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Release of the GNU IceCat web browser 60.7.0

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The GNU Project has released a new version of the IceCat web browser, version 60.7.0. This release is built on the Firefox 60 ESR codebase, modified to meet the requirements for fully free software. Specifically, non-free components have been removed, UI elements have been replaced, the use of registered trademarks has been discontinued, the search for non-free plugins and add-ons has been disabled, and privacy-enhancing add-ons have been integrated. The base […]

Upgrade the disk subsystem of an old server from PCIe 1.0 to 2.0

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Why the subject of this article is a disk subsystem upgrade. It is clear that in the first place, one usually needs to: Increase RAM. This is such an obvious step that I didn’t even think it was necessary to write about it in the main article. Install additional processor(s) or replace both processors with the most powerful versions supported by the server sockets. For older servers, RAM and processors are […]

Richard Hamming: Chapter 13. Information Theory

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We did it! “The goal of this course is to prepare you for your technical future.” Hello, Habr. Remember the awesome article “You and Your Work” (+219, 2588 saved, 429k readings)? Well, Hamming (yes, the one with self-checking and self-correcting Hamming codes) has an entire book written based on his lectures. We're translating it because the man knows what he's talking about. This […]

Release of the minimalist distribution 4MLinux 27.0

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A stable release of 4MLinux 29.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks but also as a system for recovery after failures and a platform for launching LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB […]

A Man Without a Smartphone

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I am 33 years old, a programmer from Saint Petersburg, and I have never had a smartphone. Not that I don't need one — I do need it, very much so: I work in IT, all my family members have one (my child already has a third one), I have had to manage mobile development, and I […]

Release GnuPG 2.2.16

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A new release of GnuPG 2.2.16 has been released, an open and free tool for data encryption. Key changes: gpg: added option —delete-key, allowing the removal of secondary keys (subkeys). gpg: when updating own digital signatures using options —quick-set-expire or —quick-set-primary-uid, SHA-1 hashes are replaced with SHA-256. gpg: improved image viewer selection. gpg: fixed decryption with the —use-embedded-filename option. gpg: […]

Creating a data stream processing pipeline. Part 1

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Hello everyone. Friends, we are sharing with you the translation of an article prepared specifically for students of the 'Data Engineer' course. Let's go! Apache Beam and DataFlow for real-time pipelines Today's post is based on a task I was recently working on at my job. I was really excited to implement it and describe the work done in a blog post format, as it gave me the opportunity to dive into data engineering, […]

Soviet Dreams of the Future

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Do you remember the charming little cat that sneezed in the opening of the Soviet cartoon? We remember, and we found it — along with a lot of other animated fantasies. In childhood, it was frightening and disconcerting because it raised serious, adult themes. It's time to revisit the old cartoons to find out what kind of future people dreamed of in that country. 1977: 'Polygon' Animator Anatoly Petrov had a hand in […]

Introducing the Firefox Lockwise password manager.

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Mozilla has introduced a password management app called Firefox Lockwise, which was developed under the code name Lockbox. Lockwise includes mobile applications for Android and iOS, allowing users to access passwords saved in Firefox on any of their devices without the need to install Firefox on them. The app supports the autocompletion of passwords in authentication forms of any mobile […]

Google is implementing new privacy policies to enhance Chrome extensions

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Currently, there are about 180,000 extensions available in the Chrome online store. Some of the extensions listed are collecting user data without proper permissions. This will soon change as Google begins to introduce new privacy policies for Chrome extensions. It is known that the rules announced by the company will take effect this fall. If any extension does not comply with the new privacy requirements, then […]

Jetpack Engineers: Alexander Fyodorovich Andreyev

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In 2019, it will be 100 years since our compatriot filed a patent application for the jetpack. Today, September 11, is the inventor's birthday. "With the device, aerial reconnaissance can be conducted with greater safety than on an airplane... entire military units, equipped with these devices (which will be several times more expensive when produced in a factory) […]

Solaris has been updated to Solaris 11.4 SRU 9

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As published on the Oracle Solaris Blog, on May 29, 2019, an update for the Solaris 11.4 OS SRU 9 was released, offering a series of further fixes and improvements to the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes proposed in the update, users only need to execute the command 'pkg update'. What's new and what has been updated: The Hardware Management Pack has been updated to version 2.4.6 […]

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