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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of the GNU screen 4.8.0 console window manager

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The release of the full-screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) GNU screen 4.8.0 is now available, allowing a single physical terminal to work with multiple applications, each being assigned separate virtual terminals that remain active between different user sessions. Among the changes: Fixed a memory corruption issue that under certain conditions could lead to overwriting 768 bytes beyond the buffer. The overflow occurs while processing […]

The book "Universe. A Journey Through Time and Space"

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The "Universe: A Journey Through Time and Space" is written by professional astronomer Sergey Yazev, the director of the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk State University. "Oh, if only we wrote about what is truly known, think about it, sober minds, how uninteresting reading would be!" It is a tale of our steps on the path of understanding the Universe — from boiling and turbulent matter to intelligent beings; […]

Release of the photo editing software RawTherapee 5.8.

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The release of RawTherapee 5.8 has been introduced, providing tools for editing photos and converting images in RAW format. The software supports a wide range of RAW file formats, including those from cameras with Foveon and X-Trans sensors, and can also handle the Adobe DNG standard as well as JPEG, PNG, and TIFF formats (up to 32 bits per channel). The project code is written in...

Firefox Preview mobile browser adds support for extensions.

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Mozilla developers have added support for extensions in the codebase of the mobile browser Firefox Preview (Fenix), which is being developed to replace the Firefox edition for the Android platform. The new browser is based on the GeckoView engine and the set of Mozilla Android Components libraries. The ability to connect extensions based on the WebExtension API is available for testing in nightly builds of Firefox Preview. An 'Add-ons Manager' option has been added to the menu.

Release of Electron 8.0.0, a platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine.

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The release of the Electron 8.0.0 platform has been prepared, which provides a self-contained framework for developing cross-platform user applications using components from Chromium, V8, and Node.js as its foundation. The significant version number change is associated with the update to the Chromium 80 codebase, Node.js 12.13 platform, and V8 8.0 JavaScript engine. Among the changes in the Electron-specific API: the ability to check spelling in forms has been added.

I want to get married

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In the nineteenth episode of our podcast "To Infinity and Beyond," titled "I Want to Get Married!" we discuss how to study properly, starting at the 16th minute, and the phrase "I don't want to study, I want to get married" serves as an apt slogan for this episode. We also talk about the humanitarian mindset and discuss issues related to group dynamics.

Embedded World 2020. The Russians are coming

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In anticipation of the upcoming Embedded World 2020 exhibition, I decided to take a look at the list of companies from Russia. After filtering the participant list by country of origin, I was pleasantly surprised. The official exhibition website turned out 27 companies!!! For comparison, there are 22 companies from Italy, 34 from France, and 10 from India. What could this mean, where are all these domestic hardware producers […]

Methods to disable Lockdown protection in Ubuntu for remote bypassing of UEFI Secure Boot

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Andrey Konovalov from Google has published a method for remotely disabling the Lockdown protection offered in the Linux kernel package supplied with Ubuntu (theoretically, the proposed methods should work with the kernels of Fedora and other distributions, but they have not been tested). Lockdown restricts root user access to the kernel and blocks UEFI Secure Boot bypass paths. For instance, in lockdown mode, access is limited […]

Release of Wine 5.1 and Wine Staging 5.1

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 5.1 has been announced. Since the release of version 5.0, 32 bug reports have been closed and 361 changes have been made. Recall that starting from branch 2.x, the Wine project has adopted a new version numbering scheme: each stable release results in the first digit of the version number increasing (4.0.0, 5.0.0), while updates to […]

Release of PhotoFlare 1.6.2

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PhotoFlare is a relatively new cross-platform image editor that offers a balance between heavy functionality and a user-friendly interface. It is suitable for a wide range of tasks and includes all the essential image editing features, brushes, filters, color adjustments, and more. PhotoFlare is not a complete replacement for GIMP, Photoshop, and similar 'power tools', but it does contain the most popular photo editing capabilities. […]

Release of MPV media player 0.32

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The media player MPV 0.32 has been released. Key changes include: RAR5 support added in stream_libarchive. Initial support for bash completion. In cocoa-cb, forced GPU rendering support has been added. The 'pinch' gesture for window resizing has been implemented in cocoa-cb. In w32_common, support for window elements osc for minimizing/maximizing has been added. Wayland (in the GNOME environment) now has error messages related to serious […]

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