Debian developers have introduced a set of Debian Social services that will be hosted on the debian.social website and are aimed at simplifying communication and sharing content between project participants. The ultimate goal is to create a safe space for developers and supporters of the project to share information about their work, demonstrate results, network with colleagues and share knowledge. Currently […]
Rob Eisenberg, creator of the Aurelia web framework, announced that GitHub has blocked repositories, the website, and access to the settings of the Aurelia project administrator. Rob received a letter from GitHub informing him that the block was due to US trade sanctions. It is noteworthy that Rob lives in the USA and works as an engineer at Microsoft, which owns GitHub, so he was even […]
The developers announced the start of beta testing of the Fedora 32 distribution. The official release is scheduled for mid-April this year. As part of the release, the following versions of distributions will be released: Fedora Workstation Fedora Server Fedora Silverblue Live builds with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE and LXQt Fedora is a Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat and containing features [... ]
This was reported in a letter sent to G Suite users. The reason is stated to be a high vulnerability to account hijacking when using single-factor authentication using a login and password. On June 15, 2020, the ability to use password authentication will be disabled for first-time users, and on February 15, 2021, for everyone. It is suggested to use OAuth as a replacement. […]
WireGuard has been gaining a lot of attention lately, in fact it is the new star among VPNs. But is he as good as he seems? I would like to discuss some observations and review the implementation of WireGuard to explain why it is not a solution to replace IPsec or OpenVPN. In this article, I would like to debunk some of the myths [around […]
Analytical DBMS ClickHouse processes many different rows, consuming resources. To speed up the system, new optimizations are constantly added. ClickHouse developer Nikolai Kochetov talks about the string data type, including a new type, LowCardinality, and explains how you can speed up working with strings. - First, let's figure out how you can store strings. We have string data types. […]
Greetings to you all, my dear readers! Today I want to share my thoughts on a long-standing sore topic, and perhaps discuss it in the comments. Quite often, I come across articles on bad interviewing practices for a programmer position, which, in my opinion, are quite vital and, I hope, are read by the HR departments of large and not very large companies. In our area, as far as I […]
The One UI 2.0 shell has become an important milestone in the development of user interfaces for Samsung mobile devices. It brought many changes to the interface of smartphones and significantly improved the usability of Galaxy devices. It was followed by a small update called One UI 2.1, which is available for the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Z Flip series smartphones. According to the latest data, Samsung is now […]
Twitter is tightening its rules governing content posted by users. It is now prohibited to post publications on the social network that contain information about the treatment of coronavirus infection, as well as data related to the dangerous disease that contributes to the spread of panic or is misleading. Under the new policy, the company will require users to delete tweets that deny "expert advice" on […]
The Epic Games Store has started another game giveaway - this time users can add The Stanley Parable and Watch Dogs to their library. The promotion will end on March 26 at 18:00 Moscow time, after which Figment and Tormentor X Punisher will become free. The first is a narrative adventure with exploration of locations, and the second is a dynamic platformer about […]
Playmestudio and publisher Raw Fury have announced the game The Signifier. It's a first-person adventure where you explore a strange world, solve puzzles, and travel between three different dimensions. According to the Gematsu resource, the developers described their future creation as follows: “The Signifier is a mysterious tech-noir adventure with a first-person view, combining […]
The hotly anticipated shooter DOOM Eternal will be released tomorrow. In anticipation of the release, NVIDIA released driver 442.74 WHQL, which is certified as fully compatible with the new shooter. The list of innovations in the driver is not impressive, although players of Red Dead Redemption 2 will be happy, since the update fixed a bug due to which users saw a black screen instead of the game after switching windows with a […]
