Category: Blog

The Post-Futurism We Deserve

The era of post-futurism began 110 years ago. In 1909, Filippo Marinetti published the manifesto of futurism, proclaiming the cult of the future and the destruction of the past, a pursuit of speed and fearlessness, and a denial of passivity and fear. We decided to kick off the next phase and chatted with several good people about how they envision the year 2120. Disclaimer. Dear friend, be prepared. This will be long […]

Mozilla is transitioning from IRC to Matrix

Previously, the company conducted testing in which Mattermost, Matrix with the Riot client, Rocket.Chat, and Slack participated. Other options were discarded due to complexity or inability to integrate with Mozilla's single sign-on system (IAM). Ultimately, Matrix was selected along with hosting from the protocol developer (New Vector) — Modular. The move away from IRC was due to the lack of necessary functionality and development [...].

Proton 4.11-11 Update, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-11, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of gaming applications on Linux that were created for Windows and listed in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows gaming applications that are only supplied for Windows to run directly in the Linux Steam client. The package includes [...].

In 2015, ARIN (responsible for the North American region) became the first registrar to exhaust its pool of IPv4 addresses.

The release of the GNUnet framework 0.12 has been announced, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks. Networks created using GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee the privacy of user information, including preventing possible abuse by law enforcement and administrators with access to the network nodes. The release is noted for containing significant protocol changes that break backward compatibility [...].

Another registrar has handed out the last block of IPv4 addresses

In 2015, ARIN (responsible for the North American region) became the first registrar to exhaust its pool of IPv4 addresses. In November, RIPE, which allocates resources in Europe and Asia, also ran out of addresses. / Unsplash / David Monje Situation in RIPE In 2012, RIPE announced the start of the distribution of the last /8 block. Since then, every client of the registrar could [...].

Series of posts on Istio Service Mesh

We are beginning a series of posts in which we will demonstrate some of the many capabilities of the Istio Service Mesh in combination with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. Part one, today: We will explain the concept of Kubernetes sidecar containers and formulate the leitmotif of this series of posts: "You don't need to change anything in your code." We will present a fundamental aspect of Istio – routing rules. These are built upon [...].

Anonymous Santa 2019-2020: post showcasing New Year gifts

Anonymous Santa 2019-2020 is gaining momentum: every third participant noted the gift sent, while a few even found the strength to get up from their computers and pick up their packages at the post office. What are Habr participants giving to their Habr grandchildren, Habr granddaughters, and those who specified 'other' in their Habr profile? Let's check the comments and find out! HAPPY NEW […]

The First Digital Edition of Blade Runner

The GOG and ScummVM teams are excited to present you with a special release — the first digital edition of Blade Runner and the adaptation of the legendary adventure game for modern PCs. In its time, Blade Runner was an absolute hit and changed the gaming industry. The game offered an unimaginable gameplay and mechanics for that era (1997), and sold over 800,000 copies. […]

A series of articles 'Language a Day' by Andrey Shitov

Andrey Shitov, a renowned Perl developer, has decided to try as many programming languages as possible this year and share his experiences with readers. Programming languages are delightful! You fall in love with a language as soon as you write a few test programs. The more you study, the better you feel the language and the ideas embedded in its foundation. In this year's advent calendar (from December 1 to […]

Release of Linux Mint 19.3 distribution

The release of Linux Mint 19.3 has been announced, the second update in the Linux Mint 19.x branch, based on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS package and supported until 2023. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu but differs significantly in the approach to user interface organization and the selection of default applications. The developers of Linux Mint offer a desktop environment that adheres to the classical principles of desktop organization, which […]

Google has resumed updating Chrome for Android after fixing a bug.

Google has resumed the distribution of updates for its browser on the Android platform. Now users can install Chrome 79 without fearing that it will affect the performance of other applications. Recall that the update distribution for the browser started a few days ago, but was halted due to emerging issues. Developers took this step after numerous complaints from users who reported that […]

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