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Google has removed the WireGuard (open VPN) Android app from the Google Play store due to violations of payment processing rules. WireGuard is an open-source application that is distributed for free and does not participate in monetization through advertising. The violation was due to a link in the app settings labeled 'Donate to the WireGuard Project,' which directed users to a donation page for its development […]
An update to the Solaris 11.4 operating system, SRU 14 (Support Repository Update), has been released, offering a series of further fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the suggested fixes from the update, simply execute the command 'pkg update'. In this release: Variants of all Perl modules included in Solaris for Perl 5.26 have been prepared; versions of programs rsyslog 8.1907.0, Apache Tomcat 8.5.45 have been updated; […]
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1. There was just a little way left to the final goal – about a third of the journey – when the spacecraft fell under a severe informational icing. The remnants of the fallen civilization floated in the void. Paragraphs of scientific essays and images from literary works, scattered rhymes and just sharp phrases, once casually thrown by unknown beings – all appeared convoluted and extremely disordered. And […]
The OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) has released version 5.0 of the Suricata network intrusion detection and prevention system, which provides tools for inspecting various types of traffic. Suricata configurations allow for the use of a signature database developed by the Snort project, as well as the Emerging Threats and Emerging Threats Pro rulesets. The project's source code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key changes: New modules have been introduced […]
Contents: How can we compare countries by cost of living today? About purchasing power parity Why BIM (engineers and coordinators) Conclusion 1. Different gross = equal net Conclusion 2. The lower the gross, the more m² Where the data came from Methodology for calculating PPP indicators Quite often, in conversations with people from other countries, we start comparing salary levels. […]
How to resist authoritarian regimes on the Internet Are we disconnecting? A woman in an internet café in Beijing, July 2011 Im Chi Yin / The New York Times / Redux Yes, I will have to preface with a "translator's note." The discovered text struck me as intriguing and debatable. The only edits made to the text are in "bold." I allowed myself to express my personal view in the tags. The era of emergence […]
The Tor Project has released OnionShare 2.2, a tool that allows for secure and anonymous file sharing and the setup of a public file exchange service. The project's code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Pre-packaged versions are available for Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows, and macOS. OnionShare runs a web server on the local system that operates as a hidden service […]
The Khronos consortium, responsible for developing graphics standards, has granted developers of open graphics drivers the ability to certify their implementations for compliance with the OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenCL, and Vulkan standards, without the need to pay royalties or join the consortium as members. Applications are accepted for both hardware open drivers and fully software-based implementations developed under the auspices of […]
The architecture development for Zen 3 is already complete, as indicated by AMD representatives at industry events. By the third quarter of next year, the company plans to closely collaborate with TSMC to initiate the production of EPYC server processors of the Milan generation, which will be manufactured using second-generation EUV lithography based on 7nm technology. It is already known that the third-level cache for processors with […]
Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as JSON + functions + types + import. Changes: Expression syntax has been simplified, where ⫽ is used. Expression syntax with nesting has been simplified. Support for leading separators has been added. Standardization of support for denoting record completeness has been implemented. Caching support in Windows has been improved. Types have been added to package.dhall files. New utilities include: List.{default, empty}, Map.empty, Optional.default. JSON.key {Text, […]
In the Perl 6 repository, a change officially renaming the project to Raku has been adopted. It is noted that although the project has formally received a new name, the renaming of a project that has been in development for 19 years requires significant work, and it will take some time to fully complete the renaming process. For example, replacing Perl with Raku will also require changing mentions of 'perl' […]