UK High Court Grants the MPA its First “Pirate” Cyberlocker Blocking Order
Feb15

UK High Court Grants the MPA its First “Pirate” Cyberlocker Blocking Order

Website blocking is without a doubt one of the favorite anti-piracy tools of the entertainment industries. The UK has been a leader on this front. Since 2011, the High Court has ordered ISPs to block access to many popular pirate sites. While official numbers are lacking, it’s believed that thousands of URLs are currently blocked, targeting sites such as The Pirate Bay, Sci-Hub, Fmovies, NewAlbumReleases, and Team-Xecuter. This month,...

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5 ways LibreOffice supports accessibility
Feb15

5 ways LibreOffice supports accessibility

LibreOffice.org is my preferred productivity suite, and I’ve covered how I use it both as a graphical office suite as well as a terminal command in the past. In this article, I want to focus on how LibreOffice supports people using assistive technology.  read more Powered by...

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Manage your calendar from the Linux terminal with the konsolekalendar command
Feb15

Manage your calendar from the Linux terminal with the konsolekalendar command

I’m a KDE user, and for years I’ve been on a seemingly endless journey of discovery with the Plasma Desktop. If you were to ask me in public, I’d probably claim to know everything there is to know about the desktop I use every day of my life. But in truth, I’ve actually only just scratched the surface. read more Powered by...

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