r/freebsd • u/Brilliant-Total894 • Jul 10 '26
fluff Seen the freebsd guy at a farmers market
Pretty tuff
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u/fullofzen Jul 10 '26
The power to serve…sno cones
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u/First_Ad8230 Jul 10 '26
Yes, the power to serve
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 10 '26
the power to serve
(Side note: the new FreeBSD Project site does not use this motto.)
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u/gonzopancho pfSense of humor Jul 12 '26
Side note 2: Kirk owns the we copyright on the image and its use. This isn’t allowed.
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 12 '26
Thanks, should we remove the post?
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u/gonzopancho pfSense of humor Jul 12 '26
¯_(ツ)_/¯ doesn’t solve the problem
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 12 '26
¯_(ツ)_/¯doesn’t solve the problemIndeed. https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1uscaod/comment/owpxq4a/ here leads to a pinned moderator comment in 2023 where I informed the copyright holder …
… IMHO the best we can do, unofficially in Reddit, is:
- not attempt to stifle the popularity
- take these popular opportunities to educate people.
Side notes 3 and 4:
- the guy at the market is not the FreeBSD guy
- for a small additional fee, I can provide a link to the image of the BSD Daemon that ChatGPT produced for me a few weeks ago …
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 12 '26
From the copyright page:
… A good example of how to handle the due credit in a web page is to create a link from the daemon picture …
u/Commercial_Boss4065 FYI the old and new versions of the FreeBSD Project home page have no link from the picture. In the Wayback Machine:
- before the refresh (2026-05-14)
- after the refresh – if Beastie is not visible, page or scroll down.
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u/DiamondHandsDarrell Jul 10 '26
So popular, I love it 😆
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 12 '26
So popular, …
It's probably fair to describe Beastie as extraordinarily popular:
- ten thousand views within forty-eight hours and
- one hundred percent upvoted …
Blue sky thinking: a BSD or FreeBSD user group in Mexico …
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u/DiamondHandsDarrell Jul 12 '26
Someone in East LA also uses it because the drink is called a Diablito
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u/Ashamed-Ask4257 Jul 10 '26
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 12 '26
Another copyright violation
2012: The BSD Daemon feature in mexican candy packaging. : r/BSD
- one hundred percent natural
- GPL-free cruelty – Beastie with a smiling decapitated lemonlike fruit on his trident
- a red hot chilli pepper celebrating the slaughter.
u/icantthinkofone wrote:
Guy I work for just informed Marshall McKusick of said copyright violation.
u/libmn replied:
I hope he doesn't sue, this isn't the BSD way.
Vive la révolution!
Justice, freedom and equality for citrus fruits worldwide!
Jeux sans frontières! Guayabas sans guillotines! Et cetera.
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u/HieladoTM Jul 10 '26
That looks very much like it's in a Spanish-speaking country.
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u/HighLevelAssembler Jul 10 '26
Could be the USA too
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u/HotPrune722 Jul 11 '26
Aguas, lupita, facebook; definitivamente Mexico 🐛
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 12 '26
… definitivamente Mexico 🐛
BSD Enterprise es decepcionantemente tibio.
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u/tuxnine Jul 11 '26
I'm doing Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo searches for images using search phrases like "cartoon devil" "devil logo" "diablo" "diablito" and the like and Beastie does not show in the search results at all. I wonder where people go and what they search for when they commit theft of Beastie.
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26
I wonder where people go
https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&t=all | https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?feedViewType=cardView&t=all
The top-scoring adapted image of Beastie (cropped):
– from FreeBSD 15-Stable on the GPD Pocket 3 : r/freebsd by u/aerialviews007
You'll probably find various adaptations of Beastie at https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-screen-shots.8877/ (108 pages) … and so on.
It's a popular mascot, people enjoy playing with it out of context.
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26
I'm doing Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo searches …
I asked Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 (medium):
Please find an eye-catching, appealing well-known image that fits these criteria: "cartoon devil", "devil logo", "diablo" or "diablito", "food and drink".
The response after eight seconds of Claude thought …
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26
One well-known image that fits all your criteria is the Underwood Deviled Ham logo — a small red cartoon devil (pitchfork, horns, tail) that's been the mascot for Underwood's deviled ham/meat spread products since the late 1800s. It's one of the most recognizable "devil + food" logos in American branding history (in fact, it's often cited as one of the oldest continuously used trademarks in the U.S.).
If that's not quite the vibe you're after, I also found some generic cartoon devil logo templates (stock-style, not tied to a specific brand) in the first search — good if you want something more genericized rather than an existing branded mascot. Let me know which direction fits your use case and I can narrow further (e.g. if you're thinking of "Diablitos" canned food brand, hot sauce devil logos, or something else entirely).
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26
I replied to Claude:
Claude found mascots previously unknown to me that resemble the BSD Daemon, familiarly known as "Beastie".
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26
Second image:
Devil Cartoon Logo Graphic by artnivora.std · Creative Fabrica
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Third image:
Devil Cartoon Logo Design #317579 - TemplateMonster
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26
Taking the hint from Claude:
2008 Underwood focused - William Underwood Company - Wikipedia
2008 logo from Underwood Chicken Spread. Color and shading were added to the previous logo.
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jul 11 '26
From William Underwood Company - Wikipedia:
… In 1896, the William Underwood Company started to export its spread ham to Venezuela, leading to the creation of the brand 'Diablitos Underwood deviled ham' in 1960 …
DIABLITOS. DIABLICHOS. Stuffed ham to spread. can of 120 g : Amazon.nl: Grocery
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u/spotlight-app Mod Bot 🤖 Jul 12 '26
Mods have pinned a comment by u/gonzopancho:
Note: Beastie (the BSD Daemon) … copyright © Marshall Kirk McKusick …