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Prologue There are several articles, such as How I Enrolled in Walden University's Distance Learning Master's Program (USA), How to Apply for a Master's Program in England, or Distance Learning at Stanford University. They all share one drawback: the authors discussed their early experiences in education or preparation. While this is undoubtedly useful, it leaves room for imagination. I will explain how it all happens […]
Release of Lutris v0.5.3 – an open gaming platform designed to simplify the installation and launch of games on GNU/Linux from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay, and others using specially prepared scripts. New features include: Added D9VK option; Added support for Discord Rich Presence; Added ability to launch WINE console; When DXVK or D9VK is enabled, the WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE variable is set to 1, […]
On the same day, the releases of ZeroNet 0.7 and 0.7.1 took place – a platform distributed under the GPLv2 license, intended for creating decentralized websites using Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network. Features of ZeroNet include: Real-time updating websites; Support for Namecoin .bit domains; One-click website cloning; Password-less BIP32 based authorization: Your account is secured with the same cryptography as […]
The first corrective update for the Debian 10 distribution has been released, which includes package updates issued in the two months since the release of the new branch and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 102 updates addressing stability issues and 34 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 10.1 include the removal of 2 packages: pump (no longer maintained and […]
The Firefox developers announced the completion of testing support for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and their intention to enable this technology by default for users in the United States at the end of September. The rollout will be gradual, starting with a small percentage of users, and, if there are no issues, it will gradually expand to 100%. After the U.S. is covered, the possibility of enabling DoH for […] will be considered.
Microsoft previously announced that the PowerToys utility set is returning to Windows 10. This set first appeared during the Windows XP era. Now, developers have released two small programs for the 'ten'. The first is a guide to Windows keyboard shortcuts, which is a program with dynamic key combinations for each active window or application. When you press the […]
On the website of the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the infrastructure of several crowdsourced wiki projects, including Wikipedia, a message has appeared stating that the outage of the online encyclopedia occurred due to a targeted hacker attack. It was previously reported that in several countries, Wikipedia temporarily switched to offline mode. According to the available data, access to […]
Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: Full support for the old literal syntax is now complete. Support for dependent types has been added. A built-in function Natural/subtract has been introduced. The process of selecting fields has been simplified. When arguments are equivalent, the \/\/ is not used. URLs presented in binary format are not decoded when passing through path segments. New Features: […]
A test release of GNU Wget 2 is now available, a completely redesigned version of the program for automating the recursive download of content. GNU Wget 2 has been designed and rewritten from scratch and is notable for moving the core functionality of the web client into the libwget library, which can be used independently in applications. The utility is provided under the GPLv3+ license, and the library under the LGPLv3+. Wget 2 has been converted to a multithreaded architecture, […]
Lilocked is a Linux-targeted malware that encrypts files on the hard drive and subsequently demands a ransom (ransomware). According to ZDNet, the first reports of this malicious software surfaced in mid-July, and since then, more than 6,700 servers have been affected. Lilocked encrypts HTML, SHTML, JS, CSS, PHP, INI files, and various image formats while leaving system files untouched. Encrypted files receive […]
The beta version of wget2 has been released — a complete rewrite of the wget spider downloader. Key differences: HTTP2 support. Functionality has been moved to the libwget library (LGPL3+). The interface is not yet stabilized. Multi-threading. Speed-ups achieved through HTTP and HTTP2 compression, parallel connections, and If-Modified-Since in the HTTP header. Plugins. FTP is not supported. According to the manual, the command-line interface supports all keys from the latest version of Wget 1 […]
On September 7, the Debian project released updates for both the current stable release Debian 'buster' numbered 10.1 and the previous stable release Debian 'stretch' numbered 9.10. In Debian 'buster', more than 150 programs have been updated, including the Linux kernel to version 4.19.67, and bugs in gnupg2, systemd, webkitgtk, cups, openldap, openssh, pulseaudio, unzip, and many others have been fixed. In […]