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Hello, colleagues! I want to share my solution to the problem mentioned in the title. I was inspired to write this article by my colleague brnovk, who took the initiative to propose a partial (for me) solution to the problem. I created my own "hack" that helped me. I'm sharing it with you. Problem description I used Ubuntu 18.04 for work and recently noticed that when switching keyboard layouts […]
The issue with young users of smartphones, tablets, and other internet-connected devices is not only that children may accidentally see, read, or download something inappropriate for their age, but also that due to their lack of life experience and knowledge, they are very vulnerable to the actions of malicious actors. Worse yet, children may find themselves […]
1. – Where are you going? – the guard asked indifferently. – To the company “Web 1251”. – It’s to the right down the path. The yellow building, second floor. The visitor, a student-looking young man, entered the cluttered area of the former research institute, walked down the path to the right, and followed the guard's instructions to ascend to the second floor of the yellow building. The corridor was deserted, with most doors lacking signage. […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis for the upcoming release of Firefox 72 on January 7, user tracking protection via hidden identification methods (“browser fingerprinting”) is enabled by default. The protection against hidden tracking is included in the default unwanted content blocking mode and is applied according to additional categories in the Disconnect.me list, which includes hosts that have been caught in […]
According to online sources, over the past 12 months, more than 480 million mobile VPN applications were downloaded from digital content stores for Android and iOS platforms. Compared to the previous similar period, when about 311 million VPN applications were downloaded, there is a noted increase in popularity of solutions in this category by 54%. Users of Android devices downloaded 358.3 million […]
In this article, I describe my experience installing VMware ESXi on an old Apple Mac Pro 1,1. The task from the client was to expand the file server. How a file server for the company was created on a PowerMac G5 in 2016, and what it was like to maintain the created legacy deserves a separate article. It was decided to combine the expansion with modernization and make a file server out of the existing MacPro. And […]
In recent years, we have all heard the phrase “personal data.” To a greater or lesser extent, we have aligned our business processes with the legal requirements in this area. The number of inspections by Roskomnadzor that discovered violations in this area this year is steadily approaching 100%. Statistics from the Roskomnadzor Office for the Central Federal District for the first half of 2019 show 131 violations for […]
In this article, I will tell you about DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) and its application in distributed ledgers, and we will compare it to blockchain. DAG is not something new in the world of cryptocurrencies. You may have heard of it as a solution to blockchain scalability issues. But today we will not talk about scalability, but about […]
Hello, not long ago I learned about the wonder school School 21 from an ad. The first impression from everything I read was wonderful. Nobody bothers you, you get assignments, and you work at your own pace. There’s teamwork, interesting acquaintances, and two internships in the largest IT companies in the country, plus everything is free with accommodations in a dormitory (Kazan). In […]
Klaus Knopper has announced the release of KNOPPIX 8.6.1, an updated build of the live DVD distribution image based on Debian, featuring LXDE as the default desktop, KDE Plasma 5.14, and GNOME 3.30, without the systemd software package and with a new version of the Linux kernel 5.3.5. The new version includes: Updated Linux kernel and system software […]
Below you will find a review by specialists from Houdini Team, a Krasnodar studio of Plarium, about the video courses Nature of Vex and Bites of Python from Mix Training, dedicated to working with Python and Vex languages in the Houdini graphics program. In this post, the guys also share a collection of materials that will be useful for everyone interested. A little background: The Vex language intimidates new users […]
Guile 2.9.5 is the fifth beta release of the GNU implementation of the Scheme programming language, preparing for the stable 3.x branch. Guile supports many SRFIs, provides a modular system, full access to POSIX system calls, network support, dynamic linking, external function calls, and powerful string handling. Guile can interpret code interactively, compile it into bytecode for the virtual machine, and connect to libraries […]