The first beta version of the OS Trident, transitioned from FreeBSD and TrueOS to a package base of Void Linux, is available. The size of the bootable ISO image is 515MB. The build uses ZFS on the root partition, allows rollbacks of the boot environment via ZFS snapshots, comes with a simplified installer, supports systems with EFI and BIOS, enables swap partition encryption, and offers package options for standard […]
After 2 years of development, the new version of the open forum engine phpBB 3.3, code-named "Proteus", has been released. Changes include support for PHP versions 7.1-7.4, an expanded emoji set, convenient quoting, easy updates, reCAPTCHA 2.0, improved notifications, and new icons (using CSS). Source: linux.org.ru
The New Year holidays are a great opportunity to sit down, take stock of the year, and 2020 is also a moment to reflect on the past 5/10 years, and write an article titled "What I Would Advise My Younger Self 5-10 Years Ago, and What I Advise Today." KDPV (メモリーズ) Under the cut: dullness, scattered sclerosis, unproven statements, and more. Additionally: The Graveyard of IT Professions. This moan […]
Before diving into Disco Elysium, let’s go back 100 years. In the 1910s and 20s, Lev Kuleshov demonstrated the effect of cinematic montage – depending on the juxtaposition of two frames placed next to each other, new meaning emerges. Kuleshov filmed a close-up of an actor's face, followed by three more shots: a bowl of soup, a girl in a coffin, and a girl on a sofa. Depending on […]
Data Protection Day, Minsk, 2019. Organizer: the human rights organization Human Constanta. Moderator (hereinafter – M): – Arthur Khachuyan is involved in… Can we say he’s on the ‘dark side’ in the context of our conference? Arthur Khachuyan (hereinafter – AK): – On the side of corporations – yes. M: – He collects your data and sells it to corporations. AK: – Actually, no… […]
Yes, indeed, ancient. Last May, the global decentralized social network Fediverse turned 11 years old! Exactly 11 years ago, the project’s originator Identi.ca published its first post. Meanwhile, an anonymous person on a respected resource wrote: "The problem with Fediverse is that two and a half diggers know about it." What an absurd problem. Let's fix it! […]
Game developer Malte Skarupke published a comparison of the performance of mutex-based and spinlock-based locks using various task schedulers. The tests showed abnormally high latencies when using spinlock with the default Linux task scheduler. The author of the tests concluded that the Linux task scheduler has issues that negatively affect the performance of games developed for the Google Stadia service, […]
In this article, I present my thoughts on the history and prospects of the development of the internet, centralized and decentralized networks, and ultimately — the possible architecture of the next-generation decentralized network. Something is wrong with the internet. I first encountered the Internet in 2000. Of course, this is far from the very beginning — the Network had already existed before this, but […]
An article about how I managed to launch a VPN server behind my home provider’s NAT (without a public IP address). I would like to clarify right away: the functionality of this implementation directly depends on the type of NAT used by your provider as well as your router. So, I found myself needing to connect from my Android smartphone to my home computer, both devices connected to the Internet through provider NATs, and additionally, the computer is connected […]
This article was written several years ago, when the blocking of the Telegram messenger was actively discussed within the community, and contains my thoughts on the matter. Although this topic is now almost forgotten, I hope it might still be of interest to someone. This text emerged from my reflections on digital security, and I hesitated for a long time on whether […]
Arch Linux developers have announced that they have changed the package compression scheme. The algorithm previously used was xz (.pkg.tar.xz). Now, zstd (.pkg.tar.zst) is employed. This has resulted in a 1300% increase in extraction speed at the cost of a slight increase in the size of the packages themselves (approximately 0.8%). This will speed up the installation and updating process of packages in the system. Currently, there is talk of transitioning to […]
At the beginning of 2020, many set their goals for the upcoming year or even decade. This also applies to Markus Persson, known as Notch, one of the creators of the increasingly popular Minecraft and the founder of the development studio Mojang. In a recent tweet, Notch asked his loyal community of 4 million followers what they would […]