1. – Where are you going? – the guard asked indifferently. – To the company “Web 1251”. – It’s to the right down the path. The yellow building, second floor. The visitor, a student-looking young man, entered the cluttered area of the former research institute, walked down the path to the right, and followed the guard's instructions to ascend to the second floor of the yellow building. The corridor was deserted, with most doors lacking signage. […]
The issue with young users of smartphones, tablets, and other internet-connected devices is not only that children may accidentally see, read, or download something inappropriate for their age, but also that due to their lack of life experience and knowledge, they are very vulnerable to the actions of malicious actors. Worse yet, children may find themselves […]
Hello, colleagues! I want to share my solution to the problem mentioned in the title. I was inspired to write this article by my colleague brnovk, who took the initiative to propose a partial (for me) solution to the problem. I created my own "hack" that helped me. I'm sharing it with you. Problem description I used Ubuntu 18.04 for work and recently noticed that when switching keyboard layouts […]
Inspired by my talks at Highload++ and DataFest Minsk 2019. For many today, email is an integral part of online life. It helps us conduct business correspondence, store various important information related to finances, hotel bookings, order placements, and much more. In mid-2018, we formulated a product development strategy for email. What should it be like […]
As can be understood from the previous article, I have worked with various projects. The first days in a new team usually go the same way: the backend developer sits down with me and performs magical actions for installing and deploying the application. Docker is indispensable for frontend developers, as the backend is often written in a wide range of stacks like PHP/Java/Python/C#, and the frontend doesn't need to distract the backend each time to ensure everything […]
Japan Display (JDI), one of Apple’s suppliers, announced on Thursday that it had fired a customer relations manager last year for embezzling around $5.25 million over four years since the company went public in 2014. In a statement, JDI mentioned that it has filed for criminal prosecution […]
Even before the release of Pokemon Sword and Shield, players discovered numerous references to British culture within the project. One of these recently surfaced, and it is particularly interesting. The reference involves the ugly Pokémon and a true story from the UK. In most Pokemon games, there’s an option to revive Pokémon from fossils found somewhere in the region. Even in Pokemon Red and […]
James Wilcox from Mozilla proposed a change with the implementation of the parameter general.aboutConfig.enable and the GeckoRuntimeSettings configuration option aboutConfigEnabled, allowing control over access to the about:config page in GeckoView (the Firefox engine variant for the Android platform). This setting will enable creators of embedded mobile browsers utilizing the GeckoView engine to disable access to about:config by default when necessary, while users […]
Google has released an update for the Mendel Linux distribution, designed for use on Coral boards such as the Dev Board and SoM. The Dev Board provides a rapid prototyping platform for hardware systems based on Google’s Edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) to accelerate operations related to machine learning and neural networks. SoM (System-on-Module) is one of the ready-made […]
Quietly and unnoticeably, the release of the classic desktop environment CDE took place on November 16. The project initially only operated on commercial UNIX systems but has been open and available on modern Linux, *BSD, and Solaris systems since 2012. A brief list of changes: All supported languages are compiled by default again, hundreds of compiler warnings have been fixed, and thousands of corrections have been made after running the code through a static analyzer […]
Want to know the organizers' opinion on how the "Digital Breakthrough" competition went? This post won't be about the scale, the record book, prominent figures, unique solutions, or flawless organization. We'll share our main mishaps — trust us, there were quite a few. But making mistakes is okay, especially if you learn from them. Let's start from the beginning […]
This is the third part of a series of tutorials on creating smart contracts in Python for the Ontology blockchain network. In the previous articles, we explored the Blockchain & Block API Storage API. Now that you have an idea of how to call the appropriate API for persistent storage when developing a smart contract using Python in the Ontology network, let's move on to getting acquainted with […]