Category: Internet News

Release of the Midnight Commander 4.8.24 file manager

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 […]

A Red Hat employee presented the Goals build system. Release of GNU Make 4.2

Richard WM Jones, the author of libguestfs and an employee at Red Hat, introduced a new build utility called Goals, aimed at addressing the shortcomings and issues in the make utility while maintaining overall simplicity and clarity of scripts. The make utility was designed in 1976 and has several conceptual flaws, which Goals aims to rectify without altering the general concept. The original […]

Hi, Seryoga. Part 0

What, came here for some entertainment? You think I’ll tell you about the future, technologies, the right way to clean your desk, and all that cool stuff from 2020? Some latest news about drones, virtual reality, clothing made from nanofibers, and other treasures of life in the future? To remind you that life just keeps getting better every day? Sorry, not today. Remind me, […]

wZD 1.0.0 has been released - a file storage and delivery server

The first version of the data storage server with protocol access has been released, designed to address the issue of a large number of small files in file systems, including cluster setups. Some features include: multithreading; multi-server capabilities providing fault tolerance and load balancing; maximum transparency for users and developers; supported HTTP methods: GET, HEAD, PUT, and DELETE; management of reading and writing behavior through client-side […]

New Linux kernel versions will receive updates for Samsung exFAT drivers.

For Linux 5.4, there is a driver for the Microsoft exFAT file system. However, it is based on an old version of Samsung's code. Meanwhile, developers from the South Korean company are creating a more modern version that may replace the existing driver in a future Linux 5.6 build. According to current information, the new code expects more metadata operations and includes fixes for several bugs. For now, it […]

An interesting project in a friendly team, or how much does the right employee cost?

Several articles have mentioned phrases like 'IT developers eat too much', with suggested solutions: Interesting tasks that allow skill development in the comfortable environment of Russian organizations are a great counter to the allure of high salaries in the USA and Europe. Well, Dad, what are we having to eat today? Nothing, I'm working on an interesting project with a friendly team. In […]

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