Author: Yuri Gagarin

In the first part, I briefly talked about the build that allows setting up a computer on which unRAID can run.

The release of the speech recognition engine DeepSpeech 0.6, developed by Mozilla, has been announced. It implements the namesake speech recognition architecture proposed by researchers from Baidu. The implementation is written in Python using the TensorFlow machine learning platform and is distributed under the open-source MPL 2.0 license. It supports operation on Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows. The performance is sufficient for using the engine on LePotato boards, […]

Setting up a home router + NAS on unRAID (part 2)

In the first part, I briefly talked about the assembly itself, which allows you to build a computer that can run unRAID to create a NAS and MikroTik RouterOS in a KVM virtual machine as a replacement for a regular router. The comments turned into quite useful discussions, as a result of which I need to correct errors in the original assembly and write the third part! Some things […]

Setting up a distributed fault-tolerant object storage LeoFS, compatible with clients using S3, NFS

According to Opennet: LeoFS is a distributed, fault-tolerant object storage that is compatible with clients using the Amazon S3 API and REST API, and it supports operation as an NFS server. There are optimizations for storing both small and very large objects, a built-in caching mechanism is available, and replication of storage between data centers is possible. One of the project's goals is to achieve reliability of 99.9999999% through […]

WhatsApp for Android has introduced call waiting feature

When you are on a phone call and another person tries to reach you, most smartphones and telecom operators inform that you are receiving a call. However, among VoIP services, such notifications haven't become widespread. Now, this feature is available to users of the popular messenger WhatsApp. It’s worth noting that the incoming call notification will not allow you to put the current call on hold. […]

Tests of simple applications in various programming languages have been published.

Jeff Marrison, the author of the x86_64 assembly language library HeavyThing released under the GPLv3, which includes implementations of the TLS 1.2 and SSH2 protocols, published a video titled "Why Write in Assembly?" The video presents testing results using the perf and strace utilities for a simple application (output 'hello') written in 13 programming languages. It actually compares the costs of […]

Practice preparing foreign words with audio for memorization in the Anki program

In this article, I will share my personal experience of memorizing English words using the remarkable program with a non-obvious interface, Anki. I will show how to avoid turning the creation of new cards with audio for memorization into a routine. It is assumed that the reader already has an understanding of spaced repetition methodology and is familiar with Anki. But if not, it's time to get acquainted. Laziness for an IT person is […]

Why, and more importantly, where do people leave IT?

Hello, esteemed hub community. Yesterday (while inebriated), after reading a post by @arslan4ik titled "Why Do People Leave IT?", I pondered a truly good question: "Why...?" Given that I live in the sunny city of Los Angeles, I decided to find out if there are people in my beloved city who, for various reasons, have left (to the dark side of the force) the IT field. […]

A complete guide to upgrading Windows 10 for enterprises of any size

Whether you are responsible for a single Windows 10 PC or thousands, the challenges of managing updates are the same. Your goal is to quickly install security-related updates, effectively manage component updates, and prevent productivity loss due to unexpected reboots. Does your enterprise have a comprehensive plan for handling Windows 10 updates? […]

"Kubernetes Increased Latency by 10 Times": Who is Responsible?

Translator's note: This article, written by Galo Navarro, who serves as Principal Software Engineer at the European company Adevinta, is an engaging and instructive "investigation" into infrastructure exploitation. Its original title was slightly expanded in translation for reasons explained by the author at the very beginning. Author's note: It seems this publication attracted much more attention than anticipated. I […]

Microsoft Edge based on Chromium has improved search

Microsoft has released a fresh update for its new Chromium-based Edge browser for the Canary and Dev update channels. The patch in version 80.0.353.0 brings improvements to the InPrivate window, which now includes the Bing search panel. This allows direct input of search queries into Bing, as is done with Google and other search engines, rather than first going to bing.com […]

The general voting on initialization systems in Debian has begun.

The Debian project has announced the start of a general resolution (GR) for project developers regarding support for multiple initialization systems, which will determine the project's future policy regarding its binding to systemd, support for alternative initialization systems, and interaction with derivative distributions that do not use systemd. The voting will last until December 27 inclusive, and the results will be announced on December 28. Recall that in 2014 […]

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