Phantom of Unix

Entrepreneur, Developer, AI Enthusiast

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2025-02-19 11:58:08

Sometimes boys can be weird. I basically mostly shared pictures of my nails and shoes and then some random guy DMed me and asked me out.
Okay, you just want toes and fingers? What about face?
Even before talking about anything else 😂
idk, maybe instagram is a weird place.

2025-02-09 12:10:56

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@nprofile…zq5f The term "Nafis" in Persian/Arabic means "valuable" or "made of treasure". When "eh" is added, it becomes female.
Basically, I am a valuable treasure 😁

2025-02-09 08:19:17

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@nprofile…zq5f I tried my best to do. It is
/nafiːˈsa/

2025-02-09 00:09:45

Today I found the script I've been using for making #FreeBSD live discs! I may reupload them to my gitlab asap.
It is nothing fancy however. More like mixing together a bunch of scripts/tools from releng and then doing some chroot magic and installing needed packages and at the end of the day, it is a fully functioning FreeBSD live iso.
Back in the day I remember I tried to modify system tarballs as well, but I got problems with hash and hash checking. I guess if I modify "bsdinstall" as well, it may be something useful in future.

2025-02-08 21:01:45

Well, it was the time to make it public. Because I think although men of power are going to make life harder for people like me, I should never give up.
From now on, I come out as a transgender woman. I changed my name and if my Perso-Arabic name "Nafiseh" is hard to pronounce, you easily can call me Nevina.
Thanks #BSD community for being supportive and kind.

2025-02-08 20:19:10

Well I chose my name to be "Nafiseh" amongst Iranian/Persian speakers. It means "a piece of treasure".
Although, I prefer to have an internationally recognized female name as well.

2025-02-08 17:44:58

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I considered "Nevina". It is a cool name.

2025-02-08 15:03:10

What are some beautiful and "internationally recognized" female names starting with N or M?
Mention please.

2025-02-08 12:23:36

#NewProfilePic
And yes, this is more me :)

2025-02-08 06:28:24

I revived my old github account. With My right identity 🥲✌️

2025-02-08 00:27:13

I should come out of my closet.
Like Billie Eilish says "come out and play".

2025-02-07 19:30:19

I really want to do an #AMA, so feel free and "Ask me anything".

2025-02-07 17:49:26

Anyway, I'm struggling with ytdlp package but I found out going to #Debian is the answer.

2025-02-07 17:01:20

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Well one reason I got to this was my personal interest in "feminine clothing" in general. And I also was super insecure about the shape of my feet since childhood.
Being a heels model helped me improve my confidence a lot!

2025-02-07 16:40:28

I was exploring my gallery and I encountered a lot of "high heels modeling" photos of myself. It was such a good time.
I missed my feminine side. Really really hard.

2025-02-07 10:40:17

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@nprofile…gc28 Wow, I didn't know about this repository.
It is super helpful. Thanks!

2025-02-07 10:29:33

A few years ago, I found an #OpenBSD based project called "FuguIta" and I basically fell in love with the project.
It was all I wanted from a "minimal usable #BSD" system.
However, I got curious about the process of building the system so I decided to contact the creator of the project.
Guess what? A few weeks later he responded nicely and gave me the full instructions about building a similar system.
I am amazed by how #OpenSource world can be beautiful.
Last night I found the instructions but the page is Japanese (which makes sense) and I have to translate the whole page (which is not a hard thing to do thanks to AI).
But something in my brain tells me it can be a good thing to try to re-create the project with #FreeBSD or even #NetBSD base. I guess it will be a fun holiday project since Nowruz (Iranian/Persian new year) is close and I may have enough time to do this!

2025-01-21 19:44:28

It's time to change my avatar.

2025-01-21 09:27:15

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@nprofile…sr9k Out of curiosity, I opened the URL on the doll. It's still up:
https://www.ibm.com/linux

2025-01-21 08:22:32

Trump:
There is only one operating system in US.

2025-01-20 20:12:13

Well, I guess the last election of 2024 is now officially over and elected person literally sat on the throne of power. Now we can discuss more important stuff.
Vim or Emacs?

2025-01-20 16:10:01

Well, I saw "Meta Rayban" glasses. It is possible to make open source equivalent as well. But I need some support from #OpenSource and #FLOSS communities to build it.

2025-01-19 11:15:52

Just writing an article on "Large World Models". I may make it a paper as well, obviously after I made my own world model.

2025-01-18 22:34:16

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@nprofile…u64c It seems you won it in a lottery of bad luck.

2025-01-18 22:02:27

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And no, he doesn't own an iPhone. He owns a Samsung phone (I believe it's A10 or some similar phone) and he probably read about it on news websites.

2025-01-18 22:00:35

My 65 years old non-tech father asked me "What is Pixelfed?" and I have to say nice job! This is the very first fediverse app that gets this viral.

2025-01-18 07:10:16

How do this "Free AI" tools make money? Ofc I don't mean OpenAI (which is backed by literal billionaires). I mean those "bedroom startups" we all know.

2025-01-17 12:49:45

I am going to make a Mastodon Bot powered by an LLM.
I guess it could be a cool experiment.

2025-01-16 11:47:46

I was exploring reddit and I saw an interesting post with the title "How #BSD is better than #Linux?"
Actually, I think it's depending on your use case. But it's always fun to try new operating systems.

2025-01-16 09:39:29

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@nprofile…dks6 What happened?

2025-01-16 07:45:45

Today I was walking in a street. I encountered a building with a "Diplomatic Police" kiosk in front of it.
I got curious, is it an embassy or a governmental building?
Guess what? It was "North Korean Embassy".
Unfortunately it is not permitted to take photos of embassies here in Iran. Otherwise I had photographic proof of visiting such a questionable building :))

2025-01-15 12:11:57

My dreams are haunted by the idea of LLM-driven operating system...

2025-01-15 11:22:59

Blackberry was successful because they mixed a computer with a phone. iPhone was successful because they made a phone more similar to a personal computer, where each app can has its own UI and runs on any phone with the same operating system.
Android was successful because it was the iPhone's idea on every possible phone.
So what will win the next race?

2025-01-15 11:05:09

2025 is the year of AI Agents according to what people say.
Okay, I have some ideas then!

2025-01-13 20:52:54

Hello my friends!
A few days ago, a lot of Iranian people (even people who weren't residents of Iranian soil or any other sanctioned country/region) received an email from Google, including information about their GA4 access being removed.
It wasn't a good sign at all. I searched for a lot of solutions for this particular problem.
I found tons of open source projects, but they had one problem in particular. They were "too engineered" and a SEO expert without the technical knowledge of "Deploying the app" or "Linux Servers" could not use that.
So I came up with "Lisan Data" (The voice of the data) which is now up and running:
https://lisandata.com
And yes, I am a big fan of Frank Herbert's Dune! This is why the site is named Lisan Data. I'd be happy if you use the website and give me feedback.
It will be up in Product Hunt 11:30 AM (Iran Time) and then I may start posting about it everywhere I can.

2025-01-11 14:27:17

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@nprofile…qs0v I guess they're German. But the music is not that Germanic.
Anyway, you can listen their songs and experience a true state of trance.

2025-01-11 14:21:36

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@nprofile…qs0v Yeah. It's ambient folk music with influence from Viking/Slavic cultures (they use both elements of Viking and Slavic music)

2025-01-11 14:16:01

Governments want us to be enemies of each other. But the truth is "We're all brothers".
Is it obvious that I'm listening to "Heilung" all day? :))

2025-01-11 13:50:09

Well Google Analytics did deactivate a lot Iranian accounts (even for Iranian citizens with non-Iranian residency).
I am working on an alternative with Umami as the main framework.

2025-01-08 23:39:36

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@nprofile…qs0v Unfortunately, Zuck dumped a turd bigger than the bucket.

2025-01-08 23:18:24

Meta did a good job with their "LLaMA" models for a short period of time, but with this "fact checkers" situation, they reminded me of a Persian story.
When someone does a lot of good stuff but one very bad one, we call the person "9 tons milk cow".
The story is like a cow which gives you 9 tons of milk, but dumps a big turd right into the milk bucket as well.
This is Zuck. He's a 9 tons milk cow.

2025-01-07 19:11:47

Well guys I'm Iranian right? I need some alternative to stripe which is not affected by sanctions.
Russian alternatives may be affected by sanctions as well.
If you any useful platform for this matter, please let me know. Thanks a world.

2025-01-07 19:10:18

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@nprofile…qs0v Okay, now I have nightmares of Telegram on Emacs.

2025-01-05 19:30:14

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@nprofile…qs0v Okay, how often do you use "Mini Apps" on Telegram?

2025-01-05 19:29:55

74 days to Nowruz or the Iranian new year.

2025-01-05 13:25:07

@nprofile…sr9k What is the policy of this instance on making an account dedicated to a business/startup?

2025-01-05 11:57:32

How many of you guys here use Telegram?

2025-01-04 20:11:36

If you ran after money, money will run away from you.

2025-01-02 17:11:49

The truth is …
I am Iron man!

2025-01-02 15:32:27

I love Ruby on Rails.

2024-12-31 17:55:05

Dear #BSD community and #BSD Café, It's been an honor to join this instance in 2024. I wish you all the best for 2025.
In less than 3 hours, we'll experience new Gregorian year in +3:30 Iranian Standard Time. I hope this year becomes my year again.

2024-12-31 10:43:44

There is a conman in Iranian startup ecosystem who claims to be a VC, and when I first exposed his actions he started threatening me. He sent my money back with a deal of removing my exposé from linkedin.
Anyway, I saw more people are receiving threats from this A-hole, so I republished the exposé again but this time on X.
In Persian space of X, I have a good follower base (around 5000 people) and my exposé has been seen more than 150k times.
The man is a scammer, a conman, a bad guy and should be exposed.

2024-12-29 20:54:47

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@nprofile…sr9k I may go pretty "Winklevoss brothers" on them. You know, they have the right to stand on my shoulder and call themselves tall, but I'm not defenseless.

2024-12-29 18:00:19

Well, my old co-founders stole one of my ideas and I am angry a little.
They treated me like shit and when I left, they're using my fucking ideas?!

2024-12-27 10:47:28

A question from #BSD community, does "calamares" work on FreeBSD?

2024-12-26 14:43:11

AI will take over the world.
Also AI:
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/719/651/584/506/547/original/cbaa4c7d3cafe67b.png

2024-12-25 17:53:57

We, Iranians celebrate new year at the very first day of spring until the 13th day. It is called "Nowruz".
It has roots in Iranian mythology and the religion of Zoroastrianism.
Also, the reason of being 13 days is interestingly epic.
The legend says than Iranians had a 12000 years of war with demons, and in the 13000th year, they became victors and conquerors.
This celebration is the celebration of the victory of light over the dark, fire over the ice and good over the evil.
Also, countries neighboring Iran also celebrate Nowruz.

2024-12-24 18:36:58

Merry Christmas everyone.

2024-12-23 17:16:45

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@nprofile…qs0v His name is Beastie. I guess the formal form will be Mr. Beast :)

2024-12-23 15:32:28

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@nprofile…8tjw @nprofile…sr9k I'm 29, I wait for 40 years then.

2024-12-23 10:42:35

This is the actual Mr. Beast.
No controversies, no scams, just does his job well.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/701/717/762/561/905/original/96f9571ed5a209b0.png

2024-12-23 00:28:13

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@nprofile…5q8z Great. I'm Iranian and Persian, as far as I know, Persians and Greeks had a lot in common 😁

2024-12-22 20:57:44

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@nprofile…qs0v Yes, I was hiding closer to the Caspian Sea by the way 😂

2024-12-22 19:50:11

Well, I guess as a Muslim and Middle Eastern man I am the perfect Santa 😂
Anyway, I have to say Happy Holidays to everyone. I hope you start a perfect new year.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/698/208/285/014/297/original/daf1d83ce2782c6f.png

2024-12-22 11:13:14

Someone with an "anime girl" avatar, mentioned my Persian account and asked me about joining their cult!
Well, the only cult I am a member of is the Church of BSD.
You can't keep me out of this 😎

2024-12-20 20:22:16

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@nprofile…qs0v Well, it is annoying. Even in my country where a big majority of people are Muslims, there are other religions and belief systems and no one asks them this stupid questions.
For example, I never witnessed someone ask a Zoroastrian "do you really worship fire?" or someone ask a Baha'i person "do you really believe Haifa is the house of God" or similar BS.

2024-12-20 15:29:42

Well, I was born in a Muslim family. I practiced Islam (Shi'a Islam to be exact) and then I just left every religious practice behind.
I am sill considering myself a theist person (not sure of being even monotheist) but do you know what makes me mad?
Every time non-Muslims see my activities they jokingly say "Is it Halal?".
I do not know how to respond. I really am tired of this behavior :)

2024-12-20 12:30:05

متاسفانه امروز فهمیدم سهراب از کره زمین نیست و یک نژاد فضایی به نام قوزمیته.

2024-12-19 22:43:40

Those who are serious about the software, should make their own hardware.
This is my life lesson.

2024-12-19 15:30:40

Well, since I launched my new startup and I have to deliver an API for another business partner of mine, I guess it'll be the time to work on some Linux/BSD projects.
I am going to install VirtualBox and Debian on my old laptop. Maybe I also try to recover my Raspberry Pi with Debian or FreeBSD.
And maybe I make the result of this game into a new product, eh?

2024-12-17 14:03:14

Well, one of my friends, late 20s like me, a very good looking young woman, asked me "What do you think about selling feet pictures?"
I couldn't really answer what I think because I never think of this, but something was in my mind. Isn't it just modeling?
And what is wrong with modeling then?

2024-12-15 21:06:34

Startup founder life isn't beautiful.

2024-12-15 19:45:47

Hello #BSD community. Do people behind #ArchBSD (later renamed to #PacBSD) have a presence here? or on fediverse in general?

2024-12-15 10:20:20

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@nprofile…dvjg Well I started with Mayhem and then switched to Amon Amarth. Then I searched through my old favs and found Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.
This is why I mention metal and not any specific subgenre.

2024-12-14 17:54:59

Does anyone here listen to Metal music?
I consumed a lot of "King Diamond" today. I kind of missed his high-pitched falsettos.

2024-12-14 09:33:13

The crazy idea in my mind is "GPT-BSD" or "AI-BSD". A BSD operating system with an interactive AI shell.

2024-12-14 09:31:10

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Another bias I saw is when you ask it to draw your picture and you mention you're in IT space, it makes the picture of an Indian man.
Okay, this is stereotypical and not good.

2024-12-14 09:29:11

X's grok is not really a "good AI". It can easily be tweaked to generate biased and racist content. Also, when I asked it "if I were a slur, what were I?" it answered with some misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic slurs (apparently based on my tweets supporting women and queer people).
Well, although I personally am an advocate for "uncensored" models, I think a model which is publicly available on a social platform shouldn't be this open to generate potentially harmful content.

2024-12-13 18:08:36

Every time I complain about money, a good amount of money comes to my pocket!
Okay, I do it in a daily basis then.

2024-12-13 13:35:10

How can I make a huge amount of money in a short time?

2024-12-11 21:53:37

Fun fact about Iran:
The "constitutional revolution" in Iran started before the famous 1917 Russian revolution. Although the outcome of neither of these revolution was really good.
The constitutional revolution resulted in Iran becoming a constitutional monarchy in "Muzaffar Al-Din Shah" and his son "Mohammad Ali Shah" basically declined the constitution and wanted to be an absolute monarch and then his son "Ahmad Shah" become the king in the age of 13 after his exile, and it made ground for "Reza Pahlavi" (Prime Minister at the time) to be the new monarch.
Pahlavi dynasty were much better compared to Qajar, at least they brought technology and education to Iran.

2024-12-11 21:46:28

I was listening to Queen today and I asked myself "Who wants to live forever?" until I realized that "I'm going slightly mad".

2024-12-11 11:11:35

I have a sticker on my laptop saying "I love APIs" and it is true. I love APIs, as long as they're not written for a certain library and can be used generically.

2024-12-10 17:23:55

Well I believe that my mind is too tired to help me work on the product tonight...

2024-12-10 09:01:15

I'm not sure when my MacBook Pro will be out of Apple's updates, but I guess when I can't use the OS, I may be able to install Linux on it and use it for a few more years.
Or I just sell it and buy a better Linux/BSD computer or updated Apple computer.

2024-12-09 17:09:29

I'm thinking about DIY smartphone project however. Maybe #BSD based?
It depends on GPIO support of FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi.

2024-12-09 16:57:38

In early 2020, one of my friends wanted to make a FreeBSD based smartphone.
It was a good idea, but Steve Jobs and his mates did that in 2007.

2024-12-09 13:09:05

Should I make my own smartphone from scratch?

2024-12-08 20:49:05

I don't know why, but my "manifestation" did work. My ex messaged me. Although it made me a little bitter, but at least I still have my own magical powers.

2024-12-08 09:22:34

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@nprofile…7cf4 The only "grim fate" I can imagine by living besides Austria is this scenario:
The year is 1939 and you're Jewish.
Anyway, as a middle eastern person, I'm not having the "grim fate", I am the grim fate 😂

2024-12-08 00:11:03

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@nprofile…qs0v So say "Pryvet" to comrade Kim for me 😂

2024-12-08 00:05:47

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@nprofile…qs0v Ah I see.
You also have China and Mongolia in the south.

2024-12-07 23:12:35

Some of you live in a country which is surrounded by France and Austria, and I live in a country surrounded by Syria and Afghanistan.
We're not the same.
Anyway, I hope all my Syrian brothers and sisters are well and they get rid of Assad ASAP.

2024-12-07 18:36:10

Business is not about supporting others.
It's also not about "fighting" with others.
It's about verbally abusing your competitors in a creative way 😂

2024-12-07 12:05:33

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@nprofile…sr9k I guess now I have to pay a visit to "datesrowatch" to find the perfect OS of my life 😁

2024-12-06 23:30:52

I did a lot recently. But I cannot forget my ex. She wasn't so nice to me specially in the last days of our relationship, but I still love her. Almost a year after our breakup.
I feel s**cidal right now. But do not worry I have friends to keep their eyes on me. I'm just sad, depressed and full of shame and anger.
I'm a fucking loser.

2024-12-06 18:33:09

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@nprofile…qs0v Maybe. Maybe my AI will be the Goat?

2024-12-06 17:38:18

When you connect an LLM to the internet, you give it one big feature: being a total f-ing degenerate.

2024-12-06 16:27:21

Well, today I'm happy. My LLM project finally got internet access.

2024-12-06 10:30:38

Well, my account on this instance, according to me is:
1. BSD, Linux and other Unix stuff.
2. AI
3. Crypto
4. Fun facts about my country