A new version of the XMPP client for Android has been released — yaxim 0.9.9 'FOSDEM 2020 edition', featuring numerous changes and new functions such as service browsing, Matrix support, reliable messaging with MAM and push, and a new user interface that requests permissions when necessary. The new capabilities bring yaxim in line with the mobile requirements of the XMPP Compliance Suite 2020. The project's code […]
The release of the GNU Binutils 2.34 utility set has been announced, which includes programs such as the GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, and strip. In the new version: Support for the debuginfod service has been added, which is an HTTP server that provides ELF/DWARF debugging information and source texts. When building Binutils with debuginfod support, the utilities readelf and objdump can connect to servers […]
The release of the lightweight HTTP server lighttpd 1.4.55 has been announced. The new version includes 53 changes, all related to bug fixes. Among the fixes is addressing build issues in Solaris, marking many functions with the 'pure' attribute, and resolving problems in mod_webdav with uploading files larger than 128 MB. Source: opennet.ru
Recently, the release of TrafficToll 1.0.0 took place — a quite useful console application that allows you to limit bandwidth (shaping) or completely block network traffic for individually selected applications in Linux. The program allows you to restrict incoming and outgoing speeds for each interface as well as for each process separately (even while it is running). A close analog of TrafficToll is the well-known proprietary […]
Wireguard is a simple and secure VPN protocol, primarily developed by Jason A. Donenfeld. For a long time, the kernel module implementing this protocol was not accepted into the main branch of the Linux kernel because it used its own implementation of cryptographic primitives (Zinc) instead of the standard crypto API. Recently, this obstacle has been overcome, thanks in part to updates accepted into the crypto API. […]
Recently, the KDE team held its 2nd contest for creating beautiful wallpapers. The first contest was held in honor of the release of Plasma 5.16, where Santiago Cézar won with his work "Ice Cold." The winner of the new contest is a simple Russian guy — Nikita Babin and his work "Volna." As a prize, Nikita will receive a powerful TUXEDO Infinity Book 14 […]
Three years after its announcement at CES 2017 and two years of beta testing on PCs, NVIDIA's GeForce Now cloud gaming service has made its debut. The GeForce Now offering appears significantly more attractive compared to what Google's Stadia streaming game service has to offer its users, at least on paper. Interaction with GeForce Now is expected to provide a different experience.
The upcoming Windows 10 20H1 build will bring many new features. Not long ago, it was announced that the Paint and WordPad applications would be classified as optional but still available. Now, sources indicate that a similar fate awaits the basic text editor Notepad. All three applications, which have long been essential for operating systems, may soon become non-mandatory.
At the recent FOSDEM 2020 conference, the OpenWifi project was introduced, which develops the first open implementation of the complete 802.11a/g/n Wi-Fi stack, where the signal shape and modulation are defined programmatically (SDR, Software Defined Radio). OpenWifi allows for the creation of a fully controllable implementation of all components of a wireless device, including low-level layers typically implemented in standard wireless adapters at the level of chips that are not auditable.
Every few years, the software development industry experiences a paradigm shift. One such phenomenon is the increasing interest in the microservices concept. Although microservices are not a new technology, their popularity has soared recently. Large monolithic services are now being replaced by independent, autonomous microservices. A microservice can be seen as an application that […]
Let's take a look at the report by Alexey Lesovsky from Data Egret titled 'Fundamentals of PostgreSQL Monitoring'. In this report, Alexey Lesovsky will discuss the key aspects of PostgreSQL statistics, what they mean, and why they should be included in monitoring; which graphs should be part of monitoring, how to add them, and how to interpret them. This report will be valuable for database administrators, system […]
You don’t have to be a chip developer to program for FPGA, just as you don’t need to be a C++ programmer to write Java code. However, in both cases, it might be beneficial. The goal of commercializing both technologies, Java and FPGA, is to refute the last statement. The good news for FPGA is that with the right levels of abstraction and a set of […]