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Release of ZeroNet 0.7 and 0.7.1

On the same day, the releases of ZeroNet 0.7 and 0.7.1 took place – a platform distributed under the GPLv2 license, intended for creating decentralized websites using Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network. Features of ZeroNet include: Real-time updating websites; Support for Namecoin .bit domains; One-click website cloning; Password-less BIP32 based authorization: Your account is secured with the same cryptography as […]

New versions of Debian 9.10 and 10.1

The first corrective update for the Debian 10 distribution has been released, which includes package updates issued in the two months since the release of the new branch and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 102 updates addressing stability issues and 34 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 10.1 include the removal of 2 packages: pump (no longer maintained and […]

Not just New Relic: a look at Datadog and Atatus

In the SRE/DevOps engineer community, it is no surprise when a client (or monitoring system) reports that "everything is lost": the website is down, payments are failing, life is futile… As much as one would like to help in such a situation, doing so without a simple and clear tool can be very challenging. Often, the issue lies in the application's code itself — it only needs […]

Mozilla is moving to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox

The Firefox developers announced the completion of testing support for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and their intention to enable this technology by default for users in the United States at the end of September. The rollout will be gradual, starting with a small percentage of users, and, if there are no issues, it will gradually expand to 100%. After the U.S. is covered, the possibility of enabling DoH for […] will be considered.

The first public version of PowerToys for Windows 10 has been released.

Microsoft previously announced that the PowerToys utility set is returning to Windows 10. This set first appeared during the Windows XP era. Now, developers have released two small programs for the 'ten'. The first is a guide to Windows keyboard shortcuts, which is a program with dynamic key combinations for each active window or application. When you press the […]

The failure of Wikipedia occurred due to a hacker attack.

On the website of the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the infrastructure of several crowdsourced wiki projects, including Wikipedia, a message has appeared stating that the outage of the online encyclopedia occurred due to a targeted hacker attack. It was previously reported that in several countries, Wikipedia temporarily switched to offline mode. According to the available data, access to […]

Windows: finding out who is logged in where

— Oh, nothing is working, help! — Don't worry, we'll fix everything now. What is the computer's name... (a classic scenario from tech support calls). It's good if you have a tool like BgInfo or if your users know about the Windows+Pause/Break shortcut and can press it. There are even rare instances of those who have managed to learn their machine's name. But often […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 34. Advanced VLAN Concept

We have already discussed VLAN local networks in video lessons Day 11, 12, and 13, and today we will continue exploring them according to the ICND2 topic. I recorded the previous video that marked the end of preparation for the ICND1 exam a few months ago, and I have been very busy since then until today. I think many of you successfully passed this […]

dhall-lang v10.0.0

Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: Full support for the old literal syntax is now complete. Support for dependent types has been added. A built-in function Natural/subtract has been introduced. The process of selecting fields has been simplified. When arguments are equivalent, the \/\/ is not used. URLs presented in binary format are not decoded when passing through path segments. New Features: […]

Slurm DevOps. Day one. Git, CI/CD, IaC, and the green dinosaur

On September 4th, the Slyrm DevOps event kicked off in St. Petersburg. All the necessary factors for an engaging three-day intensive gathered in one place and time: a comfortable conference hall at Selectel, seventy curious developers in the room, and 32 participants online, along with Selectel servers for practice. And a green dinosaur, lurking in the corner. On the first day of Slyrm, the participants […]

Testing of GNU Wget 2 has commenced

A test release of GNU Wget 2 is now available, a completely redesigned version of the program for automating the recursive download of content. GNU Wget 2 has been designed and rewritten from scratch and is notable for moving the core functionality of the web client into the libwget library, which can be used independently in applications. The utility is provided under the GPLv3+ license, and the library under the LGPLv3+. Wget 2 has been converted to a multithreaded architecture, […]

Lilocked (Lilu) — a malware program for Linux systems.

Lilocked is a Linux-targeted malware that encrypts files on the hard drive and subsequently demands a ransom (ransomware). According to ZDNet, the first reports of this malicious software surfaced in mid-July, and since then, more than 6,700 servers have been affected. Lilocked encrypts HTML, SHTML, JS, CSS, PHP, INI files, and various image formats while leaving system files untouched. Encrypted files receive […]

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