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I always assert that the most talented linguists are programmers. This is related to their way of thinking, or, if you prefer, to some professional deformation. To illustrate this, I will share a few stories from life. When there was a shortage in the USSR and my husband was a little boy, his parents somehow managed to procure sausage and served it at the holiday table. The guests left, […]
Today's post is dedicated to the profession of product manager. Many have heard about this role, but not everyone knows what this person actually does. Therefore, we've created a sort of introduction to the profession, explaining the necessary qualities and the tasks tackled by product managers. Becoming a professional in this field is not easy. A potential product manager must embody a variety of qualities, […]
The Russian cloud services market barely accounts for one percent of the total global cloud revenue in monetary terms. Nonetheless, international players occasionally emerge, claiming their intention to compete for a place under the Russian sun. What can we expect in 2019? Below is the opinion of Konstantin Anisimov, CEO of Rusonyx. In 2019, the Dutch company Leaseweb announced its desire to provide […]
Nintendo shared how the Nintendo Labo: VR Kit is used in the adventurous action game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The Nintendo Labo: VR Kit for Nintendo Switch is set to go on sale today, April 19. An update that supports virtual reality for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be released on April 26. The technical director […]
Four vulnerabilities have been identified in the drivers for Broadcom wireless chips. In the simplest case, these vulnerabilities could be exploited to remotely trigger a denial of service, but scenarios are not excluded in which exploits could be developed, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute their code with Linux kernel privileges by sending specially crafted packets. The issues were revealed during reverse engineering […]
Many popular Android applications from the major Chinese developer DU Group, including a selfie app with 50 million downloads, are used for fraud, misuse of user permissions, intrusive advertising, and more. In particular, they send data to China. This was reported by BuzzFeed.News. The company has an audience of over a billion worldwide and claims to […]
Valve has released a build of the Proton project 4.2-3, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and listed in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. As new features are finalized in the original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d, the changes developed in Proton are transferred over. […]
Mozilla has unveiled the WebThings platform after two years of experimentation and development, which incorporates previously developed projects WebThings Framework and WebThings Gateway, providing components for accessing various categories of consumer devices and utilizing the universal Web Things API for interacting with them. The project's developments are released under the MPL 2.0 license. The WebThings Framework offers a set of interchangeable components for […]
It is possible that the Sea Launch platform will be relocated from California to the Far East. At least, sources in the rocket and space industry say this, according to the online publication RIA Novosti. The Sea Launch project was developed in the early 1990s. The idea was to create a floating rocket and space complex capable of providing the most favorable […]
A new release of the NixOS distribution has been announced. Features of NixOS include a 'functionally pure' package manager Nix, as well as its own unified configuration system. Some changes: The default Python 3 interpreter is now CPython 3.7; the Pantheon desktop environment developed by the elementary OS team has been added; the Kubernetes module has undergone a comprehensive refactoring; 35 new modules have been added; support for Node.js version 6 has been discontinued; Wayland compositor […]
Zhabogram is a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber (XMPP) network to the Telegram network, written in Ruby. It is the successor to tg4xmpp. Dependencies: Ruby >= 1.9 ruby-sqlite3 >= 1.3 xmpp4r == 0.5.6 tdlib-ruby == 2.0 and compiled tdlib == 1.3 Features: Authorization in Telegram, including two-factor authentication (password) Synchronization of chat lists with the roster Synchronization of contact statuses with the roster […]
Hello, today I admired some artifacts from the Soviet era and wanted to share with the community. This post won't contain technical analysis or historical references, just pictures for the curious and my notes. Therefore, I'm publishing it in the 'attic'. (Caution: about 40 Mb of images!) Electrical Connector According to legend, it comes from the brother of 'Buran' — 'Bura'. Note that the wire is embedded in a brown compound, visible […]