The Pirate Bay Promotes ‘Mysterious’ Digital Pirate Token (Updated)
The Pirate Bay has been both an early adopter and a pioneer when it comes to cryptocurrencies. (Update, there’s now a statement posted on The Pirate Bay, posted in full at the bottom of this article) More than eight years ago the torrent site added support for Bitcoin donations, with Litecoin and Monero following later. The Pirate Bay was also the first large website to start mining cryptocurrency by using the computing resources of...
3 Python 3.2 features that are still relevant today
This the third article in a series about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Some of those Python versions have been out for a while. For example, Python 3.2 was first released in 2011, yet some of the cool and useful features introduced in it are still underused. Here are three of them. argparse subcommands The argparse module first appeared in Python 3.2. There are many third-party modules for command-line...
Drop Autotools for CMake
In my introduction to Autotools, I demonstrated how to manage building and packaging code with GNU Autotools. It’s a robust and common platform that integrates easily into many packaging systems, including RPM, APT, pkgsrc, and more. Its syntax and structure can be confusing, but luckily there are alternatives, including the open source CMake framework. read more Powered by...
