Following Mozilla, Google announced its intention to conduct an experiment to test the implementation of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) developed for the Chrome browser. In the upcoming Chrome 78 release, scheduled for October 22, some user categories will be switched to using DoH by default. Only users with certain system settings will participate in the DoH activation experiment […]
Daniel Robbins, the founder of the Gentoo distribution who stepped away from the project in 2009, has presented the release of his now developed distribution Funtoo 1.4. Funtoo is based on the Gentoo package base and aims to further improve existing technologies. Work on the release of Funtoo 2.0 is planned to begin in about a month. Key features of Funtoo include support for automatic package building […]
The development team of the Clear Linux distribution, maintained by Intel, has reduced the Linux kernel boot time from 3s (three seconds) to 300ms (three hundred milliseconds). Discussion on HN (YCombinator/Hacker News) Discussion on r/Linux (Reddit) Clear Linux source code repository (GitHub) Source: linux.org.ru
Reddit user u/DavidAGra (David Jorge Aguirre Gracio) has introduced the first version of his own rocket flight simulator – 'F9sim' 1.0. Currently, this is a free simulator written in Delphi using OpenGL technologies, but the project author is considering opening the source code and rewriting the project's code in C++/Qt5. The original goal of the project is to create a realistic 3D simulation of the flight of the first stage of a launch vehicle […]
It is now a fairly common practice to install voltage control relays in residential sectors to protect electrical equipment from neutral disconnection, as well as from overvoltage and undervoltage issues. On Instagram and YouTube, many of my colleagues can be seen facing problems in this area after installing voltage control relays from Meandr and several other manufacturers, which often fail […]
There are quite a few popular articles on Habr about relocating to different countries. I have gathered information about moving to the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. Today we will discuss how easy it is for a developer to find job openings with relocation options, how much one can earn, and what to generally expect from life in Northern Europe. Tallinn: a developed startup ecosystem. Despite the fact that the population of Estonia as a whole […]
More and more companies are currently transitioning their infrastructure from physical servers and their own virtual machines to the cloud. This decision is easy to explain: there is no need to worry about hardware, clusters can be easily configured in many different ways... and most importantly, existing technologies (like Kubernetes) allow for straightforward scaling of computing power based on load. The financial aspect is always important. The tool […]
Chain of trust. CC BY-SA 4.0 Yanpas SSL traffic inspection (SSL/TLS decryption, SSL analysis, or DPI) is becoming an increasingly hot topic of discussion in the corporate sector. The idea of decrypting traffic seemingly contradicts the very concept of cryptography. However, the fact is that more and more companies are using DPI technologies, explaining it by the need to check content for malware, data leaks, and other […]
In the field of extreme memory overclocking, the first half of the year has been dominated by Intel's Coffee Lake Refresh processors, as they quickly advanced the limits of memory operation beyond DDR4-5500, although each subsequent step was achieved with increasing difficulty. The AMD platform managed to regain some ground after the release of the Ryzen 3000 processors, but the current memory overclocking record for systems based on […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API—Wine 4.16—is now available. Since the release of version 4.15, 16 bugs have been closed and 203 changes have been made. Notable changes include: increased stability of mouse capture functions in games; improved cross-compilation support in WineGCC; enhanced compatibility with Windows debuggers; code related to management has been moved from kernel32 to kernelbase […]
The release of the sound server PulseAudio 13.0 has been announced, which acts as an intermediary between applications and various low-level audio subsystems, abstracting the interaction with hardware. PulseAudio allows for volume and sound mixing management at the application level, organizes input, mixing, and output of sound when multiple input and output channels or sound cards are present, and allows for on-the-fly changes in audio format […]
The release of the QMapShack 1.13.2 program for tourists is now available, which can be used in the planning stages of hikes for route plotting, as well as for saving information about traveled routes, keeping a travel diary, or preparing travel reports. QMapShack is a reworked and conceptually different branch from the QLandkarte GT program (developed by the same author), ported to Qt5. The code is distributed under the […]