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Hello, my name is Alexey. I work in the IT field. I spend a lot of time on social networks and messaging apps for work. I've developed various addictive behavioral patterns. I found myself distracted from work and checking Facebook to see how many 'likes' a viral post had accumulated. Instead of continuing to work with new texts, I got stuck on […]
Oracle has announced a new release of its free distribution Oracle Linux 8.1, built on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1. In this new version: Memory Mode support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory has been added, the udica package is included, virt-manager is marked as deprecated, support for Btrfs has been removed from RHCK, and support for OCFS2 has been removed from RHCK. The set of SELinux utilities has been updated to […]
The developers of the Android-x86 project, which is an independent community effort to develop a port of the Android platform for the x86 architecture, have released a pre-release build based on Android 9, which includes fixes and improvements enhancing the performance on the x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 8.1 for x86 32-bit (719 MB) and x86_64 (909 MB) architectures are prepared for download and are suitable for […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.20 is available. Since the release of version 4.19, 37 bug reports have been closed and 341 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the incorporation of a new release of the Mono engine 4.9.4 with updated FNA support (a project to create an alternative implementation of Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 to simplify the porting of Windows games); state preservation ensured […]
Almost every developer wonders how they should develop their skills and which growth path to choose: vertical — becoming a manager, or horizontal — full-stack. Years of working on a single product, contrary to myths, becomes not a limitation but a valuable opportunity. In this article, we share the experience of our backend developer Alexey, who dedicated 6 years to certifications and […]
Compared to European countries, where distributed generation accounts for nearly 30% of total production today, in Russia, the share of distributed energy is estimated to be no more than 5-10%. Let's discuss whether Russian distributed energy has a chance to catch up with global trends, and whether consumers have motivation to move towards independent energy supply. Source: Beyond the numbers. […]
Janayugom is a daily newspaper published in the state of Kerala (India) in the Malayalam language and has approximately 100,000 subscribers. Until recently, they used proprietary Adobe PageMaker, but the age of the software (the last release was as far back as 2001), along with the lack of Unicode support, prompted management to look for alternatives. Discovering that the industry-standard Adobe InDesign, instead of a one-time […]
Formlabs, a company specializing in developing technologies for 3D printing, has created a division called Formlabs Dental, which will produce 3D printers and components for the dental market. Formlabs has also announced the new Form 3B 3D printer aimed at simplifying the process of producing dental implants. The previously released Form 2 3D printer enabled the printing of 13 million components for the needs of dentists. A notable feature of the Form 3B printer is […]
Hello, Habr! For every team, there are just events, and then there are those that require special preparation. For us at Reksoft, it's the Software Engineering Conference Russia or SECR, which will take place on November 14-15 in St. Petersburg. For us, it's not just a gathering of developers, team leads, architects, designers, and testers, but almost like home, the very atmosphere of our offices in […]
Cppcheck developer (Daniel Marjamäki) is planning to add software verification for C and C++ to its static analyzer. In verification mode, Cppcheck will issue warnings if it cannot confirm that the code is safe; however, this may lead to noise (multiple warnings). Implementation Plans The verification mode will be implemented incrementally. The first stage will involve […]
The release of NGINX Unit 1.13 has been finalized, which focuses on providing a solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). Under NGINX Unit, multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously, and their start parameters can be dynamically modified without the need to edit configuration files or restart. The code […]
The release of the Firefox Lite 2.0 web browser has been announced, positioned as a lightweight variant of Firefox Focus designed to operate on resource-constrained systems and low-speed connection channels. The project is developed by a Mozilla team from Taiwan and primarily aims at delivery in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and developing countries. A key distinction of Firefox Lite from Firefox Focus is […]