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The text of a joint statement from the developers of the GNU project has appeared on the website planet.gnu.org. We, the undersigned maintainers and developers of GNU, wish to thank Richard Stallman for decades of work in the free software movement. Stallman has consistently emphasized the importance of user freedom and laid the foundation for his dream to become a reality by starting the development of GNU. We are sincerely grateful to him for […]
The Document Foundation has announced the readiness of the Russian translation of the getting started guide for LibreOffice 6. The document (470 pages, PDF) is distributed under the free licenses GPLv3+ and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY). The translation was done by Valery Goncharuk, Alexander Denkin, and Roman Kuznetsov. The guide includes a description of the basic techniques for working with […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client have announced plans to include built-in support for encrypted communication and digital signature assurance based on OpenPGP public keys in the upcoming Thunderbird 78 release, expected next summer. Previously, this functionality was provided by the Enigmail add-on, which will continue to be supported until the end of the support period for the Thunderbird 68 branch (following Thunderbird 68, the possibility of installing Enigmail […]
Good day! This article addresses the issue of counterfeit sensors, the limitations of existing devices utilizing these sensors, and the solution to this problem. Source: ali-trends.ru Previous discussions on counterfeit sensors can also be found here. The characteristic differences between counterfeit sensors and originals: A sensor, even when connected nearby, responds inconsistently in parasitic power mode, often failing to operate correctly.
Last summer, we published a selection of books that did not include reference books or algorithm guides. It consisted of literature for leisure reading — to broaden horizons. As a continuation, we have selected science fiction, books about the technological future of humanity, and other publications written by specialists for specialists. Photo: Chris Benson / Unsplash.com Science and Technology 'Quantum […]
This is a simple graphical interface for Git, written in bash, using technologies like yad, lxterminal*, and leafpad*. It is based on the KISS principle, so it fundamentally does not provide complex and advanced features. Its task is to speed up typical Git operations: commit, add, status, pull, and push. For more complex functions, there is a 'Terminal' button that allows you to use all conceivable and inconceivable capabilities […]
Check Point kicked off 2019 with a flurry of announcements. It’s not possible to cover everything in a single article, so let’s start with the most significant — Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Network Security. Maestro is a new scalable platform that enables the security gateway's 'power' to scale to 'impressive' numbers nearly linearly, achieved primarily through load balancing.
Following the call from the Free Software Foundation to reconsider its relationship with the GNU project, Richard Stallman announced that as the current leader of the GNU project, he will address the issues of building relationships with the FSF (the main problem being that all GNU developers sign an agreement transferring ownership rights of the code to the FSF, giving it legal ownership of all GNU code). 18 maintainers and...
After a year of development, the release of VeraCrypt 1.24 has been published, continuing the fork of the TrueCrypt disk encryption system, which has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the algorithm used in TrueCrypt, RIPEMD-160, with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and fixing issues identified during the audit of TrueCrypt's source code. Additionally, VeraCrypt provides a mode...
Options for using network visibility solutions What is network visibility? Visibility is defined by Webster's dictionary as 'the ability to be easily seen' or 'the degree of clarity.' Network visibility refers to the removal of blind spots that hide the ability to easily see (or quantitatively determine) what is happening in the network and/or applications on the network. This visibility allows IT teams […]
What comes easily and freely to some can be a real challenge for others — such thoughts arise from each letter of the font 'Dobroshrift', which was developed for the international day of CP with the participation of children with this diagnosis. We decided to take part in this charitable campaign and changed our website logo until the end of the day. Our society is often non-inclusive and alienates […]
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has posted a message clarifying the relationship between the FSF and the GNU Project in light of recent events. 'The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project were founded by Richard M. Stallman (RMS), who until recently served as the head of both. For this reason, the relationships between FSF and GNU were smooth...'