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Solar-powered home web server lasted 15 months: 95,26% uptime

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The first prototype of a solar server with a charge controller. Photo: solar.lowtechmagazine.com In September 2018, an enthusiast from Low-tech Magazine launched a “low-tech” web server project. The goal was to reduce energy consumption so much that one solar panel would be enough for a home self-hosted server. This is not easy, because the site must work 24 hours a day. Let's see what happened in the end. You can go to the server solar.lowtechmagazine.com, check […]

In Russia, a patent was received for the "devourer" of space debris

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According to relevant experts, the problem of space debris should have been solved yesterday, but it is still under development. One can only guess what the final “eater” of space debris will be like. Perhaps it will be a new project proposed by Russian engineers. As Interfax reports, recently at the 44th academic readings on cosmonautics, an employee of the Russian Space Systems company […]

How to build a full-fledged in-house development using DevOps - VTB experience

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DevOps practices work. We were convinced of this ourselves when we reduced the release installation time by 10 times. In the FIS Profile system, which we use at VTB, installation now takes 90 minutes rather than 10. The release build time has decreased from two weeks to two days. The number of persistent implementation defects has dropped to almost a minimum. To leave [...]

Intel smartphone with flexible display turns into a tablet

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Intel Corporation has proposed its own version of a multifunctional convertible smartphone equipped with a flexible display. Information about the device is published on the website of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPRIS). Renders of the device, created on the basis of patent documentation, were presented by the LetsGoDigital resource. As you can see in the images, the smartphone will have a wraparound display. It will cover the front panel, the right side and the entire back panel of the case. Flexible […]

PhotoFlare 1.6.2 release

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PhotoFlare is a relatively new cross-platform image editor that offers a balance between heavy functionality and a user-friendly interface. It is suitable for a wide variety of tasks, and includes all the basic image editing functions, brushes, filters, color settings, etc. PhotoFlare is not a complete replacement for GIMP, Photoshop and similar “combines”, but it contains the most popular photo editing capabilities. […]

Photo of the day: the most detailed images of the surface of the Sun

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has unveiled the most detailed photographs of the Sun's surface taken to date. The shooting was carried out using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST). This device, located in Hawaii, is equipped with a 4-meter mirror. To date, DKIST is the largest telescope designed to study our star. The device […]

Release of the OpenWallpaper Plasma plugin for KDE Plasma

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An animated wallpaper plugin for the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The main feature of the plugin is support for launching a QOpenGL render directly on the desktop with the ability to interact using the mouse pointer. In addition, wallpapers are distributed in packages that contain the wallpaper itself and a configuration file. The plugin is recommended to be used together with OpenWallpaper Manager, a utility designed for working with […]

Materials from the Kafka meetup: CDC connectors, growth problems, Kubernetes

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Hello! Recently, a meeting on Kafka was held in our office. The places in front of him scattered at the speed of light. As one of the speakers said: “Kafka is sexy.” With colleagues from Booking.com, Confluent, and Avito, we discussed the sometimes difficult integration and support of Kafka, the consequences of its crossing with Kubernetes, as well as well-known and personally written connectors for PostgreSQL. We edited video reports, collected presentations from speakers and selected […]

Mozilla Removed 200 Potentially Harmful Firefox Extensions

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Mozilla continues to actively combat potentially dangerous extensions for the Firefox browser that are created by third-party developers and published in the official store. According to available data, in the last month alone, Mozilla has removed about 200 potentially dangerous extensions, most of which were created by a single developer. The report states that Mozilla has removed 129 extensions created by 2Ring, the main […]

Application development and Blue-Green deployment based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology with php and docker examples

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First, a little theory. What is The Twelve-Factor App? In simple words, this document is designed to simplify the development of SaaS applications, helping by informing developers and DevOps engineers about the problems and practices that are most often encountered in the development of modern applications. The document was created by the developers of the Heroku platform. The Twelve-Factor App can be applied to applications written in any […]

Chrome will introduce "percentage" scrolling and improve the sound

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Microsoft is developing not only its Edge browser, but also helping to develop the Chromium platform. This contribution has helped Edge and Chrome equally, and the company is currently working on several other improvements. Specifically, this is "percentage" scrolling for Chromium in Windows 10. Currently, all "Chrome" web browsers scroll the visible part of the web page by […]

Project dehydrated changed owner

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Lukas Schauer, developer of dehydrated, a bash script for automating the receipt of SSL certificates through the Let's Encrypt service, accepted an offer to sell the project and finance its further work. The new owner of the project is the Austrian company Apilayer GmbH. The project has been moved to a new address github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated. The license remains the same (MIT). The completed transaction will help guarantee further development and support of the project - Lucas […]

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