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OpenBVE is a free railway transport simulator written in the C# programming language. OpenBVE was created as an alternative to the railway simulator BVE Trainsim, and therefore most routes from BVE Trainsim (versions 2 and 4) are suitable for OpenBVE. The program is distinguished by motion physics and graphics that are close to real life, a side view of the train, animated surroundings and sound effects. 18 […]
The release of DBMS SQLite 3.30.0 took place. SQLite is a compact embedded DBMS. The library source code has been released into the public domain. What's new in version 3.30.0: added the ability to use the “FILTER” expression with aggregate functions, which made it possible to limit the coverage of data processed by the function to only records based on a given condition; in the “ORDER BY” block, support for the “NULLS FIRST” and “NULLS LAST” flags is provided […]
The release of a free platform for the deployment of decentralized social networks has been published - Mastodon 3.0, which allows you to create services on your own that are not controlled by individual providers. If the user is unable to run his own node, he can choose a trusted public service to connect to. Mastodon belongs to the category of federated networks, in which […]
The third beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been published. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64 and armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. FreeBSD 12.1 is scheduled for release on November 4th. An overview of the innovations can be found in the announcement of the first beta release. Compared […]
The release of SQLite 3.30.0, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library, has been published. The SQLite code is distributed as a public domain, i.e. may be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley and Bloomberg. Main changes: Added the ability to use the expression […]
PayPal, which owns the payment system of the same name, announced its intention to leave the Libra Association, an organization that plans to launch a new cryptocurrency, Libra. Let us recall that it was previously reported that many members of the Libra Association, including Visa and Mastercard, decided to reconsider the possibility of their participation in the project to launch a digital currency created by Facebook. PayPal representatives announced that […]
It became known that Sberbank completed an internal investigation, which was carried out due to a data leak on the credit cards of clients of the financial institution. As a result, the bank's security service, interacting with representatives of law enforcement agencies, was able to identify an employee born in 1991 who was involved in this incident. The identity of the culprit is not disclosed; it is only known that he was the head of a sector in one of the business units […]
I think many people already heard Sign In with Apple (SIWA for short) after WWDC 2019. In this article I will tell you what specific pitfalls I had to face when integrating this thing into our licensing portal. This article is not really for those who have just decided to understand SIWA (for them I have provided a number of introductory links at the end […]
As solid-state drives based on flash memory technology become the primary means of permanent storage in data centers, it is important to understand how reliable they are. To date, a large number of laboratory studies of flash memory chips have been carried out using synthetic tests, but there is a lack of information about their behavior in the field. This article reports on the results of a large-scale field study covering millions of days of use […]
Popular Taiwanese online resource DigiTimes shares information that the manufacturer of the first 3D NAND memory developed in China, Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), is aggressively improving product yield. As we reported, in early September, YMTC began mass production of 64-layer 3D NAND memory in the form of 256 Gbit TLC chips. Separately, we note that the release of 128-Gbit chips was previously expected, […]
Mastodon is called a “decentralized Twitter,” in which microblogs are scattered across many independent servers interconnected into one network. There are a lot of updates in this version. Here are the most important ones: OStatus is no longer supported, the alternative is ActivityPub. Removed some obsolete REST APIs: GET /api/v1/search API, replaced by GET /api/v2/search. GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/card, the card attribute is now used. POST /api/v1/notifications/dismiss?id=:id, instead of […]
We continue our review of events for IT specialists who organize communities from different cities of Russia. October begins with the return of blockchain and hackathons, the strengthening of the position of web development and the gradually increasing activity of the regions. Lecture evening on game design When: October 2 Where: Moscow, st. Trifonovskaya, 57, building 1 Conditions of participation: free, registration required A meetup designed for maximum practical benefit for the listener. Here […]
