Facebook Takes Down TorrentFreak Post Over ‘Infringing’ Meme
When the EU Copyright Directive protests were in full swing earlier this year, many people warned that upload filters would “kill memes.” We weren’t particularly fond of this oversimplification, but the problems with upload filters are obvious, with or without the new EU directive. In fact, even without automated filters copyright enforcement efforts can be quite problematic. Today we present a rather unusual...
DISH to Subpoena Google, Facebook, PayPal & Twitter to Identify ‘Pirate’ IPTV Operators
DISH Networks’ efforts to disrupt, take down, or obtain settlements from unlicensed IPTV operators are continuing with force through the US legal system. The broadcaster is currently tied up in a number of lawsuits, each targeting companies and individuals that allegedly provide the company’s content to the public, without having first obtained appropriate licensing. A complaint filed in August targets Easybox IPTV, an...
How I ditched my old OS and jumped into Linux
About a year ago, I came across an article on Twitter, Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks With Ubuntu Linux On The Dell XPS 13, by Jason Evangelho, a long-time Forbes tech writer. Here was a person who was clearly fired up from his recent experience using Linux. He had recently been sent a laptop running Windows 10 for evaluation and, in the middle of a large file transfer, the machine restarted without warning. read...
Analyzing the Stack Overflow Survey with Python and Pandas
The Stack Overflow Survey Results for 2019 are in! The dataset is quite large; according to the description: read...
Getting started with Corteza Low Code for your CRM: How to build an application
Corteza is open source software often used as an alternative to Salesforce. In addition to its customer relationship management (CRM) application, one of its most popular and empowering features is its low-code development environment, which helps users create custom Corteza apps that give them exactly what they need. read...
