To the roots... July 4, 2016 Irina Yarovaya gave an interview on the Rossiya 24 channel. Let me reprint a small fragment from it: “The law does not propose storing information. The law only gives the Government of the Russian Federation the right to decide within 2 years whether something needs to be stored or not. To what extent? In relation to what piece of information? Those. […]
On May 1, the law on the “sovereign Internet” was finally signed, but experts almost immediately dubbed it the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet, so from what? (in simple language) The article pursues the goal of generally informing Internet users without immersing itself in unnecessary jungle and abstruse terminology. The article explains simple things for many, but for many it does not mean […]
I've been very unlucky in my life. All my life I have been surrounded by people who do something real. And I, as you might guess, am a representative of two of the most meaningless, far-fetched and unreal professions that you can think of - programmer and manager. My wife is a school teacher. Plus, of course, the class teacher. My sister is a doctor. Her husband, naturally, too. […]
Ubisoft has announced that it will join the Blender development fund as a Gold Member. Ubisoft will not only help fund the development of Blender, but will also provide Ubisoft Animation Studio developers to contribute to Blender projects. Source: linux.org.ru
There have been, are, and, unfortunately, will continue to have security problems in social networks and other databases. Banks, hotels, government facilities, and so on are under threat. But it seems that this time the situation has really gotten worse. The Bulgarian Personal Data Protection Commission reports that hackers hacked the tax office database and stole the information of 5 million people. Number […]
Background It just so happened that I needed to store more than 1.5 TB of data somewhere, and also provide the ability for ordinary users to download it via a direct link. Since traditionally such amounts of memory go to VDS, the cost of renting which is not very much included in the project budget from the “nothing to do” category, and from the initial data I had […]
The Steam service constantly monitors statistics on the simultaneous number of users in all games. This factor shows the success of the project on the Valve digital platform. A user under the nickname sickgraphs created an animated graph showing changes in the leaderboard for the concurrent online parameter over the past ten years and posted his creation on Reddit. In July 2009, the first positions were occupied by Counter-Strike […]
Fewer and fewer users are selling their old iPhones to buy a new Apple model, according to data from BankMyCell, which operates a trade-in program for an old phone for a new one. To track Apple brand loyalty during the upgrade cycle, the company collected data from more than 38 people who upgraded their phones to new ones as part of the trading […]
The Roscosmos State Corporation reports that today, July 18, the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-13 manned spacecraft was installed on the launch pad of pad No. 1 (Gagarin launch) of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The Soyuz MS-13 device will deliver the crew of the long-term expedition ISS-60/61 to the International Space Station (ISS). The core team includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano […]
Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation announced that it will officially change its name to Kioxia Holdings on October 1, 2019. Around the same time, the Kioxia (kee-ox-ee-uh) name will be included in the names of all Toshiba Memory companies. Kioxia is a combination of the Japanese word kioku, meaning "memory", and the Greek word axia, meaning "value". Combining “memory” with […]
The Apache Software Foundation has introduced the Apache NetBeans 11.1 integrated development environment. This is the third release produced by the Apache Foundation since Oracle donated the NetBeans code, and the first release since the project moved from the incubator to a primary Apache project. The release contains support for the Java SE, Java EE, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy programming languages. Transfer of C/C++ support from the company transferred […]
At the end of last year, Microsoft decided to replace its own EdgeHTML rendering engine with the more common Chromium. The reasons for this were the higher speed of the latter, support for different browsers, faster updates, and so on. By the way, it was the ability to update the browser independently of Windows itself that became one of the decisive aspects. According to researchers from Duo, the “classic” […]
