Under the cut is a short verse about why I'm increasingly annoyed by computers and a sedentary lifestyle. Who is flying off into the world of games? Who has to quietly wait, leaning against plush pillows? To love, to hope, to dream That our real world will return To whose virtual world through the window? And will a night peach break through the net of illusions into the man’s home? So […]
The source texts of VictoriaMetrics have been opened — a fast and scalable DBMS for storing and processing data in the form of time series (a record forms time and a set of corresponding values for that time, for example, obtained through periodic sensor state polling or metric collection). The project competes with solutions such as InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Thanos, Cortex, and Uber M3. The code is written in Go […]
I decided to share my story. Maybe this budget solution to a well-known problem will help someone. When I was young and full of energy and didn’t know where to channel it, I decided to do a little freelancing. I quickly managed to build my rating and found a couple of regular clients who asked me to maintain their servers on an ongoing basis. The first thing I thought of […]
Galaxy Microsystems has unveiled two new versions of the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card in China, distinguished by their unusual blue color. One of the new models is called the GeForce RTX 2070 Mini, which is quite compact, while the other is named the GeForce RTX 2070 Metal Master (a literal translation from Chinese) and is a full-size model. Interestingly, Galax has previously […]
The OpenSSL upgrade to version 1.1.1b in the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository led to functionality issues for some applications related to libopenssl that utilize Russian or Ukrainian locales. The problem arose after a change was made to the error message buffer handler (SYS_str_reasons) in OpenSSL. The buffer was set at 4 kilobytes, which turned out to be insufficient for some Unicode locales. The output of strerror_r, used for […]
Photonics integrated circuits or optical chips potentially offer numerous advantages over their electronic counterparts, such as reduced power consumption and lower latency in computations. This is why many researchers believe they could be extremely effective in machine learning tasks and artificial intelligence (AI) development. Intel also sees significant potential for the application of silicon photonics in […]
Microsoft continues to release fresh updates for Edge on the Dev and Canary channels. The latest patch includes minor changes, including a fix for an issue that could lead to high CPU usage during browser idle time, along with a few other improvements. The most significant enhancement in Canary 76.0.168.0 and Dev Build 76.0.167.0 is the built-in translator, which will allow users to read text from any website […]
Mozilla developers have decided to disable the handling of userContent.css and userChrome.css files by default, which allow users to override the styling of websites or the Firefox interface. The reason for this default disabling is to reduce the browser's startup time. Modifying behavior through userContent.css and userChrome.css is extremely rare among users, and loading these CSS files consumes additional resources (optimization eliminates unnecessary access to […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.9 — is now available. Since the release of version 4.8, 24 bug reports have been closed and 362 changes have been made. Key changes include: Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers; The ability to build 16-bit modules in PE format; Various functions have been moved to a new DLL called KernelBase; Several fixes have been made related to […]
Changes have been incorporated into the code of the window manager Mutter, developed as part of the GNOME 3.34 development cycle, allowing for the automation of XWayland startup when attempting to run an application based on the X11 protocol in a graphical environment based on the Wayland protocol. The difference from the behavior of GNOME 3.32 and earlier releases is that, previously, the XWayland component was constantly running and required […]
We continue to discuss the technological innovations presented at the VMware EMPOWER 2019 conference in Lisbon. Our materials on this topic on Habr: Key topics of the conference, Summary report of the first day, IoT, AI systems, and networking technologies, Virtualization of storage systems is reaching a new level. The third day at VMware EMPOWER 2019 began with an overview of the company's plans for the development of the vSAN product and other […]
Reflections on where the desire to pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification comes from. Motivation one: “Axes”. One of the most useful principles for any professional is 'Know your tools' (or in one of the variations 'Sharpen the saw'). We’ve been in the cloud for a long time, but until now, they were just monolithic applications with databases deployed on EC2 instances — […]