DMCA Review Triggers Opposition Against Site Blocking and Staydown Requirements
When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was introduced in 1998, file-sharing was a fringe activity, and online streaming a futuristic idea. The developments over the past two decades have transformed the way people consume media, both legally and illegally. Calls for DMCA Reform Despite these drastic changes, the DMCA still dictates how many online services respond to copyright-infringing content. While most service providers...
Spotify’s Anti-Plagiarism Tool To Protect Copyright is Too Black Mirror
When I started writing music in in my teens, I didn’t even think about how to begin. I just did what every other starting writer does – I copied, emulated, plagiarized and otherwise ripped-off everything I’d enjoyed from the music I’d listened to thus far. Badly. Deprived of divine inspiration, it wouldn’t have been possible any other way. Show me a composer who hasn’t committed at least one of the above at some point and I’ll show...
Optimize your GNOME experience with the Gedit text editor
Being the default text editor is a thankless job. People usually regard a default text editor almost as a demo app—a slightly elevated “hello world” example of how an application on that platform is meant to run. Users resort to the default text editor in the rare occasions they need to dump some text into a file they’ll probably never look at again. For “serious” work, they turn to a word processor or an IDE,...
Manage multiple service instances with systemctl
Services, services, services. A service is a huge part of computing. You’re reading this article on a service. Your computer is running services. The internet is filled with them. About systemctl On Linux, the standard way of running and managing services is through the systemd utility and the command systemctl. Its usage is fairly simple: you just need to know the name of the service you want to manage, then you can use this...
Set up Home Assistant to manage your open source smart home
In the first article in this series, I introduced Home Assistant and why you might be interested in it. In short, Home Assistant is an automation hub for some of the most common smart devices on the market today. It enables centralized coordination of disparate hardware. By using it, you no longer have to choose suboptimal tech from a single vendor to manage your smart home from a single app. read more Powered by...
