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In my childhood, I was probably an anti-Semite. And all because of him. Here he is. He always irritated me. I just adored the magnificent cycle of stories by Paustovsky about the cat-thief, the inflatable boat, and so on. And only he ruined everything. For a long time, I couldn’t understand — why was Paustovsky hanging out with this Fraerman? Some caricatured Jew, and his name is ridiculous […]
St. Petersburg, 2012. This text is not about the philosophy of the internet or internet philosophy — the two are distinctly separated: the first part of the text is dedicated to philosophy, while the second pertains to the internet. The unifying theme between the two parts is the concept of 'evolution': the discussion will revolve around the philosophy of evolution and the evolution of the internet. First, it will be demonstrated how philosophy — philosophy […],
The release of Electron 7.0.0 has been prepared, providing a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform user applications using components from Chromium, V8, and Node.js. The significant version change is due to the update to the Chromium 78 codebase, Node.js 12.8 platform, and V8 7.8 JavaScript engine. The previously anticipated discontinuation of support for 32-bit Linux systems has been postponed, and the release 7.0 in […],
Mozilla developers have published a plan for implementing extension support in the Firefox Preview (Fenix) mobile browser, which is being developed to replace the Firefox edition for the Android platform. The new browser is based on the GeckoView engine and the Mozilla Android Components library set, and initially does not provide a WebExtensions API for developing extensions. This shortcoming is expected to be resolved in the first quarter of 2020, and in GeckoView/Firefox […],
Drop of Pixel Studio has announced the horror game Underworld Dreams for Nintendo Switch. The game is inspired by the short story collection 'The King in Yellow' by Robert Chambers. Underworld Dreams is a first-person psychological horror that takes place in the 1980s. Arthur Adler returns to Grok's house, where murders occurred for which he was accused. There, he will discover something supernatural. […]
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The release of nginx 1.17.5 has taken place, containing fixes and improvements. Innovations: added support for ioctl(FIONREAD) calls, if available, to avoid reading from a fast connection for an extended period; resolved the issue of ignoring incomplete encoded characters at the end of URI requests; corrected the normalization of sequences "/." and "/.." at the end of URI requests; fixed the merge_slashes and ignore_invalid_headers directives; corrected the error, […]
Google has released version 78 of its web browser Chrome. A stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, a notification system in case of crashes, the ability to load Flash modules on demand, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, and the transmission of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release, Chrome 79 […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.17.5 has been formed, within which the development of new features continues (only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made in the parallel stable branch 1.16). Key changes: Support for ioctl(FIONREAD) calls has been added, if available, to avoid reading from a fast connection for too long; resolved the issue of ignoring incomplete encoded characters […]
Messages about new IoT devices or smart home kits are often encountered, but reviews of the actual operation of such systems are rare. I was presented with a task that is quite common throughout Russia and nearby countries: to secure a summer cottage and ensure the ability to operate it during the autumn-winter period. Both the security and the issue of automating heating were solved literally […]
The developers from Madmind Studio have presented the debut gameplay trailer (18+) of the hellish action game Succubus, and have also published the system requirements. It is still unknown how much time is left until the release, as the project does not even have a tentative release date. Therefore, when discussing the system requirements, the developers emphasize that they may change during the development process. As of now, the minimum configuration looks as follows: operating […]
The developers of the Apache OpenOffice suite have reported that the release of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7, published a month ago, has been downloaded 1.6 million times. 71% of all downloads are for Windows platform builds, while builds for Linux have only been downloaded 17,000 times (about 1%). The largest number of downloads came from the USA (13%), as well as from Germany, Italy, France […]