Top 3 Copyright ‘Owners’ Sent Google a Billion Takedown Requests
Day in and day out copyright holders are flooding Google with DMCA takedown notices, pointing out links to pirated content. While the volume has started to decrease over the past year or two, the numbers are still dazzling. In 2018, copyright holders have reported around 700 million allegedly infringing links to the search engine. Most of these are processed swiftly, making the URLs unfindable in search results. Since Google started...
Bahnhof: The ISP That Fights For Privacy and a Free Internet
Back in 1991, when the World Wide Web (WWW) first became publicly available, few people knew what an impact it would have on the planet. Today, more than 27 years later, a world without the Internet is a prospect that even fewer people are prepared to consider. There can be little doubt that the Internet is becoming greater by the day. Billions now rely on the network to fulfill what have become our most basic needs, with the...
Maximize your Ansible skills with these 7 how-tos
Ansible is a powerful, agentless (but easy-to-use and lightweight) automation tool that’s been steadily gaining popularity since its introduction in 2012. This popularity is due in part to its simplicity. Ansible’s most basic dependencies, Python and SSH, are available by default almost everywhere, making it easy to use Ansible for a wide range of systems: servers, workstations, Raspberry Pis, industrial controllers,...
Getting started with chaos engineering: 3 top reads in 2018
“Resilience is the story of the outage that didn’t happen.” -John Allspaw Our systems are becoming more and more distributed, ephemeral, and immutable in how they function in today’s ever-evolving landscape of contemporary engineering practices. Our world is becoming more complex, but the rate of velocity at which our systems interact and evolve is making work more challenging for humans. In this new paradigm,...
Gaming for Linux, Raspberry Pi, and open source: Top reads of the year
It’s been a good year for gaming and Linux. For one thing, it’s become much easier to play proprietary games on Linux in recent years, but open source gaming has also seen many advances, thanks in part to a retro gaming renaissance. If you are a gamer and an open source advocate, Opensource.com’s top 11 gaming articles of 2018 (listed below) will help you enjoy your games and support open source at the same time....
