My brain fried on what a “fake letter” was.

Fake : adjective Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.

Either it was on purpose or you’re not nearly smart enough to be arguing about grammar and definitions on the internet.

Also you didn’t answer my question.

It’s not imprecise at all and it’s only confusing if you deliberately misinterpret it to be pedantic.

What do you call a fake ID then?

It’s really not that dumb and your analogy is bad.

If it was normal to buy popcorn and never eat it then it would make sense. Obviously most people who buy guns never kill anyone with them and you can carry it and not use it

Is there some allowance for flying over Kaliningrad? I thought we were being “friendly neighbours” and not overflying each others territories.

Anyway it’s really annoying that all of a sudden the gps stuff is being brought up every time a politician gets in a plane now. It’s being going on for years and for everyone. Seems like a pretty weak thing to be hyping up all of a sudden as a justification for whatever escalation they plan next

(btw)

Yeah there are obviously unfortunate cases. But to put another unsourced number out there I would say 90% of open source maintainers are employed in some way or even directly to work on that thing.

The point of bringing it up is that those people would gladly give a pass on an interview to someone they already know contributes than some random graduate they don’t know.

Well to see it from the perspective from the inside: we always have hundreds of openings, and I’ve seen openings for months and years without suitable candidates. Sometimes lots of bad applicants and sometimes no applicants at all.

That’s for the niche openings. For regular graduate stuff new people start every single day.

It’s hard to match up that with the fact that some people apparently aren’t getting a single application progressed.

It’s weird because everywhere I’ve ever worked routinely hires people who don’t even know how to make a commit, or anything at all really.

For some reason even those people are somehow jumping ahead of competent people like you in the queue. It’s also annoying for us because we have to deal with the bad ones that HR delivers.

Of course

It’s not your fault, but it sounds like you and probably a lot of other people were misled about what having a degree actually does.

The most important thing someone looks at when you apply for a job is that you are interested in the thing and capable of doing it. The degree doesn’t really do that but the personal projects do. The degree might be a nice to have on top and helps to convince some people, but you always end up working with people without one anyway.

“most” open source project contributors are looking for work? Lol ok bud

Exactly, and pretty much everyone knows this. Which is why them putting effort into preventing it is stupid

It’s a general complaint, not one website.

For the zoom issue, social media type ones. Not sure if it’s Reddit or Imgur. The frames and text content gets larger but the image stays the same size.

For the right click hijack, usually photography and stock sites

It sounds like the same amount of effort that it would take to make a really good open source project, or contribute to an existing one.

I find it hard to believe you wouldn’t get a job with something like that under your belt. Also 3000 applications is probably a bit shotgun rather than targeted and HR would be able to pick up on it

Didn’t know that, but those download protection things also have other tricks like a transparent image placed over the top.

And their stupid website prevents you from zooming in on the image. Or they disabled right click on it in an attempt to stop you from saving the image. It really is pathetic