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Bram Moolenaar, the author of the text editor Vim, announced the creation of the Vim9 repository, where work is underway on an experimental fork of Vim aimed at exploring ways to enhance performance and functionality of the Vim scripting language. Key optimizations involve reworking methods for determining, calling, and executing functions, as well as moving away from using dictionaries for arguments and […]
Telegram has published a statement on its website clarifying some aspects regarding the operational principles of the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform and the Gram cryptocurrency. The statement highlights that the company will not be able to control the platform after its launch, nor will it have any other management rights over it. It has been revealed that the TON Wallet cryptocurrency wallet will be operational at launch […]
Brief Introduction: I want to talk about the YouTube player for Android with local playlists, channels, and recommendations. Expanded Introduction: Some time ago, I encountered exactly the same problem as the author of the wonderful app Channel Whitelist, and I came to have exactly the same attitude towards it: I want to be able to occasionally give my child the tablet or […]
Adam Baldwin, who leads the team responsible for the security of the NPM repository, published statistics prepared based on last year's results: Despite ongoing incidents involving the takeover of NPM repositories, only 9.27% of package maintainers use two-factor authentication to secure access; 13.37% of new accounts attempted to reuse compromised passwords found in known leaks according to data from the […]
The release of project Nuitka 0.6.6 has been prepared, which develops a compiler that can translate a script in Python into a C++ representation that can then be compiled into an executable file using libpython to ensure maximum compatibility with CPython (using standard CPython tools for object management). Full compatibility with the latest releases of Python 2.x and 3.x has been provided. Compared to […]
The second release candidate of the libmdbx library is available for testing, featuring a high-performance, compact embedded key-value database. The current version (0.5) is a technical release, marking the completion of any refinements and the transition to the public final testing and stabilization phase, with subsequent formation of the first full release of the library. The libmdbx code is distributed under the OpenLDAP Public License. The MDBX library is […]
The plan to enable the earlyoom background process by default in Fedora 32 has been published, allowing for early response to memory shortages in the system. If the available memory falls below a specified value, earlyoom will forcefully terminate the process that consumes the most memory (with the highest value in /proc/*/oom_score) by sending SIGTERM (less than 10% free memory) or SIGKILL (< 5%), without letting the state […]
At the beginning of 2020, many set their goals for the upcoming year or even decade. This also applies to Markus Persson, known as Notch, one of the creators of the increasingly popular Minecraft and the founder of the development studio Mojang. In a recent tweet, Notch asked his loyal community of 4 million followers what they would […]
Arch Linux developers have announced that they have changed the package compression scheme. The algorithm previously used was xz (.pkg.tar.xz). Now, zstd (.pkg.tar.zst) is employed. This has resulted in a 1300% increase in extraction speed at the cost of a slight increase in the size of the packages themselves (approximately 0.8%). This will speed up the installation and updating process of packages in the system. Currently, there is talk of transitioning to […]
Game developer Malte Skarupke published a comparison of the performance of mutex-based and spinlock-based locks using various task schedulers. The tests showed abnormally high latencies when using spinlock with the default Linux task scheduler. The author of the tests concluded that the Linux task scheduler has issues that negatively affect the performance of games developed for the Google Stadia service, […]
Before diving into Disco Elysium, let’s go back 100 years. In the 1910s and 20s, Lev Kuleshov demonstrated the effect of cinematic montage – depending on the juxtaposition of two frames placed next to each other, new meaning emerges. Kuleshov filmed a close-up of an actor's face, followed by three more shots: a bowl of soup, a girl in a coffin, and a girl on a sofa. Depending on […]
The New Year holidays are a great opportunity to sit down, take stock of the year, and 2020 is also a moment to reflect on the past 5/10 years, and write an article titled "What I Would Advise My Younger Self 5-10 Years Ago, and What I Advise Today." KDPV (メモリーズ) Under the cut: dullness, scattered sclerosis, unproven statements, and more. Additionally: The Graveyard of IT Professions. This moan […]
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