Netflix Is Less Annoying to VPN Users Now, But Some Titles Are ‘Hidden’
Five years ago, Netflix started blocking customers who tried to access its service over a commercial VPN or proxy service. These changes came after copyright holders repeatedly complained that ‘pirates’ were bypassing Netflix’s geographical restrictions. The VPN ban caused a lot of frustration for legitimate VPN users, many of whom had no intention of breaking any rules. At the same time, the VPN...
Premier League Wins Extension of Illegal Streaming Blocking Order
Blocking websites that facilitate access to pirate content has become a widespread anti-piracy tactic over the past decade. Usually targeting sites that offer movies, TV shows and music, blocking is touted by copyright holders as an effective strategy to reduce illicit consumption. Live Sports-Focused ‘Dynamic Blocking’ Until relatively recently, however, live streams of sporting events have proven difficult to block but...
How to prepare to write your first Mycroft AI skill using Python
With the recent worldwide pandemic and stay-at-home orders, I have been looking for things to do to replace some of my usual activities. I started to update my home electronics setup and, as part of that, to delve into home automation. Some of my friends use Amazon’s Alexa to turn lights on and off in their house, and that is appealing on some level. However, I am a privacy-conscious individual, and I was never really...
Use your artistic skills to help open source
Are you a designer looking to share your talents? Open Source Design may just be the place for you. It is “a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software.” read...
How to sell open source software
In 2010-2011, Mike Jumper started the Guacamole project, a multi-protocol gateway that allowed admins to securely serve up desktops remotely. The client interface ran in the browser, so it was a lightweight, easy-to-use replacement for some older remote access solutions. The project immediately started to grow, resulting in a number of incoming requests for support and help. read...
