COVID-19 ‘Lockdowns’ Directly Impacted Torrent Download Numbers in Several Countries
The coronavirus pandemic has massively increased Internet traffic. This applies to work usage, legal entertainment, but also file-sharing. Last week we showed how downloads, including content from popular sites such as The Pirate Bay, YTS, and RARBG, have increased in recent weeks. While this upward trend is clearly visible in the global numbers, zooming in at the country level adds a more detailed perspective. That is exactly what we...
Russia Preparing New Law to Ban All Video Recording in Movie Theaters
With movie piracy becoming more sophisticated with each passing year and bandwidth cheaper than ever, the quality of copies appearing online has gradually increased. Pirates are now very comfortable with downloading high-quality multi-gigabyte rips sourced from physical discs and VOD sources but many can’t wait, preferring to view movies early in their theatrical windows. The go-to sources in these cases are so-called...
How I containerize a build system
A build system is comprised of the tools and processes used to transition from source code to a running application. This transition also involves changing the code’s audience from the software developer to the end user, whether the end user is a colleague in operations or a deployment system. read...
Try this Kubernetes HTTP router and reverse proxy
Skipper is an open source HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. As its GitHub page states, it’s designed to handle large amounts of dynamically configured HTTP route definitions (>600,000 routes) with detailed lookup conditions and flexible augmentation of the request flow with filters. It can be used out of the box or extended with custom lookup, filter logic, and configuration sources. read...
How World of Warcraft introduced me to Linux
The story behind my career with Linux is a bit unusual. It starts back in 2005; I was working as an auto mechanic at a Nissan dealership in Toledo, Ohio. I had never used a computer for anything other than checking email, browsing the web, and playing World of Warcraft. read...
