There are two types of political moderation: conscious and voluntary. Proponents of conscious moderation are defectors who consciously choose their position between the extremes of the right and left. In turn, those whose views are arbitrarily moderate find themselves in the middle, since they consider each issue separately, and the extreme right or left views are equally wrong for them. You […]
In the process of learning English, many students forget that language is not only about rules and exercises. It is a huge ecosystem that is based on the daily culture and lifestyle of ordinary English-speaking people. The spoken English that many of us learn in courses or with a teacher is different from the actual spoken English spoken in Britain and the USA. AND […]
Mentally break away from your usual view of work – yours and the company’s. I encourage you to think about the path of money in a company. Me, you, your neighbors, your boss - we all stand in the way of money. We are used to seeing money in the form of tasks. You may not think of it as money. If you are a programmer, then [...]
Standard Notes, a cross-platform, encrypted, open-source note-taking app, is now available for download as a snap package. Standard Notes is available on all major desktop systems (Windows, Linux, Mac), as well as on smartphones and on the web. Main features: Create multiple notes. Ability to apply tags. Search and synchronize between different devices using […]
Some time ago we introduced you to a smart thermostat. This article was originally intended as a demonstration of its firmware and control system. But in order to explain the logic of the thermostat and what we implemented, it is necessary to outline the entire concept as a whole. About automation Conventionally, all automation can be divided into three categories: Category 1 - individual “smart” devices. You […]
The Nextcloud project, which is developing a fork of the free cloud storage ownCloud, has introduced a new platform, Nextcloud Hub, which provides a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration between enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. In terms of the tasks it solves, Nextcloud Hub is reminiscent of Google Docs and Microsoft 365, but allows you to deploy a fully controlled collaboration infrastructure that operates on its own servers and is not tied to external […]
According to a tweet from one of the organization's employees (Chris Hartjes), Mozilla recently laid off 70 employees (out of a total of 1000 people), including all the main designers of Mozilla Quality Assurance, whose main tasks are testing new features and fixing bugs. In response, laid-off employees launched the hashtag #MozillaLifeboat on Twitter, allowing them to […]
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in three popular plugins for the WordPress web content management system, with more than 400 thousand installations: A vulnerability in the InfiniteWP Client plugin, which has more than 300 thousand active installations, allows you to connect without authentication as a site administrator. Since the plugin is designed to unify the management of several sites on a server, an attacker can gain control of all […]
The author of actix-web, a web framework written in Rust, deleted the repository after he was criticized for “misusing” the Rust language. The actix-web framework, which has been downloaded more than 800 thousand times, allows you to embed HTTP server and client functionality into Rust applications, is designed to achieve maximum performance and leads in many tests […]
Capcom announced the release of a promised patch for the PC version of Monster Hunter: World, which was designed to fix performance issues and eliminate the disappearance of saves in the Iceborne add-on. The developers note that protection against lost progress has its price: for users whose files were created before November 22, 2018, with the release of the new patch, the keyboard layout will return to standard values. […]
In addition to the announcement of the major addition “Dark Heart of Skyrim” for The Elder Scrolls Online, publisher Bethesda Softworks and studio ZeniMax Online also announced that the game will be officially localized into Russian this year. Director Matt Firor addressed Russian-speaking players in a separate video, saying that a version of the MMORPG for […]
The development of the SeaMonkey set of Internet applications has resumed, which combines within one product a web browser, an email client, a news feed aggregation system (RSS/Atom) and a WYSIWYG html page editor Composer (Chatzilla, DOM Inspector and Lightning are no longer included in the basic composition included). The first beta release of the new SeaMonkey 2.53 branch has been offered for testing. The browser engine used in SeaMonkey has been updated to Firefox 60 (previously […]
