Nintendo Mass DMCA Takedown Removes Hundreds of Fangames from Game Jolt
As one of the most iconic gaming manufacturers in the world, Nintendo has been fighting piracy for decades. The company has an in-house anti-piracy division that signals the latest threats to steer enforcement actions in the right direction. In recent years it’s gone after sites and stores that offer pirated games and has assisted in the criminal prosecution against alleged members of the hacking group Team-Xecutuer. However, the...
Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers & Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit
Following in the footsteps of the entertainment industries, publishers are increasingly trying to have pirate sites shut down or blocked to prevent the unlicensed spread of academic and scientific papers. Their main targets are Sci-Hub (‘The Pirate Bay of Science’) and Libgen (Library Genesis), platforms with a key aim of distributing such papers freely to the masses for the purposes of spreading knowledge. Of course, this runs...
My 3 favorite open source productivity apps
Productivity apps can really make your workflow much easier. In this article, I’ll share a few of the open source applications I have used to streamline my workflow and increase my overall productivity. All of the productivity applications in this article are free Linux productivity applications. Tomboy/Gnote Tomboy is a simple note-taking application that can be used on Linux, Windows, and macOS. It’s open source under...
Learn C by writing a simple game
I taught myself about programming back in elementary school. My first programs were on the Apple II, but eventually, I learned C by reading books and practicing. And the best way to practice programming is to write sample programs that help exercise your new knowledge. read more Powered by...