IMF: Bitcoin Is Privately Issued Crypto With Substantial Risks, Inadvisable as Legal Tender
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that crypto assets, like bitcoin, are privately issued with substantial risks, and “Making them equivalent to a national currency is an inadvisable shortcut.” The crypto community disagrees. IMF Claims Bitcoin Is Privately Issued Crypto With Substantial Risks, Inadvisable for Use as Legal Tender The International Monetary Fund tweeted about crypto assets on Saturday, asserting that they are...
FitGirl Pirate Repacker Warns Domain Name Could Be Lost, Perhaps Forever
In piracy circles, ‘FitGirl’ is a very well known brand, especially for gamers looking for the latest titles without the usual price tag. Operating from the domain fitgirl-repacks.site, platform operator FitGirl is perhaps the most well-known ‘repacker’ online today due to her/his ability to compress full-size games into more manageable packages. The resulting smaller file sizes are useful for people who want to download pirated games...
Print from anywhere with CUPS on Linux
I have a printer in my office, but sometimes I work on my laptop in another room of the house. This isn’t a problem for me for two reasons. First of all, I rarely print anything on paper and have gone months without using the printer. Secondly, though, I’ve set the printer to be shared over my home network, so I can send files to print from anywhere in the house. I didn’t need any special equipment for this setup....
Write a guessing game in ncurses on Linux
In my last article, I gave a brief introduction to using the ncurses library to write text-mode interactive applications in C. With ncurses, we can control where and how text gets displayed on the terminal. read more Powered by...
