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user:grahamperrin [2023/11/12 09:58] – Remove formatting, to work around white space errors. Remove text that was good only with formatting. Attempt, again, to have a white space between a link and non-linked italicised text. Add some security-related blurb. grahamperrinuser:grahamperrin [2024/11/13 06:40] (current) – Work around the formatting bug that loses white space. grahamperrin
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 +====== Graham Perrin (grahamperrin) ======
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 I have [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle. I have [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle.
  
-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 with KDE Plasma**. In a nutshell:+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.
  
-   * FreeBSD since 2012.+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. 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 more recent 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), I //am//  preparing to document the issue, and the cats' role.+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.
  
 Sidestep away from the cats. To me, and where I hang out: Sidestep away from the cats. To me, and where I hang out:
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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. 
  
-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]] 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: 
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 +  * **bunny rabbits**. 
 +Think about them. Think: bunny rabbits. Feel better? //I do//. 
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 +**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: 
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 +  * 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. 
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 +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.