Australian Piracy Rates Drop, But So Does Spending
For years on end, entertainment industry insiders have regularly portrayed Australia as a piracy-ridden country. To see if this is indeed the case, the Government conducts annual consumer surveys to study local piracy habits. In recent years, this has revealed a steady decline in piracy. The latest online copyright infringement report, released by the Department of Communications and the Arts this week, suggests that there’s...
The Top 19 Most Significant Piracy Shutdowns of 2019
For as long as pirate sites and services have been around, entertainment industry groups have poured significant resources into having them closed down. When Napster went down in flames 20 years ago, some people thought that was mission accomplished. In 2005, when the MGM vs Grokster case went all the way to the Supreme Court and went in MGM’s favor, many people believed that file-sharing had received its fatal blow. Today, 15...
10 articles to enhance your security aptitude
If security is a process (and it is), then it stands to reason that different projects (and contributors) are in different places. Some applications have years of security testing, with design done by people who have worked in information security for decades. Others are brand new projects by developers working on their first open source project. It comes as no surprise that Opensource.com’s top security articles of 2019...
Namespaces are the shamash candle of the Zen of Python
Hanukkah famously has eight nights of celebration. The Hanukkah menorah, however, has nine candles: eight regular candles and a ninth that is always offset. It is called the shamash or shamos, which loosely translates to meaning “servant” or “janitor.” The shamos is the candle that lights all the others: it is the only candle whose fire can be used, not just watched. As we wrap up our series on...
8 must-read DevOps articles for success in 2020
I am an avid reader, but I go through periods where I’m so busy that it’s hard to find the time to keep up with my reading list. Even during my busiest times, I try to stay up to date on DevOps news since it’s one of my areas of focus. read...
