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Overcoming Censorship

Dec 14, 2021 security career 2021

Online censorship has ramped up significantly in the past few years. We've all seen it. For instance: Seemingly innocuous social media posts getting removed for reasons that make no sense, or for no reason at all Veiled and not-so-veiled threats about what you are allowed to say online without fear of losing your …

Course Exercise Files Available on GitLab

Nov 27, 2021 git certification career 2021

Now that GitHub has been hacked/DDoS'd, you might find it difficult to access the course exercise files for some of my IT training courses. I've begun adding some of these files to GitLab, and you can find them at https://gitlab.com/benpiper Feel free to contact me if you can't find what you're looking for.

Dumping Twitter Will Make You Smarter

Nov 22, 2020 Feb 20, 2021 career security health 2020

About three years ago, the following phrase popped into my head: "Social media is making you have stupid opinions." Now that's obviously not directed at you, and when I had the thought it wasn't about anyone in particular. It was more of a general observation that social media is antithetical to critical …

Free Resources

Aug 23, 2020 science networking career Christianity

Following are free resources that I've created or collected. By me Repositories My GitHub repo My Docker images repository Science Links Abortion is wrong—ARTL Creation.com Patterns of Evidence Real Science Radio The Steve Deace Show

Why I Don’t Teach The OSI Model

Mar 22, 2019 Nov 25, 2022 cisco networking osi tcp/ip 2019 2022 career

2022 Update: If you want a clear technical explanation of the OSI model, click on the cover of my book CCNP Enterprise Certification Study Guide: Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies for a free preview of Chapter 1 which explains each layer of the OSI model in intricate detail. I …