Both sides previous revisionPrevious revisionNext revision | Previous revision |
user:grahamperrin [2023/11/12 09:16] – // unexpected, removed. Attempt to replace ' with normal ' characters. grahamperrin | user:grahamperrin [2024/11/13 06:40] (current) – Work around the formatting bug that loses white space. grahamperrin |
---|
I have [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]]. | ====== Graham Perrin (grahamperrin) ====== |
<font inherit/inherit;;rgb(184, 49, 47);;inherit>Crushingly dull obligatory tech history follows</font> . Former Mac user (1992–2014; AppleSeed programme member 2009–2014). The GUI of OS X 10.10 //Yosemite// drove me away from Apple. I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 //Mavericks// to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then **FreeBSD-CURRENT with KDE Plasma**. My first interaction in the freebsd.org domain was probably in 2015 (bug [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203271|203271 – Wi-Fi no longer driven on some hardware with 11.0-CURRENT]]). | |
| |
Fast-forward to 2023, beyond all things dull: I have two ** | I have [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle. |
<font inherit/inherit;;rgb(65, 168, 95);;inherit>excellent cats</font> **. | |
| Crushingly dull obligatory tech history follows. Former Mac user (1992–2014; AppleSeed programme member 2009–2014). The GUI of OS X 10.10 //Yosemite// drove me away from Apple. I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 //Mavericks// to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT. In the midst of all that, something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120923043805/http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html|9.0 on a PowerPC iMac]] with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows. |
| |
| Essentially: **KDE Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT** since around 2015. |
| |
| I try to take a conscientious approach to security issues. CVD, responsible disclosure, and all that. [[https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0014|CVE-2009-0014]] et cetera. |
| |
| Bill and Pickle were largely responsible for discovery of a security issue that involved a comedy of errors, and eventual discovery of an old "fixed" bug that's not //truly// fixed for many users of FreeBSD. Whilst I can't draw attention to the public comedy (it's not entirely amusing), here's a two-point overview: |
| |
| - [[https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/111377465852217006|https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/111377465852217006]] |
| - [[https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/111421799789564704|https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/111421799789564704]] explaining the cats' role in discovery. |
| |
Sidestep away from the cats. To me, and where I hang out: | Sidestep away from the cats. To me, and where I hang out: |
| |
* [[https://matrix.to/#/@grahamperrin:matrix.org|https://matrix.to/#/@grahamperrin:matrix.org]] | * [[https://matrix.to/#/@grahamperrin:matrix.org|https://matrix.to/#/@grahamperrin:matrix.org ]] |
* [[https://matrix.to/#/#bsdcafe:bsd.cafe|https://matrix.to/#/#bsdcafe:bsd.cafe]] | * [[https://matrix.to/#/#bsdcafe:bsd.cafe|https://matrix.to/#/#bsdcafe:bsd.cafe ]] |
* [[https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin|https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin]] | * [[https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin|https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin ]] |
* [[https://hear-me.social/@grahamperrin|https://hear-me.social/@grahamperrin]] | * [[https://hear-me.social/@grahamperrin|https://hear-me.social/@grahamperrin ]] |
* [[https://forums.freebsd.org/members/grahamperrin.35084/#about|my profile at The FreeBSD Forums]] – access restricted (not by me), it's essentially a duplicate of what's above, with adjacent links to posts and so on. | |
| |
I'm dyslexic, reportedly, it probably doesn't show in my writing. Long story. | I'm dyslexic, reportedly. It probably doesn't show in my writing. Long story. |
| |
| I became a [[https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash/#2022-06-01:1|FreeBSD committer in June 2022]], resigned after thirteen months. 13, unlucky for some. [[https://freshbsd.org/freebsd?committer[]=Graham+Perrin+(grahamperrin)|162 commits across three trees]] (137 ''doc'' + 5 ''ports'' + 20 ''src''). |
| |
---- | ---- |
| |
Avatar (in [[https://codeberg.org/grahamperrin/|Codeberg]], [[https://github.com/grahamperrin/|GitHub]], The FreeBSD Forums and so on): | Avatar in places such as [[https://codeberg.org/grahamperrin/|Codeberg]]: from the cover of [[https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2014/07/19/book-review-the-worlds-of-frank-herbert-frank-herbert-1970/|the 1970 edition of]]// The Worlds of Frank Herbert// (credit: Jan Parker). If you're vaguely disconcerted by detached heads and shoulders in a serene alien landscape, you should tremble in fear at [[https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/111460966674032287|the detached head]] sometimes encountered by people like me on planet Earth. |
| |
| Mugshot in places such as [[https://gitlab.com/grahamperrin|GitLab]]: from a 2018 holiday in Greece. |
| |
| Avatar in places such as [[https://github.com/grahamperrin|GitHub]] and BSD Cafe: [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/forestservicenw/23273672529/|a bunny rabbit]]. Partly because it's less confusing than a 1970 vision of a faraway planet, but more because: |
| |
| * **bunny rabbits**. |
| Think about them. Think: bunny rabbits. Feel better? //I do//. |
| |
| ---- |
| |
| **Footnote**: bunny rabbits tried valiantly, ultimately failed, to spread happiness at the Forums. |
| |
| I joined in 2012, quit in June 2022, rejoined in October 2023. All profiles, including [[https://forums.freebsd.org/members/grahamperrin.35084/#about|mine]], are hidden from the public. The May 2024 transformation – from //Graham Perrin// to **//Cath O'Deray//** – was: |
| |
| * largely for giggles ([[https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/467/713/668/554/284/original/587211c0e8d9773a.png|avatar: a cathode ray tube]]) whilst continuing to provide technical support – with screenshots, as one might expect from a CRT TV screen |
| * harmonious with whims of the intolerant, narrow-minded [[https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/ignoramus|ignoramus]] clique that insists upon "The Power To Serve" __without__ the modernity of serving links to a twenty-first century Internet that exists beyond The FreeBSD Forums. |
| |
| Readers with a sense of humour might note that Cath's primary occupation was //Tube//. Her secondary occupation, not divulged during her time there: //Statistical Analyst// – a five-month contract, which involved removal of a few hundred links to the Internet. (She didn't pay attention to all 8,000+ comments, only the subset that was found through normal web browsing.) Conclusion: |
| |
* from the cover of //[[https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2014/07/19/book-review-the-worlds-of-frank-herbert-frank-herbert-1970/|the 1970 edition of The Worlds of Frank Herbert]]// (**credit: Jan Parker**). | * links to the FreeBSD subreddit – one of the clique's irrational obsessions – formed less than 0.005% of what's now gone. |
| |
Mugshot, from a holiday in Greece around five years ago: in [[https://gitlab.com/grahamperrin|GitLab]]. | Analyses complete, I quit, for the second time, [[http://archive.today/2024.11.11-072117/https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ekvrxv/best_place_for_technical_discussions/lunpa0w/#15%|in October 2024]] – [[https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/absence/|https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/absence/]]. I suppose that mean-minded bloodsuckers will continue to infect the place – I'm thankful that those emotionally ugly suckers are so miniscule a part of the community, but more thankful that I quit before they bled me dry. |
| |
| |