Hey, I'm Marc.
I'm building safer, healthier online spaces.
I'm a Cybersecurity Lecturer working on Machine Learning and Usable Security. I focus on using natural language processing to counter fraud and deception online.
Selected Posts
In an age of constant notification bells and dings, RSS offers a compelling alternative. My most popular post; read by over 30,000 people and featured on Coder Radio and a recommended resource of the University of Minnesota Duluth.
A look at how OpenBSD offers a more stable, reliable, and just plain functional approach to operating systems. Featured on the BSD Now podcast.
What Shapes Ethical AI Research?
Written just one month before the release of ChatGPT, I asked how do we ensure that those at the forefront build ethical and responsible AI systems as its dominance continues to grow?
Blog
2025-02-20Blog Question Challenge 20252025-02-10You Should Use /tmp/ More2025-01-22Some Unsolicited Research Tool Suggestions2024-11-01So What's Up With Those Tiles?2024-10-09OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off2024-09-26TK, or the secret to effortless writing2024-07-18The Aberration Of Netbooks2023-10-07Software that Fits in Your Backpack2023-09-14We Should Teach Students UNIX, or the Power of Pipes
Garden
2025-02-13Various Minimal CSS Frameworks2025-02-13Restart a Stalled Network Process on OpenBSD2025-02-13Connect to WiFi on OpenBSD2025-02-13Compress a Video with FFMPEG2025-01-17Convert a Video to Work in QuickTime2025-01-16Open a Random File in a Directory2024-10-07Count Occurences of Each Line in File2024-07-29Open a List of URLs in Firefox2024-07-29Keep running command after SSH sesion logout
Talks
2025- Broken Hearts, Empty Accounts2025- Broken Hearts, Empty Accounts2024- Find Papers: A Tool for Searching Relevant Sources2024- The Offer of a Lifetime, for a Fee: The Origins of Online Fraud2024- Broken Hearts, Empty Accounts2024- Broken Hearts, Empty Accounts2023- Find Papers: A Tool for Searching Relevant Sources2023- The PhD: A Lot More than Just Three Letters2023- Phishing in the Age of Skynet: Cybersecurity and the Threat of Machine Learning2022- The Robot in the Room: AI and What it Means for You