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user:grahamperrin [2023/11/12 09:33] – Fix some white space errors from previous editions. Italicise part of a linked text. grahamperrinuser:grahamperrin [2023/11/26 14:13] (current) – Avatars. Bunny rabbits. grahamperrin
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-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**. In a nutshell:+
  
-   * FreeBSD since 2012.+I have [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle.
  
-Fast-forward to 2023, beyond all things dull: I have two ** <font inherit/inherit;;rgb(65, 168, 95);;inherit>interesting 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.
  
-Sidestep away from Bill and Pickle. To me, and where I hang out:+Essentially: **KDE Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT** since around 2015. 
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 +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. 
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 +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: 
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 +   - [[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. 
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 +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 ]]
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   * [[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 largely a duplicate of what's above, with adjacent links to posts and so on.+  * [[https://forums.freebsd.org/members/grahamperrin.35084/#about|my profile at The FreeBSD Forums ]] – access restricted (not by me), it's not significantly different from what's above.
  
-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. 
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 +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'').
  
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-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. 
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 +Mugshot in places such as [[https://gitlab.com/grahamperrin|GitLab]]: from a 2018 holiday in Greece. 
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 +Avatar in places such as [[https://github.com/grahamperrin|GitHub]], The FreeBSD Forums, 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:
  
-  * 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**).+  * bunny rabbits.
  
-Mugshot, from a holiday in Greece around five years ago: in [[https://gitlab.com/grahamperrin| GitLab]].+Think about them. Think: bunny rabbits. Feel better? I do.