Author: Yuri Gagarin

digiKam 7.0.0

A major new update of digiKam has been released – a program for working with digital photos, a cataloger, and editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows. With digiKam, you can easily transfer photos, raw files, and videos directly from your camera or external storage devices (SD cards, USB drives, etc.). The application allows you to customize import settings and rules that handle […]

We accept 10,000 events in Yandex.Cloud. Part 1

Hello everyone, friends! * This article is inspired by the open workshop REBRAIN & Yandex.Cloud. If you prefer to watch the video, you can find it at this link — https://youtu.be/cZLezUm0ekE Recently, we had the opportunity to experience Yandex.Cloud firsthand. Since we wanted to explore it thoroughly, we immediately dismissed the idea of launching a simple WordPress blog with a cloud database — […]

The strength of 'digital doors'

In the online world, just like in real life, an open door doesn't always mean that everything behind it is safe, and a closed one doesn’t guarantee peace. Today's story is about several major data breaches and financial thefts in the history of the World Wide Web. The tragic story of a young talent is linked to the name of the wunderkind Jonathan Joseph James, which is associated with one of the most […]

A new ultra-fast port scanning utility, RustScan, has been introduced.

The first release of a new network port scanning utility, RustScan, is available, optimized for significantly increasing scanning speed. High speed is achieved through intensive parallelization of checks. In tests, scanning 65,000 ports took only 8 seconds while performing 10,000 simultaneous checks. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Pre-built packages are available for […]

Issuer — GitHub Action for enforcing self-service for repository users

As part of the Issuer project, a GitHub bot has been developed to tackle repository users' self-service tasks. On GitHub, there are repositories whose sole purpose is coordinating people through the Issue system. In some of them, those leaving Issues are asked to fill out a form. Then a moderator comes in, checks the accuracy of the form completion, and assigns tags according to those specified in the form (tags […]

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2019 — kiosk mode

Introduction Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2019 is the marketing name for another release of Windows 10. The launch of this version was announced in September 2018, and it corresponds to version 1809, where 18 is the year and 09 is the month. Many articles have been written about the new Windows 10 1809 release, but most focus on various "decorations," "beauties," and different functionalities that are in demand in […]

Release of REMnux 7.0, a distribution for malware analysis

Five years after the release of the previous version, a new release of the specialized Linux distribution REMnux 7.0 has been formed, designed for studying and reverse engineering malicious software code. During the analysis, REMnux provides a controlled laboratory environment where one can emulate the operation of a specific targeted network service to study the behavior of malware in conditions close to real-life scenarios. Another area […]

Release of wxWidgets 3.1.4 graphical toolkit

The release of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.1.4 has taken place, allowing the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX, and mobile platforms. wxWidgets 3.1 is positioned as a branch for developers, in which new features are being developed for the next stable release 3.2.0. Compared to the 3.0 branch, a number of API-level incompatibilities are observed, and ABI stability between intermediate 3.1.x releases is not guaranteed. […]

A new version of the media server Jellyfin v10.6.0 has been released

Jellyfin is a free-licensed media server. It serves as an alternative to Emby and Plex, enabling media streaming from a dedicated server to end-user devices through several applications. Jellyfin is a fork of Emby 3.5.2 and has been ported to the .NET Core framework for complete cross-platform support. It does not feature any premium licenses, paid functions, or hidden plans: its […]

We are developing the most user-friendly* interface for viewing logs

If you have ever used web interfaces to view logs, you have likely noticed how bulky and often quite inconvenient and unresponsive these interfaces tend to be. Some you can get used to, and some are simply terrible, but it seems to me that the root of all problems lies in our incorrect approach to the task of viewing logs: we try to create a web interface […]

RIPE Atlas

Good day to everyone! I want to dedicate my debut article on Habr to a very interesting topic – the Internet quality monitoring system RIPE Atlas. Part of my interests includes researching the Internet or cyberspace (the term is rapidly gaining popularity, especially in academic circles). There is plenty of material on RIPE Atlas online, including on Habr, but I believe they […]

How to become a platform engineer or where to develop in the DevOps field?

We discussed who will need skills in building infrastructure platforms using Kubernetes in the near future, with instructor Yuri Ignatov, a leading engineer at Express 42. Where is the demand for platform engineers coming from? Recently, more and more companies are recognizing the need to create an internal infrastructure platform that serves as a unified environment for development, release preparation, and deployment.

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