Court Dismisses Yout.com DMCA Circumvention Lawsuit Against RIAA, For Now
Aug10

Court Dismisses Yout.com DMCA Circumvention Lawsuit Against RIAA, For Now

Follow the RIAA’s attempt to have youtube-dl removed from Github, ripping service Yout carried out a preemptive legal strike against the record label group. Filed in a Connecticut court, Yout argued that previous actions by the RIAA to have its homepage delisted from Google, on the basis that it circumvented YouTube’s ‘rolling cipher’ technology, were wrongful and damaged its business. “Contrary to Defendants’ allegations, Yout’s...

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Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive
Aug10

Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive

Since launching a decade ago in 2011, Sci-Hub has occupied a unique space in the pirate site ecosystem. While its unlicensed counterparts in movie, TV show and music distribution are vilified for undermining creators, Sci-Hub has received broad praise for helping to spread knowledge for the furtherment of science and education, particularly to those who can least afford it. But that praise is not universal. Companies in the publishing...

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How I use Terraform and Helm to deploy the Kubernetes Dashboard
Aug10

How I use Terraform and Helm to deploy the Kubernetes Dashboard

When I’m working on projects that require provisioning cloud infrastructure, my workflow has two disparate components: one is infrastructure orchestration, which includes Terraform to bring up the infrastructure (for instance, new EKS clusters), and the second is the provisioning component, which includes Ansible or Bash scripts to instantiate and initialize that infrastructure to accept new deployments (for instance, installing...

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How to get the most out of GitOps right now
Aug10

How to get the most out of GitOps right now

You may have encountered this brief introduction to GitOps shared by prevalent cloud software engineer, Kelsey Hightower: GitOps: versioned CI/CD on top of declarative infrastructure. Stop scripting and start shipping. https://t.co/SgUlHgNrnY read more Powered by...

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