Recently I noticed that a skinny and very timid cat, with eternally sad eyes, had settled in the barn attic... He didn’t make contact, but he was watching us from afar. I decided to treat him with premium food, which our domestic cat-faces gobble up. Even after two months of treats, the cat still avoided all attempts to contact him. Perhaps he had previously suffered from [...]
On October 4, the console text editor nano 4.5 was released. It has fixed some bugs and made minor improvements. The new tabgives command allows you to define the Tab key behavior for different programming languages. The Tab key can be used to insert tabs, spaces, or anything else. Displaying help information using the --help command now aligns text equally […]
Hello, Habr! Not long ago I had the opportunity to talk with Nikolai Vakorin, the founder of the interesting project Gmoji - a service for sending offline gifts using emoji. During the conversation, Nikolay shared his experience of developing an idea for a startup based on established criteria, attracting investments, scaling the product and difficulties along this path. I give him the floor. Preparatory work […]
Blizzard Entertainment has removed professional player Chung Ng Wai from the Hearthstone Grandmaster tournament after he supported the current anti-government protests in Hong Kong during an interview over the weekend. In a blog post, Blizzard Entertainment stated that Ng Wai violated the competition rules and noted that players are not allowed to “participate in any activity […]
After the Free Software Foundation published a call to reconsider its interaction with the GNU Project, Richard Stallman announced that, as the current head of the GNU Project, he would be involved in building relations with the Free Software Foundation (the main problem is that all GNU developers sign an agreement transferring property rights to the code to the Free Software Foundation and he legally owns all GNU code). 18 maintainers and […]
Over the summer, we published a selection of books that did not contain reference books or manuals on algorithms. It consisted of literature for reading in free time - to broaden one’s horizons. As a continuation, we selected science fiction, books about the technological future of humanity and other publications written by specialists for specialists. Photo: Chris Benson / Unsplash.com Science and technology “Quantum […]
Kaspersky Lab has discovered a malicious tool called Reductor, which allows you to spoof the random number generator used to encrypt data during its transmission from the browser to HTTPS sites. This opens the door for attackers to spy on their browser activities without the user knowing. In addition, the modules found included remote administration functions, which maximizes the capabilities of this software. WITH […]
The Gentoo Linux distribution is 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the gentoo.org domain and began developing a new distribution, into which, together with Bob Mutch, he tried to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project, combining them with the Enoch Linux distribution that had been developing for about a year , in which experiments were conducted on building a distribution compiled from […]
This is a simple graphical front-end for Git, written in bash, using yad, lxterminal* and leafpad* technologies. It is written according to the KISS principle, so it fundamentally does not provide complex and advanced functions. Its task is to speed up typical Git operations: commit, add, status, pull and push. For more complex functions there is a “Terminal” button, which allows you to use all imaginable and inconceivable possibilities […]
Since its introduction in 2016, the Instagram Stories system has generally looked very similar to its Snapchat counterpart. And now the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced on Twitter that the service will have an updated camera design with easy-to-view effects and filters. This is expected to allow for more interesting Stories to be created. This opportunity will appear [...]
After a year of development, the release of the VeraCrypt 1.24 project has been published, developing a fork of the TrueCrypt disk partition encryption system, which has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and eliminating problems identified during the audit of TrueCrypt source codes. At the same time, VeraCrypt provides a […]
The LibreOffice development community - The Document Foundation announced the translation into Russian of the guide to working in LibreOffice 6 (Getting started guide). The management was translated by: Valery Goncharuk, Alexander Denkin and Roman Kuznetsov. The PDF document contains 470 pages and is distributed under GPLv3+ and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) licenses. You can download the guide here. Source: […]
