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How I hate all of this. The work, the boss, programming, the development environment, tasks, the system they're recorded in, subordinates with their snot, goals, emails, the internet, social networks where everyone is astonishingly successful, the sham love for the company, slogans, meetings, corridors, toilets, faces, grimaces, dress code, planning. I hate everything that happens at work. I’m burned out. It's been a while. I hardly […]
A few words about the 'golden ratio' in the traditional sense. It is believed that if a segment is divided into parts such that the smaller part relates to the larger part as the larger part relates to the whole segment, this division gives a proportion of 1/1.618, which the ancient Greeks borrowed from even more ancient Egyptians, calling it the 'golden ratio'. Many architectural structures […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.23.0 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branch and merge operations. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to changes made retrospectively, implicit hashing of all previous history is used in each commit, and digital validation is possible […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API—Wine 4.14—has been made available. Since the release of version 4.13, 18 bug reports have been closed and 255 changes introduced. The most significant changes include: the Mono engine has been updated to version 4.9.2, which resolved issues when running DARK quests and DLC; PE (Portable Executable) format DLLs are now not bound to […]
The release of Apache HTTP Server 2.4.41 has been published (the release 2.4.40 was skipped), which introduces 23 changes and fixes 6 vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-10081 — an issue in mod_http2 that could lead to memory corruption when sending push requests at a very early stage. When using the 'H2PushResource' setting, it may be possible to overwrite memory in the request handling pool, but the problem is limited to a crash, as the data being written […]
One of the upcoming updates to the Chrome browser will completely drop support for the FTP protocol. This is stated in a special document from Google addressing this issue. However, the 'changes' will take effect only a year or even longer from now. Proper support for the FTP protocol in the Chrome browser has always been a sore point for developers at Google. One of the reasons for dropping FTP is cited as […]
Six-core Ryzen 5 processors gained wide recognition long before AMD transitioned to the Zen 2 microarchitecture. Both the first and second generations of six-core Ryzen 5 became a popular choice in their price segment due to AMD's strategy of offering customers more advanced multithreading than Intel processors can provide, at the same or even […]
Developers at the Czech company Avast Software have announced the release of an updated web browser, Secure Browser, built on the open-source Chromium project with a focus on ensuring user security while browsing the internet. The new version of Avast Secure Browser, codenamed Zermatt, includes tools for optimizing memory and CPU usage, as well as a feature to ‘Extend operation time […]
Google has announced its plan to end support for the FTP protocol in Chromium and Chrome. In Chrome 80, scheduled for early 2020, the gradual disabling of FTP support for users on the stable branch is expected (a flag, DisableFTP, will be added for corporate implementations to restore FTP). In Chrome 82, the code and resources used to facilitate the FTP client will be completely removed. The gradual reduction […]
Oracle has released the industrial distribution of Oracle Linux 7.7, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. An installation ISO image, sized 4.7 GB and prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures, is available for unlimited download after free registration. Additionally, Oracle Linux offers unlimited free access to the yum repository with binary package updates […]
The release of QEMU 4.1 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows running programs compiled for one hardware platform on a system with an entirely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU’s code execution performance in an isolated environment is close to native systems due to direct execution of instructions on the CPU and the utilization of […]
In California, American Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Carey Mullis has passed away at the age of 74. According to his wife, he died on August 7. The cause was heart and respiratory failure due to pneumonia. James Watson—the discoverer of the DNA molecule—will explain the contribution he made to biochemistry and why he received the Nobel Prize in this excerpt from […]