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Cloudflare 的 CEO 將被傳喚說明濫用權力

Cloudflare 的 CEO Matthew Prince，將會被法院傳喚說明 Cloudflare 在沒有收到法院傳票的情況下就終止服務的原因，以及一直不肯在沒有法院傳票的情況下移除盜版網站的 policy：「Cloudflare CEO Has to Explain Lack of Pirate Site Terminations」。

預期會有兩件事情被拿出來訊問，第一件是推廣新納粹主義以及白人優越主義的 The Daily Stormer 被主動終止服務：

In August, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince decided to terminate the account of controversial neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer.

第二件是終止網頁挖礦的服務：

Just a few days ago Cloudflare suspended the account of a customer for using a cryptocurrency miner. Apparently, Cloudflare classifies these miners as malware, triggering a punishment without a court order.

應該會有很精彩的結論 (對 Cloudflare 不利)，來等著看戲...

在遊戲上模擬跑步的動作

從「Balls to learning how to animate, let's film some parkour!」這篇看到讓人懷念的遊戲，1989 年的《波斯王子》：

Jordan Mechner (波斯王子的作者) 用 Rotoscoping 的方式將他弟弟做這些動作的畫面拍下來，然後確保在電腦上角色的動作是順暢的：

Here's the source frames used to rotoscope the above animation. Don't let the ghostly pallor fool you! Jordan Mechner's brother is in fact quite healthy; he was altered with state-of-the-art Liquid Paper and Sharpie technology to fit the palette restrictions of the Apple II.

而波斯王子的原始程式碼在 2012 的時候也從 3.5 吋磁片上順利拉出來，放到 GitHub 上：「jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II」。

Thanks to Jason Scott and Tony Diaz for successfully extracting the source code from a 22-year-old 3.5" floppy disk archive, a task that took most of a long day and night, and would have taken much longer if not for Tony's incredible expertise, perseverence, and well-maintained collection of vintage Apple hardware.