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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.

The multimedia framework GStreamer 1.18.0 is available.

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After a year and a half of development, GStreamer 1.18 has been released. This cross-platform set of components is written in C for creating a wide range of multimedia applications, from media players and audio/video file converters to VoIP applications and streaming systems. The GStreamer code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. Updates for the plugins gst-plugins-base 1.18, gst-plugins-good 1.18, gst-plugins-bad 1.18, gst-plugins-ugly 1.18, as well as the gst-libav wrapper, are also available […]

Release of the vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.0.1

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An update for the free vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.0.1 is available, addressing bugs and issues identified in the significant 1.0 release. The editor provides flexible drawing tools and supports reading and saving images in SVG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, WMF, EMF, sk1, PDF, EPS, PostScript, and PNG formats. Ready-made builds of Inkscape are prepared for Linux (AppImage, Snap, Flatpak), […]

Freeradius + Google Authenticator + LDAP + Fortigate

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What to do if you want two-factor authentication but can't afford hardware tokens and you're just advised to be patient and maintain a good mood. This solution isn't super original; rather, it's a mix of various solutions found across the internet. So, given an Active Directory Domain. Domain users working through VPN, as many do these days. Acting as a VPN gateway […]

Speeding Up Ansible

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It's no secret that with 'default' settings, Ansible doesn't operate too quickly. In this article, I will point out several reasons for this and propose a useful minimum of configurations that could realistically increase the speed of your project. We will discuss Ansible 2.9.x, which was installed in a newly created virtualenv in your preferred way. […]

Call recording feature in the Google Phone app has become available on Xiaomi smartphones

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The Google Phone app is quite popular, but it is not available on all Android smartphones. However, developers are gradually expanding the list of supported devices and adding new features. This time, online sources reported that the Google Phone app on Xiaomi smartphones has gained support for call recording. Google has been working on this feature for quite some time. The first mentions of it […]

C++20 standard approved

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The ISO committee for the standardization of the C++ language has approved the international standard 'C++20'. The features introduced in the specification, except for a few cases, are supported in GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++ compilers. Standard libraries supporting C++20 have been implemented within the Boost project. In the next two months, the approved specification will be in the stage of preparing the document for publication, during which work will be conducted […]

Release of libtorrent 2.0 with support for the BitTorrent 2 protocol

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A significant release of the libtorrent 2.0 library (also known as libtorrent-rasterbar) has been introduced, offering an efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol in terms of memory usage and CPU load. The library is utilized in torrent clients like Deluge, qBittorrent, Folx, Lince, Miro, and Flush (not to be confused with another libtorrent library used in rTorrent). The libtorrent code is written in C++ and is distributed […]

Diverse Ubuntu in 2020

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What you have here is a subjective, unserious, and non-technical review of the Ubuntu Linux 20.04 operating system and its five official variants. If you're interested in kernel versions, glibc, snapd, and the presence of an experimental Wayland session — you're in the wrong place. If you are hearing about Linux for the first time and want to understand how someone who has been using Ubuntu for eight years thinks about it, […]

Check Point upgrade procedure from R80.20/R80.30 to R80.40

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More than two years ago, we wrote about how every Check Point administrator will eventually face the question of upgrading to a new version. This article described the upgrade from version R77.30 to R80.10. By the way, in January 2020, R77.30 became a certified version by the FSTEC. However, a lot has changed in Check Point over the past two years. In the article […]

Gentoo Project has introduced Portage 3.0 package management system

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The stabilizing release of the Portage 3.0 package management system used in the Gentoo Linux distribution has been announced. This release concludes a lengthy effort to transition to Python 3 and discontinue support for Python 2.7. Besides the end of support for Python 2.7, another significant change includes optimizations that allowed computations related to dependency resolution to be accelerated by 50-60%. Interestingly, some developers proposed rewriting the code […]

Release of Hotspot 1.3.0, a GUI for performance analysis in Linux

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The release of Hotspot 1.3.0 has been introduced, providing a graphical interface for visually examining reports during profiling and performance analysis using the perf kernel subsystem. The program's code is written in C++ using the Qt and KDE Frameworks 5 libraries and is distributed under the GPL v2+ license. Hotspot can serve as a transparent replacement for the 'perf report' command when analyzing files […]

torxy — a transparent HTTP/HTTPS proxy that allows traffic to be redirected to selected domains through a TOR server

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I present the first public version of my development — a transparent HTTP/HTTPS proxy that enables traffic redirection to selected domains via a TOR server. The project was created to enhance accessibility from a home local network to websites that may be restricted for various reasons. For example, the store homedepot.com is unavailable due to geographical restrictions. Features: Works exclusively in transparent mode, configuration is only required on the router; […]

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