The developers of the Nitrux project presented the first alpha release of the Maui Shell user environment, developed in accordance with the “Convergence” concept, which implies the ability to work with the same applications both on the touch screens of smartphones and tablets, and on large screens of laptops and PCs. Maui Shell automatically adapts to screen size and available input methods, and can […]
GitHub announced that it has strengthened protection against sensitive data that was inadvertently left in the code by developers from entering its repositories. For example, it happens that configuration files with DBMS passwords, tokens or API access keys end up in the repository. Previously, scanning was carried out in passive mode and made it possible to identify leaks that had already occurred and were included in the repository. To prevent GitHub leaks, additional […]
A new version of the console utility Nomenus-rex is available, designed for mass file renaming. The program is written in C++ and distributed under the terms of the GPLv3 license. Renaming rules are configured using a configuration file. For example: source_dir = "/home/user/work/source"; destination_dir = "/home/user/work/destination"; keep_dir_structure = false; copy_or_rename = "copy"; rules = ( { type = "date"; date_format = "%Y-%m-%d"; }, { […]
The developers of the anonymous Tor network presented the release of the Arti 0.2.0 project, which develops a Tor client written in the Rust language. The project has the status of an experimental development; it lags behind the main Tor client in C in terms of functionality and is not yet ready to fully replace it. In September it is planned to create release 1.0 with stabilization of the API, CLI and settings, which will be suitable for initial use […]
In the recently released new version of the “Video Ad-Block, for Twitch” browser add-on, designed to block ads when watching videos on Twitch, a malicious change was detected that adds or replaces the referral identifier when accessing the site amazon.co.uk through request redirection to a third party site, links.amazonapps.workers.dev, not affiliated with Amazon. The add-on has more than 600 thousand installations and is distributed […]
The developers of the Gentoo project have announced the resumption of the formation of Live builds, allowing users not only to evaluate the state of the project and demonstrate the capabilities of the distribution without the need for installation to disk, but also to use the environment as a portable workstation or a tool for a system administrator. Live builds will be updated weekly to provide access to the latest versions of applications. The assemblies are available for the amd64 architecture and are […]
Presented is the release of the cross-platform open build script generator CMake 3.23, which acts as an alternative to Autotools and is used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS and Blender. The CMake code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, a means to extend functionality through modules, caching support, cross-compilation tools, […]
The release of Speek 1.6, a decentralized messaging program, has been published, aimed at providing maximum privacy, anonymity and protection from tracking. User IDs in Speek are based on public keys and are not tied to phone numbers or email addresses. The infrastructure does not use centralized servers and all data exchange is carried out only in P2P mode through the installation […]
The release of a free platform for the deployment of decentralized social networks - Mastodon 3.5, which allows you to create services on your own that are not under the control of individual providers. If the user is unable to run his own node, he can choose a trusted public service to connect to. Mastodon belongs to the category of federated networks, in which a set of […]
Releases of the light and fast email client Claws Mail 3.19.0 and 4.1.0 have been published, which in 2005 separated from the Sylpheed project (from 2001 to 2005 the projects developed together, Claws was used to test future Sylpheed innovations). The Claws Mail interface is built using GTK and the code is licensed under the GPL. The 3.x and 4.x branches are developed in parallel and differ […]
For FreeBSD, an implementation of an application isolation mechanism is proposed, reminiscent of the plegde and unveil system calls developed by the OpenBSD project. Isolation in plegde is achieved by prohibiting access to system calls that are not used in the application, and in unveil by selectively opening access only to individual file paths that the application can work with. For the application, a kind of white list of system calls is formed and [...]
The release of the web browser qutebrowser 2.5 has been published, providing a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from viewing the content, and a navigation system in the style of the Vim text editor, built entirely on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt5 and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. There is no performance impact to using Python, since rendering and parsing […]
