Model Sues Cloudflare and Thothub in Mass Piracy Lawsuit
The Internet has brought us many new creators and publishers, some of whom are able to make a decent living from their work. The stories about YouTubers who make millions are well known. These web-stars earn their money through advertising, but there’s also a group of creators that have a more direct approach. In recent years there’s been an influx of models who share their, often sexy, pictures and videos in exchange for...
Torrent Piracy Saves Silent Bob’s 50th Birthday Drive-In Cinema Party
While the terms movie piracy and cinema often appear in the same conversations, the connections are rarely positive. Studios, distributors, and theaters believe that piracy represents an existential threat to their business models and nothing positive ever comes from it. But for actor and director Kevin Smith, aka Silent Bob from the Jay and Silent Bob movies, the accessibility of a pirated copy of his latest movie prevented his 50th...
5 reasons to run Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi homelab
There’s a saying about the cloud, and it goes something like this: The cloud is just somebody else’s computer. While the cloud is actually more complex than that (it’s a lot of computers), there’s a lot of truth to the sentiment. When you move to the cloud, you’re moving data and services and computing power to an entity you don’t own or fully control. On the one hand, this frees you from having to...
5 tips for making documentation a priority in open source projects
Open source software is now mainstream; long gone are the days when open source projects attracted developers alone. Nowadays, users across numerous industries are active consumers of open source software, and you can’t expect everyone to know how to use the software just by reading the code. read more Powered by...
You don’t need a computer science degree to work with open source software
I am mostly a self-taught programmer. When I was growing up in the late 1970s, our elementary school had a small resource room with an Apple II computer. My brother and I fell into a group of friends that liked computers, and we all helped each other learn the system. read more Powered by...
