Month: May 2016

In einem dünn besiedelten Flächenland wie Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist der Vectoring-Ausbau nicht einfach. Das exklusive Vectoring-Angebot der Deutschen Telekom halte nicht, was es verspricht, meint der Branchenverband VATM. (Vectoring, Telekom)

The Raspberry Pi line of devices are inexpensive, low-power, credit card-sized computers. But while there are USB ports for connecting a keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or other accessories, there are also a series of GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins that allow you to connect hardware in other ways.

For instance, you can connect a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) board to add motor controllers, GPS, a display, or other features.

Now the folks at Pi 2 Design has launched a Kickstarter campaign for one of the most ridiculous/awesome-looking HATs I’ve seen.

Continue reading Clearly your Raspberry Pi needs a tube amp (crowdfunding) at Liliputing.

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Finnish startup Jolla may have given up on plans to continue producing its own smartphones and tablets. But the company is continuing to develop the Sailfish OS operating system for mobile devices, and Jolla has just announced that it’s raised $12 million to continue working on Sailfish OS and to pursue licensing deals with hardware partners.

This is the second time in about half a year that Jolla has secured funding from investors to keep the company afloat.

Continue reading Jolla secures $12 million in funding for Sailfish OS at Liliputing.

When the Pirate Bay launched over a decade ago the entertainment industry was blown away by the pirates’ utter disrespect for copyright.

The site’s founders argued that people have the right to watch what they want whenever they please, and in a way this attitude acted as a catalyst for many of the legal services we have today.

Fast forward a few years and another industry is facing massive pushback from the Internet.

Growing tired with a constant stream of invasive and annoying ads on many websites, millions of people are now using ad-blockers to clean up their web-browsing experience.

This has led to frustration among publishers and advertising companies who somehow feel that they are entitled to dictate what people get to see. Some even go as far as equating it to “piracy,” as ad blockers take away ad-views and thus income for publishers and ad-vendors.

However, like the entertainment industry before them, advertisers and publishers can’t complain their way back to the pre-adblock era. They should interpret the rise of adblocking as an important signal and adapt their businesses accordingly.

And this is where a familiar name comes in.

Today, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde announces that his micropayment service Flattr is teaming up with Adblock Plus. Their new service, Flattr Plus, allows publishers to generate revenue directly from readers instead of forcing ads upon them.

Flattr Plus is built on the existing micropayment platform that was launched in 2010. Through a new browser add-on it allows users to automatically share money with website owners when an ad is blocked.

“For us it’s super important to show that we’re not generation free, but generation sustainability. I think Flattr has been that way all the time and it’s obvious that Adblock Plus has kind of also been thinking about a good open web,” Sunde informs TorrentFreak.

Those who equate ad blocking to piracy should move on, and try to come up with better monetization models themselves. Advertising on the Internet is not sustainable in its current form, at least not for everyone.

“I think it’s funny how people compare that to piracy – especially since I have been part of that discussion for forever,” Sunde says.

“The media industry seems to think everything is piracy. Then again, it’s hard for them to complain about Flattr Plus, because it contains a solution for exactly the thing they’re complaining about and haven’t fixed themselves,” he adds.

That said, Sunde sees some parallels between Flattr Plus and The Pirate Bay. Both are about sharing information, but this time the creators are compensated.

“Flattr is for me just an extension to the same thinking that I’ve had with The Pirate Bay – information needs to be spread, we need to share information but we also need to fix that missing link of supporting people. And now, finally, we’ll have the user base size to fix that!”

Whether the partnership between Flattr and Adblock Plus will be as disruptive as The Pirate Bay has yet to be seen, but it will certainly cause some waves.

Announcing Flattr Plus

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

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The second-gen Intel Compute Stick features an Intel Atom x5-Z8300 Cherry Trail processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, 802.11ac WiFi, USB 3.0, and a microSD card slot.

Launched earlier this year, I found that the new model offers a slight speed boost over the 2015 model. More importantly, it offers significantly better WiFi performance and has two full-sized USB ports, which makes it easier to use without a hub or Bluetooth accessories.

Continue reading Deals of the Day (5-3-2016) at Liliputing.

Ohne großen Vorlauf hat Bethesda den Erscheinungstermin von Dishonored 2 bekanntgegeben. In dem Action-Schleich-Rollenspiel steuert man wahlweise einen Leibwächter oder eine junge Kaiserin. (Dishonored, Rollenspiel)

Die jüngste Version von OpenSSL behebt eine kritische Sicherheitslücke: eine Neuauflage des sogenannten Padding-Oracle-Angriffs. Mehrere ältere Bugs ermöglichen außerdem zusammen eine Memory-Corrpution-Lücke. (OpenSSL, Technologie)