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The Pine64 community, which recently announced the production of the free PinePhone smartphone, presents its new project - the PineTime smart watch. Main features of the watch: Heart rate monitoring. Capacious battery that will last for several days. Desktop docking station for charging your watch. Housing made of zinc alloy and plastic. Availability of WiFi and Bluetooth. Nordic nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F chip (at 64MHz) supporting Bluetooth 5 technologies, […]
Introduction An excavator can be seen at any construction site in the city. A conventional excavator can be operated by one operator. It does not require a complex automation system to control it. But if an excavator is many times larger than usual and reaches the height of a five-story building, a Land Cruiser can be placed in its bucket, and the “filling” consists of electric motors, cables and gears the size of a car? And working […]
[reference to the American children's fairy tale "The Little Engine That Could" - approx. Per.]* How to Automatically Create Tiny Docker Images for Your Needs An Unusual Obsession For the past couple of months, I've been obsessed with the idea of how much smaller a Docker image can be while still making the application work? I understand, the idea is strange. Before we dive in […]
Benjamin Berg, one of the Red Hat engineers involved in the development of GNOME, summarized the work on transitioning GNOME to session management exclusively through systemd, without the use of the gnome-session process. To manage login to GNOME, systemd-logind has been used for quite some time, which monitors session states in relation to the user, manages session identifiers, is responsible for switching between active sessions, […]
If you don’t have a push-button phone, then you’ve probably at least once wanted to create your own mobile application. Improve some task manager or client for Habr. Or implement a long-standing idea, like those students who wrote an application to search for movies for the evening in 10 seconds by clicking on an emoji. Or come up with something fun, like a treadmill app […]
Today, Wednesday, the next release of Kubernetes will take place - 1.16. According to the tradition that has developed for our blog, this is the tenth anniversary time we are talking about the most significant changes in the new version. Information used to prepare this material was taken from the Kubernetes enhancements tracking table, CHANGELOG-1.16 and related issues, pull requests, and Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals […]
Trade associations NCTA, CTIA and USTelecom, which defend the interests of Internet service providers, asked the US Congress to pay attention to the problem with the implementation of “DNS over HTTPS” (DoH, DNS over HTTPS) and request detailed information from Google about current and future plans for enable DoH in their products, and also obtain a commitment not to enable centralized processing by default […]
The Baikal Electronics company at the Microelectronics 2019 Forum in Alushta presented its new Baikal-M processor, designed for a wide range of target devices in the consumer and B2B segments. Technical specifications: http://www.baikalelectronics.ru/products/238/ Source: linux.org.ru
Against the backdrop of ongoing riots, an attempt was made to completely block access to the Internet in Iraq. Currently, connectivity with approximately 75% of Iraqi providers has been lost, including all major telecom operators. Access remains only in some cities in northern Iraq (for example, the Kurdish Autonomous Region), which have a separate network infrastructure and autonomous status. Initially, authorities tried to block access […]
An entry about the release of program 0.102.0 appeared on the blog of the ClamAV antivirus, developed by Cisco. Among the changes: transparent checking of opened files (on-access scanning) was moved from clamd to a separate clamonacc process, which made it possible to organize clamd operation without root privileges; The freshclam program has been redesigned, adding support for HTTPS and the ability to work with mirrors that process requests on […]
Cisco has announced a major new release of its free antivirus suite, ClamAV 0.102.0. Let us recall that the project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, the company developing ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key improvements: The functionality of transparent checking of opened files (on-access scanning, checking at the time of file opening) has been moved from clamd to a separate process […]
Mozilla has released a corrective update to Firefox 69.0.2. Three errors were fixed in it: a crash when editing files on the Office 365 website was fixed (bug 1579858); fixed errors related to enabling parental controls in Windows 10 (bug 1584613); Fixed a Linux-only bug that caused a crash when the video playback speed in YouTube was changed (bug 1582222). Source: […]
