Major update on the Hybris blog: comparing the old CMS that has been part of hybris since who knows when, and a new product poised to replace it, SmartEdit. It seems everyone understands it’s a bit rough around the edges, but nobody has yet put it all together. I’ve dug quite deep into it, and here’s the article.
https://hybrismart.com/2018/04/21/is-smartedit-ready-to-replace-cms-cockpit/
It’s surprising that amidst the hysteria with Telegram, the news that starting from October 1st, providers must store all traffic for about 30 days was missed – this is a clarification to the Yarovaya Law. Mobile operators have already removed unlimited tariffs, and soon, providers will probably start cutting VPNs and torrents, especially in the month leading up to the receipt of documents, and there will also be fun with FullHD streaming. Details at the link.
This is how you should make vacation videos!
The FDA recently approved chameleon contact lenses. The promo clip is delightful 😉
Finished reading aloud! Harry Potter #1. A real offline book. Over thirteen hours of reading, one chapter a day. Three hundred and something pages.
I decided to read it aloud because it’s harder and probably trains some useful skills in processing English text.
Reading aloud was quite challenging at first. The difficulties were not in pronouncing the words, but in the intonation when reading long sentences. As you read a sentence, you have to understand on the fly where the parenthetical phrases are, and somehow highlight them with intonation. In our native language, we unconsciously read several words ahead or guess what could theoretically be there, adjusting the intonation accordingly. It wasn’t so easy to catch this skill in English. I only began to manage it by the third chapter.
And even after seventeen chapters, it’s still hard for me to read a page smoothly and expressively without stumbling. As an experiment, try reading this excerpt on the first try so that it doesn’t sound too monotonous (update: not the best example I found; a normal phrase;)):
Harry yelled, and the four of them sprinted down the gallery, not looking back to see whether Filch was following — they swung around the doorpost and galloped down one corridor then another, Harry in the lead, without any idea where they were or where they were going — they ripped through a tapestry and found themselves in a hidden passageway, hurtled along it and came out near their Charms classroom, which they knew was miles from the trophy room.
I chose HP because of the simplicity of the vocabulary, as the first goal was to almost never look in the dictionary, but to learn to master intonation and practice spoken English. The book itself seemed overly childish to me. They say it gets normal starting with the third one.
Choosing my next book-victim.
I wonder, does Telegram use a mechanism similar to the one described in my post to circumvent blockages?
And as a thought experiment – if Telegram were to use Google to search for proxy servers – for example, by conducting searches for site:*proxy-telegram*, where service providers simply use the needed pattern in the URL, and autonomously rewrite the configuration if the servers answer certain random tests, how could one theoretically combat this? Google seems impossible to ban, intercepting requests to Google also can’t be done (https), Google indexes everything indiscriminately, and there seems to be no reason not to index something like that. You could also set up about five other search engines. Of course, you could flood Google with non-working services, but the app could immediately blacklist such sites. The only effective method would be to achieve the exclusion of the app from the Google Store.
The only downside I see is that Google itself could block such a service for violating usage rules. Like you can’t make automatic requests from applications unless you pay for it. But you could make them not quite automatic, but let the user click a “load and parse” button.
It seems that in the last 3 hours, Roskomnadzor has increased the number of blocked IP addresses from 38 thousand to almost two million. Of these, about one million IP addresses belong to Google Cloud (subnet 35.192.0.0/12). The head of Roskomnadzor confirmed that Amazon’s IP addresses are being blocked because Telegram started using them to circumvent restrictions. https://tvrain.ru/s/q41/
Impressed by this Bollywood movie. I had been putting it off for a long time, not expecting much from Indian cinema, but when everything else on my watchlist was done, I finally got around to it (or rather, my eyes and ears did).
The film turned out to be the best of all I’ve watched this year. The boy played his first role so wonderfully that I’m lost for words. Highly recommend it if it somehow passed you by.
https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/zvyozdochki-na-zemle-2007-280562/
hybrismart update: why the ‘#’ doesn’t work in hybris forms, why salt is paired with pepper, how Reagan becomes the President of Russia, how to fix the Hybris HAC madness, and how to easily and quickly determine that a website uses SAP Hybris for its Storefront. Today’s post mixes the very useful with the simply amusing.
You will know why the ‘#’ create issues when used in hybris forms, why salt is with pepper in hybris, how Reagan becomes the President of Russia in hybris tests, how to fix the HAC madness, and how to figure out the website is built with SAP hybris. Today’s article is to entertain and educate. Some of the findings are really useful while others help you to start a week with a smile! 🙂
https://hybrismart.com/2018/04/14/five-things-about-sap-hybris-you-probably-didnt-know/
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 