On Cosmonautics Day, another joyful event occurred—the release of the Emacs Lisp program execution environment, best known for being the best text editor (according to Emacs users). The previous release took place just under a year ago, so there aren't many significant changes: support for Unicode version 11, support for module builds in arbitrary directories, and a convenient file compression command in the built-in file manager […]
The shortage of Intel processors began in late summer last year: the growing and prioritized demand for data center processors has led to a shortage of consumer 14nm chips. Difficulties in transitioning to more advanced 10nm standards and an exclusive deal with Apple for the production of modems for iPhones, which utilize the same 14nm process, have exacerbated the issue. In the past […]
The April cumulative update from Microsoft has caused issues not only for Windows 7 users. Certain difficulties have also arisen for those using Windows 10 (1809). Reports indicate that the update leads to various problems due to conflicts with antivirus software installed on users' PCs. There are user reports online stating that after […]
Giorgio Maone, the creator of the NoScript project, has released the first testable version of the extension for the Chrome browser. This build corresponds to version 10.6.1 for Firefox and was made possible by porting the NoScript 10 branch to the WebExtension technology. The Chrome release is labeled as beta and can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. NoScript 11 is expected to be released at the end of June, […]
A year after the release of GNU Awk version 4.2.1, version 5.0.0 has been released. In the new version: Support for the printf formats %a and %A from POSIX has been added. The testing infrastructure has been improved. The contents of test/Makefile.am have been simplified, and it is now possible to generate pc/Makefile.tst from test/Makefile.in. Regex procedures have been replaced with procedures from GNULIB. The infrastructure has been updated: Bison 3.3, Automake 1.16.1, Gettext 0.19.8.1, makeinfo […]
A new version of systemd has been released. The following changes are noteworthy (according to the news author): networkctl commands now support globbing; Cloudflare's public DNS has been added to the fallback DNS list; generated .device units (for example, via systemd-fstab-generator) no longer attach the corresponding .mount as an automatic dependency (Wants=) — meaning the connected device does not necessarily need to be automatically mounted; an option CPUQuotaPeriodSec= has been added […]
The largest Matrix server — matrix.org — and its infrastructure have been targeted in a hacker attack that revealed security issues. The user matrixnotorg on GitHub created tickets describing existing problems within matrix.org's infrastructure and possible solutions. Access to the infrastructure was gained through a 'hole' in an outdated version of Jenkins — the continuous deployment system used by matrix.org. According to […]
Three years after the previous release, a new version of the audio player DeaDBeeF has been launched. According to the developers, it has matured enough to be reflected in its version number. Changes include support for Opus, added ReplayGain Scanner, correct track support + cue support (in collaboration with wdlkmpx), added/improved reading and writing of MP4 tags, and integrated […]
Exactly 50 years ago — on April 7, 1969 — Request for Comments: 1 was published. RFCs are documents that contain technical specifications and standards widely used on the global network. Each RFC document has its own unique number, which is used for referencing. Currently, the primary publication of RFC documents is managed by the IETF under the auspices of the open organization Society […]
PowerShell is a Microsoft extensible automation tool with open-source code. This week, Microsoft announced the next version of PowerShell Core. Contrary to expectations, the next version will be PowerShell 7, not PowerShell Core 6.3. This signals significant changes in the project's development, as Microsoft takes another important step toward replacing the built-in PowerShell 5.1 in […]
Zhabogram — a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber (XMPP) network to the Telegram network, written in Ruby, a successor to tg4xmpp. This release is dedicated to the Telegram team, which decided that third parties have the right to access the chat history stored on my devices. Dependencies: Ruby >= 1.9 ruby-sqlite3 >= 1.3 xmpp4r == 0.5.6 tdlib-ruby == 2.0 and compiled tdlib == 1.3 Features: […]
The second (0.2) version of the Jabber transport to the Telegram network has been released. What is this? — This transport allows you to communicate with Telegram users from the Jabber network. An existing Telegram account is required. — Jabber transports Why is this needed? — For example, if you want to use Telegram on any device where there is no official client (like the Symbian platform). What can the transport do? — Authenticate, in that […]