Author: Yuri Gagarin

Anonymous Santa 2019-2020: post showcasing New Year gifts

Anonymous Santa 2019-2020 is gaining momentum: every third participant noted the gift sent, while a few even found the strength to get up from their computers and pick up their packages at the post office. What are Habr participants giving to their Habr grandchildren, Habr granddaughters, and those who specified 'other' in their Habr profile? Let's check the comments and find out! HAPPY NEW […]

Series of posts on Istio Service Mesh

We are beginning a series of posts in which we will demonstrate some of the many capabilities of the Istio Service Mesh in combination with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. Part one, today: We will explain the concept of Kubernetes sidecar containers and formulate the leitmotif of this series of posts: "You don't need to change anything in your code." We will present a fundamental aspect of Istio – routing rules. These are built upon [...].

Another registrar has handed out the last block of IPv4 addresses

In 2015, ARIN (responsible for the North American region) became the first registrar to exhaust its pool of IPv4 addresses. In November, RIPE, which allocates resources in Europe and Asia, also ran out of addresses. / Unsplash / David Monje Situation in RIPE In 2012, RIPE announced the start of the distribution of the last /8 block. Since then, every client of the registrar could [...].

In 2015, ARIN (responsible for the North American region) became the first registrar to exhaust its pool of IPv4 addresses.

The release of the GNUnet framework 0.12 has been announced, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks. Networks created using GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee the privacy of user information, including preventing possible abuse by law enforcement and administrators with access to the network nodes. The release is noted for containing significant protocol changes that break backward compatibility [...].

Proton 4.11-11 Update, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-11, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of gaming applications on Linux that were created for Windows and listed in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows gaming applications that are only supplied for Windows to run directly in the Linux Steam client. The package includes [...].

Mozilla is transitioning from IRC to Matrix

Previously, the company conducted testing in which Mattermost, Matrix with the Riot client, Rocket.Chat, and Slack participated. Other options were discarded due to complexity or inability to integrate with Mozilla's single sign-on system (IAM). Ultimately, Matrix was selected along with hosting from the protocol developer (New Vector) — Modular. The move away from IRC was due to the lack of necessary functionality and development [...].

The Post-Futurism We Deserve

The era of post-futurism began 110 years ago. In 1909, Filippo Marinetti published the manifesto of futurism, proclaiming the cult of the future and the destruction of the past, a pursuit of speed and fearlessness, and a denial of passivity and fear. We decided to kick off the next phase and chatted with several good people about how they envision the year 2120. Disclaimer. Dear friend, be prepared. This will be long […]

What Makes TestMace Better than Postman

Hello everyone, this is TestMace! Many of you may know us from our previous articles. For those who are just joining: we are developing an IDE for working with the TestMace API. The most frequently asked question when comparing TestMace to competing products is, 'How do you differ from Postman?'. We felt it was time to provide a comprehensive answer to this question. Below we […]

TestMace — a powerful IDE for working with APIs

Hello everyone! Today we want to present our product to the IT community — the IDE for working with the TestMace API. Some of you may already know us from previous articles. However, there has been no comprehensive overview of the tool, so we are addressing this unfortunate gap. Motivation I would like to start with how we came to this point and decided […]

TP-Link Switch Testing with Long Range PoE. And a bit about upgrading old models

Previously, in our switches, we developed Power over Ethernet technology solely in the direction of increasing the transmitted power. However, during the operation of PoE and PoE+ solutions, it became apparent that this was not enough. Our clients face not only a lack of energy budget but also the standard limitation of Ethernet networks — a transmission distance of 100 m. In this article […]

WE are not Aihor hosting. Or how to spit in the face of the industry

Hello, I haven't slept for two days. I am an IT marketer in every sense: an IT specialist who moved into marketing. I have several projects where I help with promotion, including online advertising, SEO, content, etc. And a few of my side projects have been under a copper basin for over 30 hours now. It's a nightmare that has happened in real life. And […]

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