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"Work fills the time allotted to it." Parkinson's Law If you are not a British civil servant from 1958, there's no need to follow this law. No work is required to take all the time set aside for it. A few words about the law Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British historian and brilliant satirist. The quote, which is often taken seriously and referred to as a law, begins an essay published […]
Purism has published the full specifications for the Librem 5. Key hardware and features: Processor: i.MX8M (4 cores, 1.5GHz), GPU supports OpenGL/ES 3.1, Vulkan, OpenCL 1.2; RAM: 3 GB; Internal storage: 32 GB eMMC; MicroSD slot (supports memory cards up to 2 TB); 5.7" IPS TFT display with a resolution of 720×1440; Removable battery 3500 mAh; Wi-Fi: 802.11abgn (2.4GHz + […]
1. Learn to Google Being a programmer means learning how to find answers to your questions. By mastering the art of effective Googling, you will save a lot of time spent on development. 2. Promise less, but deliver more than promised It's better to inform your team that a task will take three weeks and complete it in two, rather than the other way around. By following this principle, you will build trust […]
The Linux kernel 5.3 includes changes that add extra protection for ioctl calls related to the floppy driver, which has been marked as abandoned, indicating that testing will cease. The driver is considered outdated, as it is hard to find functioning hardware for testing — all modern external drives typically use USB interfaces. Meanwhile, […]
Security researchers from Armis have revealed information about 11 vulnerabilities (PDF) in the TCP/IP stack IPnet, used in the VxWorks operating system. The vulnerabilities have been assigned the code name "URGENT/11." These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely by sending specially crafted network packets, and for certain issues, an attack may be possible even when accessed through firewalls and NAT (for example, if the attacker […]
In the search for ways to enhance the efficiency of energy sector enterprises and other industrial facilities that use equipment burning fossil fuels (steam boilers, hot water boilers, technological furnaces, etc.), the question of utilizing the potential of flue gases is not typically prioritized. Meanwhile, relying on existing calculation standards developed decades ago and established benchmarks for key performance indicators […]
Before the introduction of Google Assistant on the Android mobile platform, there was a feature called 'Voice Search,' which was closely integrated with the main search engine. In recent years, all innovations have centered around the virtual assistant, leading the Google development team to completely replace the 'Voice Search' function on Android. Until recently, interaction with 'Voice Search' could be done through the Google app, a special widget […]
The release of the Python library for scientific computing, NumPy 1.17, has taken place. This library is focused on working with multidimensional arrays and matrices and offers a large collection of functions implementing various algorithms related to matrix usage. NumPy is one of the most sought-after libraries used for scientific calculations. The project code is written in Python, with optimizations implemented in C, and it is distributed […]
Seven years after the last major release, version 2.3.0 of the GNU Stow package management system has been released, utilizing symbolic links to separate package content and related data into individual directories. The Stow code is written in Perl and, starting from this release, is distributed under the GPLv3 license (previously, the GPLv2 license was used). Stow features a simple and […]
GNU Stow is a program for managing software packages. It can be used for managing software installation on both the entire system and user directory files. The changes are as follows: external runtime dependencies have been added for Hash::Merge and Clone::Choose. A problem with the test suite has been fixed. The update release and documentation process have been improved. Source: linux.org.ru
Kitty is a fully functional, cross-platform terminal emulator. Some updates: Added the kitty@scroll-window command for scrolling the screen. Enabled the passing of the !neighbor argument, which opens a new window next to the active one. The remote control protocol has been documented. Data transfer to a child element via the pipe command occurs in the stream to avoid blocking the UI. For macOS, power consumption in standby mode has been reduced by turning off the display after 30 […]
The Academy Software Foundation, created under the aegis of the Linux Foundation to promote open source software in the film industry, has presented its first joint project, OpenTimelineIO (OTIO), originally developed by the animation studio Pixar and later enhanced with the support of Lucasfilm and Netflix. The package has been used in the creation of films such as Coco, The Incredibles 2, and Toy Story 4. OpenTimelineIO includes […]