Have you gotten the "hey, wanna be a North Korean proxy?" offer yet?
How much does it pay?
Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#42My email is filled with junk from cybersecurity "experts" telling me that my open source project is "very compromised" and that they will gladly reveal to me what the issue is, if I commit to paying them a bug bounty. I get at least a few every week. I hate them, but I feel like we are well past the point where in any place where there is money to be made, the majority of cold outreach will be from semi-personalized…
Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call.
Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#43Honestly, could just stop at "please don't spam people". Good luck on your hunt OP, hope you find something soon.
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#44Marketers ruin everything ;)
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#45Have you gotten the "hey, wanna be a North Korean proxy?" offer yet?
Usually it's the Phillipines or an African country or something, but so very many times.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#46My email is filled with junk from cybersecurity "experts" telling me that my open source project is "very compromised" and that they will gladly reveal to me what the issue is, if I commit to paying them a bug bounty. I get at least a few every week. I hate them, but I feel like we are well past the point where in any place where there is money to be made, the majority of cold outreach will be from semi-personalized…
Whether it helps or not—the typical contact like this hasn’t been a human for decades now. What I’m seeing these days is materially almost identical to what went out ten years ago. Basic form letter with a cover sentence or paragraph of either no relevance, or a tenuous but normally ill-researched claim at relevance.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#47I'm still getting this sort of spam to an address I posted here 5+ years ago. Recently it intensified, which leads me to believe it's automated.
I guess we can officially add a third entry and, keeping the alphabetical order, make it: "death, spam and taxes"
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#48Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#49Ordinary, non-elite jobseekers (at least in the US) NEED a job or they will be homeless. If you want somebody to stop asking for a job, give them a job.
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