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The text of a joint statement from the developers of the GNU project has appeared on the website planet.gnu.org. We, the undersigned maintainers and developers of GNU, wish to thank Richard Stallman for decades of work in the free software movement. Stallman has consistently emphasized the importance of user freedom and laid the foundation for his dream to become a reality by starting the development of GNU. We are sincerely grateful to him for […]
The Document Foundation has announced the readiness of the Russian translation of the getting started guide for LibreOffice 6. The document (470 pages, PDF) is distributed under the free licenses GPLv3+ and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY). The translation was done by Valery Goncharuk, Alexander Denkin, and Roman Kuznetsov. The guide includes a description of the basic techniques for working with […]
The developers of the Thunderbird email client have announced plans to include built-in support for encrypted communication and digital signature assurance based on OpenPGP public keys in the upcoming Thunderbird 78 release, expected next summer. Previously, this functionality was provided by the Enigmail add-on, which will continue to be supported until the end of the support period for the Thunderbird 68 branch (following Thunderbird 68, the possibility of installing Enigmail […]
Good day! This article addresses the issue of counterfeit sensors, the limitations of existing devices utilizing these sensors, and the solution to this problem. Source: ali-trends.ru Previous discussions on counterfeit sensors can also be found here. The characteristic differences between counterfeit sensors and originals: A sensor, even when connected nearby, responds inconsistently in parasitic power mode, often failing to operate correctly.
Last summer, we published a selection of books that did not include reference books or algorithm guides. It consisted of literature for leisure reading — to broaden horizons. As a continuation, we have selected science fiction, books about the technological future of humanity, and other publications written by specialists for specialists. Photo: Chris Benson / Unsplash.com Science and Technology 'Quantum […]
This is a simple graphical interface for Git, written in bash, using technologies like yad, lxterminal*, and leafpad*. It is based on the KISS principle, so it fundamentally does not provide complex and advanced features. Its task is to speed up typical Git operations: commit, add, status, pull, and push. For more complex functions, there is a 'Terminal' button that allows you to use all conceivable and inconceivable capabilities […]
Following the call from the Free Software Foundation to reconsider its relationship with the GNU project, Richard Stallman announced that as the current leader of the GNU project, he will address the issues of building relationships with the FSF (the main problem being that all GNU developers sign an agreement transferring ownership rights of the code to the FSF, giving it legal ownership of all GNU code). 18 maintainers and...
After a year of development, the release of VeraCrypt 1.24 has been published, continuing the fork of the TrueCrypt disk encryption system, which has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the algorithm used in TrueCrypt, RIPEMD-160, with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and fixing issues identified during the audit of TrueCrypt's source code. Additionally, VeraCrypt provides a mode...
What comes easily and freely to some can be a real challenge for others — such thoughts arise from each letter of the font 'Dobroshrift', which was developed for the international day of CP with the participation of children with this diagnosis. We decided to take part in this charitable campaign and changed our website logo until the end of the day. Our society is often non-inclusive and alienates […]
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has posted a message clarifying the relationship between the FSF and the GNU Project in light of recent events. 'The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project were founded by Richard M. Stallman (RMS), who until recently served as the head of both. For this reason, the relationships between FSF and GNU were smooth...'
A release of the open-source platform for deploying decentralized social networks — Mastodon 3.0 — has been published, allowing users to create services on their own infrastructure that are not controlled by individual providers. If a user is unable to run their own node, they can choose a reputable public service to connect to. Mastodon belongs to the category of federated networks, which use […]
The third beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been published. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments have been prepared. The FreeBSD 12.1 release is scheduled for November 4. You can find out about the new features in the announcement of the first beta release. Compared to […]