaving the other place.
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. MacBook
2. Network Cables / Adapters
3. USB Drive
4. Leuchtturm Notebook
5. Kobo eReader
1. MacBook
2. Network Cables / Adapters
3. USB Drive
4. Leuchtturm Notebook
5. Kobo eReader
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1: encrypted flash drive with My Docs backed up
2: 2 days worth of meds
3: tissues
4: reading glasses (I'm allergic to retinox)
5: 2 spare K95 masks
1: encrypted flash drive with My Docs backed up
2: 2 days worth of meds
3: tissues
4: reading glasses (I'm allergic to retinox)
5: 2 spare K95 masks
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. Prescription stimulant
2. Bullet journal that hasn’t been updated for weeks to months
3. Precision calipers
4. Snacks
5. Oh THERE’S that receipt that I put in a “safe” place weeks to months ago!
1. Prescription stimulant
2. Bullet journal that hasn’t been updated for weeks to months
3. Precision calipers
4. Snacks
5. Oh THERE’S that receipt that I put in a “safe” place weeks to months ago!
November 14, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. MacBook
2. Network Cables / Adapters
3. USB Drive
4. Leuchtturm Notebook
5. Kobo eReader
1. MacBook
2. Network Cables / Adapters
3. USB Drive
4. Leuchtturm Notebook
5. Kobo eReader
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Quick intro for new followers! I’m an independent researcher, writer, and lapsed software engineer. I critically cover the tech industry (and particularly the crypto industry) in my Citation Needed newsletter. I also write a lot about digital sovereignty and the possibility of a better web.
Citation Needed
Citation Needed features critical coverage of the cryptocurrency industry and of issues in the broader technology world. It is independently published by Molly White, and entirely supported by reader...
citationneeded.news
November 11, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Quick intro for new followers! I’m an independent researcher, writer, and lapsed software engineer. I critically cover the tech industry (and particularly the crypto industry) in my Citation Needed newsletter. I also write a lot about digital sovereignty and the possibility of a better web.
Headlines like this are why people don’t trust or understand the scientific method.
Relatable but also: I’d like to talk a little bit about this headline, which is, in my opinion, an example of dysfunction in science reporting today.
(Since there’s no alt text, headline reads: “This Black Hole Is Eating So Much Matter that It Defies Known Science”, from 404 Media)
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(Since there’s no alt text, headline reads: “This Black Hole Is Eating So Much Matter that It Defies Known Science”, from 404 Media)
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me since tuesday
November 9, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Headlines like this are why people don’t trust or understand the scientific method.
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Man, I miss Craig Ferguson's show. As goofy as it was it was so funny and then bam! He'd dive deep into important issues intelligently and empathetically.
November 9, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Man, I miss Craig Ferguson's show. As goofy as it was it was so funny and then bam! He'd dive deep into important issues intelligently and empathetically.
This seems like a perfect first post.
where is the walter goggins fandom on bluesky. reskeet if you are a true GOG DOG.
January 5, 2024 at 9:42 PM
This seems like a perfect first post.