Welcome to the Juungle: A Bitcoin Cash NFT Market That Allows Anyone Buy and Sell Unique SLP Collectibles
Non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles have been seeing relentless demand and publicity these days. While the Ethereum network has been the dominant force in this space, a great number of alternative blockchains have been introducing NFT support. In recent weeks, Bitcoin Cash proponents have been leveraging an NFT marketplace called juungle.net. The marketplace has a myriad of Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP)-based collections of NFTs for...
RIAA: Stream-Ripper ‘Yout’ Would Have No Business If Users Could Download From YouTube
After the RIAA’s attempt last year to have youtube-dl removed from Github, YouTube-ripping service Yout.com carried out a preemptive strike in an effort to have itself declared legal. Yout.com filed a complaint in a Connecticut court, arguing that previous actions by the RIAA to have its homepage delisted from Google, based on alleged circumvention of YouTube’s ‘rolling cipher’ technology, were wrongful and damaged its business. Early...
PRS for Music Claims Victory over 1,346 Pirate Sites (Update)
PRS for Music is a UK outfit that collects royalties for more than 150,000 members, including songwriters, composers and publishers. The organization also takes an active stance against piracy. Five years ago it rolled out the Member Anti-Piracy System (MAPS) which tracks down infringing content on the web and sends takedown notices to associated sites. Reporting Millions of URLs This week PRS is looking back at the performance of its...
How to use the Linux sed command
Few Unix commands are as famous as sed, grep, and awk. They get grouped together often, possibly because they have strange names and powerful tools for parsing text. They also share some syntactical and logical similarities. And while they’re all useful for parsing text, each has its specialties. This article examines the sed command, which is a stream editor. read more Powered by...
Identify Linux performance bottlenecks using open source tools
Computers are integrated systems that only perform as fast as their slowest hardware component. If one component is less capable than the others—if it falls behind and can’t keep up—it can hold your entire system back. That’s a performance bottleneck. Removing a serious bottleneck can make your system fly. read more Powered by...
