Good day! This article addresses the issue of counterfeit sensors, the limitations of existing devices utilizing these sensors, and the solution to this problem. Source: ali-trends.ru Previous discussions on counterfeit sensors can also be found here. The characteristic differences between counterfeit sensors and originals: A sensor, even when connected nearby, responds inconsistently in parasitic power mode, often failing to operate correctly.
Check Point kicked off 2019 with a flurry of announcements. It’s not possible to cover everything in a single article, so let’s start with the most significant — Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Network Security. Maestro is a new scalable platform that enables the security gateway's 'power' to scale to 'impressive' numbers nearly linearly, achieved primarily through load balancing.
After a year of development, the release of VeraCrypt 1.24 has been published, continuing the fork of the TrueCrypt disk encryption system, which has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the algorithm used in TrueCrypt, RIPEMD-160, with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and fixing issues identified during the audit of TrueCrypt's source code. Additionally, VeraCrypt provides a mode...
Following the call from the Free Software Foundation to reconsider its relationship with the GNU project, Richard Stallman announced that as the current leader of the GNU project, he will address the issues of building relationships with the FSF (the main problem being that all GNU developers sign an agreement transferring ownership rights of the code to the FSF, giving it legal ownership of all GNU code). 18 maintainers and...
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has posted a message clarifying the relationship between the FSF and the GNU Project in light of recent events. 'The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project were founded by Richard M. Stallman (RMS), who until recently served as the head of both. For this reason, the relationships between FSF and GNU were smooth...'
What comes easily and freely to some can be a real challenge for others — such thoughts arise from each letter of the font 'Dobroshrift', which was developed for the international day of CP with the participation of children with this diagnosis. We decided to take part in this charitable campaign and changed our website logo until the end of the day. Our society is often non-inclusive and alienates […]
Options for using network visibility solutions What is network visibility? Visibility is defined by Webster's dictionary as 'the ability to be easily seen' or 'the degree of clarity.' Network visibility refers to the removal of blind spots that hide the ability to easily see (or quantitatively determine) what is happening in the network and/or applications on the network. This visibility allows IT teams […]
Hello, Habr! According to statistics, 80% of data becomes outdated within 90 days and is no longer actively used. All this data needs to be stored somewhere, ideally at the lowest cost. At the same time, quick and easy access is necessary if needed. Recently, the conversation has mainly revolved around the transfer and storage of data in the cloud, implying that it […]
We are posting video recordings of talks from the Selectel MeetUp: system administration. A brief background on Selectel MeetUp — these are gatherings with short presentations and live discussions. The idea of the event is simple: to listen to great speakers, interact with colleagues, exchange experiences, share your problems, and hear how others have resolved them. In general, all that is called networking in the IT community. We warmed up with small […]
SQLite 3.30.0 has been released, a lightweight database management system presented as a dynamic library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restriction for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers comes from a specially formed consortium that includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: The ability to apply the expression […]
The third beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been published. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments have been prepared. The FreeBSD 12.1 release is scheduled for November 4. You can find out about the new features in the announcement of the first beta release. Compared to […]
A release of the open-source platform for deploying decentralized social networks — Mastodon 3.0 — has been published, allowing users to create services on their own infrastructure that are not controlled by individual providers. If a user is unable to run their own node, they can choose a reputable public service to connect to. Mastodon belongs to the category of federated networks, which use […]