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The release of the web browser Firefox 74 has taken place, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.6 for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 68.6.0 has been created. The Firefox 75 branch will soon enter beta testing, with the release scheduled for April 7 (the project has switched to a 4-5 week development cycle). Builds for the beta branch of Firefox 75 have begun to be developed for Linux […]
Firefox 74 is now available. The password manager has learned to sort entries in reverse order (Z-A). Global add-ons (for all users in the system, such as in %ProgramFiles%Mozilla Firefoxextensions) are now a thing of the past. This method of distribution is used for pre-installation in distributions, as well as for imposing add-ons when installing third-party software. Developers deemed this practice flawed, as it deprives users of the ability to remove such add-ons […]
On March 4, Hobbits 0.21 was released — a tool for visualizing binary files during reverse engineering. The tool is developed using the Qt framework and C++, and is distributed under the MIT license. Hobbits allows the use of a set of plugins that can be enabled or disabled depending on the current task — analysis, processing, or visualization of the binary file. There are plugins available for searching […]
For a whole year (or two), I've postponed publishing this article for one main reason—I had already published two articles describing the process of creating a SOCKS router from a regular laptop running Debian. However, since then the stable version of Debian has been updated to Buster, and I've received a sufficient number of requests asking for help in […]
In this article, we will discuss why it's important not to completely renounce the terminal, but to use it wisely. In which cases should it be used, and when should it not? Let’s be honest, none of us particularly need the terminal. We are accustomed to clicking with the mouse on everything that can trigger something. We […]
In an interview with WIRED, actor Norman Reedus talked about how he got involved in Death Stranding and whether he plans to collaborate with Kojima in the future. "It all started when Guillermo del Toro called me and said, 'A guy named Hideo Kojima will call you soon. Just say 'yes.' I asked, 'Who is that?' He said, 'It's […]
RU AdList is a popular subscription in Runet that contains filters for blocking ads in browser extensions like AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin, and others. Support for the subscription and modifications to the blocking rules are currently handled by contributors under the nicknames 'Lain_13' and 'dimisa.' The second author is particularly active, as can be judged by the official forum and the history […]
A release of the experimental Firefox Preview 4.0 browser for the Android platform has been published, developed under the codename Fenix as a replacement for the Firefox version for Android. Firefox Preview uses the GeckoView engine, built on the Firefox Quantum technologies, and a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries already used for building the Firefox Focus and Firefox Lite browsers. GeckoView is a variant of the Gecko engine, […]
The release of Hobbits 0.21 is available, which develops a graphical interface for analyzing, processing, and visualizing binary data during the reverse engineering process. The code is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the MIT license. Parsing, processing, and visualization functions are connected in the form of plugins that can be selected depending on the type of data being analyzed. Plugins for displaying […]
Zhabogram is a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber (XMPP) network to the Telegram network, written in Ruby. It is a successor to tg4xmpp. Dependencies: Ruby >= 2.4, xmpp4r == 0.5.6, tdlib-ruby == 2.2 with compiled tdlib == 1.6. Features include: Authorization in Telegram, Sending, receiving, deleting, and editing messages and attachments, Adding and removing contacts, Synchronizing the contact list, statuses, and VCard, Managing […]
The new release of arguably the most well-known free system manager is here. The most interesting changes in this version (in my opinion) include: systemd-homed — a new component that allows transparent and convenient management of encrypted home directories, ensuring portability (no need to worry about different UIDs on different systems), security (default backend is LUKS), and the ability to migrate to freshly installed systems by copying a single file. In […]
On March 5, iXsystems announced the merging of the codebases of its two projects, FreeNAS and TrueNAS, under the common name — TrueNAS Open Storage. FreeNAS is a free operating system for organizing network storage. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system. A key feature is the integrated support for ZFS, along with the ability to manage the system through a web interface written in Python using […]