After just six months of development, the next version of FreeOrion was released - a free space 4X parallel-turn-based strategy based on the Master of Orion series of games. It was supposed to be a “quick” (by the team’s standards) release with the main goal of changing the dependency from Python2 to Python3 (which was done very late). Thus, although the change in Python version was not […]
Despite the fact that there is now a lot of data almost everywhere, analytical databases are still quite exotic. They are poorly known and even worse able to use them effectively. Many continue to "eat the cactus" with MySQL or PostgreSQL, which are designed for other scenarios, suffer with NoSQL, or overpay for commercial solutions. ClickHouse is a game-changer and significantly lowers the threshold for […]
The CAP theorem is the cornerstone of distributed systems theory. Of course, the controversy around it does not subside: the definitions in it are not canonical, and there is no rigorous proof ... Nevertheless, standing firmly on the positions of everyday common sense™, we intuitively understand that the theorem is true. The only thing that is not obvious is the meaning of the letter "P". When the cluster splits, it decides that […]
Love GitLab and hate bugs? Want to improve the quality of your source code? Then you have come to the right place. Today we will tell you how to configure the PVS-Studio C# analyzer to check merge requests. Cheers to all and happy reading. PVS-Studio is a tool for detecting errors and potential vulnerabilities in the source code of programs written in C, C++, C# and […]
The frequency of mentions of Ryzen PRO 4000G processors in the price lists of online stores suggests that, contrary to the official position of AMD, they will still appear in retail, albeit not in a boxed version. Other pleasant surprises for private enthusiasts will be the presence of solder under the cover and a free multiplier, which will make it easier to overclock processors. A freely variable multiplier has long become a common attribute of many processors [...]
The leading player in the smartphone market equipped with a flexible display in 2021 will remain the South Korean giant Samsung. At least, this forecast is contained in the publication of the DigiTimes resource. The beginning of the era of cellular devices with flexible screens was last year, when models such as the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X debuted. At the same time, according to various estimates, in 2019 […]
As 5G support is a new trend in the smartphone industry, more and more OEMs are focusing on producing devices capable of running on 4G networks. However, the demand for LTE smartphones is still very high. It has now become known that MediaTek is experiencing a shortage of chipsets with XNUMXG modems, many of which will not be available until the end of this year. According to […]
Chrome Browser developers have announced an extension to lazy loading of web page elements, allowing content outside the visible area to not be loaded until the user scrolls to the location immediately before the element. Previously, in Chrome 76 and Firefox 75, this mode was already implemented for images. Now the Chrome developers have taken it one step further and […]
After a year of development, digiKam 7.0.0, a program for managing a photo collection, developed as part of the KDE project, was released. The program provides a comprehensive set of tools for importing, managing, editing and publishing photos, as well as images from digital cameras in raw format. The code is written in C++ using Qt and KDE libraries, and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Installation […]
So far, more than 500 developers around the world use Flutter, Google's open source framework for building mobile apps. This technology is often touted as a replacement for React Native. Until recently, the Flutter SDK was only available on Linux as a solution for developing applications for other platforms. New Flutter SDK […]
Like many other OpenSource conferences of 2020, OSTconf (formerly known as Linux Piter) will be held online. The days of the conference are August 10–13. In the offline form, Linux Piter was one of the brightest events of OpenSoure in Russia. In addition to changes in the name and time of the conference, the remote form made adjustments to the time of the conference, and also made it available to […]
Jeremy Soller (system76 engineer) announced that he is starting work on porting coreboot (LinuxBIOS) for modern AMD Ryzen systems (Matisse and Renoir series), with the support of Lisa Su (AMD CEO). The project is a free alternative for proprietary and closed BIOS and UEFI systems. Source: linux.org.ru
