Re: How to break and smash things

[Maria Morisot]

I can't use Amazon services and products. I got in trouble a while back for using my credit card from a Kyrgyzstan IP, and didn't have the motivation to go through customer service and explain that I was an American citizen living here. But I have access to O'Reilly. I used to make my own audiobooks of C code taken from Robert Sedgewick's Algorithms in C; try that, it's fun having to read semicolons and curly braces out loud. I have family. I lost four kids, have one who survived. Been divorced. Have problems with my sister's family who hate me for my Catholic beliefs and even had me thrown into a mental ward for teaching my son that angels and demons are not friends. I've been a professional painter with exhibitions in Europe and America and seen a taste of fame and splendors. I may be young at heart but I carry a lot of experience and wisdom. Anyways, I have my life in order, and I'm quite happy and content with the majority of my personal activities. I have perhaps 6 hours unaccounted for most days that I would like to devote to OpenBSD. Is that a bad dream and aspiration to have? I love the project immensely ever since I read about Theo speaking out against the war in Iraq publicly. That took guts in a time when America was warmongering with their mantra of WMD. I have a huge respect now for Theo and his project, which I had already liked to begin with in the days of Sushi and Ramblo. You work on DNS. I write poetry. Your motives I don't know. I don't know what drives you to take care of your project. I hope it is love. Love for not only the code and the system, but deep love for your users and the community of people you work with. I love the OpenBSD community, and spend an hour praying for you each afternoon; even though I don't really know any of you. When you put love into a project, it becomes something more than just bytes and arrays. It is like planting seeds in a field to grow a lush forest of trees, where life can flourish. I lost four children. I just bought my remaining one a 7.3 OpenBSD shirt to wear; which he is very happy with. Have you ever lost a child? It makes you really contemplate purpose and meaning in life. DNS is great. Networked systems are great. But AI can one day handle all of that perhaps. What AI cannot do is pray for The de Raadt. -- Google doesn't need to know every time I fart. On Oct 26, 2023, at 12:22, Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com> wrote:  Den tors 26 okt. 2023 kl 07:51 skrev Maria Morisot <maria.mori...@icloud.com>: But I really want to help the project. I like the idea of trying to break things and get them to malfunction in order to expose bugs that have been overlooked. I have a pretty good understanding of randomness and know about the concept of fuzzing. I've done testing in my software courses and know a little about writing code for explicit bad cases. But my schooling was very lax and was easy to get A's so I didn't put much effort in. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=""> -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.