Samsung has announced the impending cessation of support for the S Voice voice assistant. According to a notice sent out by the South Korean manufacturer, all services associated with the old voice assistant will cease operation on June 1, 2020. The S Voice assistant should be familiar to people who have long used Samsung devices. It was launched in 2012 but eventually [...]
The sharp increase in unemployment benefit applications in the U.S., resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, has overwhelmed the operations of government social services in the country. The problem is that there are almost no specialists left who know the ancient programming language COBOL, on which the government service programs are written. To quickly train coders in the intricacies of COBOL, IBM and the support group have started creating free [...].
Google has published a database of benchmark mixed sounds, equipped with annotations, which can be used in machine learning systems for separating arbitrary mixed sounds into individual components. A universal deep learning model (TDCN++) has also been released, which can be utilized in Tensorflow for sound separation. The data was prepared based on the collection from freesound.org and published under a CC BY license […]
After six months of development, the release of the ReactOS 0.4.13 operating system has been presented, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. The operating system is in the 'alpha' development stage. An installation ISO image (126 MB) and a Live build (in a zip archive of 95 MB) are available for download. The project code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Key changes: Significant work has been done to fix bugs and […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.6 — has taken place. Since the release of version 5.5, 38 bug reports have been closed and 458 changes have been made. The most important changes include: New Media Foundation framework calls have been implemented; Active Directory support has been improved, and issues with compiling wldap32 on systems without LDAP support installed have been resolved; Conversion of modules to PE format has been continued; Improvements have been made to […]
A new release of ReactOS 0.4.13 has been introduced — an operating system aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. Key changes include: Synchronization with the Wine Staging codebase. Updated versions of Btrfs 1.4, ACPICA 20190816, UniATA 0.47a, mbedTLS 2.7.11, and libpng 1.6.37. Enhancements have been made to the new USB stack, providing support for input devices (HID) and USB drives. Optimization of the FreeLoader bootloader has reduced the startup time […]
Linux: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64) Eth0 1.1.1.1/32 external IP ipip-ipsec0 192.168.0.1/30 will be our Miktoik tunnel: CCR 1009, RouterOS 6.46.5 Eth0 10.0.0.2/30 internal IP from the provider. The external IP provider's NAT is dynamic. ipip-ipsec0 192.168.0.2/30 will be our IPsec tunnel, which will be raised on the Linux machine using racoon. I won't describe the details, there is a good article by […]
New releases of several open platforms for organizing video conferences have been published: The release of the Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0 client for holding video conferences, which represents a standalone application version of Jitsi Meet. Features of the application include local storage of video conference settings, a built-in update delivery system, remote control tools, and a mode for staying on top of other windows. Among the new features of version 2.0 is the ability to provide […]
After seven years of development, the release of the FreeRDP 2.0 project has taken place, offering a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) developed based on Microsoft specifications. The project provides a library for integrating RDP support into third-party applications and a client that can be used for remote connections to Windows desktops. The project's code is distributed under the Apache license […]
FreeRDP — a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license, is a fork of rdesktop. The most significant changes in release 2.0.0 include: Numerous security fixes. Transition to the use of sha256 instead of sha1 for certificate fingerprints. Added the first version of RDP proxy. Refactoring of smartcard code has been performed, including improved input validation. A new […]
LXD — this is the next-generation container management system, as stated by the source. It offers a user interface similar to virtual machines but uses Linux containers instead. The core of LXD is a privileged daemon (a service running with root privileges) that provides a REST API via a local Unix socket, as well as over the network if appropriately configured. Clients like […]
The material of the article is taken from my Zen channel. Transmitting audio signals over RTP stream In the previous article, we assembled a remote control scheme from a generator and detector of tone signals that operate within a single program. In this article, we will learn to use the RTP protocol (RFC 3550 — RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications) for receiving/transmitting audio signals over an Ethernet network. The protocol […]