Mexico Piracy is Rampant But Spotify Uptake is Huge
When it comes to piracy, Mexico is high on the list of illicit global content consumers. The country has been criticized in numerous USTR reports, with enforcement progress rated low. Reports suggest that piracy is still a big deal in Mexico. Data cited in local media sourced from the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) indicates that eight out of ten Mexicans who consume pirate content believe that it’s not a serious offense....
Flixtor Offline Following Mysterious Domain Updates
By offering acces to high quality movies and TV-shows, steaming site Flixtor has steadily grown its userbase in recent years. The site, not to be confused with the defunct torrent streaming app Flixtor, has been operating with minimal downtime. This week that changed. On Tuesday morning the site moved away from CDN provider Cloudflare. Flixtor’s domain nameservers were changed from to those of its registrar Njalla, and the A...
My first FOSS love was Perl
Set the wayback machine to 1993. I was working at a small company as a programmer and product deployment specialist. The product was COBOL-based and the OS was SCO Xenix. Both were based on open standards, but not open source. I was hired because I knew the medical software business and I had experience in several flavors of what was then called Micro-Unix. I didn’t know a thing about COBOL, but that was the job opening. (PS, if...
How I uncovered my inner geek
I’m beginning to feel old. A few months ago, somebody called me a “gray beard” in a comment in an IRC channel. You might have thought my lack of actual beard and the fact that they used the US spelling, rather than the correct “grey,” would have meant that I was unaffected, but no, I was. read...
Tech gadget gift guide, new Raspberry Pi, Linux on the desktop, and more news
In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” gift guide, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’s thoughts about Linux on the desktop, the release of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, and more. read...
