Category: Internet News

Comparison of HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/2 + Server Push

The results of the study on the performance of various methods for extracting a collection of resources have been published, using HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/2 + Server Push protocols for server requests. The study also assessed the impact of the requested data being cached in the browser, as well as resource manipulation at the application logic level (combining resources into a single JSON block). Performance testing of 25 requests showed that […]

The fantastic story "Project C. Vanity of Vanities" (10 min.)

"Vanity of vanities! – said the Preacher. – Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!" What profit has a man from all his labor in which he toils under the sun? One generation passes away, and another generation comes; but the earth abides forever. … No one remembers the former generations, and those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who will be living after them. Ecclesiastes 1:2 The air […]

Vince Zampella from Respawn will head the DICE division in Los Angeles.

In the lead-up to the New Year, co-founder of Respawn Entertainment Vince Zampella appears to have received some sort of promotion within the larger structure of the Electronic Arts studio. The Los Angeles Times reported that he will now lead the DICE studio division in Los Angeles, known for its work on franchises like Battlefield and Star Wars Battlefront. In the past […]

TT2020 — a free typewriter font by Fredrick Brennan

On January 1, 2020, Fredrick Brennan introduced the free TT2020 font — a multilingual typewriter-style font created with the FontForge font editor. Font features include a realistic simulation of text printing defects typical of typewriters; multilingual support; 9 variations of 'defects' for each character in each of the 6 font styles; License: SIL OFLv1.1 (SIL Open Font License, version 1.1). […]

Termux has discontinued support for Android 5.x.x / 6.x.x

Termux is a free terminal emulator and Linux environment for the Android platform. Starting from Termux v0.76, the application requires Android 7.x.x and higher. Download Termux for Android 7.x.x and higher (F-Droid) Download Termux for 5.x.x/6.x.x (F-Droid Archive) As previously stated, support for package repositories for Android platforms has also been discontinued as of January 1, 2020. […]

Operating System Update Qubes 4.0.2, using virtualization for application isolation

A year after the last release, an update for the Qubes 4.0.2 operating system has been released, implementing the idea of using a hypervisor for strict isolation of applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). An installation image of 4.6 GB is prepared for download. The system requires 4 GB of RAM and a 64-bit Intel CPU or […]

Bonsai has been introduced, a device synchronization service for GNOME.

Christian Hergert, the author of the GNOME Builder integrated development environment, currently working at Red Hat, has introduced an experimental project called Bonsai aimed at solving the problem of synchronizing content across multiple devices using GNOME. Users can use Bonsai to connect multiple Linux devices on a home network when access to files and application data on all computers is necessary, […]

Release of GitBucket 4.33

The release of the GitBucket project 4.33 has been announced, which develops a system for collaborative work with Git repositories, providing an interface similar to GitHub and Bitbucket. The system is distinguished by its ease of installation, the ability to extend functionality through plugins, and compatibility with the GitHub API. The code is written in Scala and is available under the Apache 2.0 license. MySQL and PostgreSQL can be used as the database management system. […]

Microsoft will be addressing Explorer issues for quite some time.

The November update for Windows 10 was quite minor and brought only some bug fixes and performance improvements. However, it also introduced several bugs in Explorer, worsening its overall functionality. There is an issue with the context menu. When trying to right-click in the search bar, it is not possible to paste data from the clipboard. Microsoft […]

The release version of Chrome has received playback controls on Windows 10

Google is working on a global media control feature for Chrome that allows users to manage multimedia content playing in the background. This will enable playback to be started and stopped even if the browser is minimized. An update for the web browser was released this past weekend, which implements this functionality on Windows 10. In the new version, it is now possible to control playback directly from the toolbar […]

Unix has turned 50. What does this mean?

The year 2020 is significant for Unix: at the very beginning of the year, the original operating system turned 50 years old. The Unix epoch, also known as the 'epoch time', is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970. But what concerns kernel developers regarding the half-century anniversary of Unix? While some early Unix developments predate the official start of its 'epoch', […]

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