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Note: The original article was written by Josh Rosso — an architect at VMware, previously working at companies such as CoreOS and Heptio, and also a co-author of Kubernetes alb-ingress-controller. The author shares a small tip that may be very useful for 'old-school' operations engineers who still prefer vim even in the age of cloud-native supremacy. Do you write YAML manifests for Kubernetes in vim? […]
Have you ever wondered how letters with fines from the traffic police or bills from Rostelecom are printed? To send a letter, you need to print it, buy an envelope and stamps, and spend time going to the post office. But what if there are a hundred thousand such letters? Or a million? For mass production of mail, there is hybrid mail — where they print, package, and send correspondence that cannot […]
This article is a free translation of one of the blog posts by the developers of DC++. With the author's permission (and also for clarity and interest), I have highlighted it with links and added some personal insights. Introduction Currently, at least one user from a pair of connecting users must be in active mode. The 'NAT traversal' mechanism will be useful in […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.7 has taken place. Since the release of version 5.6, 38 bug reports have been closed and 415 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: The Mono engine has been updated to version 5.0.0 with support for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation); Development of the WineD3D backend based on the Vulkan graphic API has continued; An initial implementation of the USB device driver has been added; Implementation of […]
Previously, remote work was merely a trend, but it has now become a necessity. Many faced the challenge of accessing files and applications stored on the office computer due to enforced self-isolation. In this article, I will discuss our solution — Parallels Access, which allows connection to a PC from virtually any device, regardless of its location. The need for […]
Hello, Habr! I’m back! Many of you warmly received my previous article about the show 'Mr. Robot.' Thank you so much for that! As I promised, I’ve prepared a continuation of the series and hope you’ll enjoy the new article just as much. Today, we'll discuss three of the most significant comedy series in the IT world. Many are currently in quarantine, many […]
Good afternoon, dear Habr readers! On December 23, 2019, the final episode of one of the most popular IT shows — Mr. Robot — was released. After watching the series to the end, I firmly decided to write an article about it on Habr. The release of this article coincides with my anniversary on the portal. My first article appeared exactly 2 years ago. […]
In January of this year, APK analysis showed that Google is working on a call recording feature for the 'Phone' app. This week, XDA Developers reported that support for this feature has already appeared on some Nokia phones in India. Now Google itself has published information on how to use the 'Phone' app to record calls. After a while, the page was […]
A new single-board computer for developers has arrived: the ODROID-C4 has been announced and is already available for order at an estimated price of $50. This product may compete with the popular mini-computer Raspberry Pi 4. The new device is based on the Amlogic hardware platform featuring the S905X3 processor. This chip contains four ARM Cortex-A55 computational cores clocked at up to 2.0 GHz […]
A conflict has erupted within the Void Linux developer community, resulting in Juan Romero Pardines, the founder of the project, announcing his departure and entering into a confrontation with other members. Judging by reports on Twitter and the abundance of offensive comments and threats towards other developers, Juan experienced a nervous breakdown. He also deleted his repositories […]
After more than a year of development, the LXQt 0.15 (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) release has occurred, developed by a combined team of developers from the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface continues to follow the principles of classic desktop organization while introducing modern design and methods that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly continuation of the development of the Razor-qt and LXDE desktops, incorporating […]
Kubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released — a stable version of Ubuntu based on the KDE Plasma 5.18 desktop environment and the KDE Applications 19.12.3 suite. Key packages and updates include: KDE Plasma 5.18, KDE Applications 19.12.3, Linux Kernel 5.4, Qt LTS 5.12.8, Firefox 75, Krita 4.2.9, KDevelop 5.5.0, LibreOffice 6.4, Latte Dock 0.9.10, and KDE Connect 1.4.0. Thunderbird now […]