Google Gets a Slap on the Wrist For Site-Blocking Failures
Last year, Russian introduced new legislation that can see search engines fined for offering links to VPNs and other anonymizers that have been banned in the country. Fines can also be issued to search engines that fail to connect to a resource offering up-to-date information on what domains should be rendered inaccessible. This database (known as FGIS), should have been utilized by Google, but for reasons that remain unclear, the...
Activists to Deliver 4 Million Anti ‘Article 13’ Signatures to EU Parliament
In a plenary vote in September, the European Parliament backed the controversial Article 13 proposal, which is part of the EU’s copyright reform plans. Since then, the proposal has been tweaked in an attempt to gain broader support, but thus far the critics have yet to be silenced. That includes rightsholders as well. Most opposition is generated by anti upload filter activists though. They rallied support from the public...
Patch into The Matrix at the Linux command line
You’ve found your way to today’s entry from the Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be wondering what a command-line toy even is? It’s anything that’s an entertaining diversion at the terminal, be it a game, a fun utility, or a simple distraction. Some of these are classics, and some are completely new (at least to me), but I hope all of you find...
Top 5 configuration management tools
DevOps is evolving and gaining traction as organizations discover how it enables them to produce better applications and reduce their software products’ time to market. DevOps’ core values are Culture, Automation, Measurement, and Sharing (CAMS), and an organization’s adherence to them influences how successful it is. read...
Taking notes with Standard Notes
Online note-taking tools seem to have bloomed like 100 flowers. The tallest ones in that garden are usually proprietary, closed source applications like Evernote, Zoho Notebook, Google Keep, and Notion. read...