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--- user:grahamperrin [2024/11/13 03:09] – Demotion to a footnote for The FreeBSD Forums. grahamperrin
+++ user:grahamperrin [2025/05/10 01:57] (current) – Switching away from FreeBSD, to Linux. grahamperrin
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 ====== Graham Perrin (grahamperrin) ======
-I have [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle.
+Until recently, I had [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle. Bill was maybe nineteen years old when I said goodbye to him on 31st December 2024. My first two cats were named Cat, one of them lived happily until the age of twenty-one.
 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.
+Essentially:
+  * **KDE Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT**  since around 2015
+  * switching away from FreeBSD, to Linux – **Ubuntu 25.04 for root-on-OpenZFS, with Plasma**  (not GNOME).
 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:
+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/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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   * [[https://matrix.to/#/#bsdcafe:bsd.cafe|https://matrix.to/#/#bsdcafe:bsd.cafe ]]
   * [[https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin|https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin ]]
-  * [[https://hear-me.social/@grahamperrin|https://hear-me.social/@grahamperrin ]]
 I'm dyslexic, reportedly. It probably doesn't show in my writing. Long story.
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 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]], 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:
+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.
+  * **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 (all profiles, including [[https://forums.freebsd.org/members/grahamperrin.35084/#about|mine]], are hidden from the public).
+**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. The May 2024 transformation – from //Graham Perrin//  to **//Cath O'Deray//**  – was:
+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//  minus the modernity of links to a twenty-first century Internet that exists beyond The FreeBSD Forums.
+  * 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 analysis//  – a five-month contract, which involved removal of Graham's content (hundreds of links). Conclusion:
+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:
   * links to the FreeBSD subreddit – one of the clique's irrational obsessions – formed less than 0.005% of what's now gone.