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thezerobit (thezerobit@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-05-31T03:51:23+00:00

Hi, you can find me on the fediverse: @thezerobit@anticapitalist.party

I'm a programmer and long time Linux user, transitioning desktop and servers to the BSDs.

I'm running GhostBSD on my Thinkpad T580 laptop and learning about FreeBSD system administration for the purpose of running my own servers and building a children's museum interactive audio synthesis installation. Interests: games (classic Doom, nethack, retro consoles), programming (C, Lisp, whatever), subtractive synthesis.

I don't use LLM-based “AI” technology.

You can contact me via email: (my user name here) @ posteo.com.

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grahamperrin

grahamperrin (grahamperrin@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-05-25T17:09:49+00:00

Graham Perrin (grahamperrin)

Until new year's eve 2024, I had 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 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
Kubuntu since mid-2025.

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 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/111421799789564704 explaining the cats' role in discovery.

Sidestep away from the cats. To me, and where I hang out:

I'm dyslexic, reportedly. It probably doesn't show in my writing. Long story.

Avatar in places such as Codeberg: from the cover of 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 the detached head sometimes encountered by people like me on planet Earth.

Mugshot in places such as GitLab: from a 2018 holiday in Greece.

Avatar in places such as GitHub and BSD Cafe: 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 mine, are hidden from the public. The May 2024 transformation – from Graham Perrin to Cath O'Deray – was:

largely for giggles (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 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:

links to the FreeBSD subreddit – one of the clique's irrational obsessions – formed less than 0.005% of what's now gone.

Analyses complete, I quit, for the second time, in October 2024 – 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.

chrism

chrism (chrism@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-05-24T10:06:18+00:00

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Hello there!

I am a retired Systems Engineer.

Graduated with an honours degree (BSc) in Operational Research & Computing, I spent most of my working life in IT (financial sector and later with an ISP).

Currently live in Bangkok with my lovely wife, a 5 year-old nephew, and an adopted black Soi cat.

I like backgammon, and I like flying the Slingsby T67M
I like the smell of watercolour painting
But what I like more than all of these
Is to be on FreeBSD.

Oh - I like slide rules too - but it didn’t fit the tune “On Horseback” by Mike Oldfield.

Systems:-

Laptop - FreeBSD + EMWM (Enhanced Motif Windows Manager) - main workhorse, and trusty machine!
Desktops - FreeBSD + i3
Home server - FreeBSD + Bhyve for VMs
Playground/lab - Arduino, Raspberry Pi

Yes, I like FreeBSD!

Special thanks to the bsd.cafe team in allowing me here.

—

Thank you to my lovely wife. Who, despite the years, still “puts-up” with me, and, without whom, I would be totally lost!

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stefano (stefano@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-05-10T08:22:45+00:00

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marios

marios (marios@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-16T17:38:17+00:00

Welcome!

Introduction

I'm Marios Efstathiou, and I am passionate about my work and profession, bringing industry-wide experience in systems administration, network engineering and cybersecurity.

Unix Enthusiast { #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #GNU/Linux }

I am also a free software supporter.

To contact me, please send me an e-mail to marios-efstathiou [at] outlook [dot] com or, better yet:

Follow me on the Fediverse (Mastodon)

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