Author: ProHoster

Organize tasks with Todoist

Most recently, I introduced myself to the practice of planning tasks for the coming week. Recently, because my to-do list looks like a bunch of junk and it's hard to navigate. Dismantling this pile for me was more unpleasant than exciting. But recently everything has changed. I’ll make a reservation right away that I manage all the tasks in the Todoist app. Read more

SUSE Unveils SLE Micro 5.1 for Cloud Solutions

SUSE SA announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1, a lightweight and secure operating system designed for use in containers and virtualization environments. This release of SLE Micro adds security features focused on edge computing (edge ​​computing), such as secure device registration and live patching, and also allows you to upgrade existing solutions with support for IBM Z […]

Twitter to give paid subscribers early access to new features

Twitter regularly tests new features before full rollout. Now the company has decided to create a new way for users to get access to the implemented features before anyone else. On Wednesday, Twitter announced that Twitter Blue subscribers will get early access to some new features through the Labs banner. This is similar to Google's approach, which offers more options for […]

Oculus users will get new homes in the metaverse

Meta (until recently Facebook) has announced a new, "more social" home space for Oculus users. Called Horizon Home, the product is a virtual home where users can invite friends to watch videos together, play multiplayer games, and more. theverge.com

Audacity 3.1.0

A new version of the free audio editor Audacity has been released. Changes: Instead of a clip moving tool in the timeline, each clip now has a drag-and-drop title. Added non-destructive trimming of clips by dragging the right or left edge. The playback of a segment in a loop has been redesigned, now the ruler has editable loop boundaries. Added context menu under RMB. Removed hard link to local […]

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Single Board Computer Announced

6 years after the introduction of the Raspberry Pi Zero, the next generation of single-board in this format, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, was announced. Compared to the previous model, similar in characteristics to the Raspberry Pi B, but with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules, this model is based on a Broadcom BCM2710A1 chip, the same as on the Raspberry Pi 3. […]

eMKatic 0.41

eMKatic is a cross-platform emulator of modern computers of the Elektronika series that supports MK-152, MK-152M, MK-1152 and MK-161 skins. Written in Object Pascal and compiled with Lazarus and the Free Pascal Compiler. (read more…) mk-152, programmable calculator, emulator

New version of Cygwin 3.3.0, GNU environment for Windows

Red Hat has published a stable release of the Cygwin 3.3.0 package, which includes a DLL library for emulating the basic Linux API on Windows, which allows you to build programs created for Linux with minimal changes. The package also includes standard Unix utilities, server applications, compilers, libraries, and header files directly built to run on Windows.

Benchmarking Ubuntu and Ubuntu/WSL2 environments on Windows 11

Phoronix ran a series of performance tests on Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 20.04 environments in the WSL2 environment of Windows 11 pre-release 22454.1000. With a total of 130 tests, an Ubuntu 20.04 environment on Windows 11 WSL2 was able to achieve 94% of the performance of Ubuntu 20.04 running unstacked on bare hardware in the same configuration.

Local root vulnerability in PHP-FPM

PHP-FPM, the FastCGI process manager included in the main distribution of PHP since the 5.3 branch, has a critical vulnerability CVE-2021-21703, which allows an unprivileged host user to execute code as root. The problem manifests itself on servers that use PHP-FPM to organize the launch of PHP scripts, usually used in conjunction with Nginx. The researchers who identified the problem were able to prepare a working prototype of the exploit.

Introducing Ansible Automation Platform 2 Part 2: Automation Controller

Today we will continue our acquaintance with the new version of the Ansible automation platform and talk about the automation controller 4.0 that appeared in it. It's actually an improved and renamed Ansible Tower, and it's a standardized mechanism for defining automations, operations, and enterprise-wide delegation. The controller received a number of interesting technologies and a new architecture that help to quickly scale […]