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CAGR as the Curse of Specialists, or Forecasting Errors of Exponential Processes

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Among those reading this text, of course, there are many specialists. And, of course, everyone is well versed in their fields and has a good assessment of the prospects of various technologies and their development. At the same time, history (which “teaches that it teaches nothing”) knows many examples when experts confidently made various forecasts and missed oh-so-very much: “The phone has too many shortcomings for […]

OpenSSH 8.1 release

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After six months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.1, an open implementation of a client and server for working over the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, is presented. Special attention in the new release is the elimination of a vulnerability affecting ssh, sshd, ssh-add and ssh-keygen. The problem is present in the code for parsing private keys with the XMSS type and allows an attacker to trigger an integer overflow. The vulnerability is marked as exploitable, [...]

How automation is ruining the lives of Walmart employees

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For top managers of the largest American supermarket chain, the introduction of the Auto-C automatic floor cleaner was seen as a logical development in retail sales. Two years ago they allocated several hundred million for it. Of course: such an assistant can eliminate human error, reduce costs, increase the speed/quality of cleaning and, in the future, lead a mini-revolution in American super stores. But among the workers at Walmart No. 937 in […]

Meson build system release 0.52

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The release of the Meson 0.52 build system has been published, which is used to build projects such as X.Org Server, Mesa, Lighttpd, systemd, GStreamer, Wayland, GNOME and GTK+. Meson's code is written in Python and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. The key goal of Meson development is to provide high speed of the assembly process combined with convenience and ease of use. Instead of the make utility [...]

RunaWFE Free 4.4.0 is released - an enterprise business process management system

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RunaWFE Free is a free Russian system for managing business processes and administrative regulations. Written in Java, distributed under the LGPL open license. RunaWFE Free uses both its own solutions and some ideas from the JBoss jBPM and Activiti projects, and contains a large number of components whose task is to provide a convenient experience for the end user. Changes after version 4.3.0: Added global roles. Data sources have been added. […]

DrakonHub Online Chart Editor Code Opened

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DrakonHub, an online editor of diagrams, mind maps and flowcharts in the DRAGON language, is open source. The code is open as public domain (Public Domain). The application is written in the DRAGON-JavaScript and DRAGON-Lua languages ​​in the DRAKON Editor environment (most JavaScript and Lua files are generated from scripts in the DRAGON language). Let us recall that DRAGON is a simple visual language for describing algorithms and processes, optimized for […]

Voting to change the "openSUSE" logo and name

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On June 3, in the openSUSE mailing list, a certain Stasiek Michalski began discussing the possibility of changing the logo and name of the project. Among the reasons he cited were: Logo: Similarity to the old version of the SUSE logo, which can be confusing. Also mentioned is the need to enter into an agreement between the future openSUSE Foundation and SUSE for the right to use the logo. The colors of the current logo are too bright and light […]

Part of Qt is being translated into GPL

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Tuukka Turunen, Qt Development Director, announced that the license of some Qt modules has changed from LGPLv3/Commercial to GPLv3/Commercial. By the time Qt 5.14 is released, the license will change for the Qt Wayland Compositor, Qt Application Manager and Qt PDF modules. This means that to circumvent the GPL restrictions you will need to purchase a commercial license. Since January 2016, most additional […]

dobrofont

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What comes easily and freely to some, can be a real problem for others - such thoughts are evoked by each letter of the Dobroshrift font, which was developed for World Cerebral Palsy Day with the participation of children with this diagnosis. We decided to take part in this charity event and before the end of the day we changed the site logo. Our society is often uninclusive and exclusionary [...]

1. Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Network Security - a new scalable security platform

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Check Point started 2019 quite quickly by making several announcements at once. It’s impossible to talk about everything in one article, so let’s start with the most important thing - Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Network Security. Maestro is a new scalable platform that allows you to increase the “power” of the security gateway to “indecent” numbers and almost linearly. This is achieved naturally by balancing [...]

Interaction between FSF and GNU

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A message has appeared on the Free Software Foundation (FSF) website clarifying the relationship between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project in light of recent events. “The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project were founded by Richard M. Stallman (RMS), and until recently he served as head of both. For this reason, the relationship between the FSF and GNU was smooth. […]

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