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The fine for violating personal data laws can be up to 75,000 rubles. How can you protect yourself from violations when processing personal data? Have you complied with all legal requirements? As of July 1, 2017, fines have increased and now depend on the nature of the violations. Yes, a lot of time has passed, but, as often happens, especially in Russia, where […]
Microsoft once announced that it would use about 7 GB of user hard drive space to store update files. The advantage of this approach is that it ensures that space does not run out during the middle of an update. The downside is simple — inexpensive tablets and laptops may simply not have enough space. If earlier the minimum requirement […]
In my opinion, the theme of formal verification is insufficiently covered in the Russian-speaking segment of the internet, and there is a particular lack of simple and clear examples. I will provide such an example from a foreign source and supplement it with my own solution to the well-known problem of transporting a wolf, a goat, and cabbage across a river. But first, I will briefly describe what formal verification is and why […]
In this article, I will explain how to use Pinba together with ClickHouse and Grafana instead of pinba_engine and Pinboard. For PHP projects, Pinba is perhaps the only reliable way to understand what is happening with performance. However, Pinba is usually implemented only when there are already observed problems and it's unclear 'where to dig.' Often, no one has any idea how many times per second/minute […]
This is a short story from real practice where a minor issue, well disguised by redundancy, turns into a headache. A brief setup: A small branch with its own PBX (Asterisk + FreePBX) based on desktop hardware, along with a local terminal server running 1C, a file repository, and a virtual RO domain controller. Internet access is provided by Mikrotik. The branch is small, and this setup suffices for its needs. It all began […]
The TrueOS project has announced the testing of experimental builds of FreeBSD 12-STABLE and FreeBSD 13-CURRENT, in which the monolithic base system has been transformed into a set of interconnected packages. The builds are developed within the pkgbase project, which provides tools for using the native package manager pkg to manage the packages that make up the base system. Delivering it as separate packages significantly simplifies the process of updating the base […]
The Apache Foundation has announced the completion of its integration with GitHub and the migration of all its Git services to GitHub. Initially, two version control systems were offered for Apache project development: the centralized version control system Subversion and the decentralized system Git. Since 2014, read-only mirrors of Apache repositories have been launched on GitHub. Now […]
The presentation by Dell, which the well-known Dutch website referenced when discussing Intel's upcoming announcements of new processors, initially focused on the mobile and commercial product segment. As independent experts rightly pointed out, the timeline for new product releases from Intel could differ in the consumer segment, and yesterday this notion was confirmed in a new publication on the pages of Tweakers.net. The title of the slide […]
Intel's CEO Robert Swan frequently mentioned the shortage of manufacturing capacity during the recent quarterly earnings conference, in the context of rising costs and a shift in the processor lineup towards more expensive models with more cores. Such changes allowed Intel to increase the average selling price of processors by 13% in the mobile segment in the first quarter and […]
Mozilla is developing a new mobile browser called Fenix. It will soon be available in the Google Play Store, replacing Firefox for Android. Additionally, some details have emerged about how the transition to the new browser will take place. Sources report that Mozilla has made decisions regarding the future of the Firefox browser for Android and […]
Approximately 2.24 million records containing passport data, employment information of Russian citizens, and SNILS numbers are publicly available. This conclusion was drawn by Ivan Begtin, chairman of the Data Market Participants Association, based on a study titled 'Leaks of Personal Data from Open Sources. Electronic Trading Platforms.' The study examined data from the largest electronic trading platforms in the Russian Federation, focusing on […]
Koei Tecmo reported in its financial statement that shipments of the fighting game Dead or Alive 6 totaled 350,000 copies as of March 31, 2019. This figure includes versions for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Dead or Alive 6 was released on March 1, 2019, achieving this number in just one month. Not […]