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Users of the Reddit forum reported that Electronic Arts entered the Guinness Book of Records 2020. The reason was an anti-record: the publisher's post received the largest number of downvotes on Reddit - 683 thousand. The cause of the largest community outrage in Reddit history was the monetization system of Star Wars: Battlefront II. In a message, an EA employee explained to one of the fans the reasons why […]
Prologue There are several articles, for example, How I enrolled in distance education at Walden (USA), How to enroll in a master's program in England, or Distance learning at Stanford University. All of them have one drawback: the authors shared early learning experiences or preparation experiences. This is certainly useful, but leaves room for imagination. I'll tell you how it happens [...]
As part of the annual IFA 2019 exhibition, Western Digital presented new models of external HDD drives of the My Passport series with a capacity of up to 5 TB. The new product is housed in a stylish and compact case whose thickness is only 19,15 mm. There are three color options: black, blue and red. The Mac version of the disc will come in Midnight Blue. Despite the compact […]
Release of Lutris v0.5.3 - an open gaming platform created to simplify the installation and launch of games for GNU/Linux from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay and others using specially prepared scripts. Innovations: Added D9VK option; Added support for Discord Rich Presence; Added the ability to launch the WINE console; When DXVK or D9VK is enabled, the WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE variable is set to 1, […]
According to online sources, Apple intends to release the first mid-range iPhone since the launch of the iPhone SE in 2016. The company needs a cheaper smartphone in order to try to regain positions lost in the markets of China, India and a number of other countries. The decision to resume production of an affordable version of the iPhone was made after […]
On the same day, ZeroNet 0.7 and 0.7.1 were released, a platform distributed under the GPLv2 license, designed for creating decentralized sites using Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network. Features of ZeroNet: Websites updated in real time; Namecoin .bit domain support; Cloning websites in one click; Password-less BIP32 based authorization: Your account is protected by the same cryptography that […]
The new products presented by Acer at IFA 2019 included Predator Triton gaming laptops built on the Intel hardware platform. In particular, an updated version of the Predator Triton 500 gaming laptop was announced. This laptop is equipped with a 15,6-inch screen with Full HD resolution - 1920 × 1080 pixels. Moreover, the panel refresh rate reaches an incredible 300 Hz. The laptop is equipped with a processor [...]
Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: Support for the old literal syntax has been completely completed. Added support for dependent types. Added built-in Natural/subtract function. The field selection process has been simplified. // is not used when the arguments are equivalent. URLs presented in binary form are not decoded when traversing path segments. New Fili: […]
At the last Akademy 2019, Lydia Pincher, head of the KDE e.V. organization, announced the main goals of work on KDE for the next 2 years. They were chosen by voting in the KDE community. Wayland is the future of the desktop, and therefore we need to pay maximum attention to the smooth operation of Plasma and KDE Apps on this protocol. Wayland should become one of the central parts of KDE, […]
In this article, Sub Lead Localization Manager at Plarium Krasnodar, Elvira Sharipova talks about how she completed online training in the Localization: Customizing Software for the World program. Why should a seasoned localizer become a student? What difficulties are expected in the courses? How to study in the USA without TOEFL and IELTS? All answers are under the cut. Why study if you are already Sub […]
Tails is a privacy- and anonymity-oriented live system that loads from a flash drive. All connections go through TOP! This release fixes many vulnerabilities. What has changed? The LibreOffice Math component has been removed, but you can still install it using the additional software option. Bookmarks have been removed from the Tor browser. Pre-created i2p and IRC accounts in Pidgin have been deleted. Tor browser has been updated to 8.5.5 […]
As part of the R2con conference, Cutter 1.9.0 was released under the code name “Trojan Dragon”. Cutter is a graphical front-end for the radare2 framework, written in Qt/C++. Cutter, like radare2 itself, is intended for reverse engineering programs in machine code, or bytecode (for example, JVM). The developers set themselves the goal of making an advanced and extensible FOSS platform for reverse engineering. […]
