Author: Yuri Gagarin

Google has introduced the open project OpenTitan for creating trustworthy chips.

Google has unveiled a new open project called OpenTitan, which serves as a platform for creating trusted hardware components (RoT, Root of Trust). The foundation of OpenTitan is based on technologies already used in Google's Titan cryptographic USB tokens and TPM chips for ensuring verified boot processes, which are deployed on servers in Google's infrastructure, as well as on Chromebook and Pixel devices. The code related to the project […]

OpenIndiana 2019.10

OpenIndiana is an operating system based on OpenSolaris. It is part of the Illumos Foundation and provides a true open-source alternative to Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express, including an open development model and full community participation. The latest release of the project, OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10, transitions some tools from Python 2 to version 3 along with several updates […]

Overview of Skaffold for Kubernetes Development

One and a half years ago, on March 5, 2018, Google released the first alpha version of its Open Source CI/CD project called Skaffold, aimed at creating a "simple and reproducible development experience for Kubernetes," allowing developers to focus on development rather than administration. What makes Skaffold interesting? It turns out it has several advantages up its sleeve, thanks to […]

UDP Flood from Google or how not to take down everyone on YouTube

One beautiful spring evening, when going home wasn’t appealing, and the unquenchable desire to live and learn burned like a hot iron, the idea arose to tinker with an intriguing feature on the firewall called "IP DOS policy." After some initial exploration and reviewing the manual, I configured it in Pass-and-Log mode to check the output and questionable usefulness of this setting. […]

Performance in .NET Core

Performance in .NET Core Hello everyone! This article is a compilation of Best Practices that my colleagues and I have been applying for a long time across different projects. Information about the machine on which the calculations were performed: BenchmarkDotNet=v0.11.5, OS=Windows 10.0.18362 Intel Core i5-8250U CPU 1.60GHz (Kaby Lake R), 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores .NET Core SDK=3.0.100 […]

Broadcom has completed the acquisition of Symantec's enterprise division

In full accordance with the plans and without obstacles from antitrust authorities, Broadcom has completed the acquisition of Symantec’s division focused on developing solutions for corporate computing platform security. The deal was announced in August of this year following very challenging negotiations. Initially, Broadcom sought to acquire Symantec entirely for over $15 billion. However, Symantec's inflated self-assessment prevented […]

The Free Software Foundation has certified the Talos II motherboards.

The Free Software Foundation has introduced new devices that have received the 'Respect Your Freedom' certification, which confirms the device's compliance with privacy and user freedom requirements and grants the right to use a special logo in related product materials, emphasizing the provision of full control to the user over the device. The FSF also launched a separate website for the Respect Your Freedom initiative (ryf.fsf.org), where […]

Python has overtaken Java in the number of projects on GitHub

GitHub has published a report analyzing statistics for 2019. The most interesting change is the rise of the Python language to second place in the ranking of programming languages used on GitHub. Java has moved to third place, while JavaScript remains the leader. PHP has maintained its position in fourth place. The C++ language was shifted from fifth place by C#, and […]

Release Stratis 2.0, the toolkit for managing local storage

After a year of development, the release of Stratis 2.0, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community to unify and simplify the tools for configuring and managing pools of one or more local storage devices, has been published. Stratis offers features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. The project code is written in Rust and […]

Release QVGE-0.5.4

Another minor release of the QVGE visual graph editor. Primarily, it fixes issues and crashes noted earlier. Notable updates include: the ability to resize graph nodes using the mouse (in transformation mode), scrolling the field when selecting objects, a mini-help panel added, and an automatic return to the field state prior to invoking 'Zoom to Fit' (which was highly requested). Source: linux.org.ru

Everyone is excited about the efficiency

In the last issue of "The Zinc Sale," we discussed three articles on the effectiveness of various processes. About "How Bezos Disabled PowerPoint," "A company owner makes his team work 5 hours a day without distractions," and "Asynchronous communication for dualists." This article is a compilation of short excerpts from all three along with my subjective reflections under the banner of universal frustration from inefficiency. […]

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