In previous articles that I published on Habré (“Automatic cat litter” and “Toilet for Maine Coons”), I presented a model of a toilet implemented on a different flushing principle from the existing ones. The toilet was positioned as a product assembled from components that were freely sold and available for purchase. The disadvantage of this concept is that some technical solutions are forced. We have to put up with the fact that the selected components […]
Making a gateway between Wi-Fi and LoRa for UDP I had a childhood dream - to issue every household “without Wi-Fi” device a network ticket, i.e. an IP address and port. After some time, I realized that there was no point in postponing. We have to take it and do it. Technical specification Make it an M5Stack gateway with an installed LoRa Module (Figure 1). The gateway will be connected to [...]
Disclaimer: this material contains only the subjective opinion of the author, filled with stereotypes and fiction. Facts in the material are displayed in the form of metaphors; metaphors can be distorted, exaggerated, embellished, or even made up ASM There is still debate about who started all this. Yes, yes, I’m talking about how people moved from ordinary communication [...]
On December 7, 2019, the Debian project put to the developers a vote on the status of init systems other than systemd. The options the project had to choose from were: F: Focus on systemd B: Systemd, but support exploration of alternative solutions A: Support for multiple init systems is important D: Support non-systemd systems, but don't block […]
The Microsoft Teams client is the first Microsoft 365 app released for Linux. Microsoft Teams is an enterprise platform that integrates chat, meetings, notes, and attachments into a workspace. Developed by Microsoft as a competitor to the popular corporate solution Slack. The service was introduced in November 2016. Microsoft Teams is part of the Office 365 suite and is available through an enterprise subscription. In addition to Office 365 […]
Matthew Garrett, a well-known Linux kernel developer who once received an award from the Free Software Foundation for his contributions to the development of free software, drew attention to problems with the reliability of video surveillance cameras connected to the network via Wi-Fi. After analyzing the operation of the Ring Video Doorbell 2 camera installed in his house, Matthew came to the conclusion that intruders could […]
The third candidate release of Wine 5.0, an open implementation of the Win32 API, is available for testing. The code base is being frozen ahead of release, which is expected in early January 2020. Since the release of Wine 5.0-RC2, 46 bug reports have been closed and 45 bug fixes have been made. Error reports related to the operation of games and applications are closed: Blood 2: […]
It has become known that a new feature called “Disappearing Messages” has been discovered in the latest beta version of the WhatsApp mobile application for iOS and Android platforms. It is currently under development and is designed to automatically delete old messages after a certain period of time. This tool will become available for group chats, which usually contain a large […]
The NGINX Unit 1.14 application server has been released, within which a solution is being developed to ensure the launch of web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js and Java). NGINX Unit can simultaneously run multiple applications in different programming languages, the launch parameters of which can be changed dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]
Today, browsers based on Chrome and Chromium occupy about 80% of the market. The only independent project is Firefox. And recently information appeared that Apple may also transfer its Safari browser to Google's engine. This data is based on a proposal to include Intelligent Tracking Prevention in a future version of Chromium 80. Given that IPT is a proprietary feature […]
In 2019, smartphone manufacturers made significant strides towards improving the cameras used in their products. Most of the work was focused on improving the quality of low-light images, and not much attention was paid to the video recording process. That could change next year as smartphone makers start using new, more powerful chips. Despite […]
The results of the general vote (GR, general resolution) of the Debian project developers involved in maintaining packages and maintaining the infrastructure, conducted on the issue of supporting multiple init systems, have been published. The second item (“B”) in the list won - systemd remains preferred, but the possibility of maintaining alternative initialization systems remains. Voting was carried out using the Condorcet method, in which each voter ranks all options in order of […]
