From 781f5b70064a6152155c90f23af4d9a1707dc6dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 21:00:30 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Links for 2020-05-11 --- content/links/20200511.md | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/links/20200511.md diff --git a/content/links/20200511.md b/content/links/20200511.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d34af9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/links/20200511.md @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ ++++ +title = "Links for 2020-05-11" +date = 2020-05-11 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["links", "apple", "ipad", "mouse", "events", "organization", +"privacy", "websites", "work", "responsibility", "delete", "rust", "binaries", +"systemd", "economy"] ++++ + +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. + + + +# [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. + +--- + +This post was built with the help of + +* [Adrian Cochrane](https://floss.social/@alcinnz) +* [newsbot](https://mastodon.social/@newsbot) +* [HN Tooter](https://mastodon.social/@hntooter)