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title = "Commented Links for 2020-06-21"
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date = 2020-06-21
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["links", "google", "privacy", "incognito mode", "chrome", "exploit",
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"http", "c++", "tables", "emacs", "licenses", "builder pattern", "rust",
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"medium"]
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Google Lawsuit for Ignoring Incognito Mode, Chrome Exploit in the Wild,
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Benchmarking HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0, Creating Tables in C++, Understanding
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Emacs, Open Source Licenses, Builder Pattern in Rust, Why Leave Medium.
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## [Google faces $5 billion lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode](https://www.cnet.com/news/google-faces-5-billion-lawsuit-for-tracking-people-in-incognito-mode/)
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Company that makes money tracking people keeps tracking people even when they
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ask for not doing it, news at eleven.
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I keep repeating this over and over, but let's put this again: If you rely on
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anything Google, you can assume your privacy is gone. Your salary? They know.
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Your secret emails? Known. The trash you talk about your boss with your
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coworkers? All noted.
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Worse: When you _suggest_ people to start using Google products, you're
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basically telling them you don't freaking care about that person privacy. What
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kind of friend does that to a friend?
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## [Exclusive: Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-chrome-exclusive/exclusive-massive-spying-on-users-of-googles-chrome-shows-new-security-weakness-idUSKBN23P0JO)
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Still in news about who doesn't care about you, a security alert for Chrome
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being explore by others -- besides Google -- to spy on you.
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The interesting part part here is that the security flaw was found by a
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company called "Awake Security". Why is this interesting? 'Cause Google has a
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specialized group in finding security flaws that, it seems, can only find
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security in _other_ products, never on theirs.
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## [Performance testing HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 vs HTTP/2 + Server Push for REST APIs](https://evertpot.com/h2-parallelism/)
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A curious comparison: The way to do several requests using different versions
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of HTTP with different properties.
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Obviously, the new stuff is more performant, but one has to ask if doing that
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many requests is actually a real thing -- as in "You know loading the real
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site, not the site and 300 trackers and bullshit libraries for stupid
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animations".
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## [tabulate: Table Maker for Modern C++](https://github.com/p-ranav/tabulate)
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My desire to work with C++ got a lot lower after I learnt Rust, but I have to
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reckon that this library, to create ASCII tables on the console, looks a lot
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interesting.
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## [A Life Configuring Emacs](https://github.com/alhassy/emacs.d/blob/master/README.org)
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Do you want to learn Emacs? Like, _really_ learn it?
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Here is a very complete, very long explanation of how to do things in Emacs.
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## [Choosing a license for GoatCounter](https://www.arp242.net/license.html)
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Discussions about open source licenses are always nice and cool, 'cause there
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is always something else you can learn about the licenses that exist.
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In this case, a post analysing several licenses about trying to, besides
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keeping the source open, also being able to make money on top of it.
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## [The builder pattern, and a macro that keeps FFI code DRY](https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2019/making-our-own-ping-6/)
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I kept this post for a while for one single reason: How freaking _easy_ it is
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to create the builder pattern in Rust without any external libraries. There
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are crates that allow doing it so with simple `#[derive]` directives but this
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just shows how you don't even need that, if you're willing to type a bit more.
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## [Why we left Medium, and how!](https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/)
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You may have noticed that, from some time, none of the links I commented here
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are from Medium. And there is a reason for me to not share content posted
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there and it is exactly due the aggressive measures they are taking to gather
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resources -- not that there is something wrong doing it so, but there are
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other ways besides blocking people out of content, or taking our features for
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people that publish content -- and remember that Medium itself doesn't publish
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_anything_, they need other people to create content for them.
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