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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.

Release of the IPFire 2.27 Core 182 distribution for creating firewalls

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A new release of the distribution for building routers and firewalls, IPFire 2.27 Core 182, has been published. IPFire features a simple installation process and configuration setup through an intuitive web interface, rich in clear graphs. The size of the installation ISO image is 423 MB (x86_64, AArch64). The system is modular; in addition to basic packet filtering and traffic management functions, modules for implementing a prevention system for IPFire are available […]

Database Popularity Ranking. PostgreSQL has been named the Database of the Year 2023

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DB-Engines has updated its database popularity ranking and awarded the title of Database of the Year 2023 to the PostgreSQL project, which demonstrated the largest growth in popularity over the past year among 417 tracked systems. The second place was awarded to the cloud platform Databricks, which rose from 19th to 17th place in the ranking, while third place went to the Google BigQuery engine, which improved from 21st to […]

Release of SBCL 2.4.0, implementation of the Common Lisp language

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The release of SBCL 2.4.0 (Steel Bank Common Lisp), a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language, has been published. The project code is written in Common Lisp and C, and is distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: Compatibility-breaking changes: *COMPILE-VERBOSE* and *LOAD-VERBOSE* are bound to NIL when the system is run with the command line argument ‘—script’. When searching for a core file, the system checks the correctness of […]

Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, has passed away

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On January 1st, Niklaus Wirth, one of the leading theorists in programming, passed away just a month shy of his 90th birthday. Wirth is the author of 10 programming languages, among which Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon are the most well-known, and he is also one of the creators of the structured programming paradigm, the ideas of executing intermediate bytecode, and garbage collection in interpreters. For his contributions to the development […]

Niklaus Wirth has passed away

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On January 1st, at the age of 90, one of the theorists and pioneers of computer science, Turing Award winner, Swiss scientist Niklaus Wirth, passed away. Wirth is known for his work on programming languages such as Algol, Modula, and Oberon. However, perhaps the most famous result of his work is the Pascal programming language, with which entire generations of students began their journey as programmers. […]

The Shutter screenshot tool has gained support for Wayland.

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The popular screenshot tool Shutter has received support for Wayland sessions. This was made possible thanks to the efforts of developer Maurizio V., who adapted Shutter to work with modern Wayland sessions used by most major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Shutter is an advanced screenshot application that offers more features and capabilities than standard tools. It supports: taking screenshots with […]

The most significant events of 2023 related to open projects

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The final compilation of the most important and notable events of 2023 related to open projects and information security: The cessation of publishing source texts of packages for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution and the retention of CentOS Stream as the only public source of RHEL package code. Discontent with Red Hat's products, created by simple recompilation without changes. Restructuring of distributions (Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, […]

Toxic-0.13.1

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toxic is a client application for the secure messaging protocol tox. toxic provides a CLI interface, text chat, audio and video calls, file transfer and reception, and several simple games. New in version 0.13.0, released two weeks ago: A competitive online mode for the Snake game has been added. An /autoaccept on command has been added for automatic acceptance of incoming file transfers. It is now possible to set a unique name […]

Comparison of the performance of 20 programming languages

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The second edition of the PLB (Programming Language Benchmark) project has been released, aimed at testing the performance of solving standard tasks across different programming languages. Unlike the first edition published in 2011, the new version measures code performance for matrix multiplication and the 15-queens problem, and additionally evaluates solution searches in the Sudoku game and the determination of intersections of two arrays. […]

Snoop Project v1.4.0

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The main functionality of Snoop Project is to track the 'username' in public data, along with various OSINT plugins. Snoop Project is registered in the Russian software registry with the declared code 26.30.11.16: Software that ensures the execution of established actions during operational investigative activities: No. 7012 order 07.10.2020 No. 515. Snoop Project is developed based on research in the field of public data scraping (own database). On […]

Release of Snoop 1.4.0, an OSINT tool for gathering user information from open sources.

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The release of the Snoop project version 1.4.0 has been published, enhancing the forensic OSINT tool that searches for user account information in public data (open-source intelligence). The program analyzes various websites, forums, and social networks for the presence of the queried username, i.e., it identifies where the user with the specified nickname can be found. The project is developed based on research materials in the field of scraping […]

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