Are there those among us (tsefovodov) who do not like “professional extreme”? It’s unlikely - otherwise we wouldn’t be tumbling around with this extremely interesting and funny product. Many of those who were involved in the operation of Ceph have come across one not very frequent (or rather even very infrequent) but sometimes in demand case - connecting Ceph via iSCSI or FC. For what? […]
As the UK government prepares to allow Huawei to help build a key part of the nation's infrastructure, US officials have warned that bringing in the Chinese firm could jeopardize transatlantic intelligence sharing. Senior US officials visited London on Monday with a final plea to ban Huawei from its 5G rollout in the country. Officials handed over a dossier with technical information that, as […]
Xigmatek has expanded its range of computer cases by releasing a model called Trident, which allows you to create a gaming system with an attractive appearance. The new product is completely made in black. The design uses steel, and the side wall is made of tempered glass. It is possible to install motherboards of Mini-ITX, Micro-ATX and ATX sizes. The mesh front panel is crossed vertically by three ARGB LED strips. Multicolor control [...]
Absolutely all technology leaders are developing the direction of artificial intelligence on peripheral devices. Gadgets must remain “smart” without massive cloud traffic. This is a war for the future, in which it is wise to rely not only on yourself, but also to buy something ready-made. Apple made the next move in this race by purchasing the AI startup Xnor.ai. According to sources, yesterday Apple acquired the company […]
IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Creative Commons, the Open Source Initiative, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and many other associations and companies (21 in total) acted as independent participants (Amicus Curiae) in the renewed Supreme Court case between Google and Oracle related to the use of Java APIs in the platform. AndroidThe companies provided the court with their expert assessment […]
In the experimental development branch of the Xfce 4.15 desktop, which will be the basis for the stable 4.16 release, the interface has been migrated to the GtkHeaderBar widget, enabling client-side window decorations (CSD), where the window title and borders are drawn by the application itself, rather than by the window manager. The use of CSD, similar to GNOME […]
The Khronos Consortium, a graphics standards consortium, has published the Vulkan 1.2 specification, which defines an API for accessing the graphics and computing capabilities of GPUs. The new specification incorporates two years of fixes and extensions. Drivers supporting the new version of Vulkan have already been released by Intel, AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, and NVIDIA. Mesa offers Vulkan 1.2 support for […]
The free-to-play racing game SuperTuxKart 1.1 has been released. This update includes: Multiplayer improvements (IPv6 client and server support, better synchronization of collisions and other gameplay actions, and support for new add-ons). Multiplayer now supports emojis. Support for country flags has been added. Gameplay improvements allow players to see what bonuses they are holding, as well as the ability to see what is happening mid-race, which […]
Kdenlive 19.12 has been released. Among the latest changes: A powerful new audio mixer. A redesigned bin monitor. Major performance improvements. Effects Wizard. Clip scrubbing. Fixed user filters. Fixed split effect. Source: linux.org.ru
August 2005 Thirty years ago, you had to work your way up the corporate ladder. Now, that's no longer the norm. Our generation wants to earn money at the forefront. Instead of developing a product for some big company and waiting for job security, we develop the product ourselves, in a startup, and sell it to a big company. For at least […]
February 2009: Hacker News turned two years old last week. It was originally intended to be a side project—an app for polishing Arc and a hub for news exchanges between current and future Y Combinator founders. It grew larger and took longer than I expected, but I don't regret it because I learned a lot from working on it […]
A few hours before we sold to Yahoo in June 1998, I took a screenshot of the Viaweb website. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at it someday. The first thing you'll notice is how compact the pages are. Screens were noticeably smaller in 1998 than they are today. If I recall correctly, our homepage fit […]