Hollywood & Netflix Win High Court Order to Block 15 Major Pirate Sites
One of the key anti-piracy strategies of the movie and TV show industries is site blocking, whereby internet service providers are compelled via court order to deny subscriber access to specified domains. Due to limited transparency, it is difficult to say exactly how many domains are blocked by ISPs in the UK but they could run into the thousands after more than a decade of legal action. What is becoming ever more evident is that...
Kim Dotcom Suffers Setback in His U.S. Extradition Battle
Next month, a full decade will have passed since the file-storage empire of Kim Dotcom collapsed after Megaupload became the prime target in a high profile law enforcement operation. Despite all the time that since passed, the New Zealand-based entrepreneur and his former colleagues are still waiting to hear whether they will be extradited to the US where a criminal prosecution is pending. With the stakes this high, no legal resources...
5 open source security resources from 2021
One of the most prevalent discussions on Opensource.com in 2021 was about the security and privacy of your own data. A noticeable theme was that your data is yours and that passwords were key to security. This year’s security authors provided helpful tips and open source tools for keeping your data and hardware secure. Here is my top-five countdown of this year’s security journey. read more Powered by...
Implement governance on your Kubernetes cluster
When you work with Kubernetes, it slowly becomes your production temple. You invest time and resources into developing and nurturing it, and you naturally begin looking for ways to control the Kubernetes end user in your organization. What can it do? What resources can it create? Can it label two deployments in a specific way? Which best practices should we follow? Meet OPA Gatekeeper. This article will show you how to use it to...
Create your own animations with this open source motion graphics tool
In animation, there’s an old saying that animation is easy, it’s the tweening that’s hard. In traditional animation practices established in the 1920s, key frames are drawn by a lead artist, and staff artists draw the in-between frames. This is called inbetweening, or “tweening” for short. Today, computers are often recruited for the work of inbetweening. In the words of Tony DeRose, of Pixar: read more...
