US Treasury to ‘Borrow’ $3 Trillion for a Single Quarter – Anticipates Taking Billions More for Q3
On Monday, the United States Department of the Treasury announced it will be “borrowing” a record $3 trillion to help support the American economy. The move comes after the Federal Reserve dished out over $6 trillion to private dealers before the first U.S. Covid-19 death, and the $1.5 trillion added to the nation’s debt since March 1. The Treasury Takes Out $3 Trillion for the ‘Increase in Privately-Held Net...
US Removes Switzerland From ‘Pirate WatchList’
Every year the US Trade Representative publishes a new update of its Special 301 Report, highlighting countries that fail to live up to U.S copyright protection standards. The annual overview is meant to urge foreign governments to improve policy and legislation in favor of US copyright holders. This process has been an effective diplomatic tool and helped to kickstart copyright reforms around the globe. This was also the goal when...
MPA Suggests Github Could Be Held Liable For Popcorn Time’s Copyright Infringements
As the organization heading up the major Hollywood studios and more recently Netflix, the Motion Picture Association is continually engaged in a battle to prevent infringing content reaching the masses. The job is both massive and diverse, from filing lawsuits against allegedly-infringing sites and services to filing millions of DMCA notices to have content disappeared from search engines. Somewhere in the middle sits the latest...
6 open source alternatives to Wunderlist
Wunderlist is an app for lists, loved by many, but gone for good as of May 6, 2020. The website encourages existing users to download and use Microsoft To Do in its place. That’s tempting because it makes it easy to import all of those lists you’ve made over the years. Then again, maybe it’s a chance to Marie Kondo those lists and pare things down. Do you really need 30 lists? (Apparently, I’ve decided that I...
Speed up administration of Kubernetes clusters with k9s
Usually, my articles about Kubernetes administration are full of kubectl commands for administration for your clusters. Recently, however, someone pointed me to the k9s project for a fast way to review and resolve day-to-day issues in Kubernetes. It’s been a huge improvement to my workflow and I’ll show you how to get started in this tutorial. read...
