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Roger and Ann needed to meet Sergey in San Francisco. 'Shall we go by train, steamboat, or airplane?' Ann asked. 'The train is too slow, and traveling by steamboat around South America would take several months,' Roger replied. 'Let's fly by plane.' He logged into the central network via his personal computer and waited for the system to confirm […]
In early December 2018, Jarkko Sakkinen from Intel proposed discussing the cleansing of the Linux kernel codebase from profanity. He prepared 15 patches that change the words 'f*ck,' 'f*cked,' and 'f*cking' to 'hug,' 'hugged,' and 'hugging' respectively. This had a positive effect. However, many specialists opposed this initiative, noting that such […]
Support for Windows 7 will end on January 14th. This means that no more patches or security updates will be released for the operating system. To avoid security issues, users of the outdated platform are advised to upgrade to the latest versions of Microsoft OS. Windows 7 was released for sale on October 22, 2009, and quickly became a leading operating system […]
The release of the HAL 2.0 (Hardware Analyzer) project has been published, developing an integrated environment for analyzing connection lists (netlists) of digital electronic circuits. The system is being developed by several German universities, coded in C++, Qt, and Python, and distributed under the MIT license. HAL allows you to view and analyze schematics in a GUI and manipulate them using scripts in Python. In the scripts, you can […]
We still have a strategy that we adhere to — for the second consecutive year, we finish at the top among companies. There isn't any specific recipe or secret ingredient; it's daily work that delivers results. Just like in the gym, when you don't slack off. Below, we analyze the blog activity over the past 4 years. All calculations in this publication are based on […]
The release of the multi-purpose DBMS ArangoDB 3.6 has been announced, offering flexible storage models for documents, graphs, and key-value data. Interaction with the database is conducted via an SQL-like query language, AQL, or through specific extensions in JavaScript. The data storage methods comply with ACID requirements (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), support transactions, and ensure both horizontal and vertical scalability. Database management […]
A collection of charts and results from various studies along with brief annotations. I love these graphs because they stimulate the mind, although I also understand that this is more about conceptual theories than statistics. In short, the computational power necessary for training AI is increasing seven times faster than before, according to OpenAI. So we are getting further away from the 'Big Brother' […]
New BlackArch Linux builds have been released, a specialized distribution for security research and system vulnerability studies. The distribution is based on the Arch Linux package base and includes over 2400 security-related utilities. The supported package repository is compatible with Arch Linux and can be used in standard Arch Linux installations. The builds are prepared as a 13 GB Live image […]
The Linux kernel source code contains about 4,000 comments describing unfinished tasks, plans, and postponed future work, identified by the presence of the phrase 'TODO'. Most of the 'TODO' comments are found in driver code (2,380). There are 23 in the cryptographic subsystem, 43 in architecture-specific x86 code, 73 in ARM code, and in […]
After six months of development, the release of Firejail 0.9.62 is now available, which develops a system for isolating the execution of graphical, console, and server applications. Using Firejail minimizes the risk of compromising the main system when running untrusted or potentially vulnerable programs. The program is written in C, distributed under the GPLv2 license, and can run on any Linux distribution […]
Indie developers often find themselves juggling multiple roles: game designer, programmer, composer, artist. And when it comes to visuals, many opt for pixel art — which seems simple at first glance. However, creating beautiful pixel art requires a lot of experience and specific skills. I found a tutorial for those just starting to grasp the basics of this style: it includes descriptions of special software and drawing techniques […]
I write a lot of texts, mostly nonsense, but usually even critics say that my writing is easy to read. If you want to make your texts (letters, for example) easier to read, hurry up here. I didn’t make this up; it's all from the book 'The Living and the Dead Word' by Nora Gal, a Soviet translator, editor, and critic. There are two rules: use verbs and avoid bureaucratic language. Verbs are […]