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When you are on a phone call and another person tries to reach you, most smartphones and telecom operators inform that you are receiving a call. However, among VoIP services, such notifications haven't become widespread. Now, this feature is available to users of the popular messenger WhatsApp. It’s worth noting that the incoming call notification will not allow you to put the current call on hold. […]
According to Opennet: LeoFS is a distributed, fault-tolerant object storage that is compatible with clients using the Amazon S3 API and REST API, and it supports operation as an NFS server. There are optimizations for storing both small and very large objects, a built-in caching mechanism is available, and replication of storage between data centers is possible. One of the project's goals is to achieve reliability of 99.9999999% through […]
‘We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI…’, Kleinrock said in an interview: ‘We typed the L and we asked on the phone, “Do you see the L?”’ ‘Yes, we see the L,’ came the response. ‘We typed the O, and we asked, “Do you see the O?”’ ‘Yes, we […]
In the first part, I briefly talked about the assembly itself, which allows you to build a computer that can run unRAID to create a NAS and MikroTik RouterOS in a KVM virtual machine as a replacement for a regular router. The comments turned into quite useful discussions, as a result of which I need to correct errors in the original assembly and write the third part! Some things […]
The release of the speech recognition engine DeepSpeech 0.6, developed by Mozilla, has been announced. It implements the namesake speech recognition architecture proposed by researchers from Baidu. The implementation is written in Python using the TensorFlow machine learning platform and is distributed under the open-source MPL 2.0 license. It supports operation on Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows. The performance is sufficient for using the engine on LePotato boards, […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the founders of the nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, has released the Certbot 1.0 toolkit, designed to simplify obtaining TLS/SSL certificates and automate HTTPS configuration on web servers. Certbot can also serve as client software for accessing various certificate authorities using the ACME protocol. The project's code is written in Python and […]
Introduction When developing under Linux, there are tasks related to creating interactive scripts that execute when the system starts or shuts down. This was straightforward in System V, but systemd makes it a bit more complex. However, it has its own timers. What are targets? It is often stated that targets serve as an analogy to runlevels in System V init. I fundamentally disagree. There are more of them and they can […]
We continue to deepen our knowledge of salary trends in Russia. As the end of 2019 approaches, it's time for the annual report on the salaries offered by employers in their job postings on 'Moy Krug'. As in the previous year, in this report we will compare the salaries offered by employers with those from the salary calculator, which we obtain […]
The release of the Django 3.0 web framework, written in Python and intended for web application development, has taken place. The Django 3.0 branch is categorized as a release with a standard support period and will receive updates until April 2021. The LTS branch 2.22 will be supported until April 2022, and branch 1.11 until April 2020. Support for branch 2.1 has ended. Key improvements include […]
Recently, Google introduced the ability to send URLs to other devices connected through the Chrome browser and a shared account. Now, there is an alternative. In the Chrome Canary build version 80.0.3987.0, a new flag called 'Allow page sharing via QR code' has been added. Enabling it allows the conversion of any web page address into such a code format, which can then be scanned […]
In early November, we announced the open beta of the Miro platform, held a conference on platform development with JetBrains, Stripe, and other companies (videos of all presentations), and launched an online competition for developers to create plugins. The competition has ended! Engineers from Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, and other countries participated. We are ready to announce the winners! 1 […]
Why 17, you might ask? Because my journey in IT began exactly 17 years ago. For the last decade, I have been working at 'Infosystems Jet', where my professional development took place. But today I will not talk about the twists and turns of corporate life, but rather about self-education and the literature that has helped me throughout these years. The first necessity for conscious self-organization […]