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Release of the distributed version control system Git 2.25

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The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.25.0 is now available. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, offering flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to "backward" changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, and digital verification is also possible […]

The History of the Relay: The Speaking Telegraph

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Other articles in the series: History of relays The "fast information transfer" method, or The birth of the relay Long-distance writer Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay Talking telegraph Just connect Forgotten generation of relay computers Electronic era History of electronic computers Prologue Colossus ENIAC The electronic revolution History of the transistor Groping in the dark From the crucible of war Multiple reinventions History of the Internet Backbone network Dissolution, […]

And here it is, finally, the relay

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Other articles in the series: History of relays The "fast information transfer" method, or The birth of the relay Long-distance writer Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay Talking telegraph Just connect Forgotten generation of relay computers Electronic era History of electronic computers Prologue Colossus ENIAC The electronic revolution History of the transistor Groping in the dark From the crucible of war Multiple reinventions History of the Internet Backbone network Dissolution, […]

How We Developed a System Analyst from Scratch

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Are you familiar with the situation where your business needs are growing, but there aren't enough people to meet those needs? What should you do in such cases? Where can you find people with the necessary skills, and is it even worth pursuing? Since this problem is, to put it mildly, not new, solutions already exist. Some companies resort to outstaffing schemes to engage specialists […]

Root privileges will be removed by default from Kali Linux

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For many years, Kali Linux has been known for its root access policy for default users, a practice inherited from BackTrack Linux. On December 31, 2019, the developers of Kali Linux decided to transition to a more 'classic' policy — the absence of root privileges for users in the default session. This change will be implemented in the 2020.1 release of the distribution, but if desired, users can […]

Linux in 2020 will finally be able to provide proper temperature control for SATA disks

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One of the issues with Linux for over 10 years has been monitoring the temperature of SATA/SCSI disks. The fact is that this was implemented through third-party utilities and daemons rather than the kernel, so they needed to be installed separately, granted access, and so forth. However, it seems that this situation is about to change. Reports indicate that in Linux kernel 5.5, for NVMe drives, it is already possible to do without […]

Microsoft recommended that 400 million users purchase a new PC instead of upgrading Windows

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Support for the Windows 7 operating system ends tomorrow, and in anticipation of this event, Microsoft has released a statement recommending that users, instead of upgrading to Windows 10, purchase new PCs. Notably, Microsoft is not just recommending new PCs but also suggests buying branded Surface devices, whose advantages are detailed in the aforementioned publication. 'Many Windows 7 users […]

Migrating the PHP backend to Redis streams and selecting a framework-independent library

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Preface My website, which I manage as a hobby, is intended for storing interesting homepages and personal websites. This topic caught my interest at the very beginning of my programming journey, at a time when I was fascinated by finding great professionals who write about themselves, their hobbies, and their projects. The habit of discovering them for myself remains with me even now: almost […]

Tableau in retail, is it really?

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The reporting time in Excel is rapidly diminishing — the trend towards convenient tools for presenting and analyzing information is evident in all areas. We have long discussed digitalizing the reporting process and have chosen the visualization and self-service analytics system Tableau. Alexander Bezugly, head of the analytics and reporting department at the M.Video-Eldorado Group, shared his experiences and outcomes in building a battle dashboard. Let me tell you right away, not […]

Catch Me If You Can: Features of Conducting a Sociotechnical Pen Test

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Imagine this scenario. A cold October morning, a design institute in the regional center of one of Russia's regions. Someone from the HR department visits one of the job listing pages on the institute's website, posted a couple of days ago, and sees a photo of a cat. The morning quickly stops being boring… In this article, Pavel Suprunyuk, technical director of the audit and consulting department at Group-IB, […]

Mozilla implements CRLite for checking problematic TLS certificates

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Mozilla announced the start of testing a new mechanism for revocation of certificates — CRLite — in the Firefox nightly builds. CRLite allows for efficient certificate revocation checking using a database hosted on the user's system. The implementation of CRLite developed by Mozilla is published under the free MPL 2.0 license. The code for generating the database and server components is written in Python and Go. Added […]

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