UK Police Threaten YouTube Ripper With Potential Criminal Action
For most police departments, online piracy has no priority, but the City of London Police have made copyright infringement one of their main targets. In September 2013, the department founded the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), which marked the start of a broad enforcement campaign to decrease traffic to pirate sites. To achieve this goal PIPCU has targeted hosting services, advertisers and payment processors, asking...
10 lessons from sysadmins adapting to change in 2020
While 2020 will certainly be remembered for elections, protests, and most of all, the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of other things changed in 2020, including a whole lot of cool changes in technology. Through it all, we could count on system administrators to do what they do best. Perhaps more so than ever, as we all moved from physical offices to working from home. We generated more load than ever on our infrastructure as more...
Learn Rust by writing a simple game
When you want to learn a new programming language, it’s good to focus on the things programming languages have in common: Variables Expressions Statements These concepts are the basis of most programming languages. Once you understand them, you can start figuring the rest out. Because programming languages usually share similarities, once you know one language, you can learn the basics of another by understanding its...
Learn to use the Sed text editor
Created for version 7 of AT&T’s original Unix operating system, the sed command has been included with probably every Unix and Linux OS since. The sed application is a stream editor, and unlike a text editor it doesn’t open a visual buffer into which a file’s data is loaded for processing. Instead, it operates on a file, line by line, according to either a command typed into a terminal or a series of commands in a script. read...
4 reasons businesses adopted open source in 2020
Companies are turning to open source during the pandemic, with 44% of organizations reporting they will increase their use of open source for application development, finds Tidelift’s third managed open source survey. read more Powered by...
