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VPN WireGuard has been accepted into the net-next branch and is set to be included in the Linux kernel 5.6

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David S. Miller, responsible for the Linux kernel's networking subsystem, has accepted patches implementing a VPN interface from the WireGuard project into the net-next branch. At the beginning of next year, the changes accumulating in the net-next branch will form the basis for the release of Linux kernel 5.6. Attempts to promote WireGuard code to the mainline kernel have been made over the past several years but with no success […]

Why, and more importantly, where do people leave IT?

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Hello, esteemed hub community. Yesterday (while inebriated), after reading a post by @arslan4ik titled "Why Do People Leave IT?", I pondered a truly good question: "Why...?" Given that I live in the sunny city of Los Angeles, I decided to find out if there are people in my beloved city who, for various reasons, have left (to the dark side of the force) the IT field. […]

Practice preparing foreign words with audio for memorization in the Anki program

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In this article, I will share my personal experience of memorizing English words using the remarkable program with a non-obvious interface, Anki. I will show how to avoid turning the creation of new cards with audio for memorization into a routine. It is assumed that the reader already has an understanding of spaced repetition methodology and is familiar with Anki. But if not, it's time to get acquainted. Laziness for an IT person is […]

Tests of simple applications in various programming languages have been published.

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Jeff Marrison, the author of the x86_64 assembly language library HeavyThing released under the GPLv3, which includes implementations of the TLS 1.2 and SSH2 protocols, published a video titled "Why Write in Assembly?" The video presents testing results using the perf and strace utilities for a simple application (output 'hello') written in 13 programming languages. It actually compares the costs of […]

WhatsApp for Android has introduced call waiting feature

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When you are on a phone call and another person tries to reach you, most smartphones and telecom operators inform that you are receiving a call. However, among VoIP services, such notifications haven't become widespread. Now, this feature is available to users of the popular messenger WhatsApp. It’s worth noting that the incoming call notification will not allow you to put the current call on hold. […]

In the first part, I briefly talked about the build that allows setting up a computer on which unRAID can run.

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The release of the speech recognition engine DeepSpeech 0.6, developed by Mozilla, has been announced. It implements the namesake speech recognition architecture proposed by researchers from Baidu. The implementation is written in Python using the TensorFlow machine learning platform and is distributed under the open-source MPL 2.0 license. It supports operation on Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows. The performance is sufficient for using the engine on LePotato boards, […]

The EFF organization has released Certbot 1.0, a package for obtaining Let's Encrypt certificates.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the founders of the nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, has released the Certbot 1.0 toolkit, designed to simplify obtaining TLS/SSL certificates and automate HTTPS configuration on web servers. Certbot can also serve as client software for accessing various certificate authorities using the ACME protocol. The project's code is written in Python and […]

Release of the web framework Django 3.0

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The release of the Django 3.0 web framework, written in Python and intended for web application development, has taken place. The Django 3.0 branch is categorized as a release with a standard support period and will receive updates until April 2021. The LTS branch 2.22 will be supported until April 2022, and branch 1.11 until April 2020. Support for branch 2.1 has ended. Key improvements include […]

Google taught Chrome to create QR codes from any URL

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Recently, Google introduced the ability to send URLs to other devices connected through the Chrome browser and a shared account. Now, there is an alternative. In the Chrome Canary build version 80.0.3987.0, a new flag called 'Allow page sharing via QR code' has been added. Enabling it allows the conversion of any web page address into such a code format, which can then be scanned […]

Winners of the Miro Platform Contest

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In early November, we announced the open beta of the Miro platform, held a conference on platform development with JetBrains, Stripe, and other companies (videos of all presentations), and launched an online competition for developers to create plugins. The competition has ended! Engineers from Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, and other countries participated. We are ready to announce the winners! 1 […]

17 moments in IT. Personal experiences in self-organization from the department head

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Why 17, you might ask? Because my journey in IT began exactly 17 years ago. For the last decade, I have been working at 'Infosystems Jet', where my professional development took place. But today I will not talk about the twists and turns of corporate life, but rather about self-education and the literature that has helped me throughout these years. The first necessity for conscious self-organization […]

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