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Using the Troika card as a compulsory medical insurance policy

When the trees were a little taller, the grass was greener, the sun was brighter, and I was studying at the institute, I had a student social card. I liked it for its functionality and thoughtfulness, but, like all good things, its validity period expired and I had to forget about this blessing of Moscow civilization for an indefinite period of time. It was replaced by Troika, which was partially able […]

hugo v0.56.0

Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. The improvements are as follows: Templates: Added Merge function. The interface has been expanded. The ability to convert digital values ​​into float64 and compare them. Greater detail of errors in Where. Return an error message if the entry is incorrect. Core: Added symdiff test. Test file added to .gitignore. The possibility of parallel [...]

How to become a product manager and grow further

It's difficult to define the role and responsibilities of a product manager in a universal way; every company has their own, so moving into this position can be a challenging task with unclear requirements. Over the past year, I've interviewed over fifty candidates for junior product manager positions and noticed that most of them had no understanding of […]

System Administrator Day, 20 years!

For 20 years now, on the last Friday of July, according to a tradition started on July 28, 1999 by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator from Chicago, System Administrator Appreciation Day, or System Administrator Day, has been celebrated. From the author of the news: I would like to sincerely congratulate the people who support telephone and computer networks, administer servers and workstations. Stable connection, bug-free […]

From classics and modernism to fantasy and steampunk - what system administrators read

After talking with fellow administrators about fiction, we discovered that we liked books of a wide variety of genres and styles. Then we became interested in conducting a survey among Selectel system administrators on three topics: what do they like from the classics, what is their favorite book, and what are they reading now. The result is a large literary selection, where system administrators share their personal impressions of the books they read. IN […]

wayland-protocols 1.18 release

The release of the wayland-protocols 1.18 package has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the capabilities necessary for building composite servers and user environments. Version 1.18 includes minor additions to existing protocols, improved documentation, and fixed bugs. Weston 7.0 and Wayland 1.18 are expected to be released on August 23rd. Currently, the composition [...]

Measurement Guide

Good afternoon everyone. Would you like to travel a little? If yes, then we offer you a small surreal universe containing a variety of strange fairy-tale and fantasy worlds. We will visit some of the worlds-entourages that I come up with for use in my role-playing games. Unlike detailed heavy settings, only the most general details are described in the surroundings, conveying the atmosphere and uniqueness of the world. […]

RPG Sandbox Citadel: Forged With Fire Coming to PC and Consoles October 11

Blue Isle Studios has announced that Citadel: Forged With Fire will leave Steam Early Access on PC on October 11th and will be released simultaneously on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The project belongs to the sandbox MMORPG genre with survival elements, in which you will play as a wizard trying to survive in dangerous lands. The game being developed in Toronto has some potential and […]

Exim 4.92.1 update fixes vulnerability

An unscheduled release of the Exim 4.92.1 mail server has been published, which eliminates a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-13917), which allows remote code execution with root rights if certain specific settings are present in the configuration. The vulnerability appears starting from release 4.85 when using the β€œ${sort }” operator in the settings, if the elements used in the β€œsort” list can be transmitted to attackers (for example, via […]

usbrip

usbrip is a command-line forensics tool that allows you to monitor artifacts left behind by USB devices. Written in Python3. Analyzes logs to build event tables that can contain the following information: device connection date and time, user, vendor ID, product ID, etc. In addition, the tool can do the following: export the collected information as a JSON dump; create a list of authorized [...]

Microsoft unexpectedly showed a new Start menu in Windows 10

Microsoft released a test version of Windows 10 for internal use under the number 18947. However, it was mistakenly released to members of the Windows Insider program, regardless of whether they are in the Fast or Slow Ring channel. And this version, as it turns out, has a new Start menu design that will lose its signature tiles. The leaked build was created […]

SDL 2.0.10 Media Library Release

The SDL 2.0.10 (Simple Direct Layer) library was released, aimed at simplifying the writing of games and multimedia applications. The library provides tools such as hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics output, input processing, audio playback, 3D output via OpenGL/OpenGL ES and many other related operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the zlib license. To use SDL capabilities […]