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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

FreeBSD developers discuss the use of the Rust language in the base system

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Alan Somers, a developer of the new FUSE driver implementation for FreeBSD and author of Rust bindings for certain FreeBSD libraries, began discussing the process of integrating Rust language code into the base system. During the discussion among project committers, the cost and benefit of this integration were determined. The cost of adding Rust support will be a doubling of build time, while the benefit will be an easier development process for some […]

8.2% of the most popular downloads on NPM are old packages

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Researchers from Aqua Security published their analysis of statistics on the 50 thousand most downloaded packages in the NPM repository. 7,500 (15%) of the most downloaded packages were found to be related to outdated packages and discontinued projects. To simplify the identification of outdated packages among the dependencies used in your project, a utility called Dependency-Deprecated-Checker has been proposed, released under MIT license. In 4,100 (8.2%) of the reviewed […]

Chinese underwater data centers HiCloud have proven their viability

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The first commercial underwater data center in China, created by HiCloud Data Center Technology (a subsidiary of Highlander), has confirmed its operational status. The system has reportedly been functioning steadily since it was launched at the end of last year, according to Datacenter Dynamics, citing Chinese media. Furthermore, HiCloud announced that it received orders from China Telecom and SenseTime for similar […]

Release of SQLite DBMS 3.45

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SQLite 3.45 has been released, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used freely without restrictions for any purpose. The financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Bentley, Bloomberg, Expensify, and Navigation Data Standard. Main changes: All SQL functions for […]

Release of the GNU Ocrad text recognition system 0.29

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After two years of development, the release of the Ocrad 0.29 text recognition system (Optical Character Recognition), developed under the GNU project, has been finalized. Ocrad can be used either as a library to integrate OCR functions into other applications or as a standalone utility that outputs text in UTF-8 or 8-bit encodings based on the input image provided. For optical […]

Experience in creating a Ceph storage with a throughput of tebibytes per second

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An engineer from Clyso summarized the experience of creating a storage cluster based on a fault-tolerant distributed system Ceph, achieving bandwidth exceeding tebibyte per second. It is noted that this is the first Ceph-based cluster to reach such a benchmark, but before obtaining the presented result, engineers had to overcome a series of not-so-obvious challenges. For instance, to enhance performance by 10-20%, they had to […]

Haier forced the plugin developer for Home Assistant to remove them from public access

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Major home appliance manufacturer Haier sent a cease and desist notice to the software developer for creating Home Assistant plugins for the company's appliances and publishing them on GitHub. Haier is a multinational corporation that produces home appliances and consumer electronics, selling a wide range of products under brands such as General Electric Appliances, Hotpoint, Hoover, Fisher & Paykel, and Candy. German […]

The collaborative development platform SourceHut was down for 7 days due to a DDoS attack

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The developers of the collaborative development platform SourceHut published an incident report detailing how the service was disrupted for 7 days due to a prolonged DDoS attack, for which the project's infrastructure was unprepared. Basic services were restored by the third day, but some services remained unavailable from January 10 to January 17. At the onset of the attack, the developers were unable to respond […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.33.

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After six months of development, the release of the wayland-protocols package 1.33 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the necessary tools for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols go through three phases: development, testing, and stabilization. Upon completion of the development phase (the 'unstable' category), the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in […]

Hans Reiser commented on the deprecation of ReiserFS.

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On the Linux kernel developers' mailing list, letters received by one of the developers during correspondence with Hans Reiser, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for murdering his wife during an argument and attempting to cover up the crime (in 2027, Hans will be eligible to apply for parole), have been published. In the released letters, Hans expresses regret about […]

Release of Hangover 9.0, a package for running Windows applications on ARM64 systems.

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A new branch of the Hangover project has been released, allowing 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386) and ARM32 architectures to run in environments based on the ARM64 (Aarch64) architecture. A variant of Hangover for the RISC-V architecture is currently in development. The release is based on the Wine 9.0 codebase, as reflected in the version number. The project's developments are distributed under the LGPL-2.1 license. The project provides a significant improvement in […]

Release of the Tesseract 5.3.4 text recognition system

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The release of the Tesseract 5.3.4 optical character recognition system has been announced, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The output can be saved as plain text as well as in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally created between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in […]

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