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Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-12, which is based on the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Windows-based games on Linux that are available in the Steam catalog. The project is distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows for the direct launching of games that are provided only for Windows in the Steam Linux client. The package includes […]
In the article about Spain, I mentioned the electronic navigation equipment for my yacht for sea passages. One of the readers commented, "It's very interesting how this is all done seriously for sailing on the sea." I will try to describe what electronic equipment was on my yacht and how it was connected. In my opinion, the main idea of a yacht is to maximize modern technologies essential for survival […]
On December 12, the release of QtCreator version 4.11 was announced. Since QtCreator has a modular architecture, all functionality is provided through plugins (the Core plugin is mandatory). Below are the new features in the plugins. Projects tested support for Qt on WebAssembly and microcontrollers. Multiple improvements have been made in the project configuration and build subsystems. The file API from CMake 3.14 is used for configuration and launch […]
JetBrains has released its own font: JetBrains Mono. The font is aimed at developers and coding, supporting 138 specific ligatures, 143 (human) languages, 4 levels of thickness and italics, and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 open license. JetBrains Mono is already set as the default in the latest releases of the company's products. >>> Source code repository (GitHub) Source: linux.org.ru
The teams of developers and designers from Canonical, responsible for the visual style and desktop in Ubuntu, plan to implement a new default theme in Ubuntu 20.04, which will continue the development of the current Yaru theme, introduced since Ubuntu 18.10. In the current version of Yaru, two styling options are available — dark (with dark headers, dark background, and dark elements […]
Google has announced its intention to completely discontinue support for third-party cookies in Chrome over the next two years, which are set when visiting sites different from the current page's domain. Such cookies are used to track user movements between websites in the code of advertising networks, social media widgets, and web analytics systems. Just like the intention announced yesterday to unify the User-Agent header, the refusal […]
The search engine has long been an integral part of the entire Microsoft operating systems lineup, particularly Windows 10. It makes it easy to find documents, images, or applications. However, search issues in "the ten" occur regularly and quite often. That's why Microsoft is currently working on a new application, Indexer Diagnostics, which is already available in the Microsoft Store. According to the developers, […]
Online retailers Ozon and Ak Bars Bank have successfully tested the "instant account" feature of the fast payment system (FPS), which allows shopping in online stores through the Central Bank of Russia's service without a QR code. According to official representatives of the Central Bank, 36 banks have already connected to this system; however, at the moment, only 8 of them are testing the payment for goods and services. The Central Bank anticipates that […]
Introduction What might the knowledge of the semantic differential methodology be useful for? We can learn our position relative to competitors in the subconscious of consumers. It might seem to us that customers have a negative attitude toward our product, but what if we find out that they view our competitors even worse on the most significant criteria for us? We can find out how successful our advertising is compared to […]
In the closing days of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we managed to take a look inside the compact Intel NUC computer based on the Ghost Canyon hardware platform. The company released the first Next Unit of Computing back in 2012 and has been continuously enhancing the system's capabilities since. The latest upgrade iteration has the Intel CPU and Vega graphics processor housed on the same substrate […]
This lecture wasn't on the schedule, but it had to be added to avoid gaps between classes. The lecture essentially covers how we know what we know, if indeed we truly do know it. This topic is as old as time itself—it has been discussed for the last 4000 years, if not longer. In philosophy, for its […]
It starts here. 10-43: Someone says, "A scientist knows science like a fish knows hydrodynamics." There is no definition of Science here. I discovered (I think I mentioned this to you before) that in high school, different teachers talked about various subjects, and I could see that different teachers spoke about the same subjects differently. […]