Investigation Links ‘Pirate’ Scam Ads to Canadian Affiliate Network
The Internet is full of tricksters and scammers. While anyone can fall prey to them, prospective pirates have proven to be a popular target. Sites that offer free access to the latest Hollywood blockbusters are promoted aggressively. Not seldomly, these ads are stuffed with various piracy-related keywords. We have seen these promotions in the comment sections of pirate sites but also on legitimate platforms. At the same time, scammers...
Guy Who Bragged On Triller Owner’s Instagram That He Pirated Jake Paul Fight Gets Sued
Following the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight in April, Triller started a litigation drive rarely seen in the sporting world. It began with a $100m lawsuit targeting entities and individuals who distributed the fight illegally on various platforms including YouTube. When that didn’t go exactly to plan due to legal complications, Triller modified its approach, filing several separate lawsuits against streaming platforms and a handful of...
Try this new open source tool for data analytics
Data analytics is a trendy field with many solutions available. One of them is Cube.js, an open source analytical platform. You can think of Cube.js as a layer between your data sources and applications. As the diagram below shows, Cube.js supports serverless data warehouses and most modern relational database management systems (RDBMS). You can work with any JavaScript front-end library for data visualization, and Cube.js will take...
Build a static website with Eleventy
A static site generator is a tool that generates a full, static HTML website based on raw data and a set of templates. It automates the task of coding individual HTML pages and gets those pages ready to serve to users. Because the HTML pages are prebuilt, they load very quickly in users’ browsers. read more Powered by...
Keep track of your IRC chats with ZNC
For a bit more than a year, I’ve been wondering if it is possible to bolt the open source Matrix communications network to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in such a way that I can still use my ZNC IRC bouncer without an extra proliferation of nicknames. The answer, is amusingly, yes. But first, some background. read more Powered by...
