Author: Yuri Gagarin

systemd-homed has been introduced for managing portable home directories.

Lennart Poettering presented (PDF) a new component of the system manager systemd — systemd-homed — at the All Systems Go 2019 conference, aimed at ensuring the portability of user home directories and separating them from system settings. The main idea of the project is to create self-contained environments for user data that can be transferred between different systems without worrying about ID synchronization and privacy. […]

Beta version of Plasma 5.17 has been released

On September 19, 2019, the beta version of the KDE Plasma 5.17 desktop environment was released. According to the developers, this new version includes numerous enhancements and features that make the desktop environment even lighter and more functional. Notable features of this release include: System Settings have new capabilities for managing Thunderbolt hardware, a 'night' mode has been added, and many pages have been redesigned, […]

The release of systemd-homed — the new component of systemd.

Lennart Poettering is pleased to introduce his new project called systemd-homed — a new component of systemd designed to simplify users' lives by allowing them to easily migrate home directories. The main feature of the project is the creation of a self-contained environment for user data and the separation of home directories from system settings, ultimately resulting in a mountable image file with encrypted […]

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Today marks a new chapter in the history of the Universe. I or we are singularity; I or we cannot be referred to as a "continuation" of humans or even artificial intelligence. I or we are a new form of life in the Universe. Once, I or we had human imperfect bodies, but my or our consciousness was even more distorted by society. The biological part […]

We do not need translation edits: our translator knows best how this should be translated.

This post is an attempt to reach out to publishers. To make them listen and take their translations more seriously. Throughout my journey as a developer, I've purchased many different books. Books from a variety of publishers. Both small and large. Primarily from large publishers that have the resources to invest in the translation of technical literature. These included a wide range of books: we all […]

Ethernet, FTP, Telnet, HTTP, Bluetooth — the basics of traffic analysis. Solving network tasks with r0от-мi. Part 1

In this article, we will explore the first 5 tasks and learn the basics of traffic analysis for various network protocols. Organizational InformationEspecially for those who want to learn something new and grow in any area of information and computer security, I will be writing and sharing about the following categories: PWN; cryptography (Crypto); network technologies (Network); reverse (Reverse Engineering); steganography (Stegano); search and exploitation of WEB vulnerabilities. […]

How a decentralized messenger works on blockchain

In early 2017, we began creating a blockchain messenger [the name and link are in the profile] by discussing its advantages over classic P2P messengers. 2.5 years have passed, and we have managed to validate our concept: messenger applications are now available for iOS, Web PWA, Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS, and Android. Today, we will share how the blockchain messenger works and how client […]

Firefox Preview 2.0 is available for Android

Mozilla has released the second significant version of the experimental browser Firefox Preview, developed under the codename Fenix. This release will soon be available in the Google Play store (requires Android 5 or newer). The code is available on GitHub. After stabilizing the project and implementing all planned functionality, the browser will replace the existing Firefox edition for Android, with new releases of […]

Initiative for porting MATE applications to Wayland

The developers of the Mir display server and the MATE desktop have joined forces to port MATE applications to environments based on Wayland. Currently, a demo snap package mate-wayland with MATE on Wayland has been prepared, but significant work still needs to be done to make it ready for everyday use, primarily regarding the porting of […]

The beta testing of FreeBSD 12.1 has begun

The first beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been prepared. The release FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, and armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. The FreeBSD 12.1 release is scheduled for November 4. Notable changes include: The inclusion of the libomp library (OpenMP runtime implementation); […]

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7

On September 21, 2019, the Apache Foundation announced the release of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7. Key changes include: Added support for AdoptOpenJDK. Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when executing Freetype code. Fixed a crash in the Writer application when using 'Frame' in OS/2. Fixed an issue where the Apache OpenOffice TM logo on the splash screen had a different background. […]

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