Court Upholds Piracy Blocking Order Against Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver
Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool around the globe. In dozens of countries, ISPs have been ordered by courts to block pirate sites, usually on copyright grounds. More recently, neutral DNS providers have been targeted as well. Earlier this year, an Italian court ordered Cloudflare to block three torrent sites on its public 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. The order applies to kickasstorrents.to,...
Fewer Rightsholders Use YouTube Content ID, But They Flag More Content
Last year, YouTube released its first-ever copyright transparency report. The streaming platform revealed that the vast majority of all claimed infringements were reported through the Content ID system. This pattern remained intact in the first half of 2022. YouTube’s latest transparency report reveals that 99 percent of all unique claims were made through the automated system, despite the fact that only a tiny fraction of the...
4 key differences between Twitter and Mastodon
4 key differences between Twitter and Mastodon Don Watkins Thu, 11/10/2022 – 03:00 Social media is not always sociable, and sometimes we need a sufficient impetus to change what we do and what we read. I began using Twitter as a replacement for my RSS reader in 2008, which revolutionized how I read and learned up to that point. Tweets from educators and free and open source (FOSS) advocates worldwide kept me informed and engaged...
Audit your sharding database algorithm
Audit your sharding database algorithm Yacine Si Tayeb, PhD Thu, 11/10/2022 – 03:00 Thanks to the ShardingSphere community’s continuous review and feedback to develop features such as data sharding and read/write splitting, our team found that some users create many shards when using the data sharding feature. In such cases, there can be 1,000 physical tables corresponding to a sharding logical table, which disturbs users....
