‘Repeat Copyright Infringer’ Case Against Cloudflare Can Continue, Court Rules
Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites, including some of the world’s leading pirate sites. Many rightsholders are not happy with this. They accuse Cloudflare of facilitating copyright infringement by continuing to provide access to these platforms. At the same time, they call out the CDN...
Start tinkering with the Circuit Playground Express
I’ve been a gadget person as long as I can remember, so I was delighted when I discovered an Adafruit Circuit Playground Express (CPX) in the swag bag I got at PyConUS in May. I became fascinated with these little devices last year, when Nina Zakharenko highlighted them in her All Things Open presentation, Five Things You Didn’t Know Python Could Do, with Python-powered earrings. read...
Get going with EtherCalc, a web-based alternative to Google Sheets
Spreadsheets can be very useful—and not just for managing your finances. That said, desktop spreadsheets have their limitations. The biggest is that you need to be at your computer to use one. On top of that, collaborating on a spreadsheet can quickly become a messy affair. Enter EtherCalc, an open source, web-based spreadsheet. While not as fully featured as a desktop spreadsheet, EtherCalc packs enough features for most...
How to install Kibana on MacOS
In my previous post, I walked Mac users through the steps they’ll take to install Elasticsearch, the world’s most popular enterprise search engine. (Here’s a separate article for Linux users.) Its natural language processing power makes Elasticsearch excel at finding details within datasets. read...