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Hello everyone. Today, we share with you the final part of the article "Testing Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi," a translation prepared specifically for the students of the "DevOps Practices and Tools" course. Deployment Testing The tested style is a powerful approach that allows us to conduct white-box testing to examine the inner workings of our infrastructure code. However, it somewhat limits what can be done […]
The PHP language developers have proposed creating a new dialect, P++, which will help elevate PHP to a new level. Currently, PHP's development is hampered by the need to maintain compatibility with existing web project codebases, which keeps developers within limited frameworks. As a solution, it is suggested to start developing a new PHP dialect—P++—in parallel, with its development being carried out […]
The capacity of hard drives continues to increase, but growth rates have steadily declined in recent years. For instance, it took the industry only two years to release the first 4 TB drive after the 2 TB HDDs hit the market; it took three years to reach the 8 TB mark, and it was only after a lengthy period that the capacity of 3.5-inch hard drives was able to double again […]
By analyzing website statistics, we gain insights into what is happening with it. We compare the results with other knowledge about the product or service to enhance our experience. Once the initial analysis is complete, the information is contemplated, and conclusions are drawn, the next phase begins. Ideas arise: what if we look at the data from a different angle? This […]
A series of vulnerabilities (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in Ghostscript, a toolkit for processing, converting, and generating documents in PostScript and PDF formats, continues. Like previous vulnerabilities, the new issue (CVE-2019-10216) allows bypassing the isolation mode '-dSAFER' when processing specially crafted documents (through manipulation with '.buildfont1') and gaining access to the file system contents, which can be exploited […]
The FreeBSD developers announced the plan to remove GCC 4.2.1 from the source code of the FreeBSD base system. GCC components will be removed by the time the FreeBSD 13 branch is created, which will include only the Clang compiler. GCC can still be installed from the ports, where GCC 9, 7, and 8 are available, as well as already deprecated releases of GCC […]
Oracle has announced its efforts to port DTrace-related changes upstream and plans to implement dynamic debugging technology DTrace over the standard Linux kernel infrastructure, specifically using subsystems like eBPF. Initially, the main issue with using DTrace on Linux was licensing incompatibility, but in 2018, Oracle relicensed the code […]
Bandai Namco Entertainment has released another trailer for its psychological thriller The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. Back in July, the developers announced that the upcoming game would feature two multiplayer modes. A week ago, they released a trailer dedicated to the two-player gameplay mode called 'Shared Story'. Now, they have released a video that discusses 'Movie Night'. Supermassive Games noted that […]
Updates for the stable branch of OpenBSD have been announced. Previously, using the '-stable' branch only allowed for binary updates to the base system through syspatch. Packages were built once for the release branch and were no longer updated. Now, however, three branches are planned to be supported: '-release': a frozen branch, from which packages are built once for release and no longer […]
A corrective update for Firefox 68.0.2 has been released, addressing several issues: A vulnerability (CVE-2019-11733) allowing saved passwords to be copied without entering the master password has been fixed. When using the 'copy password' option provided in the context menu while in the Saved Logins dialog ('Page Info / Security / View Saved Password'), copying to the clipboard is performed without the need to enter a password (the password input dialog appears, but the data is copied […]
The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) project, which maintains a repository of additional packages for RHEL and CentOS, has announced that the EPEL 8 repository is ready for release. The repository was created two weeks ago and is now deemed ready for integration. Through EPEL, users of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are offered an additional set of packages from Fedora Linux, supported by communities […]
Wine is a program for running Windows applications on Unix-based computers. Running Wine on Windows has been the dream of fans who answer the call of their hearts: 'We do what we must because we are not obligated to do it,' at least since 2004 when someone attempted to compile Wine in Cygwin and broke the host system registry. The justification: 'What about old applications, […]