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Bruce Perens announced his departure from the Open Source Initiative (OSI), which is responsible for verifying licenses against Open Source criteria. Bruce is a co-founder of OSI, one of the authors of the Open Source definition, the creator of the BusyBox package, and the second leader of the Debian project (replacing Ian Murdock in 1996). The reason for his departure is said to be the desire to avoid […]
Microsoft aims to maintain a consistent style and design for its applications across all platforms. This time, the software giant presented a new logo for the beta version of the Edge browser on Android. Visually, it mirrors the logo of the desktop version based on the Chromium engine, which was introduced back in November of last year. At that time, the developers promised that they would gradually add the new visual appearance across all platforms. […]
A portable release of version 6.6 of the window manager cwm, developed as part of the OpenBSD project, has been released. This window manager is based on the code from evilwm but utilizes modern interfaces of the X11 protocol and, traditionally for OpenBSD, is developed with a strong focus on security. In this portable release, in addition to OpenBSD, support is provided for FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS (versions 10.9 and above), as well as OS […]
Arch Linux developers announced the transition of the package packaging scheme from the xz algorithm (.pkg.tar.xz) to zstd (.pkg.tar.zst). The repackaging of the packages into the zstd format resulted in a total package size increase of 0.8%, but improved unpacking speed by 1300%. As a result, the switch to zstd will lead to a significant increase in package installation speed. Currently, the repository uses the algorithm […]
The article consists of two parts: A brief overview of some architectures of networks for object detection in images and image segmentation with the most understandable resources linked for my reference. I tried to choose video explanations, preferably in Russian. The second part attempts to understand the direction of development of neural network architectures. And technologies based on them. Figure 1 – Understanding […]
The release version of Microsoft Edge based on the Chromium engine will be available on January 15. It will be accessible through the Update Center and will replace the classic browser. Technically, it will be similar to Google Chrome and other 'Chrome-based' browsers. All of this is expected to allow the company to significantly expand its market share for this solution. Given that the new Microsoft Edge […]
Many have probably tried to find a general-purpose tree construction, but the search engine could only find binary ones… Binary search trees, binary tree traversal, and many other algorithms. Yes, indeed, general-purpose trees are not used anywhere, traversal is slow, and the use cases are few. So, I posed this question and will now explain how a general-purpose tree is constructed. So, ideally, the structure of a general-purpose tree […]
I present a new story about how a developer created a chatbot of himself and what came of it. You can download the PDF version here. I had a friend. The only friend. You can’t have such friends anymore. They only appear in youth. We studied together in school, in parallel classes, but started communicating when we realized that we enrolled […]
On December 30, 2019, the Trinity Desktop Environment project, a fork of the KDE 3.5 branch, was released. The project continues to develop the paradigm of a traditional desktop environment based on Qt. The project also supports the (T)Qt3 library, as Qt is no longer supported by the official developer. The environment can be installed and used alongside new versions of KDE. A brief list of changes: Improved support for the XDG standard […]
The release of the Q4OS 3.10 distribution, based on the Debian package base and shipped with KDE Plasma 5 and Trinity desktops, is now available. The distribution is positioned as resource-friendly and offers a classic desktop layout. The size of the installation image is 679 MB (x86_64, i386). It includes several in-house developed applications, including ‘Desktop profiler’ for quick installation of thematic sets […]
A new version of the smartmontools 7.1 package is out, comprising the smartctl and smartd applications for monitoring and controlling (S)ATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe drives that support SMART technology. It is compatible with Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin (macOS), Windows, QNX, OS/2, Solaris, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Key improvements: When outputting information via “smartctl -i,” extended support for ATA ACS-4 and ACS-5 commands has been added; in smartd […]
Continuation, the first part is here. The PDF version can be downloaded here. Court — There’s an urgent matter, I need your help, – Max unexpectedly came on Skype. — What could have happened there? A car definitely couldn't have run you over. — Relatives. My sister is trying to close my bank account and transfer all my money to herself. She is оформляет […]