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Public speaking is a weapon in the battle for minds. If you are not a conqueror, it’s of no use to you. Otherwise, here are the "blueprints" for this weapon! Each person decides for themselves what is primary in public speaking – the presentation or the spoken text. For example, I almost always start with the presentation, which I then "layer" with the text. […]
This week saw the release of version 0.3.0 of the free utility Vector, designed for collecting, transforming, and saving log data, metrics, and events. Written in Rust, it boasts high performance and low memory consumption compared to its counterparts. Additionally, significant attention is paid to correctness features, particularly the ability to save unsent events to the buffer […]
Mozilla will not include DNS-over-HTTPS support by default for users in the UK due to pressure from the UK Internet Service Providers Association (UK ISPA) and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). However, Mozilla is working on finding potential partners for wider adoption of DNS-over-HTTPS technology in other European countries. A few days ago, the UK ISPA nominated Mozilla […]
Hi everyone! Nikita here — a systems engineer at SEMrush. Today, I'll share how we faced the challenge of ensuring the stability of our service semrush.com in China, and the issues we encountered while addressing it (considering the location of our data center on the US East Coast). This will be a lengthy story, divided into several […]
Hello! It's Nikita again — a systems engineer at SEMrush. With this article, I continue the story about how we devised a solution to bypass the Chinese Firewall for our service semrush.com. In the previous part, I discussed: the issues that arise after the decision is made, "We need to ensure that our service works in China," and the problems […]
Note: Following the recent publication of material on pull and push methods in GitOps, we noticed a growing interest in this model overall. However, there are very few publications on this topic in Russian (in fact, none on Habr). Therefore, we are pleased to present a translation of another article — although it is nearly a year old! — from the company Weaveworks, the chapter […]
The latest release of the Telegram messenger includes animated stickers, which have been added to the main versions of both the desktop and mobile applications. There are both ready-made packs and an option to create your own. It is noted that stickers only weigh 20–30 KB, allowing them to load almost instantly and work even on slow internet connections. The frame rate of the animation […]
On July 5, the release of the new stable version of the GNU operating system bootloader GRUB took place. This bootloader complies with the Multiboot specification, supports a wide range of platforms, and is one of the most widely used bootloaders for operating systems based on the Linux kernel. The bootloader can also load many other operating systems, including Windows, Solaris, and BSD family operating systems. The new stable […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.12 — is now available. Since the release of version 4.11, 27 bug reports have been closed, and 336 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Added support for drivers for PnP (Plug & Play) devices; improved support for remote debugging under Visual Studio; implementation of the EnumDisplayDevicesW() call, used to retrieve information about the currently used […]
The release of Open Build Service platform 2.10 has been announced, designed for organizing the development process of distributions and software products, including the preparation and support of releases and updates. The system allows for cross-compilation of packages for most major Linux distributions or the creation of a custom distribution based on a specified package base. It supports building for 21 target platforms (distributions), including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenMandriva, […]
The release of the cryptographic library Botan 2.11.0 is now available, used in the NeoPG project, a fork of GnuPG 2. The library provides a large collection of ready-to-use primitives utilized in TLS protocols, X.509 certificates, AEAD ciphers, TPM modules, PKCS#11, password hashing, and post-quantum cryptography. The library is written in C++11 and is distributed under the BSD license. Changes in the new release include the addition of the Argon2 password hashing function […]
More than 100 years ago, scientists were interested in the capabilities of the brain and tried to understand whether it was possible to influence it somehow. In 1875, English doctor Richard Caton managed to record a weak electrical field on the surface of the brains of rabbits and monkeys. After that, there were numerous discoveries and studies, but it was not until 1950 that Yale University physiology professor Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado invented […]