Re: Use Cases

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 10:44:20AM +0600, Aida Musalieva wrote:
> Most corporations who use OpenBSD, are using it to steal money from widows & orphans.
> 
> What are your use cases?

This seems like trolling, but I'll answer it anyways.  stealing money is
an action that puts you in a perpetrator role,  Instead I use it in a
victim role.  As in you have two choices:

- Trust binaries distributed or..
- run self compiled binaries from source that have source which I'll never
	a) have time to read and fully understand anyhow
	b) would I be able to detect tampering?
	c) run my apartment hot for compiling
	d) electricity bill although on the raspberry pi that's hardly an
		issue.
	
	In regards to ac+d there is a mental map of what one has to do
	to compile a system, in order to get ,say,  a release to compile.
	Sometimes you run into snags, like, how did they get this to
	compile?  
	
	I have shifted my computers from a 1 year supported
	cycle (through maintenance patches) to 2 years these days.
	This means that before 7.9 I was running 7.5 for two years, I
	had to do the necessary backports myself for versions 7.7 and
	7.8.  Just before 7.9 came out I installed snapshots and started
	compiling.  I found out that for example i386 does not build on
	my 1 gigabyte RAM computer, do vmm's still run i386 on amd64(?), this
	was in the area of llvm compile.  I didn't even attempt to 
	compile octeon, or macppc, I just got the ISO's for those.

	I'm going through another bout of poverty now and the systems
	that I have (mainly from 2015) are slowly dying away.  So there
	is hardware issues as well.  Bouts of anger cause me to destroy
	some things as well, though it's mostly media such as DVD's and
	CD's.

On top of all of that I have the strong belief that I'm being recorded,
whether audio or visual.  There is nothing I can do about that anyhow,
I have a set of cameras myself and I use them to upload to my youtube
video feed.  

When I started on the BSD experience in 1996, I started with FreeBSD and
it's philosophy is a bit different in regards to compiling source.  I 
remember when I used it last, it liked compiling things from source, so
I still carry that on a bit.  OpenBSD's binaries made sense to me for
some time, until I wanted to compile from sources.  I have an autographed
book by Kirk McKusick that says "may the source be with you", and so shall
it be, thank you, it's free.  I do have a .pdf here though by Ken Thompson
on trusting trust (the compiler one).

In that last little while I saw a lot of distraction from health, judicial
and life in general so I have to prioritize my wants a lot better.  Not
everything can be programmed by me, some things are just a nice idea it
concludes.  But I am working on three things.  

- I found weaknesses in AES that could make it possible to crack it
	(under certain conditions) within one second in a parallel network.
	This hit a snag with multicasting recently and I'm still investigating.
- The program that I spent 19 years on developing needs maintenance, I still
	haven't produced a patch.  It broke in 7.6 days or so.  I think a
	patch could be just a days work away.
- another program.


> Love,
> a curious OpenBSD fan
> 
> ???????????????????? ?? iPhone

Since your post does sound like trolling and you're trying to make it sound
like a creeps system, I wanted to let you know something from my life that
may not be so creepy, a general usage case.  If perpetrators use OpenBSD
for harm, then how many perpetrators use Windows for harm?  Or Linux?

-peter

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