US Passes Spending Bill With CASE Act and Felony Streaming Proposal
Earlier today Congress approved the 5,593-page spending bill. In addition to the necessary paperwork to keep the Government running, the bill also included COVID-19 relief measures and other last-minute additions. Copyright Proposals Passed These late additions include two controversial pieces of copyright legislation: the CASE Act and a new felony streaming proposal. Both were passed as part of the package with little to no...
How to use the Eclipse IDE as your text editor
Eclipse is an IDE (integrated development environment). It’s definitely not a text editor. Then again, an IDE is really just a text editor with a lot of extra features for specific kinds of text. Furthermore, an IDE is often home to a developer. Developers have their IDE of choice open all day long, so it’s natural to stay in that IDE when it’s time to write a project README file, or to jot down a quick note, or to just make a grocery...
10 Raspberry Pi project ideas from 2020
The Raspberry Pi is the small, low-cost, single-board PC that took the world by storm when it was released in 2012. Since then, educators, students, makers, and tinkerers have used the various Raspberry Pi models for many, many unique and interesting projects. The possibilities are nearly endless. Over the course of 2020, Opensource.com published many great articles about Raspberry Pi projects; below, I explore the top 10. I hope...
9 stories about switching to an open source alternative in 2020
In 2020, as every year, new open source projects launched as alternatives to proprietary solutions. Here is a roundup of the top nine articles about open source alternatives that made the headlines in 2020 on Opensource.com. read more Powered by...
