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Is Viber a Trojan horse? The mass bans of Ukrainian accounts

Is Viber a Trojan horse? The mass bans of Ukrainian accounts

Once I found out that my Viber app can't sent any message, all messages were frozen with clock icons, which probably means "something in progress". Waiting a day, two days, a week and a bit more didn't bring any news...

How to prevent IPv6 leak with an OpenVPN client on GNU Linux?

How to prevent IPv6 leak with an OpenVPN client on GNU Linux?

You might want to use a VPN, so that you can browse the Internet from another location, but your ISP provides an IPv6 network which could route traffic differently than an ISP with only IPv4 connectivity.

How to setup a VPN kill switch on Linux for OpenVPN and WireGuard?

How to setup a VPN kill switch on Linux for OpenVPN and WireGuard?

This guide will show you how to set up a manual kill switch for OpenVPN in GNU/Linux, with all details, explained. A VPN firewall (or kill switch) kills network connections that are active when there is no active connection on a given system through the use of IPTables, UFW or Firewalld.

Rust for beginners: GPX Analyzer - how to find the best GPS tracks in apps like Strava or Nike Run Club

Rust for beginners: GPX Analyzer - how to find the best GPS tracks in apps like Strava or Nike Run Club

This article was written for beginners and not by a Rust professional, so do not judge it too harshly. All the code is available here. Running is fun and important for your health, so run and don't stop! Why not make your daily run more interesting with Rust, the popular

Ukrainian netizens' daily struggle amidst War and how Telegram, Whatsapp, Viber, Signal played a crucial role for Smartphone users

Ukrainian netizens' daily struggle amidst War and how Telegram, Whatsapp, Viber, Signal played a crucial role for Smartphone users

“Need ammunition, not a ride.” ― Volodymyr Zelensky The Russian invasion left many dead and wounded. The war continues not only on the real battlefield, but also on the digital one. The mobile phone is the weapon: one piece of information can save lives or kill enemies. Especially in occupied territories:

Curious case of IPv6 only hosting

Curious case of IPv6 only hosting

IPv6 was created by The Internet Engineering Task Force 'cause began to worry about IPv4 address exhaustion as a result of startling growth in use.

Smartwatches with Open Source OS And Where To Find Them

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Smartwatches with Open Source OS And Where To Find Them

In context of fresh Chinese smartphones' telemetry leaks - OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo and Realme, the **data privacy concerns are rising again**.

Microsoft: occupy PC? Secure Boot, TPM and Pluton

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Microsoft: occupy PC? Secure Boot, TPM and Pluton

When a general user enables his laptop or desktop, there's often happens a question - is the current OS secure? Or maybe some core files were replaced by hackers and after load your device will open a backdoor to bad people or even _be transformed in part of botnet_?

Free Disposable Linux Shell/VPS/Cloud Services

Free Disposable Linux Shell/VPS/Cloud Services

Sometimes we need to test something on another machine. It can be an application, script, service, whatever. Of course, for a professional a QA testing case it is better to buy hardware or cloud resources. Small tasks aren't always worth a developer's time to register and credit card and/or

Best Software For Fighting Procrastination And Internet Addiction

Best Software For Fighting Procrastination And Internet Addiction

Procrastination is a serious problem for most internet users since Internet has become cheap and available to all. Addictive page ranking algorithms make procrastination more dangerous 'cause services like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube want you to spend more and more free time 'cause more ads means more revenue. It generally feels

Win The Race: Clear Linux Architecture & Performance Optimizations Review

Win The Race: Clear Linux Architecture & Performance Optimizations Review

Many Linux distributions have really minimal differences between and trying to reach a customer with nice wallpapers, themes and UI decorations in general. Clear Linux is the unique software product backed by Intel, not based on any distribution and provides a lot of interested solutions under and above the hood:

Boycott 7-zip: "Limited" Open Source & Security Issues

Boycott 7-zip: "Limited" Open Source & Security Issues

"Limited" Open Source 7-zip developed by Igor Pavlov, first release happened in far 1999. Licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later, but one detail: you can't find the actual sources on Github, Gitlab, nor any public code hosting, only src.7z on official Sourceforge page. No history, no committers, no names, no documentation,

Microsoft Donated Money to GNOME: Let's Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

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Microsoft Donated Money to GNOME: Let's Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

The Microsoft FOSS Fund has chosen GNOME as winner of 20th funding round for "From low-level libs over the window manager to end user applications the GNOME project is an essential part of many graphical Linux devices." They also noted Ubuntu as "the first Linux work environment supported at Microsoft"

The Best Open Source Photo Organizing Software

The Best Open Source Photo Organizing Software

Introduction Cheap smartphones and digital cameras - the key factor of digital revolution. Every amateur can create a personal collection with gigabytes or even terabytes of multimedia content, and online services like Google Photos or Flickr can help to save them. Clouds are good, but sometimes local work with multimedia

Best PaaS backend hosting: Heroku vs Render.com vs Fly.io vs Railway.app

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Best PaaS backend hosting: Heroku vs Render.com vs Fly.io vs Railway.app

This post dedicated for fast start with free tier and "pay as you grow" when time is up, and you prefer to focus on code with heavy PaaS lifting. If you just starting a new project and can spend your time for cloud configuration - welcome to AWS, Azure, GCE