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Comment · 1 year ago
Anecdotally, I used to be in control of more than half of Tors exit capacity (until I had inspired enough other people to take over), with no association to US TLAs, and I personally know many exit and other relay operators. I have no reason to assume they are affiliated with US TLAs or other TLAs. The majority in terms of numbers may be, but not the majority in terms of bandwidth.

Personally, I doubt the US TLAs have a need to operate any relays themselves. They can simply wiretap, and use control flow data for correlation when necessary. Tor can still be useful for all those who do not try to hide from the few agencies who may have this kind of visibility.

The relay community is pretty good in terms of interacting with each other. There are real-world meetings to get to know others in the space, which may make you also more comfortable seeing their personal reasons for providing bandwidth.

Comment · 1 year ago
Correct. "Stiftung Erneuerbare Freiheit" acts as LIR in charge of the address space, handing out chunks of that space to exit relay operating non-profits for free, but does not operate any Tor infrastructure themselves and has no visibility into the traffic. The cost for us are the RIPE membership fees (approx 2000€/yr).

Source: I'm its director and founder of torservers.net. Usually using a different nick here.

Comment · 9 years ago
It certainly matters to a lot of people around me, and in conversations I have. It may not matter to some random people on Hacker News.
Comment · 9 years ago
So, where's the patch?

I spend some of my free time to collect and post open source jobs someplace. That's my goal.

Comment · 9 years ago
Plenty of recent jobs are open to remote workers, which includes UK.
Comment · 9 years ago
No. I want to keep them around, sure, but of course they can be styled differently.

I don't know what makes everyone so upset at old listings. They are listed chronologically, there is an RSS feed to follow for fresh things. It's not like it's thousands of mixed jobs where you have to hunt for the recent postings? I definitely don't object to someone adding an archive/expiry functionality that does not completely delete old job listings. If you look at the referenced ticket on github, I created it.

Comment · 9 years ago
Again: We am not "padding" anything. The site exists since 2012, and we keep old job listings around, as an archive and to help find interesting potential employers that may have jobs apart of what is listed. There's an open ticket about "fading them out" a little to make it even more obvious. There's plenty of recent jobs listed, so your point about "only ever seeing jobs that no longer accept applications" is moot. Also, subscribe to the RSS feed (or Twitter/Facebook), and "all you will ever see will be fresh, open positions".

It's like arguing that a news site should delete yesterday's news instead of keeping an archive, because "you're only interested in today".

As for your "sustainability" and "career building", I disagree there too, but that's for a different conversation.

Comment · 9 years ago
... which can be a great resource to find jobs appropriate also for fossjobs.net.

but: "usual price $250/30 days"

Comment · 9 years ago
It's simple, and you can help: I am adding jobs that I come across or that people submit. It's a collaborative action. Job listings from 2012 were added in 2012. It's not a new site. Of course we don't add old expired jobs.
Comment · 9 years ago
How does this matter? What do you mean by "sustainable"? One job is a job. Two jobs is two jobs.
Comment · 9 years ago
Well, what about me? I _am_ volunteering, and a couple of others CC @fossjobs.net on Twitter whenever they come across a job offer.

Yes, you are right, this site depends on volunteers. So what? Wikipedia does as well. Why would anyone contribute their knowledge to something that does not help them? Well, maybe it will one day.

We don't have to start a debate about why anyone would volunteer anything, but I find your reasoning pretty self-centered. Also, you're arguing as if this was a mere proposal for a job site that lists FOSS jobs. No, it's not. Is is an actual site that lists FOSS jobs, and it works.

And don't forget about FOSS companies/NGOs who are looking for talent. Some of them actually like to post their job listings at our site, and do so with a very self-centered desire: To fill a position, potentially with less noise than using one of the other platforms. Why would FOSS developers want to look at all the depressing proprietary jobs on other platforms? :)

Comment · 9 years ago
I would say it depends on the specific job. :)

Happy to talk about it, I am just a bit afraid that it will flood the site and make it hard to see other offers.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
What category would you suggest to add? If it's about actual development, I think "Programmer" will do just fine. I am a bit reluctant to add a new category specifically for this.
Comment · 9 years ago
As I've said, there are no criteria, it is a case-by-case decision. The general guideline is on the website, "We only list jobs that directly improve and involve FOSS or Open Hardware projects."

That being said, I welcome suggestions on how to improve the wording, some examples what fits and what does not, etc. -- Thanks!

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