Swiss Copyright Law Proposals: Good News for Pirates, Bad For Pirate Sites
While Switzerland sits geographically in the heart of Europe, the country is not part of the European Union, meaning that its copyright laws are often out of touch with those of the countries encircling it. For years this has meant heavy criticism from the United States, whose trade representative has put Switzerland on the Watch List, citing weaknesses in the country’s ability to curb online copyright infringement. “The...
Looming Net Neutrality Repeal Sparks BitTorrent Throttling Fears
Ten years ago we uncovered that Comcast was systematically slowing down BitTorrent traffic to ease the load on its network. The Comcast case ignited a broad discussion about net neutrality and provided the setup for the FCC’s Open Internet Order, which came into effect three years later. This Open Internet Order then became the foundation of the net neutrality regulation that was adopted in 2015 and still applies today. The big...
5 new OpenStack resources
As OpenStack has continued to mature and move from the first stages of adoption to use in production clouds, the focus of the OpenStack community has shifted as well, with more focus than ever on integrating OpenStack with other infrastructure projects. read...
We're giving away TWO LulzBot 3D printers
Happy holidays, Opensource.com readers! We’re kicking off four weeks of back-to-back giveaways with brand new LulzBot 3D printers for two lucky readers. The grand prize winner will receive a Taz 6, LulzBot’s top-of-the-line 3D printer that retails for US $2,500 and boasts an impressive 280x280x250mm (nearly the size of a basketball) heated print surface. read...
Top 5: Learning Python, analyzing Linux performance with bcc/BPF, and more
This week we take a look at seven tools for analyzing performance in Linux, an introduction to machine learning with Apache Solr, how Linux Vendor Firmware Service makes updates easier, 10 things that Jen Krieger learned making LEGO blocks glow, and five approaches to learning Python. read...
