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Guiding Philosophy 1. Programming Languages for People Programming languages are how people talk to computers. A computer is happy to converse in any language that is unambiguous. The reason we have high-level languages is that people cannot cope with machine language. The essence of programming languages is to prevent our poor fragile human […]
Paul Graham is one of the most respected figures among tech professionals, founders, and investors. He is a first-class programmer (having created two programming languages), a hacker, the founder of the bold accelerator Y Combinator, and a philosopher. With his thoughts and intellect, Paul Graham dives into a wide range of fields: from predicting the development of programming languages a hundred years into the future to human qualities and ways to fix/hack the economy. And […]
On January 16, a major release of GNU Guile took place — an embedded implementation of the Scheme programming language with support for multithreading, asynchrony, network operations, and POSIX system calls, a binary C interface, PEG parsing, network REPL, XML; it has its own object-oriented programming system. The main feature of the new version is full support for JIT compilation, which has allowed for an average speedup in program execution by two […]
An update for Chrome browser version 79.0.3945.130 is now available, which fixes four vulnerabilities, one of which has been classified as critical, allowing bypass of all levels of browser protection and executing code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details about the critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-6378) have not yet been disclosed, only that it is triggered by accessing a previously freed memory block in the speech recognition component. […]
The release of the Mir 1.7 display server has been announced, the development of which continues under Canonical, despite the abandonment of the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]
Google has released a timeline for phasing out support for specialized web applications, Chrome Apps, in the Chrome browser. In March 2020, the Chrome Web Store will stop accepting new Chrome Apps (the ability to update existing applications will continue until June 2022). Support for Chrome Apps will be discontinued in June 2020 for Chrome browser versions on Windows, Linux, and macOS […]
The Microsoft Edge browser, which was recently released, has many features of Chromium and Chrome, but currently does not support the latter's themes. However, it turns out this can be fixed, although this feature only works on Edge Canary. You can also try to do the same with the developer version, beta, and release build. As of now, this feature is confirmed […]
Hello! My name is Danil Lipovoy, and our team at Sbertech has started using HBase as an operational data store. While studying it, we have gained experience that we wanted to systematize and describe (we hope it will be useful for many). All experiments listed below were conducted with HBase versions 1.2.0-cdh5.14.2 and 2.0.0-cdh6.0.0-beta1. General architecture Writing data to HBASE Reading data from HBASE […]
In the fall of 2019, Check Point discontinued support for R77.XX versions, necessitating an upgrade. Much has been discussed about the differences between versions, as well as the pros and cons of transitioning to R80. Let's focus on how to update Check Point virtual appliances (CloudGuard for VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM Gateway NGTP) and what might go wrong. So, we have […]
Books, as we know them, have not been around for very long. In ancient times, the primary medium for information was papyrus, but after the ban on its export, parchment took its place. As the Roman Empire declined, books transitioned from scrolls to volumes made by sewing together sheets of parchment. This process happened gradually, some […]
DilOS is an Illumos-based platform with a Debian package manager (dpkg + apt) that is licensed under MIT. DilOS will be oriented towards server-side virtualization, such as Xen (dilos-xen3.4-dom0 is currently available), zones, and tools for use in small businesses and by home users (Example: as a file server with a torrent client featuring a WEB GUI, Apache).
More than 50 companies, including Privacy International, Digital Rights Foundation, DuckDuckGo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation, have sent an open letter to Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai. The authors of the letter note that the pre-installed software on Android represents a privacy threat to consumers. All Android OEM manufacturers pre-install their devices with applications that cannot be removed and that may bypass user consent.
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