Author: Yuri Gagarin

Who is DevOps and when is it not needed?

The topic of DevOps has become very popular in recent years. Many aspire to get into it, but, as practice shows, often only due to salary levels. Some list DevOps on their resumes even though they don't always understand the essence of the term. Others think that by learning Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform, and similar tools (the list can go on according to personal preference), they […]

BeeFREE. Moving people to remote work since 2016

Hello! We hope you're reading this post during working hours, already transitioned to remote work by your employer. We managed to shift our employees to remote work fairly quickly for one simple reason - starting in 2016, our strategic remote work project, BeeFREE, has existed, allowing employees to work from home. Below, we will discuss […]

Chrome 83 will introduce a setting to display the full URL in the address bar

Google plans to restore the setting that disables URL distortion in the address bar. A change has been accepted into the codebase that will form the release of Chrome 83, which supports the setting "chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls". When this is enabled, a flag titled "Always show full URLs" will appear in the context menu of the address bar to revert to displaying the full URL. Recall that in Chrome 76 the address bar […]

Firefox Better Web with Scroll - a new monetization model from Mozilla

On March 24, Mozilla announced in its blog that Firefox users could participate in testing the service "Firefox Better Web with Scroll," aimed at a new model for funding websites. The goal of the project is to enable paid subscriptions to fund content creation. This should allow website owners to operate without advertisements. The service is organized in collaboration with the Scroll project. The model looks something like this: […]

Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Kubernetes

There is a lot of reference literature on the Internet, but sometimes the simplest advice turns out to be the most valuable. The Kubernetes aaS team from Mail.ru has compiled a list of ten tricks and tips that the article's author gathered after a year of working with Kubernetes. The tips are not sorted by significance, but we believe everyone will find something useful for themselves. The simplest command for working with Kubernetes […]

Torchlight III will feature a sniper, combining long-range shooting with magical gadgets.

Echtra Games and Perfect World Entertainment have released a new trailer for Torchlight III. In it, viewers are introduced to another character class — the Sharpshooter. The developers also shared key features of this character. In battles, the hero uses ranged skills, precise shots, and various magical devices. The Sharpshooter is equipped not only with a musket but also with a bow, and […]

Oracle has released the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5U3.

Oracle has released the third functional update for the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5, positioned for use in the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the standard kernel package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The kernel is available for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. The kernel source code, including the breakdown into individual patches, has been published in a public Git repository by Oracle. The Unbreakable Enterprise package […]

GHC 8.10.1

The release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler has been announced. Changes include: New language extensions UnliftedNewtypes, StandaloneKindSignatures, and ImportQualifiedPost. Improvements in code generation, including more aggressive code specialization, a new loop analyzer, optimizations for array handling, and pointer tagging for large data types. A new interpreter command :instances, which shows the available instances of classes for a given type. Enhancements in the embedded code profiler.…

BPF for Beginners, Part Zero: Classic BPF

Berkeley Packet Filters (BPF) is a Linux kernel technology that has consistently made headlines in English-language technical publications for several years. Conferences are filled with talks about the use and development of BPF. David Miller, the maintainer of the Linux networking subsystem, titles his talk at Linux Plumbers 2018 “This talk is not about XDP” (XDP is one of […]

Strace in Linux: history, structure, and usage

In Unix-like operating systems, a program communicates with the outside world and the operating system through a small set of functions known as system calls. This means that for debugging purposes, it can be useful to observe the system calls made during the execution of processes. The utility strace helps to monitor the 'intimate life' of programs on Linux, which is the focus of this article. Examples of the use of 'spy' equipment are included along with brief […]

«Doctor Web» discovered a dangerous backdoor spreading as an update for Chrome

The antivirus solutions developer 'Doctor Web' reports the detection of a dangerous backdoor being spread by cybercriminals disguised as an update for the popular browser Google Chrome. It is reported that more than 2,000 individuals have already fallen victim to the cybercriminals, and this number continues to grow. According to the 'Doctor Web' virus laboratory, the attackers have used resources based on the CMS WordPress to maximize audience reach — from […]

The CoreJS project faced maintenance issues due to the author's imprisonment

Developers interested in continuing the development of the JavaScript library CoreJS are considering creating a fork. The intention is related to concerns that the project has been left without support after the author, the key developer and the sole maintainer, was sentenced to one and a half years in a penal settlement (he caused the death of a pedestrian at a crosswalk — one of the pedestrians was drunk and fell, while the other bent down to help him up, which […]

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