From 5bf029ed64ad46a2b38624e13d5f83d5701fdb2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 10:45:50 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] links for 2020-05-02 --- content/links/20200502.md | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/links/20200502.md diff --git a/content/links/20200502.md b/content/links/20200502.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4c078d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/links/20200502.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ ++++ +title = "Links for 2020-05-02" +date = 2020-05-02 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["links", "slack", "irc", "telefork", "contact tracing", "agct", +"stoicism", "user data", "security"] ++++ + +Slack vs IRC, Forking Across Computers, AGCT, Stoicism, User Data Security. + + + +# [Why Did Slack Win Out Over IRC, Anyway?](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw5wvj/why-did-slack-win-out-over-irc-anyway) + +... in which we discuss the past of group communication compared to the +current state of group communication. + +I'm a huge fan of IRC, maybe 'cause I used almost every day when I was young. +But IRC has a great feature that nobody talks about: It was distributed: You +could run your own IRC server and ask it to join a federation of IRC servers +-- as long as your users didn't mind the almost constant "netsplits". + +Everybody today uses Slack and understanding where it "went wrong" can only be +understood by learning the history behind the change. + +# [Teleforking a process onto a different computer!](https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/) + +... in which we learn about RPC at the kernel level. + +# [The Challenge of Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/challenge-proximity-apps-covid-19-contact-tracing) + +... in which EFF analyses the contact tracing "solutions" and how they affect the +current world, specially since, as the article points, there is no information +about the type of contact happened between two phones -- heck, you can't even +point if the owner of the phone had the phone with themselves in the first +place. + +So, with efficacy questioned, we have to ask ourselves: What can it be used, +then? And, if you wear a paranoid cap like me, things don't look good. + +# [Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID](https://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2020/04/vietnams-contact-tracing-app_26.html) + +... in which not only we have a problem with the expected solution the +"contact tracing", the ones being used are not providing the minimum +protection to users privacy. + +# [Psychological techniques and advice to practice Stoicism for attaining a good life.](https://hoanhan101.github.io/2020/04/26/guide-to-the-good-life) + +In which I learn that I'm stoic[^1]. + +# [Guide to User Data Security](https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/security/guide-to-user-data-security) + +... in which... this joke is getting old already. + +It's not just users that should care about privacy, companies have to have the +knowledge to protect users' data, preventing unintentional disclosure of that +data to third parties -- it would be better if companies didn't even capture +data in the first place, but still... + +--- + +[^1]: Before it was cool. + +--- + +This post was built with the help of + +* [HN Tooter](https://mastodon.social/@hntooter) +* [newsbot](https://mastodon.social/@newsbot)