Anarcat

Anarcat, 3 months ago to random

"Wayland and X.org are both part of freedesktop. Whatever maintenance is still happening on X.org is mostly being done by people who primarily work on Wayland. There isn't some kind of holy war going on between The Wayland Developers who want to kill X.org, and The X.org Developers who believe it is great and want to keep it. They're nearly all the same people, and they all want X.org to die."

— Adam Williamson https://lwn.net/Articles/960634/

Anarcat, 8 months ago to Matrix

after thinking more about the internal design of #matrix i wonder if the proper replacement for IRC isn't matrix after all, but this federation right here. if it's going to be done over HTTP, it's certainly easier the way ActivityPub is written than that convoluted graph matrix is building https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

Anarcat, 6 months ago to random

contributor license agreements (CLAs) are such a turn-off for frequent drive-by contributors like me

Anarcat, 8 months ago to debian

How big is Debian? https://anarc.at/blog/2023-09-26-how-big-debian/ #debian #debian-planet #python-planet

Anarcat, 4 months ago to random

hey @mozilla, there's many issues with the .deb install instructions from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions - where do i report this?

Anarcat, 4 months ago to random

i'm amazed at the lengths some people will go through to reject not only systemd but specific parts of systemd. sway (wayland compositor) already links against libsystemd, but they don't want to implement readiness notification because it's a "systemd-specific API" and some obscure other systemd-like thing (s6? have you heard of that?) implements it some other way instead. amazing. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7659

Anarcat, 5 months ago to debian

(Re)introducing screentest https://anarc.at/blog/2023-12-18-rewrote-screentest/ #debian #debian-planet #python #python-planet #software #video

Anarcat, 2 months ago to random

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

Anarcat, 2 months ago to random

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

#tor #gethired #job

Anarcat, 2 months ago to random

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, 8 months ago to random

haven't seen much talk about this here, but there's a possibly life-threatening storm coming to the eastern atlantic seaboard: nhc.noaa.gov says " ...TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON BERMUDA BEGINNING EARLY TOMORROW... ...RISK OF WIND, COASTAL FLOODING, AND RAIN IMPACTS INCREASING FOR PORTIONS OF NEW ENGLAND AND ATLANTIC CANADA..."

Anarcat, 9 months ago to debian

OpenPGP key transition https://anarc.at/blog/2023-08-09-openpgp-key-transition/ #debian #debian-planet #gnupg #meta #openpgp #python-planet

Anarcat, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

is it just me or the :+1: button on GitHub issues is just stupidly slow in general? i haven't timed it, but it "feels" past the 100-200ms, if not 400ms+ mark, enough to make me click/cancel sometimes as i feel i haven't clicked it right...

Anarcat, 4 months ago to Blog

router archeology: the Soekris net5001 https://anarc.at/hardware/server/roadkiller/ #blog #debian-planet #freebsd #hardware #node #python-planet

Anarcat, 7 months ago to random French

hallucinant de voir la CAQ se débattre avec les enjeux de connectivité au Québec https://www.latribune.ca/actualites/2023/10/10/la-caq-envisage-la-creation-dune-nouvelle-societe-detat-M4VXPRT3YJHILAOJLYOGWRH7QY/ ça fait deux fois qu'ils lancent le ballon de faire une société d'état, voire nationaliser l'internet alors qu'ils font tout pour saboter les systèmes publics pour tout privatiser

Anarcat, 10 months ago to RedHat

this may be an unpopular opinion right now, but i think i made up my mind and i don't care about the recent noises around #redhat #centos and friends... i am not surprised about RH asserting its copyright and it seems like fair game... i don't know what else people expected here...?

Anarcat, 4 months ago to random

that moment when you compare two git repos on github and one has already rendered the "Contributors" tab (and it's a single one) and the other one still says "Crunching the latest data"... maybe you go with the latter?

Anarcat, 8 months ago to random

i want a font or some device that explicitely does NOT support anything outside of latin-1, or even better, would mark those characters specially so i could spot homomorphic attacks easily #dearlazyweb #ktxbye

Anarcat, 2 months ago to random

it's really sad that FSF membership, in a resume, has turned into a badge of honor into something that raises somewhat of a red flag for me

Anarcat, 4 months ago to random

any advice on a residential / business #isp with static IP and all ports open for a server in #canada #quebec #montreal? my current provider (oricom) wants me to get a NEQ to get a business package (ugh)

Anarcat, 1 year ago to random

@benjojo that is terrifying

Anarcat, 3 months ago to random

"shipping label created" is a code word for "mañana"

Anarcat, 3 months ago to random

i just realized that i should need a TL;DR: at the top of my emails, that's what the frigging Subject line is for

Anarcat, 2 months ago to random

mind blown: i can build an GRML ISO completely in RAM, and it takes 6 minutes, including installing a lot of packages. computers did get faster for some things...

Anarcat, 2 months ago to random

come work with me at the #Tor Project! we're hiring a sysadmin, details here https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/system-administrator/ ask me anything #job