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After more than two years of hiatus, a new version of the widely known system resource monitor and process manager htop has been released. It is a very popular alternative to the top utility, requiring no special configuration and being more user-friendly in its default setup. The project was practically abandoned after the author and main developer stepped away. The community has taken over.
A new version of the QtProtobuf library has been released. QtProtobuf is a free library released under the MIT license. It allows you to easily use Google Protocol Buffers and gRPC in your Qt project. Key changes: A library for supporting Qt types has been added. You can now use some Qt types in the description of protobuf messages. Support for Conan has been added, thanks to GamePad64 for the help! Method calls.
More precisely, a framework for building operating systems — this is the terminology preferred by the authors from Genode Labs. This microkernel OS constructor supports several microkernels from the L4 family, the Muen kernel, and its own minimalist base-hw kernel. These developments are available under the AGPLv3 license and optionally under a commercial license: https://genode.org/about/licenses The attempt to create a version accessible for use by someone other than microkernel development enthusiasts is called […]
The PowerEdge T40 continues Dell's line of affordable, compact entry-level servers. Externally, it resembles a small 'tower' with distinctive Dell design elements, more like a regular PC. Inside, there's a small single-socket board for the entry-level Intel Xeon E. The Dell PowerEdge T40 is genuinely a business product, not just an ordinary PC with a slightly unusual […]
A correction release of Firefox 80.0.1 has been published, which fixes the following issues: The performance issue in Firefox 80 related to processing new intermediate certificates from certification authorities has been resolved. Crashes related to GPU resets have been fixed. Issues with text rendering on some websites using WebGL (for example, the problem appears in Yandex Maps) have been addressed. Problems with the API downloads.download(), leading to data loss, have also been corrected […]
An update for Protox, a mobile messaging application that allows users to communicate without a server, based on the Tox protocol (s-toxcore), has been released. This update focuses on improving the client and its usability. Currently, only the Android platform is supported. The project is seeking iOS developers to port the application to Apple smartphones. The program serves as an alternative to the Tox clients Antox and Trifa. The project code […]
Mozilla employees have published the results of a study on the possibility of identifying users based on their browsing profiles, which can be visible to third parties and websites. Analyzing 52,000 browsing profiles provided by Firefox users participating in the experiment showed that website preferences are characteristic of each user and remain consistent. The uniqueness of the obtained browsing history profiles was 99%. At […]
Mozilla developers successfully completed the migration of Firefox 68 users for the Android platform to the new browser, which is being developed under the Fenix project and recently offered to all users as an update 'Firefox 79.0.5'. The minimum platform requirements have been raised to Android 5. Fenix uses the GeckoView engine, built on Firefox Quantum technologies, and a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries, which […]
Testing of the pre-release version of the Xfce 4.16pre1 user environment has begun. The release is expected in October or November. The most notable change in the new branch is the transition of the interface to the GtkHeaderBar widget and the application of client-side decoration (CSD), which allowed for the placement of menus, buttons, and other interface elements in the window header. Among other changes, optional support has also been discontinued […]
The release of the Thunderbird 78.2.1 email client is now available, which has enabled built-in OpenPGP support by default for all users, used for end-to-end encryption of correspondence and signing emails with a digital signature. This release also disables the use of MD5, SM2, and SM3 algorithms in the OpenPGP implementation. The main difference between the built-in OpenPGP support and the previously offered Enigmail add-on is the use of the RNP library […]
Google has sent warnings to the developers of Android applications Husky, Fedilab, and Subway Tooter, which allow communication in decentralized social networks of the Fediverse, about the need to rectify violations of the Play Store catalog rules. They have been given 7 days to address the concerns, after which non-compliant applications will be removed from the Google Play catalog. The reason for the intended block mentions the possibility of using the applications to access […]
The Finnish company TietoEVRY has released a TTF font called "The Polite Type," which turns offensive English expressions, as deemed by the authors, into ligatures, replacing them with neutral expressions or blurred spots. Naturally, if you add the character 200C or 200B (zero width non-joiner or zero width space) and even an extra space or change the case, the censorship doesn’t activate. The font is declared "open-source," […]