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The full specification of the Librem 5 smartphone has been published

Purism has published the full specification of Librem 5. Main hardware and characteristics: Processor: i.MX8M (4 cores, 1.5GHz), GPU supports OpenGL/ES 3.1, Vulkan, OpenCL 1.2; RAM: 3 GB; Internal memory: 32 GB eMMC; MicroSD slot (supports memory cards up to 2 TB); Screen 5.7" IPS TFT with a resolution of 720×1440; Removable battery 3500 mAh; Wi-Fi: 802.11abgn (2.4GHz + […]

Service bikes. Serious post about serious work

Service engineers are found at gas stations and spaceports, in IT companies and car factories, at VAZ and Space X, in small businesses and international giants. And that’s it, absolutely all of them have once heard the classic set about “it itself”, “I wrapped it with electrical tape and it worked, and then it went boom”, “I didn’t touch anything”, “I definitely didn’t change it” and […]

DKMS broken on Ubuntu

A recent update (2.3-3ubuntu9.4) in Ubuntu 18.04 breaks the normal operation of the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) system used to build third-party kernel modules after updating the Linux kernel. A sign of a problem is the message “/usr/sbin/dkms: line### find_module: command not found” when manually installing modules, or suspiciously different sizes of initrd.*.dkms and the newly created initrd (this can be checked by unattended-upgrade users) . […]

How to become a product designer from a “regular designer”

Hello! My name is Alexey Svirido, I am a digital product designer at Alfa-Bank. Today I want to talk about how to become a product designer from an “ordinary designer.” Under the cut you will find answers to the following questions: Who is a product designer and what does he do? Is this specialty right for you? What to do to become a product designer? How to create your first product portfolio? […]

Unofficial firmware with LineageOS prepared for Nintendo Switch

The first unofficial firmware for the LineageOS platform has been published for the Nintendo Switch game console, allowing the use of an Android environment on the console instead of the standard FreeBSD-based environment. The firmware is based on LineageOS 15.1 (Android 8.1) builds for NVIDIA Shield TV devices, which, like the Nintendo Switch, are based on the NVIDIA Tegra X1 SoC. Supports operation in portable device mode (output to built-in […]

Vifm 0.10.1

Vifm is a console file manager with Vim-like modal controls and some ideas borrowed from the mutt email client. This version expands support for managing removable devices, adds some new display capabilities, combines the previously two separate Vim plugins into one, and also introduces a number of smaller improvements. Major changes: added file preview in Miller's right column; added macro […]

Release of the free 3D modeling system Blender 2.80

After nearly two years of development, the free 3D modeling package Blender 2.80 has been released, becoming one of the most significant releases in the project's history. Main innovations: The user interface has been radically redesigned, which has become more familiar to users who have experience working in other graphics packages. A new dark theme and familiar panels with a modern set of icons instead of text […]

Nixery - an ad-hoc Nix-based container registry

Nixery is a Docker-compatible container registry capable of creating container images using Nix. The current focus is on targeted container imaging. Nixery supports on-demand image creation based on image name. Each package that the user includes in the image is specified as a name component path. Path components refer to top-level keys in nixpkgs […]

NVIDIA Employee: First Mandatory Ray Tracing Game Coming in 2023

A year ago, NVIDIA introduced the first video cards with support for hardware acceleration of ray tracing, after which games that use this technology began to appear on the market. There are not too many such games yet, but their number is growing steadily. According to NVIDIA research scientist Morgan McGuire, around 2023 there will be a game that […]

Midori 9 Web Browser Release

The lightweight web browser Midori 9, developed by members of the Xfce project based on the WebKit2 engine and the GTK3 library, has been released. The browser core is written in the Vala language. The project code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. Binary assemblies are prepared for Linux (snap) and Android. The generation of builds for Windows and macOS has been discontinued for now. Key innovations of Midori 9: The start page now displays icons […]

Google has discovered several vulnerabilities in iOS, one of which Apple has not yet fixed

Google researchers have discovered six vulnerabilities in iOS software, one of which has not yet been fixed by Apple developers. According to online sources, the vulnerabilities were discovered by Google Project Zero researchers, with five of the six problem areas being fixed last week when the iOS 12.4 update was released. The vulnerabilities discovered by the researchers are “non-contact”, meaning they […]