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Hello! My name is Evgeniya Goleva, I presented at TeamLeadConf with a talk about feedback and want to share with you its unofficial transcript. I managed to teach engineers to provide feedback much better than they did before under the guise of a completely different project. This required not only a long and thorough explanation of 'why and how' but also […]
The developers of the Linux Mint distribution have published their monthly newsletter, containing information about the latest events and the progress of the software platform’s development. Currently, work is underway on Linux Mint version 19.3 (the codename has not yet been announced). The new version will be released by the end of the year and will feature a number of improvements and updated components. As stated by Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre […]
Mozilla has announced that despite using an add-on system based on the WebExtensions API in Firefox, developers do not intend to fully adhere to the upcoming third edition of the Chrome add-ons manifest. In particular, Firefox will continue to support the blocking mode of the webRequest API, which allows for changing incoming content on the fly and is sought after in ad blockers and content filtering systems. The main […]
In 1942, Albert Camus wrote a book called "The Myth of Sisyphus." It addresses a truly important philosophical problem: Given the circumstances of our existence, should we simply commit suicide? Here's the answer: First, Camus describes those moments in our lives when our perceptions of the world suddenly stop working, when all our efforts seem […]
On July 30, Blender 2.80 was released — the largest and most significant release ever. Version 2.80 marks a new beginning for Blender Foundation and elevates the 3D modeling tool to a qualitatively new level of professional software. Thousands of people contributed to the creation of Blender 2.80. Renowned designers developed a completely new interface that allows users to accomplish familiar tasks much faster, while the threshold […]
Corrective releases for Samba package versions 4.10.8 and 4.9.13 have been prepared, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-10197) that could allow a user to access the root directory where the Samba network share is located. The issue arises when the ‘wide links = yes’ option is specified in the settings in conjunction with ‘unix extensions = no’ or ‘allow insecure wide links = yes’. Access to files outside […]
More than a year after the last update, a new release of the SeaMonkey internet application suite 2.49.5 has been presented, which combines a set of web applications developed under the auspices of the Mozilla project into one product: a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom news feed aggregator system, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer (Chatzilla, DOM Inspector, and Lightning are no longer included in the basic set). The branch […]
In today's fourth (penultimate) part of the article on eBook applications for the Android operating system, we will cover a single, but extensive topic: games. Summary of the previous three parts of the article: In the first part, we thoroughly examined the reasons why it became necessary to conduct extensive testing of applications to determine their suitability for installation on eBooks, as well as […]
On September 3, the Android mobile operating system development team published the source code of version 10. New features in this release include: Support for resizing the output image in applications for devices with foldable displays when opening or closing. 5G network support and an expanded corresponding API. The Live Caption feature, which converts speech to text in any application. Especially […]
Firefox 69 has been released. Key changes include: By default, blocking scripts that perform cryptocurrency mining is enabled. The setting 'Do not allow websites to play sound' allows blocking not only sound playback without explicit user interaction but also video playback. Behavior can be set globally or specifically for individual sites. An about:protections page has been added with statistics on tracking protection performance. The manager […]
The Go programming language 1.13 has been released, featuring major updates: The Go language now supports a more unified and modernized set of numeric literal prefixes, including for binary, octal, hexadecimal, and imaginary literals. Compatibility with Android 10 has been improved. TLS 1.3 support is enabled by default in the crypto/tls package. Error wrapping support for Unicode 11.0 is now available from the Go Unicode package. This is the last […]
Michael Stapelberg, the author of the i3wm tiling window manager and a former active Debian developer (maintainer of around 170 packages), is developing an experimental distribution called distri and the namesake package manager. The project is positioned as an exploration of potential ways to increase the performance of package management systems and embodies some new ideas for building distributions. The package manager's code is written in the Go language and is distributed under […]
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