Toronto Film Festival Asks Google to Remove Links to Leaked Netflix Screeners
Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voter for review. Some of these copies end up in the hands of pirates and are subsequently published online. This includes screeners of potential Academy Award nominees, which usually appear around December. Netflix Screeners Leak Over the past two years, this trend was broken. In 2020, the first movie screeners surfaced in October and this...
Movie Piracy: Customers of Major UK ISPs Receive Letters Demanding Cash
Companies that own copyrighted works have the option to monetize them in any way they see fit. For movies this can include releasing them in theaters, licensing to streaming services, or releasing on physical formats such as blu-ray. None of these avenues are inherently controversial but for some companies another option is attractive; track down people who allegedly downloaded and shared movies online and warn them that they could...
Watch commands and tasks with the Linux watch command
There are many times when you need to wait for something to finish, such as: A file download. Creating or extracting a tar file. An Ansible job. Some of these processes have some sort of progress indication, but sometimes the process is run through a layer of abstraction, and the only way to measure the progress is through its side effects. Some of these might be: read more Powered by...
How I patched Python to include this great Ruby feature
Ruby, unlike Python, makes lots of things implicit, and there’s a special kind of if expression that demonstrates this well. It’s often referred to as an “inline-if” or “conditional modifier”, and this special syntax is able to return one value when a condition is true, but another value (nil, specifically) when a condition is false. Here’s an example: read more Powered by...
Crunch numbers in Python with NumPy
NumPy, or Numerical Python, is a library that makes it easy to do statistical and set operations on linear series and matrices in Python. It is orders of magnitude faster than Python lists, which I covered in my notes on Python Data Types. NumPy is used quite frequently in data analysis and scientific calculations. read more Powered by...
