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Written by Goblin on 2025-01-20 at 18:52

[#]wip but my kid wants to enter a #Miniatures painting contest so ive been helping him get his #chaos #noisemarine painted! Almost done!!!

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Written by Goblin on 2025-01-11 at 15:06

https://y2kid.xyz/home

web design like this makes me just grin

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Written by Goblin on 2024-10-24 at 12:52

Its #orktober so I finished my #orks. a pretty in pink tricycle and a goff rocker. All with ducks. The ducks are key.

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Written by Goblin on 2024-10-02 at 16:56

The (open access) version of the paper is here, if anyone cares. Turns out OpenBSD gets a lot more use of its sandboxing mechanisms in its packages than other OSs (and maybe theres a reason for that…)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06447

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Written by Goblin on 2024-10-02 at 16:54

The student has been running around with a massive grin on his face since. He even phoned his mum to boast proudly.

Contrast this with what happened when he found a small bug in Debian and the devs laughed at him.

I love #OpenBSD, but a random act of kindness by its devs like this, giving time and attention to a student is remarkable, and unheard of from any other project.

Dunno what it is but the BSDs are just friendly and I’m happy to be a user of such a friendly OS. Its just fab.

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Written by Goblin on 2024-10-02 at 16:47

My student was terrified, but he spent the evening emailing back and forth with him discussing things, and Theo was kind enough to have a look at another of my students papers and gave comments.

He also gave a load of historical context for how pledge and unveil had been developed and where seccomp had got it wrong.

This never happens. It’s rare enough that your scientific work gets read by anyone—nevermind one of the most influential security experts working today.

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Written by Goblin on 2024-10-02 at 16:42

Sometimes people ask me why I like #OpenBSD so much.

Over the weekend Theo de Raadt the founder of the whole project emailed me and my PhD student to say he liked our paper (and that it was 95% correct). We have never interacted with him before and the paper was published in a tiny workshop and on arXiv. He just stumbled on it.

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Written by Goblin on 2024-09-04 at 15:33

Is ChatGPT particularly fond of a ‘plethora’? Where is it coming from?

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Written by Goblin on 2024-08-01 at 08:41

Had to boot #Linux instead of #OpenBSD so the kid gould play Minecraft and its fine… it just puts up a bunch more error messages and works faster.

Doesn’t feel homely tho

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Written by Goblin on 2024-06-07 at 09:31

Also how is it that my job is basically just making weird stuff and helping young people do scientifically rigorous studies of Pokémon and Super Mario? Did not see this as a career option growing up!

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Written by Goblin on 2024-06-07 at 09:14

All my undergrad’s got firsts for their dissertations this year… even the weird ones making text adventures with Git. Super proud of them all 🥰

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