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An asynchronous implementation of DISCARD is introduced for Btrfs

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An asynchronous implementation of the DISCARD operation (tagging freed blocks that can no longer be physically stored) has been presented for the btrfs file system, developed by engineers at Facebook. The essence of the problem: in the original implementation, DISCARD is executed synchronously with other operations, which in some cases leads to performance issues since it requires waiting for the corresponding commands to complete with the storage devices, consuming additional time. This can become […]

The OASIS Technical Committee has approved the OpenDocument 1.3 specification.

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The Technical Committee of the OASIS consortium has approved the final version of the ODF 1.3 (OpenDocument) specification. After approval by the Technical Committee, the ODF 1.3 specification received the status of 'Committee Specification', indicating that the work has been fully completed, the specification will remain unchanged in the future, and the document is ready for use by third-party developers and companies. The next step will be to approve the presented specification as an OASIS and ISO/IEC standard. The key differences of OpenDocument […]

Eric Ciaramella as an example of Wikipedia/Google censorship.

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In this article, I will share how I was banned on the English subdomain of Wikipedia for political reasons, how a large number of information companies censor "He Who Must Not Be Named". Just look up "Eric Ciaramella" on YouTube and try to edit, you will get a 404 error (this is before downvoting karma, the comment will be deleted, I'm betting). I will also share what I've learned over the last […]

Introducing donate ― a self-hosted donation service for tasks

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Features: KISS; self-hosted; no fees (for example, bountysource and gitcoin take 10% of the payout); support for multiple cryptocurrencies (currently Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano); planned support for GitLab, Gitea, and other Git hosting services in the future. A global task list from all (that is one, at the time of writing the news) instances at donate.dumpstack.io. The working mechanism for […]

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation proposed creating a code archive that duplicates GitHub.

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In case Russia is disconnected from global code repositories due to sanctions, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation proposed creating a domestic analog of GitHub to host an archive of the most in-demand projects and repositories developed on Western collaborative development platforms. It has been proposed to allocate 2.1 billion rubles for the project. It is expected that, in addition to the reserve, the new service can be used for code publication, […]

Release of the Midnight Commander 4.8.24 file manager

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After six months of development, the release of the Midnight Commander 4.8.24 console file manager has been published, distributed in source texts under the GPLv3+ license. The main changes include: A dialog has been added to display a list of files recently viewed or edited in the built-in viewer or editor (accessed via the Alt-Shift-e combination); a fully functioning command shell (subshell, accessed via […] in the separately launched mceditor, mcviewer, and mcdiffviewer).

The Rust framework actix-web has been revived and will be handed over to the community

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The author of the actix-web web framework, who was recently removed due to harassment, has restored the repository with the code as it was in demand by some developers. However, the author of actix-web still does not intend to continue development but will hand over the project to the community and has recommended participant JohnTitor, who previously assisted with development, for the leadership position. Source: opennet.ru

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will receive a demo at the end of the month

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Playtonic Games Studio announced on its microblog the upcoming release of a demo version of the platformer Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, which was released last October. The trial version will first appear on Steam — this will happen on January 23. A week later, on January 30, it will be available for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The release dates for the Xbox One and Epic Games demo are […]

Jump to London or my internship at Jump Trading

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My name is Andrei Smirdin, I am a 4th-year student at HSE — St. Petersburg. I have always been interested in economics and enjoyed following financial news. When it came time to seek another summer internship, I decided to try to get into a company that earns through trading on the stock market. Fortune smiled upon me: I spent 10 weeks at the London office of the trading company Jump Trading. […]

Firefox 72.0.2 Update. Firefox 74 will introduce the option to prevent tab detachment.

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A corrective release of Firefox 72.0.2 is available, which fixes several issues affecting stability: A bug that prevented opening downloaded files containing spaces in their names has been fixed; The hanging issue when opening the about:logins page with a master password set has been resolved; Compatibility issues with the CSS Shadow Parts implementation added in Firefox 72 have been resolved; Problems with low video playback performance have been addressed […]

Samsung has proposed a new exFAT driver option for the Linux kernel.

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Samsung has proposed a set of patches for inclusion in the Linux kernel that implement a new exFAT driver based on the current sdfat codebase developed for firmware on Samsung Android smartphones. If the patches are accepted, they will be included in the Linux kernel 5.6, the release of which is expected in 2-3 months. Compared to the previously added exFAT driver in the kernel, the new driver […]

Library for offline Russian speech recognition on Android and Linux

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Version 0.3 of the vosk library for local continuous speech recognition has been released, supporting the Russian language. An APK package has been prepared for the Android platform, and for Linux, the Python library can be used (example usage), with performance sufficient for operation on Raspberry Pi boards. The library operates on an enhanced Kaldi engine. The language model is only 50MB and works more accurately than DeepSpeech (which has a model size of over 1GB). Supported […]

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