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I have 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:
- FreeBSD since 2012.
I try to take a conscientious approach to security issues. CVD, responsible disclosure, and all that. 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.
Sidestep away from the cats. To me, and where I hang out:
- 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.
Avatar (in Codeberg, GitHub, The FreeBSD Forums and so on):
- from the cover of the 1970 edition of The Worlds of Frank Herbert (credit: Jan Parker).
Mugshot, from a holiday in Greece around five years ago: in GitLab.