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Как я устал от VPN‑клиентов на 300 МБ ОЗУ и написал свой TUN‑клиент на чистом Rust (Unbihex)
Всем привет! Последние пару лет экосистема обхода блокировок развивалась по принципу «больше фич — жирнее обертка». Большинство популярных десктопных и мобильных клиентов сегодня — это либо тяжелые комбайны на Electron/Flutter, либо графические обертки над ядром Xray или sing‑box через gomobile и C‑FFI, которые тянут за собой рантайм Go, сборщик мусора и жрут от 200 до 400 МБ оперативки просто в фоне.
Когда у тебя слабый ноутбук, офисная машина или телефон, на котором открыта пара тяжелых приложений, лишние 300 МБ под один только VPN начинают ощутимо бить по системе. А если речь идет об iOS, где системный лимит на сетевые расширения (PacketTunnelProvider) составляет жесткие 50 МБ, такие клиенты регулярно падают по OOM (Out Of Memory) при попытке загрузить крупные гео‑базы.
В один прекрасный день мне это надоело. Я решил взять всё в свои руки и написал с нуля собственный кроссплатформенный TUN‑клиент и сетевое ядро на чистом Rust без единой сторонней прослойки. Встречайте — Unbihex (названный в честь гипотетического 126-го элемента унбигексия). Сейчас он потребляет 18 МБ ОЗУ в режиме TUN (и 12 МБ в прокси), поддерживает полный стек современных протоколов и уже готов к продакшену.
Под катом — как это устроено под капотом, какие грабли пришлось собрать при работе с TUN под Windows и как удалось подружить ядро с популярными панелями.
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‘We sold out tickets within 13 minutes’: new novel from romantasy author Sarah J Maas sparks fan mania
Move over Oasis – 6,000 people tried to buy 220 tickets to a masquerade ball to celebrate the release of A Court of Splintered Harmony, while specialist bookshops catering for the genre report huge sales
When The Spicy Librarian, a romance bookshop in Leamington Spa, announced a masquerade ball to celebrate the new Sarah J Maas novel, 6,000 people tried to buy 220 tickets. “We sold out within 13 minutes,” says the shop’s co-founder Ali Maynard James. “As soon as tickets went on sale, our website crashed”.
The shop was one of many across the UK marking the release of A Court of Splintered Harmony, the first instalment of Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series in more than five years. On Monday night, bookshops threw parties and opened past midnight – and The Spicy Librarian hired a stately home to mark the occasion.
Continue reading...Education secretary Linda McMahon plans to spend nearly $43,000 on office furniture
Trump ally, who is seeking to shutter the department, had said office relocation would save taxpayers $4.8m annually
The Trump administration has insisted its controversial education cuts are saving “millions of dollars” after it was reported that Linda McMahon, secretary of education, is planning to spend roughly $43,000 on new furniture for her office.
McMahon’s office told Congress that the secretary’s current furniture was worn out and “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated into the agency’s new office space”, according to non-public records seen by the New York Times.
Continue reading...Burnley turn to former CSKA Moscow manager Fabio Celestini as new head coach
Swiss, 50, also had successful spell at Basel
He replaces Nicky Hayen with club 22nd in Championship
Burnley have announced former Switzerland midfielder Fabio Celestini as their new head coach four days after sacking Nicky Hayen.
Burnley, who have won only one of their 12 league games this season after relegation from the Premier League, have not disclosed the length of Celestini’s contract. They heralded his appointment by saying in a statement that the 50-year-old “arrives with a proven capacity to win and to adapt to different football environments”.
Continue reading...European football: Bayern ease to Cup victory after Kompany leaves hospital
Kane gets guard of honour before 6-1 win over Magdeburg
Serie A: Inter sink Venezia, Milan lose at home to Bologna
Bayern Munich sailed to a 6-1 win over second-tier Magdeburg in the DFB-Pokal after their head coach, Vincent Kompany, was discharged from hospital earlier on Wednesday.
Kompany’s assistant, Aaron Danks, was in the dugout for Bayern for the last-32 tie, while Harry Kane was rested. The Ballon d’Or winner received a guard of honour from his teammates before kick-off in front of 75,000 fans at the Allianz Arena.
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ymcp, или как подружить агентов с YouTrack, если ты не админ
Всё началось с того, что я в очередной раз копировал описание задачи из YouTrack в Claude Code. Потом комментарии к ней. Потом ещё один комментарий, который кто‑то оставил, пока я копировал первые. Потом ждал, пока агент напишет код, открывал PR, возвращался в задачу, вставлял ссылку, менял статус на Fixed — и шёл за следующей.
В какой‑то момент я понял, что из всей этой цепочки самая бесполезная её часть — это я. Агент умеет писать код, YouTrack умеет хранить задачи, а я работаю буфером обмена с ногами.
Решение вроде бы очевидное: дать агенту доступ к трекеру через MCP, и пусть сам читает, сам пишет, сам двигает задачи. Ну чтож, давайте подключим.
Читать далееEducation secretary Linda McMahon plans to spend nearly $43,000 on office furniture
Trump ally, who is seeking to shutter the department, had said office relocation would save taxpayers $4.8m annually
The Trump administration has insisted its controversial education cuts are saving “millions of dollars” after it was reported that Linda McMahon, secretary of education, is planning to spend roughly $43,000 on new furniture for her office.
McMahon’s office told Congress that the secretary’s current furniture was worn out and “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated into the agency’s new office space”, according to non-public records seen by the New York Times.
Continue reading...Budget 2026: Healey hikes taxes on banks and landlords to fund £100 handouts to 20m households
Few surprises as chancellor uses low-key speech blaming ‘global economic storms’ for stoking energy prices and cost of living crisis
John Healey raised taxes on banks and landlords to fund a £100 winter handout for 20 million families as official forecasts made clear there is no end in sight for the cost of living crisis.
In his first budget, the chancellor blamed “global economic storms” for the grim outlook, as the war in Iran drives up oil and gas prices.
Continue reading...US ambassador suggests Trump could blame Canada if midterms don’t go his way
Pete Hoekstra, controversial US ambassador to Canada, has also accused Canadian officials of interfering in US elections
The US ambassador has suggested Canada could be blamed if Republicans perform poorly in next week’s midterm elections, the latest intervention from a controversial figure who has been accused of inflaming a bitter dispute that has angered and baffled residents of both countries.
On Wednesday, CTV news reported that Pete Hoekstra told business leaders at a closed door meeting that if a number of swing races – including Maine and Michigan – go to the Democrats, it could make things harder for Canada because Donald Trump might try to blame the loss on it.
Continue reading...Republicans have an Epstein problem
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Eighteen years after his first conviction, and seven years after his much-debated death, the ghost of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is suddenly inescapable again.
He’s the subject of scores of midterm campaign ads, each more lurid than the last. A second bill mandating the release of the Epstein files is currently kicking around Congress. And on Monday, House Democrats released a new report alleging that the Justice Department helped cover up details of Epstein’s relationship with President Donald Trump, calling — very aspirationally! — for an independent criminal investigation.
Of course, no one really expects Trump’s attorney general to name a special counsel to investigate the Trump administration. In a statement, one White House spokesperson panned the report as “a desperate attempt by crazed Democrats to distract Americans.” (The timing, just one week before the midterms, does seem pretty fortuitous.)
The document, which runs to 50 pages, draws on public accounts and staff interviews with an unspecified number of survivors, including a former pageant queen who alleges that Trump raped her in 1993. The woman had previously accused Trump of groping her, which a Trump spokesperson dismissed at the time as “fake.”
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When it comes to Epstein, however, Democrats don’t need a lot of new material to damage Trump. The scandal, and his administration’s handling of it, continue to cast a long, dark shadow over Republicans.
That’s surprising to me, candidly, because the decades-old dealings of even a very despicable sex offender don’t have any bearing on Americans’ day-to-day costs or experiences. And Trump has been able to brush off a lot of other unsavory behavior and associations.
But the Epstein story has lodged in the brains of some voters who helped elect Trump — including young voters whose growing disillusionment could make a big difference in next week’s elections.
Many of these young voters “resent the fact that Trump’s basically become part of the establishment” and see the Epstein files as evidence of that, the political analyst Rachel Janfaza recently told Vox. Some also feel burned by Trump’s campaign promise to release the government’s investigative files on Epstein…and his about-face once in office.
Democrats, sensing an opening, are hammering the issue. Relentlessly so. According to data from the tracker AdImpact cited by NBC News, there are currently more than 500 campaign ads airing across the country that include the words “pedophile” or “predator.”
Many of them reference Epstein or the so-called Epstein files, and three-quarters are backed by Democrats. One recent ad featuring an Epstein survivor, and targeted at Kansas Republican Roger Marshall, slams the incumbent senator’s September 2025 vote to block a procedural measure that would have released the Epstein files. (The Senate later moved to release the files by unanimous consent.)
Another ad, this one in Maine, claims that Epstein’s “business partner” funneled $3 million to Sen. Susan Collins’s super PAC. (Importantly, the connection between Epstein and this purported partner is so tenuous as to be nonexistent.)
These ads will fade after Tuesday, of course. But you haven’t heard the last word on this. Should Democrats win control of either chamber, they’ll gain the power to subpoena witnesses and documents for yet more Epstein investigations.
Some Democratic leaders in the House are already salivating over that prospect.
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Настройщица пианино и Мечник по имени Райдэн: как я нашла в Telegram игру, которая звучит чисто
У меня в сумке всегда лежат три вещи: стальной камертон на «ля», ключ для вирбелей и войлочные клинья. Двадцать с лишним лет я езжу по городу и привожу в порядок чужие пианино. Утром старенький «Красный Октябрь» в хрущёвке на окраине, днём концертный рояль в музыкальной школе, вечером цифровое безобразие, которое хозяева почему-то тоже просят «подкрутить». Между вызовами бывают паузы по сорок минут, и обычно я проводила их в маршрутке или на скамейке у подъезда, глядя в одну точку. Этой весной всё изменилось, и виноват в этом мой племянник Тимофей, который однажды переслал мне ссылку с припиской «тётя Ксюша, тебе понравится, там всё красиво и само дерётся». Сразу скажу, к разработчикам я отношения не имею, я обычный игрок, а ссылку оставлю в самом конце.
Читать далееThe Peptide Rush Has Begun
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will not take action against licensed pharmacists who dispense certain unapproved peptides to consumers, according to a new policy published Oct. 28 in the Federal Register.
Peptides are short chains of amino acids that people inject into their bodies. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said in the past that he is a “big fan” of the unapproved drugs, whose benefits are largely scientifically unproven.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) essentially banned peptides in 2023 because of safety concerns. But an FDA committee met in July to review the evidence on peptides and recommend whether or not to take the highly unusual step of allowing pharmacies to dispense them absent scientific review. The committee was made up of new appointees who consulted with or were employed by companies that were interested in promoting or dispensing peptides; it recommended allowing specialty pharmacies to dispense six peptides, despite FDA staff advising against the move.
The new policy—which was signed by Kennedy—says that after the July meetings, HHS believed there was “significant interest” in the use of obtaining these peptides from compounding pharmacies. “Therefore, to expand and improve patient access, HHS does not intend to take enforcement action against a State-licensed pharmacy, Federal facility, or licensed physician compounding a drug product using a peptide bulk drug substance found in Appendix A,” the notice said. The policy said that it was going to be published in the Federal Register on Oct. 30. The peptides listed in Appendix A were BPC-157, Epitalon, KPV, MOTS-c, Semax, and TB-500—the same ones the committee recommended allowing this summer.
A separate document posted on the HHS website says that after reviewing the recommendations of the committee that met in July, “the Secretary has determined that the policy advances patient choice and freedom while appropriately protecting patient safety.”
The decision to allow the compounding of peptides is a boon for companies like Hims & Hers, which had reportedly been preparing to offer peptides in 2026. Analysts have said the market for peptides could be as high as $3.3 billion. Hims stock shot up 5% after the Oct. 28 announcement.
The move “represents a vital step toward eliminating the unsafe gray and black markets, restoring safe patient access through legitimate, physician-supervised care,” said Lee Rosebush, chair of the American Academy of Peptide Medicine, a new advocacy group, in a statement.
Other public-health professionals raised alarm about the decision, which they say allows compounding pharmacies to dispense these medications absent scientific evidence. “American consumers should not be treated like guinea pigs,” said Fred Mills, chief policy officer for Americans for Safe and Effective Medicines, in a statement. “It is possible to advance both patient safety and access to legitimate medicines, but this is not it.”
At the July hearings, consumer advocacy groups including the Center for Science in the Public Interest had argued that allowing peptides to skip a rigorous evidence-based FDA approval process would be unprecedented and dangerous to consumers.
Many physicians have spoken up against allowing peptides to be compounded. “The peptides under consideration here are untested and poorly characterized experimental drugs that should not be allowed in compounded products,” said Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, at the public comment portion of the July meeting, reminding the committee that two women had required emergency treatment after receiving peptides at a Las Vegas festival.
Critics also expressed concern that people were turning to compounding pharmacies for untested drugs. Compounding pharmacies are often used to fill specific prescriptions from a doctor, but in recent years, they have mass-produced drugs like GLP-1s for patients looking to save money. The peptide boom will put even more pressure on compounding pharmacies to quickly make drugs for telehealth sites, said Annie Lambert, a pharmacist and clinical program manager for compliance solutions at Wolters Kluwer Health.
"Compounding can and should play a legitimate clinical role, from hospitals to home infusion to filling gaps during drug shortages. But it is not a substitute for FDA-approved manufacturing, and that distinction is where a lot of today's risk sits,” she said in a statement. “My concern is that pharmacies rushing into this space will move to make a dollar faster rather than make sure they meet every requirement, from ingredient sourcing and facilities to staff training and sterility testing.”
Shortly after the new notice was published, a number of telehealth websites were already marketing the six peptides, each for a price of anywhere from $199 to $249 a month.
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Racism needs to be understood as a global phenomenon – our humanity depends on it
In order to eliminate global racism, we must dismantle the ideological architecture that allows it to thrive worldwide
Around the world, racism is fueling a new wave of global unrest. In recent weeks, demonstrations in France turned violent amid mounting frustrations over socioeconomic and racial inequities, led by a younger generation that has had enough. Earlier this month, the Green party of England and Wales’s decision to define Zionism as a form of racism sparked controversy and renewed public debate about what racism is and who gets to decide it. In September, electoral gains by Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party raised alarms in a nation with a dangerous history of racist, antisemitic fascism. And for the past year, the Trump administration has pushed ahead white supremacist agendas throughout the United States, highlighted by violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids targeting people by race, regardless of citizenship status.
To understand each of these examples of racism in isolation would be a mistake. They are connected. Racism is not merely a series of random occurrences affecting certain people in certain places. It is more than institutional discrimination in schools or workplaces or even systemic inequalities in healthcare and policing. Racism is an interconnected, global phenomenon, spreading throughout our human ecosystem and embedded in world order. This global racism, which I name and define in my new book Global Racism: A Challenge for the World, is dangerous – it underpins wars and threatens our very humanity.
Anna Spain Bradley is the author of Global Racism: A Challenge for the World and a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law
Continue reading...Bone of contention: why dog trainers are at war
It’s the canine equivalent of gentle v tough parenting – and there is no sign of a ceasefire. So what is the correct way to get man’s best friend to behave?
Name: Dog training wars.
Age: Puppy to 14 months, and beyond.
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DOJ says government developing plan to close D.C. golf course
Knifeman on LNER train ‘caused terror and fear on unimaginable scale’, court hears
Anthony Williams is accused of attempting to murder passengers and staff on board a London-bound train last November
A knifeman “caused terror and fear on an unimaginable scale” to passengers when he stabbed 10 people on a London-bound train, a court has heard.
Anthony Williams, 33, is accused of attempting to murder 10 passengers and staff on an LNER train on 1 November last year and stabbing four people in the 24 hours before.
Continue reading...Lambie scolded by ADF chief over hidden camera revelation – as it happened
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Gas reservation policy set for lower house vote today
Australia’s domestic gas reservation is set to be debated and voted on in the lower house today.
Rather than international base companies, determining through algorithms what Australians receive, it empowers people themselves to determine what you receive on your devices, so that you should have that control.
This isn’t about government having a greater role. It’s about people having a greater role, having more control themselves, and it’s deserving of support of this parliament.
Continue reading...Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
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US teen whose father arranged her marriage to Islamic State fighter convicted for weapons training
‘You try to leave, it is death,’ Halima Salman testified. Her mother and defense attorneys wept after the verdict
A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter was convicted on Tuesday of receiving weapons training from the militant group.
Prosecutors said Halima Salman, a US citizen, pledged loyalty to the extremist group and willingly participated in its activities. Jurors were shown a video of her holding an assault rifle, a photo of her with the group’s flag and loving text messages she sent her husband.
Continue reading...Three plead guilty in $9m romance fraud scam targeting elderly Americans
Twin brothers, 22, from Ghana and a 53-year-old American woman targeted older adults in 25 US states, officials say
Three people have pleaded guilty in a $9m romance fraud scam that targeted elderly Americans.
On Monday, the US attorney’s office in the northern district of Ohio announced that twin brothers from Ghana and an American woman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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