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PostgreSQL active session history - new pgsentinel extension

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The pgsentinel company has released the pgsentinel extension of the same name (github repository), which adds the pg_active_session_history view to PostgreSQL - the history of active sessions (similar to Oracle's v$active_session_history). Essentially, these are simply every second snapshots from pg_stat_activity, but there are important points: All accumulated information is stored only in RAM, and the amount of memory consumed is regulated by the number of last stored records. The queryid field is added - [...]

The author of vkd3d and one of the key developers of Wine died

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CodeWeavers, which sponsors the development of Wine, announced the death of its employee, Józef Kucia, the author of the vkd3d project (a Direct3D 12 implementation on top of the Vulkan API) and one of the key Wine developers, who also took part in the development of the Mesa and Debian projects. Josef made over 2500 changes to Wine and implemented most of the […]

GNOME 3.34 released

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Today, September 12, 2019, after almost 6 months of development, the latest version of the user desktop environment - GNOME 3.34 - was released. It added about 26 thousand changes, such as: “Visual” updates for a number of applications, including the “desktop” itself - for example, the settings for selecting the desktop background have become simpler, making it easier to change the standard wallpaper […]

Release of RawTherapee 5.7 photo processing software

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RawTherapee 5.7 has been released, providing tools for editing photos and converting images in RAW format. The program supports a large number of RAW file formats, including cameras with Foveon- and X-Trans sensors, and can also work with the Adobe DNG standard and with JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats (up to 32 bits per channel). The project code is written in […]

Version 1.3 of the Mumble voice communication platform has been released

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About ten years after the last release, the next major version of the voice communication platform Mumble 1.3 was released. It is mainly focused on creating voice chats between players in online games and is designed to reduce delays and ensure high quality voice transmission. The platform is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. The platform consists of two modules - a client […]

Network driver performance comparison in 10 programming languages

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A group of researchers from German universities published the results of an experiment during which 10 variants of a typical driver for 10 Gigabit Intel Ixgbe (X5xx) network cards were developed in different programming languages. The driver runs in user space and is implemented in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Swift, JavaScript, and Python. While writing the code, the focus was on achieving […]

Assessing Permission Request Abuse in Flashlight Apps for Android

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The Avast blog published the results of a study of the permissions requested by applications presented in the Google Play catalog with the implementation of flashlights for the Android platform. In total, 937 flashlights were found in the catalogue, of which elements of malicious or unwanted activity were identified in seven, and the rest can be considered “clean”. 408 applications requested 10 or fewer credentials, and 262 applications required […]

Mail.ru Group launched a corporate messenger with an increased level of security

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Mail.ru Group launches a corporate messenger with a high level of security. The new MyTeam service will protect users from possible data leakage, as well as optimize business communication processes. With external communication, all users from client companies are verified. Only those employees who really need it for work have access to the internal data of the company. After dismissal, the service automatically closes former employees […]

Video: AMD on Gears 5 Radeon Optimizations and Best Settings

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To coincide with the launch of projects with the developers of which AMD actively cooperates, the company began to release special videos talking about optimizations and the most balanced settings. There were videos dedicated to Strange Brigade, Devil May Cry 5, the remake of Resident Evil 2, Tom Clancy's The Division 2 and World War Z. The newest one is dedicated to the fresh action game Gears 5. Microsoft Xbox Game Studios and […]

Release of the GNOME 3.34 User Environment

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After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment is presented. Compared to the last release, about 24 thousand changes were made, in the implementation of which 777 developers took part. To quickly evaluate the capabilities of GNOME 3.34, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and Ubuntu have been prepared. Key innovations: In overview mode, it is now possible to group application icons into folders. For creating […]

VKontakte finally launched the promised dating app

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VKontakte has finally launched its dating application Lovina. The social network opened applications for user registration back in July. You can register by phone number or using your VKontakte account. After authorization, the application will independently select interlocutors for the user. The main methods of communication in Lovina are video stories and video calls, as well as the “video call carousel”, which allows you to communicate with random interlocutors who change […]

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