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After a year of development and 28 experimental versions, the stable release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 5.0, has been presented, which includes more than 7400 changes. Key achievements of the new version include the delivery of built-in Wine modules in PE format, support for multi-monitor configurations, a new implementation of the audio API XAudio2, and support for the graphics API Vulkan 1.1. Wine has confirmed full […]
Hello everyone! I am Anna Khatsko, HR Director at Omega-R. My job is focused on enhancing the learning and development strategy within the company, and I want to share my experience and knowledge on how to manage employees' professional and career growth in a way that supports other key business priorities. According to a KPMG study, 50% of Russian companies report a lack of qualified IT personnel required […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 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
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]