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Bank ratings. Participation can't be fixed

People love ratings. How many applications, games and other things have already been made in the name of a person’s desire to be on some list a couple of lines higher than someone else. Or than a competitor, for example. People achieve places in the rankings in different ways, depending on their motivation and moral character. Someone will try to become better and honestly move from place #142 to #139, and […]

Complete anonymity: protecting your home router

Salute to everyone, dear friends! Today we will talk about how to turn a regular router into a router that will provide all your connected devices with an anonymous Internet connection. Let's go! How to access the network via DNS, how to set up a permanently encrypted connection to the Internet, how to protect your home router - and some more useful tips you will find in our article. To prevent […]

You can’t sleep to code: how to assemble a team and prepare for a hackathon?

I organized hackathons in Python, Java, .Net, each of which was attended by 100 to 250 people. As an organizer, I observed the participants from the outside and was convinced that the hackathon was not only about technology, but also about competent preparation, coordinated work and communication. In this article I have collected the most common mistakes and non-obvious life hacks that […]

Recruiting. Cold summer 2019

Hello, Habr! For the last 15 years, we have been involved in HR in IT and in those areas where people, personnel, create world-class intellectual products and services. We also do recruiting. Our specialty is building teams that are successful in the global marketplace. Without oil, gas, hemp and sable skins. In the cold summer of 2019, we decided to conduct an experiment on living people […]

Like Durov: a “golden passport” in the Caribbean and a start-up offshore for change

What is known about Pavel Durov? According to Forbes in 2018, this man had a fortune of $1,7 billion. He had a hand in creating the VK social network and the Telegram messenger, and launched the Telegram Inc. cryptocurrency. and held an ICO in the summer of 2019. Durov also left the Russian Federation in 2014, declaring that he had no intention of returning. But do you know […]

Super Grub2 Disk 2.04s1 distribution release

A new release of a specialized boot image, Super Grub2 Disk 2.04s1, has been published, occupying only 16 MB and designed to organize the boot of any systems in situations where the user is faced with a damaged bootloader, the inability to boot the system, or overwriting the main bootloader on systems with multiple OSes. To manage and search for systems available for download, a console interface based on […]

Release of decentralized video broadcasting platform PeerTube 1.4

The release of PeerTube 1.4, a decentralized platform for organizing video hosting and video broadcasting, has been published. PeerTube offers a vendor-neutral alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, using a content distribution network based on P2P communications and linking visitors' browsers together. The project's developments are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. PeerTube is based on the BitTorrent client WebTorrent, which runs in the browser and uses WebRTC technology to […]

Seven out of ten Russian teenagers were participants or victims of online bullying

The non-profit organization “Russian Quality System” (Roskachestvo) reports that many teenagers in our country are subject to so-called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is online bullying. It can have various manifestations: in particular, children can be subjected to unfounded criticism in the form of comments and messages, threats, blackmail, extortion, etc. It is reported that about 70% of Russian teenagers have been […]

Scientific Linux 7.7 distribution release

Presented is the release of the Scientific Linux 7.7 distribution, built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 package base and supplemented with tools aimed at use in scientific institutions. The distribution is supplied for the x86_64 architecture, in the form of DVD assemblies (9.8 GB and 8 GB), and a shortened image for installation over the network (496 MB). Publishing Live builds is delayed. The main differences from RHEL are [...]

FreeBSD Development Report Q2019 XNUMX

A report on the development of the FreeBSD project from April to June 2019 has been published. Among the changes we can note: General and system issues The Core team decided to establish a working group to study the possibility of transferring source codes from the centralized source control system Subversion to the decentralized Git system. Conducted fuzz testing of the FreeBSD kernel using the syzkaller system and fixed […]

Sony continues to optimize AMD Jaguar support for PS4 in LLVM Clang compiler

AMD continues to improve the Btver2/Jaguar compiler code to optimize performance. And in this, oddly enough, there is a huge merit of Sony. After all, it is the Japanese corporation that uses LLVM Clang as the default set of tools for its PlayStation 4. And the console, we recall, is based on a hybrid “red” Jaguar chip. Last week, the Jaguar/Btver2 target code was […]

rclone 1.49 backup utility available

The release of the rclone 1.49 utility has been published, which is an analogue of rsync, designed for copying and synchronizing data between the local system and various cloud storages, such as Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage and Yandex.Disk. The project code is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. IN […]