Author: Yuri Gagarin

Data Governance on our own.

Hello, Habr! Data is the most valuable asset of a company. This is stated by almost every digital-focused company. It's hard to argue with that: no major IT conference passes without discussing data management, storage, and processing approaches. Data comes to us from external sources, and they are also generated within the company, especially when we talk about data from a telecom company […]

Opinion: Spamhaus – Online Censorship or Champions of a Clean Web?

Monopoly, abuse of power, and selfish motivations, or a helping hand in a sea of spam? Representatives from several internet companies spoke with technical journalist Lars Sobiraj to discuss the controversial Spamhaus project. An adapted analysis is below. Who are Spamhaus Project? A quick online search reveals that Spamhaus is an international non-profit organization founded in 1998 [...]

A utility for non-admin users to connect to RDP sessions in WinServer 2012R2.

During the quarantine period, the issue for businesses became the need to minimize specialist visits for support and consulting on application software. Honestly, users often over-rely on specialists, not wanting to delve into the issues themselves, thinking, 'They will come — help — fix it, and I can just smoke/drink coffee, etc.' Phone consultations using remote access [...]

Medical organizations offering online consultations will appear in Google search results

It has been announced that Google plans to make changes to its search engine. According to a message published on the developers' blog, medical organizations offering online consultations will appear in search results. This change will simplify finding telemedicine services, which have seen a significant increase in demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical organizations offering [...]

Samsung will end support for the S Voice voice assistant this June.

Samsung has announced the impending cessation of support for the S Voice voice assistant. According to a notice sent out by the South Korean manufacturer, all services associated with the old voice assistant will cease operation on June 1, 2020. The S Voice assistant should be familiar to people who have long used Samsung devices. It was launched in 2012 but eventually [...]

IBM and the Open Mainframe Project are working on free COBOL training courses

The sharp increase in unemployment benefit applications in the U.S., resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, has overwhelmed the operations of government social services in the country. The problem is that there are almost no specialists left who know the ancient programming language COBOL, on which the government service programs are written. To quickly train coders in the intricacies of COBOL, IBM and the support group have started creating free [...].

Google has released data and a machine learning model for sound separation

Google has published a database of benchmark mixed sounds, equipped with annotations, which can be used in machine learning systems for separating arbitrary mixed sounds into individual components. A universal deep learning model (TDCN++) has also been released, which can be utilized in Tensorflow for sound separation. The data was prepared based on the collection from freesound.org and published under a CC BY license […]

Release of the ReactOS operating system 0.4.13

After six months of development, the release of the ReactOS 0.4.13 operating system has been presented, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. The operating system is in the 'alpha' development stage. An installation ISO image (126 MB) and a Live build (in a zip archive of 95 MB) are available for download. The project code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Key changes: Significant work has been done to fix bugs and […]

Release of Wine 5.6 and Wine Staging 5.6

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.6 — has taken place. Since the release of version 5.5, 38 bug reports have been closed and 458 changes have been made. The most important changes include: New Media Foundation framework calls have been implemented; Active Directory support has been improved, and issues with compiling wldap32 on systems without LDAP support installed have been resolved; Conversion of modules to PE format has been continued; Improvements have been made to […]

Release of ReactOS 0.4.13

A new release of ReactOS 0.4.13 has been introduced — an operating system aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. Key changes include: Synchronization with the Wine Staging codebase. Updated versions of Btrfs 1.4, ACPICA 20190816, UniATA 0.47a, mbedTLS 2.7.11, and libpng 1.6.37. Enhancements have been made to the new USB stack, providing support for input devices (HID) and USB drives. Optimization of the FreeLoader bootloader has reduced the startup time […]

IPIP IPsec VPN tunnel between a Linux machine and Mikrotik through the provider's NAT

Linux: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64) Eth0 1.1.1.1/32 external IP ipip-ipsec0 192.168.0.1/30 will be our Miktoik tunnel: CCR 1009, RouterOS 6.46.5 Eth0 10.0.0.2/30 internal IP from the provider. The external IP provider's NAT is dynamic. ipip-ipsec0 192.168.0.2/30 will be our IPsec tunnel, which will be raised on the Linux machine using racoon. I won't describe the details, there is a good article by […]

Updates for Jitsi Meet Electron, OpenVidu, and BigBlueButton video conferencing systems

New releases of several open platforms for organizing video conferences have been published: The release of the Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0 client for holding video conferences, which represents a standalone application version of Jitsi Meet. Features of the application include local storage of video conference settings, a built-in update delivery system, remote control tools, and a mode for staying on top of other windows. Among the new features of version 2.0 is the ability to provide […]

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