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Superbank and supercurrency

Project for a global/national power bank and a single universal cosmopolitan currency. In essence, such a project will bring humanity into a new, previously inaccessible, orbit of openness, universality and transparency of any material legal interactions. And Russia, as the country with the largest land area and energy sector, can be the first to initiate such a process. Think with me about the modern world, in which, dollars, shekels, […]

Southbridge in Chelyabinsk and Bitrix in Kubernetes

In Chelyabinsk, meetups of Sysadminka system administrators are taking place, and at the last of them I made a report on our solution for running applications on 1C-Bitrix in Kubernetes. Bitrix, Kubernetes, Ceph - a great mix? I’ll tell you how we put together a working solution from all this. Go! The mitap took place on April 18 in Chelyabinsk. You can read about our meetups in Timepad and see […]

Seven threats from bots to your site

DDoS attacks remain one of the most discussed topics in the field of information security. At the same time, not everyone knows that bot traffic, which is the tool for such attacks, entails many other dangers for online business. With the help of bots, attackers can not only crash a website, but also steal data, distort business metrics, increase advertising costs, ruin the reputation […]

Periodically changing passwords is an outdated practice, it's time to abandon it

In many IT systems, there is a mandatory rule for periodically changing passwords. This is perhaps the most hated and most useless requirement of security systems. Some users simply change the number at the end as a life hack. This practice caused a lot of inconvenience. However, people had to endure, because it is for the sake of safety. Now this advice is completely irrelevant. In May 2019, even Microsoft […]

"Live in high" or my story from procrastination to self-development

Hello Friend. Today we will not talk about complex and not so complex aspects of programming languages ​​or some kind of Rocket Science. Today I will tell you a short story about how I took the path of a programmer. This is my story and you can’t change it, but if it helps at least one person become a little more confident, then it was […]

What could be the computing systems of the future

We tell you what new things may appear in data centers and not only in them. / photo by jesse orrico Unsplash Silicon transistors are believed to be approaching their technological limit. Last time we talked about materials that can replace silicon and discussed alternative approaches to the development of transistors. Today we are talking about concepts that can transform the principles of operation of traditional computing systems: […]

Mastodon 2.9.2

Mastodon is “decentralized Twitter.” Microblogs scattered across many independent servers interconnected into one network. The closest analogue is regular E-mail. You can register on any server and subscribe to messages from users of any other servers. Changes (since v2.9.0) New functionality Added API for moderation. Added audio loading. Added short_description and approval_required to the GET method […]

Initiative to Protect Linux from Patent Claims Passes 3000 Members

The Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, announced that it has surpassed 3000 members. Over the past two years, OIN membership has increased by 50%. For example, since the beginning of this year alone, OIN has added 350 new companies, communities, and organizations to sign a patent-sharing license agreement. OIN participants undertake not to [...]

GNU APL 1.8 release

After more than two years of development, the GNU Project has released GNU APL 1.8, an interpreter for one of the oldest programming languages, APL, that fully meets the requirements of the ISO 13751 (“Programming Language APL, Extended”) standard. The APL language is optimized for working with arbitrarily nested arrays and supports complex numbers, which makes it popular for scientific calculations and data processing. […]

Microsoft opened the code for the mimalloc memory allocation system

Microsoft has opened the mimalloc library under the MIT license with implementations of a memory allocation system originally created for the runtime components of the Koka and Lean languages. Mimalloc is adapted for use in standard applications without changing their code and can act as a transparent replacement for the malloc function. Supports work on Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems. The key feature of mimalloc […]

A new build of Slackware has been prepared as part of the TinyWare project

Builds of the TinyWare project have been prepared, based on the 32-bit version of Slackware-Current and shipped with 32- and 64-bit versions of the Linux 4.19 kernel. The iso image size is 800 MB. Main changes compared to the original Slackware: Installation on 4 partitions “/”, “/boot”, “/var” and “/home”. The “/” and “/boot” partitions are mounted in read-only mode, while the “/home” and “/var” partitions are mounted in […]

Augmented reality will allow you to “try on” makeup from beauty blogs on YouTube

The continuous development of technology leads to the gradual transformation of augmented reality into a powerful tool that allows brands to tell consumers about their products in a much more interesting and vivid way. Developers from Google are integrating AR technologies into their own services, thereby expanding their capabilities. Some time ago, the ARCore developer platform was updated, and augmented reality capabilities were integrated into the Google Search service. On […]