YouTuber “Golden Modz” Settles Lawsuit Over Fortnite Cheats
With more than 1.8 million subscribers, ‘Golden Modz‘ ranks among the more popular game YouTubers. The channel is linked to Florida resident Brandon Lucas, who uses it to share gameplay videos which regularly feature cheats and hacks. Game publishers are not always happy to see this type of activity. When Golden Modz uploaded several Fortnite cheat videos last summer, Fortnite creator Epic Games took...
Choosing an open messenger client: Alternatives to WhatsApp
Like many families, mine is inconveniently spread around, and I have many colleagues in North and South America. So, over the years, I’ve relied more and more on WhatsApp to stay in touch with people. The claimed end-to-end encryption appeals to me, as I prefer to maintain some shreds of privacy, and moreover to avoid forcing those with whom I communicate to use an insecure mechanism. read...
Move your dotfiles to version control
There is something truly exciting about customizing your operating system through the collection of hidden files we call dotfiles. In What a Shell Dotfile Can Do For You, H. “Waldo” Grunenwald goes into excellent detail about the why and how of setting up your dotfiles. Let’s dig into the why and how of sharing them. read...
Getting started with Jaeger to build an Istio service mesh
Service mesh provides a dedicated network for service-to-service communication in a transparent way. Istio aims to help developers and operators address service mesh features such as dynamic service discovery, mutual transport layer security (TLS), circuit breakers, rate limiting, and tracing. read...
Managing changes in open source projects
Why bother having a process for proposing changes to your open source project? Why not just let people do what they’re doing and merge the features when they’re ready? Well, you can certainly do that if you’re the only person on the project. Or maybe if it’s just you and a few friends. read...
