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Hello everyone. It has been six months since KnowledgeConf 2019, during which I have had the opportunity to speak at two more conferences and conduct lectures on knowledge management at two large IT companies. Talking with colleagues, I realized that in IT it is still possible to speak about knowledge management at a 'beginner' level, or rather, just to acknowledge that knowledge management is necessary for everyone […]
Despite abandoning the Unity shell and switching to Gnome, Canonical continues to develop the Mir display server, with the release of version 1.5 occurring recently. Among the changes, the expansion of the MirAL (Mir Abstraction Layer), used to move away from direct interaction with the Mir server and abstracting access to the ABI through the libmiral library, can be noted. MirAL has added […]
In 1502, Sultan Bayezid II contemplated building a bridge across the Golden Horn to connect Istanbul and the neighboring city of Galata. Among the responses from leading engineers of that time, the project of the renowned Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci stood out for its originality. The traditional bridges of that time had a distinctly curved arch with spans. For the bridge […]
The Manjaro community has released a new major version of the Pamac package manager, specifically developed for this distribution. Pamac includes the libpamac library for working with main repositories, AUR, and local packages, console utilities with 'human syntax' like pamac install and pamac update, a main Gtk frontend, and an additional Qt frontend, which is not yet fully ported to the Pamac API […]
Eric Shander has been dismissed from his position as Chief Financial Officer of Red Hat without the payment of a $4 million bonus set prior to IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. The decision was made by the Red Hat board of directors and approved by IBM. Alleged reasons for the dismissal without pay include violations of Red Hat's operational standards. More detailed information regarding the reasons for dismissal was provided by a spokesperson […]
A graduate student at the University of Hawaii discovered an issue in a Python script used for calculating chemical shifts, which determine the chemical structure of the substance being studied during spectral analysis via nuclear magnetic resonance signals. During the verification of research results from one of his professors, the graduate student noticed that running the script on different operating systems with the same dataset produced different results […]
The release of Rspamd 2.0, a spam filtering system, has been announced, providing tools for evaluating messages based on various criteria, including rules, statistical methods, and blacklists, from which the final weight of the message is derived for making a blocking decision. Rspamd supports almost all features implemented in SpamAssassin and has several unique aspects that enable it to filter emails on average 10 […]
Are you brave enough at 25-30-35-40-45 to sit down for self-study? Not corporate, not covered under the 'company pays' rate, not forced or previously unfinished higher education, but independent? To sit at your desk with the books and textbooks you choose, in front of your strictest self, and master what you need or have long wanted to learn, to the point that you just can't take it anymore […]
American telecommunications operator Verizon and Japanese company NEC have just successfully completed field tests of a comprehensive city environment and event monitoring system using existing optical communication lines. No new global investments were needed — all optical cables were already laid underground by Verizon and are used for data transmission within its network. This is the uniqueness of […]
Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl language and the 'benevolent dictator for life' of the project, has approved the proposal to rename Perl 6 to Raku, putting an end to the renaming debate. The name Raku was chosen as a derivative of Rakudo, the name of the Perl 6 compiler. It is already familiar to developers and does not overlap with other projects in search engines. In his comment, Larry quoted a phrase from […]
Raymond Hill, the author of the content blocking systems uBlock Origin and uMatrix, faced the inability to publish the latest test release (1.22.5rc1) of the uBlock Origin ad blocker in the Chrome Web Store. The publication was rejected, citing the unacceptable listing of "multipurpose extensions" that include functions unrelated to the main declared purpose. In accordance with […]
What do Wolverine, Deadpool, and jellyfish have in common? They all possess the amazing ability of regeneration. Of course, in comics and films, this skill—common among a very limited number of actual living organisms—is slightly (and sometimes greatly) exaggerated, yet it remains entirely real. And what is real can be explained, which is what scientists decided to tackle in their new research […]