Month: July 2020

The piratebay used a swedish VPN provider

The Pirate Bay: VPN Provider OVPN Hit With Court Injunction, Vows to Fight

Undeterred by this setback, the movie companies and Rights Alliance returned to court last week demanding that OVPN, on pain of financial penalties, should hand over customer information relating to the IP address including name and address, how long the service had been used for, and how much was paid for it.

The Rights Alliance requested a penalty of 100,000 SEK if we did not provide the requested information, as well as a penalty of 100,000 SEK in case we delete any user information connected to who had the IP address at the specified time, i.e penalties connected to information that we don’t have.

This will be interesting. Do the VPN provider have the user information. If it deletes the information will that be illegal. Can you throw away information that could be useful for the courts.

The Linux kernel is going to use a more inclusive terminology

Prominent upstream Linux kernel developers are working on adding “inclusive terminology” guidelines to the Linux kernel coding style requirements.

The new inclusive terminology documentation applies to new code being contributed to the Linux kernel but ultimately in hopes of replacing existing code with words deemed not inclusive. The exception being granted though is where changing the terminology could potentially break the user-space ABI given the kernel’s longstanding guarantees on not breaking that interface.

These new guidelines for Linux kernel developers call for initially avoiding words including “slave” and “blacklist” to instead use words like subordinate, replica, follower, performer, blocklist, or denylist.

Liberal faggots. 😄 A few years ago this would look like a joke. I wonder what Linus thinks about it.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Inclusive-Terminology