IMF Tells Governments: Spend as Much as You Can and Then Spend More
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on countries worldwide to spend as much as they can and then spend more. She admitted that this is a “very unusual” policy for the IMF but it is needed to revive economies. Many people are interpreting her statement as very bullish for bitcoin. IMF Encourages Mass Spending IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has urged governments worldwide to spend as much as they can...
How the MP3, Pirates and Apple Changed The Music Industry
The idea to compress music into digital files started decades ago, but the birth of the MP3 was a breakthrough moment. German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg and his colleagues first made the MP3 format public in 1993. This made it possible to reduce the size of music files without any significant loss of audible sound quality. At the time, the music industry was breaking all-time sales records thanks to the CD, but that would soon...
TikTok Using DMCA to Take Down Reverse-Engineered Source Code
After being launched in the Chinese market in 2016 as “Douyin”, social networking service TikTok has become one of the world’s recognizable app brands. New estimates published this month suggest that TikTok could have as many as a billion monthly users, with around 100 million of those coming from the United States. It’s safe to say the product is already a phenomenon and wildly popular, especially among younger people, but not...
Set up a minimal server on a Raspberry Pi
Recently, the microSD (secure digital) card in my Raspberry Pi stopped working. It had been in constant use as a server for almost two years, and this provided a good opportunity to start fresh and correct a few problems. After its initial installation, it began experiencing disk problems and the official Raspberry Pi operating system (OS) received a significant update (and was renamed from Raspbian to Raspberry Pi OS). So I acquired...
10 ways to get started with open source in 2021
Opensource.com exists to educate the world about everything open source, from new tools and frameworks to scaling communities. We aim to make open source more accessible to anyone who wants to use or contribute to it. Getting started in open source can be hard, so we regularly share tips and advice on how you can get involved. If you want to learn Python, help fight COVID-19, or join the Kubernetes community, we’ve got you...
