Telegram founder Pavel Durov suggested that the DDoS attack on the messenger, which occurred on Wednesday and caused service disruptions, may have been carried out by the Chinese government. Durov wrote on Twitter that the DDoS attack predominantly utilized Chinese IP addresses. He also emphasized that traditionally, the largest DDoS attacks on Telegram coincide with protest events in […]
Kommersant reported on the plans of Mobile Inform Group to release smartphones and tablets in September equipped with the Astra Linux operating system, classified as industrial devices designed for operation in harsh conditions. No details about the software inside have been disclosed yet, except for its certification by the Ministry of Defense, FSTEC, and FSB for processing information up to the level of […]
Microsoft has announced the formation of new experimental Windows Insider builds (build 18917), which include the previously announced WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) layer that enables running Linux executables on Windows. The second edition of WSL features the delivery of a fully-fledged Linux kernel, instead of an emulator that translates Linux system calls into Windows system calls on the fly. Using a standard kernel allows […]
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has presented the MAlt (Microsoft Alternatives) project, aimed at moving away from Microsoft products in favor of alternative solutions based on open source software. Among the upcoming plans is the replacement of 'Skype for Business' with a solution based on an open VoIP stack and the launch of a local email service to discontinue the use of Outlook. The final […]
Recently, I conducted a small study for Habr readers on programming languages such as Rust, Dart, and Erlang to determine how rare they are in the Russian IT market. In response to my study, I received a flood of comments and questions regarding other languages. I decided to gather all your comments and conduct another analysis. The languages included in the study were: Forth, […]
It is commonly believed that programming languages such as Rust, Erlang, Dart, and some others are the rarest in the IT world. As I select IT specialists for companies while constantly interacting with IT professionals and employers, I decided to conduct personal research to find out if this is truly the case. The information is relevant to the IT market in Russia. Data Collection For gathering information […]
Hello! Today I will tell you how to get into the sky, what you need to do for that, and how much it all costs. I will also share my experience of training as a private pilot in the UK and debunk some myths related to aviation. There’s a lot of text and pictures under the cut 🙂 First Flight To start, let's figure out how to get behind the controls. Although […]
Last December, I received an interesting bug report from the VWO support team. The loading time for one of the analytical reports for a major corporate client seemed excessively long. Since this falls within my area of responsibility, I immediately focused on resolving the issue. Background To provide some context, I'll share a bit about VWO. It's a platform, […]
Today, we will discuss open tools for evaluating processor, memory, file system, and storage system performance. The list includes utilities offered by GitHub residents and participants in related threads on Reddit — Sysbench, UnixBench, Phoronix Test Suite, Vdbench, and IOzone. / Unsplash / Veri Ivanova Sysbench This is a utility for load testing MySQL servers, based on the project […]
After CentOS was taken under the wing of Red Hat, various support for the project was announced, but the current status of work on CentOS 8 is behind schedule. Despite the stated updates on the status, only the download page and the build server have been completed, on which, judging by the koji statistics, something is built once a week. The initial build cycle is still not finished, although according to […]
You may have already heard about the annual Internet Trends analytical reports from the 'queen of the internet' Mary Meeker. Each of them is a treasure trove of useful information filled with many interesting figures and forecasts. The latest report has 334 slides. I recommend reviewing all of them, but for the format of an article on Habr, I present my interpretation of the main points from this document. Internet access is already […]
Working on any research project involves searching for and studying a multitude of information sources. Organizing this process is no easy task. Today we will talk about tools designed to optimize its various components. Research Toolbox #2: a selection of 15 thematic data banks Research Toolbox #1: self-organization and data visualization Photo by João Silas — Unsplash Vendors […]