The hacker group ShinyHunters breached the databases of ten major companies and gained access to the personal information of 73 million people. The stolen data is already being sold on the dark web for a total of about $18,000. Details of the incident were shared by ZDNet. Each database is sold separately. To prove the authenticity of the stolen information, the group released part of it publicly. […]
The Linux Foundation has introduced a new version of the SPDX 2.2 (Software Package Data Exchange) standard, offering a set of specifications for publishing and sharing information about licenses and intellectual property details. The specification allows for the indication of not only the overall license for the entire package but also the specifics of licensing for individual files and fragments, specifying the owners of property rights to the code and the individuals […]
A new release of the FreeRDP 2.1 project has been published, offering an open-source implementation of the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) remote access protocol, developed based on Microsoft specifications. The project provides a library for integrating RDP support into third-party applications and a client that can be used for remote connection to Windows desktops. The project's code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. In the new […]
After three years of development, a new version of ECL – the Common Lisp interpreter – was released on April 24. ECL, published under the LGPL-2.1+ license, can be used both as an embedded interpreter and to build stand-alone libraries and executable files (with the ability to compile to C). Changes include: support for local nicknames in packages; support for atomic operations; specialized representation of complex types […]
Hello, my name is Dmitry Krasnov. For over five years, I have been engaged in administering Kubernetes clusters and building complex microservice architectures. Earlier this year, we launched a service for managing Kubernetes clusters based on Containerum. Taking this opportunity, I would like to explain what Kubernetes is and how vendor integration differs from open source. To begin with, what is […]
Task Description This article describes the organization of remote access for employees using open-source products and can be used both to build a fully autonomous system and to expand when there is a shortage of licenses in an existing commercial system or its performance proves insufficient. The goal of this article is to implement a complete system for providing remote access to the organization, which is somewhat […]
I invite you to review the transcript of the presentation by Andrey Salnikov from early 2016 titled 'Typical Errors in Applications That Lead to Bloat in PostgreSQL.' In this presentation, I will discuss the main errors in applications that occur during the design and coding stages. I will focus solely on those errors that lead to bloat in PostgreSQL. Generally, this marks the beginning of the end for performance […]
According to network sources, Microsoft is working on a new feature called 'dual screen emulation,' which is intended for the Chromium platform. This tool will primarily benefit developers who are optimizing websites for display on dual-screen devices. Regular users will also find this feature helpful as it will make browsing web pages on […] more comfortable.
Some users utilizing the 'hintfull' hinting method may have noticed that when transitioning from Pango version 1.43 to 1.44, the kerning for certain font families has deteriorated or completely broken. This issue is caused by the Pango library switching from using FreeType for obtaining kerning information (the spacing between glyphs) to HarfBuzz, and the developers of the latter decided not to support rendering […].
After more than six months of development, the latest release of the XMPP client Kaidan has arrived. The program is written in C++ using Qt, QXmpp, and the Kirigami framework and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Android (experimental build). The release of the Windows builds and in Flatpak format is delayed. Qt 5.12 and QXmpp 1.2 are required for the build […]
The release of FreeType 2.10.2 has been announced, a modular font engine that provides a unified API for standardizing the processing and rendering of font data in various vector and raster formats. The most significant innovation is the support for fonts in WOFF2 (Web Open Font Format), which employs the Brotli compression algorithm. Additionally, the CFF engine has added support for Type 1 fonts without whole […]
DosBox is an emulator for computers running MS-DOS. The latest version, 0.74, was released ten years ago. Recently, a stable version of the fork was released. A number of long-standing bugs have been fixed (for instance, Arcade Volleyball is now functioning), recent library versions have been supported, and some conveniences have been added. New: SDL 2.0 instead of 1.2 Emulation of CD audio tracks from FLAC, Opus, Vorbis, MP3 files via imgmount (who […]