Links for 2020-05-11

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+title = "Links for 2020-05-11"
+date = 2020-05-11
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+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["links", "apple", "ipad", "mouse", "events", "organization",
+"privacy", "websites", "work", "responsibility", "delete", "rust", "binaries",
+"systemd", "economy"]
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+iPad Mouse, Organizing Events, Website Privacy Concerns, Careful With Whom You
+Work For (Like Tim Bray), Deleting Online Accounts Howto, Reducing Rust
+Binaries, History of systemd, Reopening The Economy.
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+
+# [How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad](https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/how-apple-reinvented-the-cursor-for-ipad/)
+
+Ignore the pretentious title for a second and check the animations.
+"Reinvented" may be a bit too much, but you have to give it to Apple for
+coming with something actually different for cursor.
+
+I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing comes to Linux in a few years.
+
+# [RustFest - organization was the best. Also rhymes.](https://blog.cyplo.dev/posts/2016/09/rustfest-organization-was-the-best/)
+
+I'm sort-of part of the organization of the next PythonBrasil (the Brazilian
+version of PyCon) and this is one hell of a report about the organization of
+it. Lots of tips on how to properly organize an event.
+
+# [How to fix the broken web as a site owner and web developer](https://markosaric.com/broken-web/)
+
+I won't lie that the cynical in me reads this and thinks "This is cute".
+
+Sure, explaining how to make a good, GDPR and privacy compliant site is
+possible, but we can't ignore the problem of "Why?" You put some tracking code
+and boom, information about the source of searches, where people visiting your
+website are coming from, how long they stay in the site; and then you put
+another tracking code and boom, those clicks become money (very little, but
+hey, it's money, nonetheless); and then you put 30 of those tracking codes and
+boom, lots of little money coming in.
+
+The only way to remove make people with websites to remove those is to kill
+the incentives; telling them "that's not nice" won't prevent anything.
+
+# [We are complicit in our employer's deeds](https://drewdevault.com/2020/05/05/We-are-complicit-in-our-employers-deeds.html)
+
+I disagree with Drew in a lot of points -- specially on things that I like he
+doesn't, and probably 'cause I talk the same things about the things I don't
+like -- but I have to agree with this: We are. If we work for a company that
+does something "morally wrong", even if that's not illegal, then we are
+complicity with it. It doesn't matter if you take care of some "customer
+support" group and the company does collect information from a lot of people
+and, thus, you're not working on this bad thing, so you're good. As Drew puts,
+you're using the "Nuremberg Defense" (basically, "I'm just following orders).
+
+Bonus points: The post is actually Drew's thoughts on Tim Brays post about him
+leaving Amazon due the firing of people complaining about the COVID-19 actions
+of the company. Tim was working on the Tech side of Amazon and was not related
+to the warehouse control and still he left the company.
+
+Of course, Tim has enough political power to quit the company and write a
+letter saying "The company I just left was doing something morally wrong" and
+not suffer any huge consequences -- I bet if I pointed some morally debatable
+things some of the companies I previously work for I'd be sued out of the
+pants I'm wearing but I have to ask this: Do we want to live in a world were
+pointing wrong stuff is punishable?
+
+# [JustDeleteMe](https://justdeleteme.xyz/)
+
+A directory of tips on how to delete your account on several different
+websites. If you're unsure about the privacy measures one site takes with your
+data and you're worried about what they can use to it (and remember, some
+still collect information about you even if you don't access them directly
+anymore), and you can't actually figure out how to delete your account
+(Facebook is notorious about this), here's your chance to remove that account.
+
+# [Reducing the size of a Rust GStreamer plugin](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/04/28/reducing-size-rust-gstreamer-plugin/)
+
+Languages generating static binaries are all in rage these days and Rust is
+one of those. But actually, there is a lot that can be done to reduce the
+binary size without losing all the safety measures the compiler takes when
+generating said binary.
+
+And while you may not be creating GStreamer plugins, a lot discussed here can
+be used for any binaries.
+
+# [systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective](https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/index.html)
+
+Wow, a very long, very explicative discussion about the raise of systemd.
+
+# [To Safely Reopen, Make the Workweek Shorter. Then Keep It Shorter.](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/safely-reopen-make-workweek-shorter/610906/)
+
+One of those things that seem so obvious that you have to wonder "Why I didn't
+think about this before?"
+
+We heard about the tales of [Microsoft Japan reducing the working
+days and keeping productivity](https://time.com/5717401/microsoft-4-day-workweek/)
+and now we have this virus floating around that's moving people to work from
+home and then someone actually made the connection and suggested that we could
+put both together and just reopen things using this 4 day thingy.
+
+Honestly, it sounds good 'cause I _can_ work from home. How that would affect
+people that can't is something that needs to be checked.
+
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