Category: Blog

New releases of Node.js 13.8, 12.15, and 10.19 with vulnerability fixes.

Developers of the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform have released patch versions 13.8.0, 12.15.0, and 10.19.0, which fix three vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-15606 — improper handling of optional whitespace characters (OWS) following the value in an HTTP header; CVE-2019-15605 — the possibility of an HRS (HTTP Request Smuggling) attack, allowing insertion into the content of other requests processed in the same stream between frontend and backend) through transmission […]

X-Client-Data Header as a Method for Identifying Chrome Users

When discussing Google's initiative to unify the HTTP User-Agent header content, a developer from Kiwi Browser pointed out the persisting HTTP header 'X-Client-Data' in Chrome, which potentially violates the existing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. During the discussion, Google's duality of action was also criticized, as the company promotes methods for blocking hidden identification and tracking actions […]

Loki - log collection using the Prometheus approach.

Hello, Habr users! In anticipation of the new enrollment for the course 'DevOps Practices and Tools', we have prepared a translation of interesting material for you. This article serves as a brief introduction to Loki. The Loki project is supported by Grafana and is aimed at centralized log collection (from servers or containers). The primary source of inspiration for Loki was Prometheus, with the idea of applying its approaches to log management: […]

TTY — a terminal not intended for home use

Is it possible to survive using only the capabilities of TTY? Here’s my brief story about how I struggled with TTY, wanting to achieve normal functionality from it. Background Recently, on my old laptop, the graphics card failed. It failed so badly that I couldn't even start the installer for any OS. Windows crashed with errors while installing basic drivers. The installation of Linux was downright impossible […]

GCC 9 Has Been Ported to OS/2

Bitwise Works has completed the port of the GCC 9.2 compiler suite for the OS/2 operating system and its derivative platforms, ArcaOS and eComStation. Previously, GCC 4.9.2 was offered for ArcaOS, while GCC 8.3.0 was available in the ports for OS/2. It is noted that the ability to use GCC 9 will allow the community to adapt more applications and libraries for use on OS/2, including […]

Dark Launch in Istio: secret services

"Danger is my middle name," said Austin Powers, the man of mystery of international scale. But what is valued by superagents and intelligence agencies is not at all suitable for computer services, where boredom is much better than dangers. Istio, along with OpenShift and Kubernetes, turns the deployment of microservices into a truly dull and predictable affair — and that’s wonderful. This and […]

Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, the Most Wanted Man Online. Part 2

For some, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the infamous file-sharing site "MegaUpload," is a criminal and internet pirate; for others, he is an unyielding advocate for personal data privacy. On March 12, 2017, the world premiere of a documentary film took place, featuring interviews with politicians, journalists, and musicians who know Kim "from all sides." New Zealand director Annie Goldson uses footage from personal archives to tell […]

Embedded World 2020. The Russians are coming

In anticipation of the upcoming Embedded World 2020 exhibition, I decided to take a look at the list of companies from Russia. After filtering the participant list by country of origin, I was pleasantly surprised. The official exhibition website turned out 27 companies!!! For comparison, there are 22 companies from Italy, 34 from France, and 10 from India. What could this mean, where are all these domestic hardware producers […]

I want to get married

In the nineteenth episode of our podcast "To Infinity and Beyond," titled "I Want to Get Married!" we discuss how to study properly, starting at the 16th minute, and the phrase "I don't want to study, I want to get married" serves as an apt slogan for this episode. We also talk about the humanitarian mindset and discuss issues related to group dynamics.

Release of Electron 8.0.0, a platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine.

The release of the Electron 8.0.0 platform has been prepared, which provides a self-contained framework for developing cross-platform user applications using components from Chromium, V8, and Node.js as its foundation. The significant version number change is associated with the update to the Chromium 80 codebase, Node.js 12.13 platform, and V8 8.0 JavaScript engine. Among the changes in the Electron-specific API: the ability to check spelling in forms has been added.

Firefox Preview mobile browser adds support for extensions.

Mozilla developers have added support for extensions in the codebase of the mobile browser Firefox Preview (Fenix), which is being developed to replace the Firefox edition for the Android platform. The new browser is based on the GeckoView engine and the set of Mozilla Android Components libraries. The ability to connect extensions based on the WebExtension API is available for testing in nightly builds of Firefox Preview. An 'Add-ons Manager' option has been added to the menu.

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