Could You Build a Better Way to Wiki? Free TON Launches Contest With Over $80,000 in Crypto
Free TON, a decentralized international community of developers and enthusiasts, have launched a brand-new contest to rework the Wikipedia Governance model, and there are thousands of dollars worth of rewards on offer. Freecyclopedia Wikipedia currently boasts over twenty-one million individual articles, and while many last minute homework reports may have been saved by the dusty halls of these hallowed community moderated forums, the...
France Proposes EU-Wide Cryptocurrency Regulation
France has proposed giving more power to the Paris-based European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and making it responsible for cryptocurrency oversight. French regulators say cryptocurrencies need EU-wide regulation. EU-Wide Crypto Regulation With ESMA as Main Supervisor France proposed Tuesday that the EU governments give the responsibility of regulating cryptocurrencies to the pan-European markets watchdog, the Paris-based...
Mass Bogus DMCA Takedowns Impersonate Reddit to Attack Downloading Tools
Earlier this week the popular Reddit downloading bot ‘SaveVideo’ unexpectedly threw in the towel. According to early reports from the operator of the service, which in part operated from RedditSave.com, Reddit sent a rather aggressive copyright infringement complaint warning of a potential lawsuit. Wanting to take no risks, the decision was taken to shut down the SaveVideo bot and the RedditSave website. TorrentFreak contacted...
VPN Hosting Company Asks Court to Dismiss Piracy Lawsuit
Copyright holders have tried a wide variety of legal options to tackle online piracy. In recent years we have seen lawsuits against people who download and share pirated material. At the same time, operators of pirate sites have been sued as well. A group of US-based independent movie companies is trying to expand the legal reach by going after third-party intermediaries. The makers of movies such as “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Rambo V:...
Monitor your home’s temperature and humidity with Raspberry Pis and Prometheus
Data is beautiful. As a #CitizenScientist, I enjoy gathering data and trying to make sense of the world around me. At work, we use Prometheus to gather metric data from our clusters, and at home, I use Prometheus to gather data from my hobbies. This article explores how to take an application—a Python script that gathers temperature and humidity data from a sensor—and instrument it to provide data in a model that Prometheus can...
