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Habr Weekly #16 / Sharing life hacks: how to save personal money and not be stupid on tasks

An issue about life hacks: financial, legal and time management. We share ourselves, and will be happy to listen to your advice. Leave comments on the post or wherever you listen to us. Everything we discussed and remembered is inside the post. 00:36 / About finances. The author of vsile talked about developing his own telegram bot for managing a family budget. An immortal topic that we have long wanted to discuss. […]

links 2.20 release

A minimalistic browser, Links 2.20, has been released, working in both text and graphical modes. The browser supports HTML 4.0, but without CSS and JavaScript. In text mode, the browser consumes about 2,5 MB of RAM. Changes: Fixed a bug that could allow user identification when accessing via Tor. When connected to Tor, the browser sent DNS queries to regular DNS servers […]

GNU Emacs 26.3 text editor release

The GNU Project has published the release of the GNU Emacs 26.3 text editor. Until the release of GNU Emacs 24.5, the project developed under the personal leadership of Richard Stallman, who handed over the post of project leader to John Wiegley in the fall of 2015. Among the changes in the new release is the inclusion of a new GPG key for verifying packages from the GNU ELPA catalog. Also proposed is a new option 'help-enable-completion-auto-load' […]

Three vulnerabilities in the marvell wifi driver included in the Linux kernel

Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the driver for wireless devices on Marvell chips (CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815, CVE-2019-14816), which can lead to data being written beyond the allocated buffer when processing specially designed packets sent through the interface Netlink. The issues can be exploited by a local user to cause a kernel crash on systems using Marvell wireless cards. The possibility of exploitation of vulnerabilities [...]

Incident handling, improving incident response and the value of technical debt. Backend United 4 meetup materials: Okroshka

Hello! This is a post-report from the Backend United meetup, our series of thematic meetings for backend developers. This time we talked a lot about working with incidents, discussed how to build our system to improve incident response and were convinced of the value of technical debt. Go to the cat if you are interested in these topics. Inside you will find meeting materials: video recordings of reports, presentations […]

Production readiness checklist

The translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the “DevOps practices and tools” course, which starts today! Have you ever released a new service into production? Or maybe you were involved in supporting such services? If yes, what motivated you? What is good for production and what is bad? How do you train new team members on releases or maintenance of existing services. Most companies in […]

The new be quiet! Shadow Wings 2 is white

be quiet! announced the Shadow Wings 2 White cooling fans, which, as reflected in the name, are made in white. The series includes models with a diameter of 120 mm and 140 mm. The rotation speed is controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM). In addition, modifications without PWM support will be offered to customers. The rotation speed of the 120mm cooler reaches 1100 rpm. Maybe […]

Thermalright equips Macho Rev.C EU cooling system with a quieter fan

Thermalright has introduced a new processor cooling system called Macho Rev.C EU-Version. The new product differs from the standard version of Macho Rev.C, announced in May of this year, by a quieter fan. Also, most likely, the new product will be sold only in Europe. The original version of Macho Rev.C uses a 140mm TY-147AQ fan, which can rotate at speeds from 600 to 1500 rpm […]

Apache NIFI - A Brief Overview of Opportunities in Practice

Introduction It so happened that at my current place of work I had to get acquainted with this technology. I'll start with a little background. At the next meeting, our team was told that we needed to create integration with a well-known system. Integration meant that this well-known system would send us requests via HTTP to a specific endpoint, and we, oddly enough, would send […]

Stormy Peters leads Microsoft's Open Source Division

Stormy Peters has taken over as director of Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office. Previously, Stormy led the community engagement team at Red Hat, and previously served as director of developer engagement at Mozilla, vice president of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and chair of the GNOME Foundation. Stormi is also known as the creator of […]

A new enrollment has been opened at Yandex.Lyceum: the geography of the project has been doubled

Today, August 30, a new enrollment at Yandex.Lyceum has started: those wishing to undergo training will be able to submit applications until September 11. "Yandex.Lyceum" is an educational project of "Yandex" to teach programming to schoolchildren. Applications are accepted from eighth and ninth grade students. The curriculum lasts two years; Moreover, training is free. This year, the geography of the project has expanded by more than [...]

DiRT Rally for Steam Free to Claim in Humble Bundle

The Humble Bundle store regularly gives away games to visitors. Not long ago the service offered free Guacamelee! and Age of Wonders III, and now it’s DiRT Rally’s turn. The Codemasters project was initially released in Steam Early Access, and the full PC version went on sale on December 7, 2015. The rally simulator features a large fleet of vehicles, where […]