‘Hosting Providers Who Turn a Blind Eye to IPTV Pirates Should Be Prosecuted’
Increasingly, people are canceling their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper or niche-based Internet TV instead. While there are plenty of legal options available, there’s also a broad offer of easy-to-use set-top boxes which are specifically configured to receive pirated content. These pirate IPTV boxes are often sold bundled with a monthly or yearly subscription. This created an industry that’s worth...
Inside the UK’s ‘Pirate’ IPTV Blocking System
Millions of people in the UK cite football (soccer for those over the pond) as their favorite sport. Every week, huge numbers head off to grounds far and wide but for the travel averse, watching matches on TV is the only option. Broadcasters like Sky and BT Sport would like consumers to choose their premium offerings but that can be prohibitively expensive. Even then, the Premier League’s top games played on a Saturday afternoon...
3 commands to reboot Linux (plus 4 more ways to do it safely)
Linux is fully capable of running not weeks, but years, without a reboot. In some industries, that’s exactly what Linux does, thanks to advances like kpatch and kgraph. For laptop and desktop users, though, that metric is a little extreme. While it may not be a day-to-day reality, it’s at least a weekly reality that sometimes you have a good reason to reboot your machine. And for a system that doesn’t need rebooting...
How to structure a multi-file C program: Part 1
It has often been said that the art of computer programming is part managing complexity and part naming things. I contend that this is largely true with the addition of “and sometimes it requires drawing boxes.” read...
Do you prefer a live demo to be perfect or broken?
At DevFest DC in June, Sara Robinson, developer advocate at Google Cloud, gave the most seamless live demo I’ve ever witnessed. Sara live-coded a machine model from scratch using TensorFlow and Keras. Then she trained the model live, deployed it to Google’s Cloud AI platform, and used the deployed model to make predictions. With the exception of perhaps one small hiccup, the whole thing went smoothly, and I learned a...
