El Salvador Buys 500 Bitcoins Amid Crypto Bloodbath
El Salvador has bought the bitcoin dip. Amid a heavy crypto market sell-off, the Salvadoran president announced that his country has purchased 500 more bitcoins. Since El Salvador adopted the cryptocurrency as legal tender, the Salvadoran government has purchased 2,301 bitcoins altogether. El Salvador Buys the Bitcoin Dip Amid a crypto bloodbath, El Salvador has bought the dip. The Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, announced Monday...
Filmmakers Identify Dozens of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates Using DMCA Shortcut
Tracking BitTorrent pirates is relatively easy since IP addresses are broadcasted publicly. With help from Internet providers, these addresses can then be linked to an account holder. ISPs don’t hand over this data voluntarily, however; they typically require a subpoena or court order to take action. In the United States, these subpoenas are obtained by filing a copyright complaint in federal court against a “John Doe” who’s known...
6 easy ways to make your first open source contribution with LibreOffice
6 easy ways to make your first open source contribution with LibreOffice Klaatu Tue, 05/10/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like “Getting involved” with open source can seem a little confusing. Where do you go to get started? What if you don’t know how to code? Who do you talk to? How does anybody know that you have contributed, and besides that does anybody care? More great content...
My open source journey with C from a neurodiverse perspective
My open source journey with C from a neurodiverse perspective Rikard Grossma… Tue, 05/10/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like I was born in 1982, which in human years is only 40 years in the past (at the time of writing). In terms of computer development, it’s eons ago. I got my first computer, a Commodore 64, when I was ten years old. Later, I got an Amiga, and by 13 I got an “IBM...
How to (safely) read user input with the getline function
How to (safely) read user input with the getline function Jim Hall Tue, 05/10/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Reading strings in C used to be a very dangerous thing to do. When reading input from the user, programmers might be tempted to use the gets function from the C Standard Library. The usage for gets is simple enough: char *gets(char *string); That is, gets reads data from standard input,...
