@Anarcat hmm checked eBay here in Europe and that model is still going for €80 used, which I paid for it new on sale years ago. Can't speak to the longevity of Ricoh's printer division. Though eBay still has a multitude of secondary market producers for the toner cartridges and no DRM or any bullshit.
All I'd recommend is to stay clear of HP, I think their plan is to extend the subscription model to printing and make you pay on every page you print at home on top of the hardware you own lol 🫠🔫
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
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
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:
write an actual cover letter ("yeah" and "i need money" do not qualify
write it yourself (i can tell you're using AI now, my neural network has been trained pretty well)
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
don't copy-paste from the job posting
don't tell me that "you are skilled" or "your values align", tell me how they do
i'm ready to accept a plain text resume, but even then, some formatting is necessary (headings, anyone?)
one or two page pages max
list specific work experiences and why they are relevant
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
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...
@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
@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.
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...
you'd think i would have learned this earlier in my 30+ years experience with email, but it seems you'd have been wrong (or maybe i unlearned and just write too damn much)
#dearlazyweb i want my fourth mouse button to act as a "tap" instead of a "click" which, i think, means "gestures" but i'll handwave this until it magically works
"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."