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Anarcat

@Anarcat@kolektiva.social

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

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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 random
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"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/

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@janneke emacs did get ported to Wayland, but I do not speak of exwm

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

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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@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

Anarcat,
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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

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.

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}}? :)

Anarcat, to random
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my frustration with "conspiracy theorists" is not that they freak out about conspiracy theories, just that they pick the most ludicrous, implausible theories while very real and dangerous threats actually exists @pluralistic nailed it in https://locusmag.com/2023/05/commentary-cory-doctorow-the-swivel-eyed-loons-have-a-point/

Anarcat, to debian
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OpenPGP key transition https://anarc.at/blog/2023-08-09-openpgp-key-transition/ -planet -planet

Anarcat, to random
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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, (edited )
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@mozilla more generally, it would have been nice to talk with, you know, Debian people if you wanted to host a Debian repository... maybe even, I dunno, talk with the actual Debian maintainers who have been packaging your software forever to see if you could collaborate? update: they did, sorry mozilla, good job! :)

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

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

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

Anarcat,
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@stefani did you type a passphrase here by mistake?

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

Anarcat,
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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.

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

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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...

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

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