Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9
Jun21

Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9

Copyright holders have made serious work of website blocking in Germany. A few months ago a voluntary agreement was announced with the country’s largest ISPs, which agreed to block pirate sites after a verification process. This is a major win for rightsholders, but one that can be easily defeated. The Internet providers use relatively simple DNS blockades which can be circumvented by switching to third-party DNS resolvers such as...

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Record Labels Want YouTube Rippers to Log and Share User Data
Jun21

Record Labels Want YouTube Rippers to Log and Share User Data

Free music is easy to find nowadays. Just head over to YouTube and one can find millions of tracks, including many of the most recent releases. This is a problem for the major record labels which don’t want tracks to leak outside YouTube’s ecosystem. For this reason, YouTube rippers are seen as a major threat. The music industry is actively tackling this issue by requesting IPS blockades, sending takedown notices, and taking site...

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Replace man pages with Tealdeer on Linux
Jun21

Replace man pages with Tealdeer on Linux

Man pages were my go-to resource when I started exploring Linux. Certainly, man is the most frequently used command when a beginner starts getting familiar with the world of the command line. But man pages, with their extensive lists of options and arguments, can be hard to decipher, which makes it difficult to understand whatever you wanted to know. If you want an easier solution with example-based output, I think tldr is the best...

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Why I love programming on FreeDOS with GW-BASIC
Jun21

Why I love programming on FreeDOS with GW-BASIC

When I was growing up, it seemed every “personal computer” from the TRS-80 to the Commodore to the Apple let you write your own programs in the Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) programming language. Our family had a clone of the Apple II called the Franklin ACE 1000, which—as a clone—also ran AppleSoft BASIC. I took to AppleSoft BASIC right away and read books and magazines to teach myself...

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Why transparency is critical to your open source project’s security
Jun21

Why transparency is critical to your open source project’s security

The Biden Administration’s recent executive order on cybersecurity aims to improve security assurance and the use of best practices. Transparency and project health are two factors that help to support security across the entire software industry—especially now. read more Powered by...

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