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Anarcat

@Anarcat@kolektiva.social

Debian developer, sysadmin, ex-entrepreneur, anarchist, photographer, musician, writer.

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joeyh, to random
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what a day to get up at 5am for the second day in a row

9 hours sleep over 2 days and I'm trying to understand a state sponsored backdoor attack in detail

Anarcat,
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@joeyh state actor? {{citation needed}}? :)

frameworkcomputer, (edited ) to random
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(Knowing I am asking a Linux-centric audience, I have tweaked the X poll a bit as I know my audience here)

Which Operating System release are you most excited for?

Anarcat,
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@frameworkcomputer Debian trixie of course.

Anarcat, to random
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thinking of buying a laser printer probably some https://anarc.at/hardware/printer/#brother convince me otherwise?

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@mvc1095 my feeling is most recent printers have AirPrint support which means "just works in linux"

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@zhenech right, but i guess i just don't worry about scanning anymore. i actually own a flatbed scanner but never use it, it's just so much easier to snap a picture with my phone nowadays: it's sync'd automatically to my laptop with syncthing and i typically need to do postprocessing anyways, even with scanned stuff, so it's not much work to straighten things one from the phone. at least not enough that it warrants an extra device taking up space forever.

Anarcat,
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@allcatsarebrave nice! ricoh don't seem to be around anymore the printer market though, are they? nothing at staples.ca anyways...

stefani, to random
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Sleeping supermassive black holes stirred by shredded stars

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-supermassive-black-holes-awakened-briefly.html

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@stefani did you type a passphrase here by mistake?

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@stefani that post description "Sleeping supermassive black holes stirred by shredded stars" looks like a diceware password to me :)

Anarcat, to random
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OH: "you can probably solve that since you’re on Linux"

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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poll: in git, do you think of "detached HEAD state" and "not having any branch checked out" as being the same thing?

Anarcat,
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@b0rk a technicality maybe, but a bare repository doesn't have a branch checked out, while not being in detached HEAD state :)

Anarcat, to random
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we're getting close to the deadline for applications on your next sysadmin job! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/system-administrator/

i know people might be hesitant in sending their resume on a third-party platform, talk to me directly if that's a concern, we can either track you separately or add you manually.

also absolutely let me know if you had trouble submitting your application, we're hopefully going to start contacting people for interviews next week or so.

my focus on this hire is to find some skilled person who will help diversify our team, and so far we've had a lot of white dudes apply, so if you've been hesitant because you lack the self-confidence, skill set, or anything else, still give it a shot, and make sure you give us a good reason to hire you in your cover letter :) even if you don't quite fit all requirements, i typically at least read the resume and cover letter

Anarcat,
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@unruhe europe works, we work remotely

Anarcat,
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@holsta that is good feedback! i must admit that writing job posting is not one of my core skills, and that one could definitely have been better. i thought of writing a blog post describing part of our infrastructure, but canceled that because we were getting too many candidates already https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41553

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@holsta also, if you're actually curious about our daily routine, we're pretty transparent as a team; most work is tracked in GitLab issues, so you can see a lot of my work in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues and https://gitlab.torproject.org/anarcat we also have lots of docs in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis although i would like that to be better

Anarcat,
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i must shamefully admit we didn't set an actual time for the deadline, so for now assume this is "everywhere on earth", that is, once it's been Thursday everywhere, which is 2024-03-21 12:00UTC or 05:00 US/Pacific, 08:00 US/Eastern, 13:00 Europe/Paris, 20:00 Asia/Hong_Kong... sorry for the confusion

Anarcat, to random
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okay i can't stand this anymore. i've been reviewing a lot of resumes and cover letters in the past days and, people, a few tips:

  1. write an actual cover letter ("yeah" and "i need money" do not qualify
  2. write it yourself (i can tell you're using AI now, my neural network has been trained pretty well)
  3. write it with the job posting in mind, convince me you actually want to work at tor, and why your experience is relevant to the actual job
  4. don't copy-paste from the job posting
  5. don't tell me that "you are skilled" or "your values align", tell me how they do
  6. i'm ready to accept a plain text resume, but even then, some formatting is necessary (headings, anyone?)
  7. one or two page pages max
  8. list specific work experiences and why they are relevant
  9. if you don't fit the basic requirements of the job, don't apply unless you have a REALLY GOOD reason (e.g. substitute experience, previous experience in Tor) AND say so in your cover letter
  10. if you can't translate your resume in english, i'm not convinced you can work in english on a day-to-day basis

i'll stop here fore now, but i'm kind of fascinated i have to spell this out, it makes me wonder how bad my resume and cover letters were when I apply...

Anarcat,
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@whatzaname if i can't find valid, useful qualifications in a resume, the person is failing at one of the key requirements of the job which is to document their work properly and communicate with their peers

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@whatzaname in other words, the job application is part of the job, and if you can't do that right, following a format that is useful and parseable by humans, you will fail at the job

Anarcat,
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@whatzaname you have to draw a line somewhere. for me it's "if you can't write an email / cover letter / resume, you're out". and no, i'm not going to make a "check all the boxes" form, otherwise people will just check all the boxes and then what?

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@whatzaname like, all of them? that's going to be a hell of a party... also yes, we will meet the person before hiring, it's called an interview, and it's what happens after they demonstrated basic communication skills and minimum requirements

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@whatzaname i do not think you understand the scale of the problem i am faced with, and i resent the implication that i'm a stupid ass hat needlessly requiring people to jump to hoops to apply to people. i'm just trying to deal with a literal denial of service attack on my hiring process right now, and you question fundamental assertions i've built over days of working on this, without providing an working alternative

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@whatzaname another dissonance we might be having is that i am looking for someone with strong communication and documentation skills, specifically. this is not just any job, this is a Sysadmin job where people are expected to do a lot more than usual to document and communicate their work. for me, if they can't accomplish that during the job application process, they have already failed.

danluu, to random
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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices:

https://danluu.com/slow-device/

Anarcat,
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@danluu great article! i'm curious about the speedtest appendix, i know about Netflix's fast.com, but what is "Okta"? Or did you mean Ookla aka speedtest.net?

Anarcat, to debian
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(Re)introducing screentest https://anarc.at/blog/2023-12-18-rewrote-screentest/ -planet -planet

Anarcat,
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@TobiX amazing! what do you think of the new project? :)

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@TobiX yeah, autodetection has been a challenge, but so far it's working pretty well for me, do let me know if you find problems and ideas of how to fix those ;)

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