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title = "Links for 2020-05-02"
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date = 2020-05-02
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["links", "slack", "irc", "telefork", "contact tracing", "agct",
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"stoicism", "user data", "security"]
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Slack vs IRC, Forking Across Computers, AGCT, Stoicism, User Data Security.
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# [Why Did Slack Win Out Over IRC, Anyway?](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw5wvj/why-did-slack-win-out-over-irc-anyway)
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... in which we discuss the past of group communication compared to the
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current state of group communication.
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I'm a huge fan of IRC, maybe 'cause I used almost every day when I was young.
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But IRC has a great feature that nobody talks about: It was distributed: You
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could run your own IRC server and ask it to join a federation of IRC servers
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-- as long as your users didn't mind the almost constant "netsplits".
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Everybody today uses Slack and understanding where it "went wrong" can only be
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understood by learning the history behind the change.
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# [Teleforking a process onto a different computer!](https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/)
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... in which we learn about RPC at the kernel level.
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# [The Challenge of Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/challenge-proximity-apps-covid-19-contact-tracing)
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... in which EFF analyses the contact tracing "solutions" and how they affect the
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current world, specially since, as the article points, there is no information
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about the type of contact happened between two phones -- heck, you can't even
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point if the owner of the phone had the phone with themselves in the first
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place.
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So, with efficacy questioned, we have to ask ourselves: What can it be used,
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then? And, if you wear a paranoid cap like me, things don't look good.
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# [Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID](https://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2020/04/vietnams-contact-tracing-app_26.html)
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... in which not only we have a problem with the expected solution the
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"contact tracing", the ones being used are not providing the minimum
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protection to users privacy.
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# [Psychological techniques and advice to practice Stoicism for attaining a good life.](https://hoanhan101.github.io/2020/04/26/guide-to-the-good-life)
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In which I learn that I'm stoic[^1].
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# [Guide to User Data Security](https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/security/guide-to-user-data-security)
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... in which... this joke is getting old already.
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It's not just users that should care about privacy, companies have to have the
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knowledge to protect users' data, preventing unintentional disclosure of that
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data to third parties -- it would be better if companies didn't even capture
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data in the first place, but still...
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[^1]: Before it was cool.
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