Manga Scanlation Teams Don’t Want War, They Want Accessible Content
In recent months there has been a notable increase in publicised anti-piracy actions against services offering manga content. Publishers have pressured a range of sites, hoping to shut down or at least make life more difficult for these hugely popular platforms. Among the targets was MandaDex, a so-called ‘scanlation’ platform that offers scanned and translated manga publications to an audience underserved by publishers...
Pirated Copy of ‘1917’ Leaks in Massive Screener Dump
Earlier this week we reported that the number of leaked screeners was on the rise again after an all-time low last year. Over the past 24-hours, this number went up significantly with six new leaks bringing the total to 16. A pirated screener dump of this magnitude in such a short timeframe is something we haven’t seen before. What’s also new is that the release group ‘TOPKEK’ is one of the driving forces....
Keep a journal of your activities with this Python program
Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. read...
7 things I learned from starting an open source project
I’m currently involved—heavily involved—in Enarx, an open source (of course!) project to support running sensitive workloads on untrusted hosts. I’ve had involvement in various open source projects over the years, but this is the first for which I’m one of the founders. We’re at the stage now where we’ve got a fair amount of code, quite a lot of documentation, a logo, and (important!)...
