Data released by International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests that the European market for smart home devices is growing rapidly. Thus, in the second quarter of this year, 22,0 million smart home devices were sold in Europe. We are talking about products such as set-top boxes, monitoring and security systems, smart lighting devices, smart speakers, thermostats, etc. […]
I think many people already heard Sign In with Apple (SIWA for short) after WWDC 2019. In this article I will tell you what specific pitfalls I had to face when integrating this thing into our licensing portal. This article is not really for those who have just decided to understand SIWA (for them I have provided a number of introductory links at the end […]
As solid-state drives based on flash memory technology become the primary means of permanent storage in data centers, it is important to understand how reliable they are. To date, a large number of laboratory studies of flash memory chips have been carried out using synthetic tests, but there is a lack of information about their behavior in the field. This article reports on the results of a large-scale field study covering millions of days of use […]
Popular Taiwanese online resource DigiTimes shares information that the manufacturer of the first 3D NAND memory developed in China, Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), is aggressively improving product yield. As we reported, in early September, YMTC began mass production of 64-layer 3D NAND memory in the form of 256 Gbit TLC chips. Separately, we note that the release of 128-Gbit chips was previously expected, […]
Mastodon is called a “decentralized Twitter,” in which microblogs are scattered across many independent servers interconnected into one network. There are a lot of updates in this version. Here are the most important ones: OStatus is no longer supported, the alternative is ActivityPub. Removed some obsolete REST APIs: GET /api/v1/search API, replaced by GET /api/v2/search. GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/card, the card attribute is now used. POST /api/v1/notifications/dismiss?id=:id, instead of […]
We continue our review of events for IT specialists who organize communities from different cities of Russia. October begins with the return of blockchain and hackathons, the strengthening of the position of web development and the gradually increasing activity of the regions. Lecture evening on game design When: October 2 Where: Moscow, st. Trifonovskaya, 57, building 1 Conditions of participation: free, registration required A meetup designed for maximum practical benefit for the listener. Here […]
Budgie desktop 10.5.1 has been released. In addition to bug fixes, work was done to improve the UX and adaptation to GNOME 3.34 components was carried out. Main changes in the new version: added settings for font smoothing and hinting; compatibility with components of the GNOME 3.34 stack is ensured; displaying tooltips in the panel with information about the open window; in the settings the option has been added [...]
I asked myself the existential question put in the title in Grebenshchikov’s formulation after another round of discussion in one of the communities about whether a beginning web backend developer needs SQL knowledge, or whether ORM will do everything anyway. I decided to look for the answer a little broader than just about ORM and SQL, and, in principle, try to systematize who the people who […]
The PostgreSQL team has announced the release of PostgreSQL 12, the latest version of the open source relational database management system. PostgreSQL 12 has significantly improved query performance - especially when working with large volumes of data, and has also optimized the use of disk space in general. Among the new features: implementation of the JSON Path query language (the most important part of the SQL/JSON standard); […]
Two years after the release of the third version, Caliber 4.0 was released. Caliber is free software for reading, creating and storing books of various formats in an electronic library. The program code is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license. Caliber 4.0. includes several interesting features, including new content server capabilities, a new eBook viewer that focuses on text […]
Google has warned of a change in its approach to handling mixed content on pages opened over HTTPS. Previously, if there were components on pages opened via HTTPS that were loaded from without encryption (via the http:// protocol), a special indicator was displayed. In the future, it has been decided to block the loading of such resources by default. Thus, pages opened via “https://” will be guaranteed to contain only resources loaded […]
MaSzyna is a free railway transport simulator created in 2001 by Polish developer Martin Wojnik. The new version of MaSzyna contains more than 150 scenarios and about 20 scenes, including one realistic scene based on the real Polish railway line “Ozimek - Częstochowa” (total track length about 75 km in the southwestern part of Poland). Fictional scenes are presented as […]
