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title = "Commented Links for 2020-08-29"
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date = 2020-08-29
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["links", "youtube", "google", "ads", "fediverse", "mastodon",
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"haskell", "patterns", "rust", "threadpools", "embedded", "logging",
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"predicable", "addresses", "tracking"]
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YouTube Unhideable Political Ads, Fediverse Out of Play Store, Haskell From
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Zero, Haskell Mini-Patterns, Rust Thread Pools, Embedded Rust Logging Crate,
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Predicable Oracle, Falsehoods About Addresses, Track This.
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## [YouTube Mobile (iOS): I keep getting Donald Trump campaign ads with no "stop showing me" option](https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/66051026?hl=en)
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What a great way to start a list of commented links by showing Google being...
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well, Google.
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You can hide ads that don't interest you. But it seems certain ads can't be
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hidden, can't be skipped and don't react like normal ads.
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In a way, it's fine that Google decides that, if someone pays enough, they
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have higher privileges in their system. After all, Google (Alphabet actually)
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is a company, and it can decide how things work on their system and how they
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are going to make money out of their system. On the other hand... that's what
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we keep pointing over and over: Google doesn't _care_ what goes in their
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systems; Google doesn't _care_ what happens in their system.
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And that's why a company that have that much effect in everyone's life
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shouldn't exist in the first place.
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## [Google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from Google play](https://qoto.org/@freemo/104765288863293481)
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Again, Google is free to do whatever they want when their system.
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But here is the thing: ActivityPub is a protocol that allows any server to
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share activities to other servers that implement that protocol. It is not tied
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to any kind of activity, but the most common one at this point is
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microblogging (think Twitter). So far, so good.
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Whatever people do in their systems is up to them.
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Because the protocol is open, anyone can implement anything with it, including
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clients for, say, Android.
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In the early days of the protocol, some bad servers appeared, but people
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managing moderated servers took care and decided to not federate with those
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bad servers, basically leaving the bad apples out of the basket.
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So yeah, there are bad services in the ActivityPub universe, and they are
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being ignored by the vast majority of other services. Should Google ban Chrome
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or Firefox from the Play Store 'cause there is content like Breitbart on the
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internet?
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## [Haskell from 0 to IO (Maybe Hero)](https://rainbyte.net.ar/posts/200828-01-haskell-0-to-io.html)
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Haskell is one of those fancy languages I'm trying to get a grasp of.
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I can say that I could understand half of this, before the complexities of the
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syntax throw me off. But I intent to read it again (and probably _again_) till
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I get it.
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## [Haskell mini-patterns handbook](https://kowainik.github.io/posts/haskell-mini-patterns)
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Speaking of Haskell, here are some patterns (really small ones) in that
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language.
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Maybe to be consumed after understanding the language.
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## [Multiple Thread Pools in Rust](https://pkolaczk.github.io/multiple-threadpools-rust/)
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Serendipity: I was thinking in ways to improve my dhash calculator, using
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threads pools and queues to check for files and dhash calculation for each
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image.
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And then this shows up.
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## [defmt, a highly efficient Rust logging framework for embedded devices](https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/defmt/)
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A new logging system for Rust, targeting high efficiency. But it seems small
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and simple enough for any system.
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## [aaronson-oracle](http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/)
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A little experiment on how to predict things. After a while, I couldn't make
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it drop below 75%.
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This proves how easy it is to predict behaviors the more data you have about
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someone. Also could explain how you suddenly start seeing ads for something
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you just spoke with someone: They have so much data about you that they can
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predict, with some pretty good accuracy, what will interest you in the future.
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## [Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/)
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I love these "Falsehoods" posts.
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## [Hey advertisers, track THIS](https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/)
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Mozilla may seem in bad shape these days, but we can't forget how they did
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something like "Track THIS", which will flood tracking sites with bad content
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about someone, so they can't predict _anything_ right.
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