I came across yet another list titled '10 Reasons to Switch from Windows 10 to Linux' and decided to create my own list of what I dislike about Windows 10 — the OS I am currently using. I do not plan to switch to Linux in the near future, but that does not mean I am happy with everything changing in the operating […]
Typically, users expect new smartphones to deliver better performance compared to previous models. However, recently one specification in new iPhone and Android devices hasn’t significantly changed. This concerns the devices' battery life, as even with large 5000 mAh lithium-ion batteries, there hasn’t been a substantial improvement in this metric. The situation might change if we move from […]
Details have emerged about the KNOB (Key Negotiation Of Bluetooth) attack, allowing interception and substitution of information in encrypted Bluetooth traffic. By blocking the direct transmission of packets during the connection negotiation of Bluetooth devices, an attacker can force the use of keys that contain only 1 byte of entropy for the session, enabling a brute-force method to determine the encryption key. This issue arises from shortcomings in […]
"Flight evaluation – unsatisfactory" – I told the instructor who had just flown with one of our best trainees. He looked at me in confusion. I expected that look: to him, my evaluation was completely inadequate. We knew the student well; I had read flight reports about her from two previous flight schools, and also our […]
A few words from our translation bureau: usually everyone strives to translate the latest materials and publications, and we are no exception. However, terminals are not something that gets updated weekly. Therefore, we have translated an article by Antoine Beaudry, published in Spring 2018: despite its considerable 'age' by modern standards, we believe the material has not lost its […]
There's no better time to learn than today. It's 2019, and the topic of DevOps is more relevant than ever. They say the days of system administrators are over, just as the era of mainframes has passed. But is that really true? As often happens in IT, the situation has changed. The DevOps methodology has emerged, but it cannot exist without a human […]
Good day, everyone! I want to share a simple guide on 'How to stop manually pinging a dozen hosts. No registration or SMS needed!'. From the vastness of the Internet. Important: I'm not a programmer or a system administrator, but I often have to work with a large set of servers and services, and I wrote this script for my own convenience. Anyone who might find this useful […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API—Wine 4.14—has been made available. Since the release of version 4.13, 18 bug reports have been closed and 255 changes introduced. The most significant changes include: the Mono engine has been updated to version 4.9.2, which resolved issues when running DARK quests and DLC; PE (Portable Executable) format DLLs are now not bound to […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.23.0 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branch and merge operations. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to changes made retrospectively, implicit hashing of all previous history is used in each commit, and digital validation is possible […]
A few words about the 'golden ratio' in the traditional sense. It is believed that if a segment is divided into parts such that the smaller part relates to the larger part as the larger part relates to the whole segment, this division gives a proportion of 1/1.618, which the ancient Greeks borrowed from even more ancient Egyptians, calling it the 'golden ratio'. Many architectural structures […]
How I hate all of this. The work, the boss, programming, the development environment, tasks, the system they're recorded in, subordinates with their snot, goals, emails, the internet, social networks where everyone is astonishingly successful, the sham love for the company, slogans, meetings, corridors, toilets, faces, grimaces, dress code, planning. I hate everything that happens at work. I’m burned out. It's been a while. I hardly […]
A tale of how a 'bad' wizard and a 'good' party almost drove the 'democratic' master to the edge. But the game still succeeded against all odds. At the beginning of this story, there wasn’t even a unicorn, and it wasn’t particularly anticipated. Instead, there was an invitation to participate in one of those role-playing games where our master wanted to try out a new […]