Esparta @esparta@fosstodon.org

Messages like the image attached signal how crooked the system is and how there's people trying to make business out of this:

> get highly trained employees paying them half of the market price!!

I know the whole sh*t is just spam, that's why I have no sympathy for the _recruiter_, since is probably an automated persona, if not, just a racist more. Even less for the "company", KitSF - they have a .com website, but is also spam.

Here's the email sent via LinkedIn: https://gist.github.com/esparta/94bf972614e420fabc985ec9b26157dc

159 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the most important piece of the civil rights movement: Letter from Birmingham Jail

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

In my opinion it's a most read literature specially if you are a privileged person - as in a white man.

Look what I got in the mail today!!
Thanks @thegibson & all people on Hackers town that made this possible.

For the first time ever I'm very close to Canada. In the image you can see the Canada coast.

@aral I was browsing the list on Web0, and notice a duplicated entry for a website from someone called 'igosad', you also might find interesting the content of the site linked...

His name was *Robert Paulsen*
His name was *Robert Paulsen*
His name was *Robert Paulsen*
His name was *Robert Paulsen*

you can now order your free COVID test at the USPS:

https://special.usps.com/testkits

It's a a 4-pack per house.
Yeap, that's correct. The USA is doing this about 16 months late, dear rest of the world; please don't make fun of US.

Proposal to rename `java.net.URL#equals` method to:
`compare_using_the_real_shit_and_internet_tubes`

so y'all know is actually very wrong..

https://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/12/05/mr-gosling-why-did-you-make-url-equals-suck/

My point is: yes, it is wrong and will be not fixed at all because compatibility with software created long time ago. The linked article is from 2006, that's almost 15 years ago, and the specs ate probably like that since day 1.

Also, in this case Java's URL is part.of.standard library and Oracle has $$$ to fix it.

As anticipated, people are and will be xkcd386-ing @kev because the conscious decision about Linux on desktop:

https://fosstodon.org/@kev/106558421555957453

https://kevq.uk/a-sombre-goodbye-to-linux/

Let individuals do their thing, please.

I'm seeing a lot of toots related on where to emigrate from LastPass.
How about instead of just migrate to the new thing, start supporting the real solution away from corporate or business decision, whatever fits better for you:

https://keepassxc.org/donate/
https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

There's probably more, but those two are the ones I use, recommend and support.

Dissent is Patriotic