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Daniel Robbins, the founder of the Gentoo distribution who stepped away from the project in 2009, has presented the release of his now developed distribution Funtoo 1.4. Funtoo is based on the Gentoo package base and aims to further improve existing technologies. Work on the release of Funtoo 2.0 is planned to begin in about a month. Key features of Funtoo include support for automatic package building […]
Following Mozilla, Google announced its intention to conduct an experiment to test the implementation of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) developed for the Chrome browser. In the upcoming Chrome 78 release, scheduled for October 22, some user categories will be switched to using DoH by default. Only users with certain system settings will participate in the DoH activation experiment […]
There are quite a few popular articles on Habr about relocating to different countries. I have gathered information about moving to the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. Today we will discuss how easy it is for a developer to find job openings with relocation options, how much one can earn, and what to generally expect from life in Northern Europe. Tallinn: a developed startup ecosystem. Despite the fact that the population of Estonia as a whole […]
It is now a fairly common practice to install voltage control relays in residential sectors to protect electrical equipment from neutral disconnection, as well as from overvoltage and undervoltage issues. On Instagram and YouTube, many of my colleagues can be seen facing problems in this area after installing voltage control relays from Meandr and several other manufacturers, which often fail […]
In the field of extreme memory overclocking, the first half of the year has been dominated by Intel's Coffee Lake Refresh processors, as they quickly advanced the limits of memory operation beyond DDR4-5500, although each subsequent step was achieved with increasing difficulty. The AMD platform managed to regain some ground after the release of the Ryzen 3000 processors, but the current memory overclocking record for systems based on […]
A new version of QMapShack has been released — a program for working with various online mapping services (WMS), GPS tracks (GPX/KML), and raster and vector map files. The program is a further development of the QLandkarte GT project and is used for planning and analyzing travel and hiking routes. Prepared routes can be exported to different formats and used on various devices and navigation […]
This week, on September 10, after two years of development, the next version of the CAD tool for integrated circuit (IC) topologies, KLayout, has been released. This cross-platform CAD tool is written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. There is also a function to view printed circuit board topology files in Gerber format. Extensions for Python and Ruby are supported. Main changes in release 0.26 include […]
The release of the QMapShack 1.13.2 program for tourists is now available, which can be used in the planning stages of hikes for route plotting, as well as for saving information about traveled routes, keeping a travel diary, or preparing travel reports. QMapShack is a reworked and conceptually different branch from the QLandkarte GT program (developed by the same author), ported to Qt5. The code is distributed under the […]
The release of the sound server PulseAudio 13.0 has been announced, which acts as an intermediary between applications and various low-level audio subsystems, abstracting the interaction with hardware. PulseAudio allows for volume and sound mixing management at the application level, organizes input, mixing, and output of sound when multiple input and output channels or sound cards are present, and allows for on-the-fly changes in audio format […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API—Wine 4.16—is now available. Since the release of version 4.15, 16 bugs have been closed and 203 changes have been made. Notable changes include: increased stability of mouse capture functions in games; improved cross-compilation support in WineGCC; enhanced compatibility with Windows debuggers; code related to management has been moved from kernel32 to kernelbase […]
There are increasing examples of career changes, or rather specialization shifts, by middle-aged individuals. In school, we dream of a romantic or 'great' profession, we enter college based on trends or advice, but ultimately we end up working where we're hired. I'm not claiming that this applies to everyone, but it definitely does to most. And when life improves and […]
The Qt project has announced the release of Qt Design Studio 1.3, an environment for designing user interfaces and developing graphical applications based on Qt. Qt Design Studio simplifies collaboration between designers and developers in creating working prototypes of complex and scalable interfaces. Designers can focus solely on the graphic layout design, while developers can concentrate on […]