Bitcoin Proponents Slam Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman After Venmo Payment Issue
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman complained on Twitter Wednesday that he was experiencing issues with the centralized payment processor Venmo. His tweet was followed by a barrage of bitcoin supporters who insisted that Krugman was now realizing the importance of censorship-resistant payment systems. Krugman’s Experience Highlights the Growing Interest in Censorship-Resistant Payment Systems Nobel Prize winner and author Paul Krugman,...
Omi in a Hellcat Handed 66 Months in Prison For Pirate IPTV, Forfeits $30m
After entering a guilty plea some time ago, former pirate IPTV service operator Bill Omar Carrasquillo was sentenced Tuesday in a Philadelphia court. Last month the U.S. government called for 15.5 years in prison for crimes related to Carrasquillo’s pirate IPTV service, Gears TV, which was shut down by the FBI in 2019. That was still a far cry from the 500+ years thrown around in the earlier stages of the case, but after causing an...
DNS Resolver Quad9 Loses Global Pirate Site Blocking Case Against Sony
In 2021, Sony Music obtained an injunction ordering DNS resolver Quad9 to block the popular pirate site Canna.to. The injunction, issued by the District Court of Hamburg, required the Swiss DNS resolver to block its users from accessing the site to prevent the distribution of pirated copies of Evanescence’s album “The Bitter Truth“. Quad9 Appeals Site Blocking Injunction The Quad9 Foundation fiercely opposed the injunction. The...
Postgres DevOps database administrator: A day in the life
Postgres DevOps database administrator: A day in the life doug.ortiz Thu, 03/09/2023 – 03:00 A Postgres DevOps DBA plays a critical role in modern IT organizations that rely on Postgres as their primary database management system. The role of a Postgres DevOps DBA involves many responsibilities, skills, and tasks. A few of these include: Managing the database design and architecture, infrastructure management, ensuring high...
Contribute to open source without code
Contribute to open source without code Debra Chen Thu, 03/09/2023 – 03:00 An open source “community” means different things to different people. I think of open source a little like “falling in love” because it is about people and relationships. Treat open source as a community because, without people, there is no source, open or otherwise. I’m a member of the Apache DolphinScheduler community....
