Elon Musk Giving ‘Serious Thought’ to Creating Social Media Platform With Free Speech as Top Priority
Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk says that he is “giving serious thought to” creating a new social media platform with free speech as a top priority. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” the Tesla billionaire said. Elon Musk Considers Building New Social Media Platform, Says Free Speech Is Essential to Democracy The CEO of Tesla...
Bungie Files Lawsuit to Punish Senders of Fake Destiny DMCA Notices
Notices of infringment sent by rightsholders under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are supposed to identify infringing content so that online services can remove it, thus protecting the rightful owners. Increasingly, however, a minority of online actors view DMCA notices as a tool to disrupt and disappear content that isn’t infringing at all. A little over a week ago, persons unknown began sending DMCA notices to YouTube,...
YouTube Needs a Copyright Specialist To Handle ‘High-Risk’ Takedowns
Those wanting to learn how many DMCA notices have been sent to Google over the past few years need look no further than the copyright section of its vast and constantly updated Transparency Report. This colossal database contains information on more than five billion DMCA takedown requests, including who sent them, when, and which platforms were targeted. When coupled with the Lumen Database there are ample opportunities to research...
Scheduling tasks with the Linux cron command
Scheduling tasks with the Linux cron command Don Watkins Mon, 03/28/2022 – 03:00 Up Register or Login to like. Early in my Linux journey, I came to appreciate the numerous command-line utilities of the operating system and the way they streamlined regular tasks. For example, backing up applications on my Windows server frequently required expensive add-on software packages. By contrast, the tar command makes backing up Linux...
Simplify Java persistence implementation with Kotlin on Quarkus
Simplify Java persistence implementation with Kotlin on Quarkus Daniel Oh Mon, 03/28/2022 – 03:00 Up Register or Login to like. For decades, developers have struggled with optimizing persistence layer implementation in terms of storing business data, retrieving relevant data quickly, and—most importantly— simplifying data transaction logic regardless of programming languages. Fortunately, this challenge triggered the invention...
