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Hello everyone! Recently, the results of the Stackoverflow Dev Survey 2019 became available. 90K developers from around the world participated in the survey, making the data not only interesting reading for discussion with colleagues but also a good source of analytics for professional discussion. Below are some interesting metrics that caught attention while reading. Some truly make you think: Programming — […]
GitLab 11.10 with pipelines on the dashboard, pipelines for combined results, and suggestions for multiple lines in merge requests. Convenient insights into the performance of pipelines across different projects GitLab continues to enhance the transparency of the DevOps lifecycle. This release adds an overview of the pipeline status to the dashboard. This is handy even if you're examining the pipeline of a single project, but especially useful […]
Windows Lite is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated products from Microsoft. However, it seems users will need to be patient and wait a bit longer. Reports indicate that progress on supporting Win32 applications has not advanced as expected within the company. This will prevent Windows Lite from running classic versions of software, significantly limiting its scope. Notably, one of […]
Hello again, %username%! Thank you to everyone who appreciated my piece "The Most Frightening Poisons." It was very interesting to read the comments, regardless of their nature, and I enjoyed responding. I'm glad the "top list" was well-received. If it wasn't to your liking — well, I did everything I could. The comments and engagement inspired me to write the second part. […]
Hello everyone. Just over a year ago, I had to deal with a rather unpleasant situation involving suspicion of rabies infection. An article I read yesterday about vaccines for travelers reminded me of that case — particularly its lack of mention of rabies, even though it is a widely spread (especially in Russia, Asia, Africa, and America) and very insidious virus. To […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel (CVE-2019-11683) that allows remote denial of service through specially crafted UDP packets (packet-of-death). The issue is caused by a bug in the udp_gro_receive_segment handler (net/ipv4/udp_offload.c) with the implementation of GRO (Generic Receive Offload) technology and can lead to memory corruption in kernel areas when processing UDP packets with zero-padding (empty payload). The problem affects only kernel 5.0, which […]
Microsoft previously began using the open-source Chromium browser as the foundation for its Edge web browser. The application is already available for Windows 10, albeit in a test build. Google seems to fully support this move and welcomes Microsoft's contribution. However, some of the search giant's applications do not function correctly in Edge. For instance, […]
Network sources report that a new feature will soon be available to users in Google account settings. This tool will allow for the automatic deletion of location data, online activity, and app usage over a specified time period. The data deletion process will occur automatically, requiring users to simply select when this should happen. Available […]
Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger… Why do we need so many apps to accomplish a single task? Decades ago, science fiction envisioned flying cars, automatic kitchens preparing meals, and the ability to call anyone on the planet. Yet, they never anticipated we would find ourselves in a mess of messaging apps, armed with an infinite number of applications meant for […]
Based on a conducted study, NetMarketShare published data on the global distribution of desktop operating systems. The report states that the market share of Windows 10 in April 2019 continued to gradually grow, increasing to 44.10%, while the figure for March was 43.62%. Despite the fact that […]
After a year and a half of development, KDE Partition Manager 4.0 has been released — a utility for working with storage devices and file systems, similar to GParted for Qt environments. The utility is built on the KPMcore library, which is also used by the universal installer Calamares, for example. What is noteworthy about this version? The program no longer requires root permissions to run; instead, it requests elevated permissions for specific operations through […]
The release of the GNU Guix 1.0 package manager and the GuixSD GNU/Linux distribution built on it has taken place. The significant version number change is due to the completion of all goals set for the formation of this landmark release. This release summarizes seven years of work on the project and is considered ready for everyday use. Installation images for USB Flash have been created for download, […]