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A new version of the Tutanota email client has been published. Changes include redesigned search and integration with Let's Encrypt for custom domains, as well as 100% Russian translation. Tutanota uses end-to-end encryption, so searches can only be performed locally. To do this, the client builds a full-text index. The index is stored locally in encrypted form. The new redesigned search should significantly […]
On the Internet, rumors around the Redmi smartphone with the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor do not subside. The day before, a message with a video was published on the official page of this brand on the Chinese social network Weibo, revealing the design and name of the future new product. Initially, it was assumed that the Redmi smartphone based on the Snapdragon 855 single-chip system would be called Redmi Pro 2, that is, formally […]
Released last month, the Huawei P30 Pro is still making headlines and reviews for a reason. Users praised the smartphone's record five-fold optical zoom, as well as the phone's overall shooting quality, especially in low-light conditions. Taking into account other state-of-the-art hardware, the xda-developers.com portal has already rated the P30 Pro as one of the contenders for the […]
According to Intel's long-term plan, which we had the opportunity to get acquainted with a few days ago, major changes in the range of mobile processors supplied by the company are planned for the end of the second and beginning of the third quarter of this year. In the segment of energy-efficient solutions with a thermal package of 15 W, two fundamentally new types of processors should appear at once. Firstly, these are the first large-scale 10nm Ice processors […]
Phoenix Labs CEO Jesse Houston believes Sony is being unfairly criticized for its stance on cross-platform play. In recent years, Sony Interactive Entertainment has received quite a bit of criticism for its stance on cross-platform multiplayer. While Microsoft and Nintendo opened up the online spaces of their consoles for cross-platform play, Sony has long held […]
What is Istio? This is the so-called Service mesh, a technology that adds a layer of abstraction over the network. We intercept all or part of the traffic in the cluster and perform a certain set of operations with it. Which one? For example, we do smart routing, or implement a circuit breaker approach, we can organize “canary deployment”, partially switching traffic to a new version of the service, or we can limit […]
In the 20th century, people's lives and work went according to plan. At work (to simplify, you can imagine a factory), people had a clear plan for the week, for the month, for the year ahead. To simplify: you need to cut 20 parts. No one will come and say that now we need to cut out 37 details, and in addition, write an article with thoughts about […]
I tried to manage tasks systematically probably 20-25 times. And each attempt failed, as I now understand, for two reasons. Firstly, in order to devote time to completing tasks, you need to understand why this is being done. You start managing tasks, spending time on them, doing fewer tasks, it all starts to accumulate - for what? Any job is difficult [...]
Writing JavaScript code can be challenging and sometimes downright intimidating, as many developers are familiar with. In the process of work, errors inevitably arise, and some of them are repeated frequently. This article, aimed at novice developers, talks about these errors and how to solve them. For clarity, the names of functions, properties and objects are taken from a popular song. All this helps [...]
The next update to the current stable release of the Debian 9 “Stretch” operating system, numbered 9.9, is available. The update made changes to more than 100 different programs, including the Linux kernel updated to version 4.9.168, and the postfix, postgresql, and mariadb packages were updated. Fixed bugs in rsync, ruby, systemd, unzip, gpac, jquery and many other packages. Updated non-free Bluetooth firmware […]
Microsoft is trying its best to erase Minecraft's connection with its creator Markus Notch Persson. A few weeks ago, references to him were removed from the game, and now it has become known that Persson was not invited to Minecraft's tenth anniversary celebration. All because of the author’s disputes with feminists on Twitter and other statements. For example, Markus Persson stated: “It’s okay to be white.” […]
The Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT) has put forward a new initiative, which involves changes in existing duties on expensive parcels from abroad. It is proposed to replace the varying tax deductions with a single fee of 15%. As Kommersant reports, this is a softer option, because initially it was about 20%. The proposal is now being considered by the Government Analytical Center, the Gaidar Institute and the Post […]