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We talk about the history of the OpenMusic (OM) software instrument, analyze the features of its design, and talk about the first users. In addition to this, we provide analogues. Photo by James Baldwin / Unsplash What is OpenMusic It is an object-oriented visual programming environment for digital audio synthesis. The utility is based on a dialect of the LISP language - Common Lisp. It is worth noting that OpenMusic can be used in […]
A new version of the single-player 2D game Flare has been released - 1.11. The action takes place in a dark fantasy world. The changes are as follows: Players now have their own personal cache in addition to the general one. The value of the no_stash variable has been expanded to make it possible to create multiple caches. Items that could not be hidden in the previous version can now be placed in a personal stash. Engine errors have been fixed […]
About a year ago I became determined to save the world. With the means and skills that I have. I must say, the list is very meager: a programmer, a manager, a graphomaniac and a good person. Our world is full of problems, and I had to choose something. I thought about politics, even took part in “Leaders of Russia” in order to immediately get to a high position. Made it to the semi-finals, [...]
kitty is a full-featured and cross-platform terminal emulator. Some updates: Added kitty@scroll-window command for scrolling the screen. Allowed to pass the !neighbor argument, which opens a new window next to the active one. The remote control protocol is documented. Passing data to a child element using the pipe command occurs in a thread so that the UI is not blocked. For macOS, reduced power consumption in standby mode by turning off the display after 30 […]
The release of the Latte Dock 0.9 panel has been presented, offering an elegant and simple solution for managing tasks and plasmoids. This includes support for the effect of parabolic magnification of icons in the style of macOS or the Plank panel. The Latte panel is built on the KDE Plasma framework and requires Plasma 5.12, KDE Frameworks 5.38 and Qt 5.9 or newer releases to run. Code […]
The Academy Software Foundation, an organization created under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, aimed at promoting open source software in the film industry, presented its first joint project OpenTimelineIO (OTIO), originally created by the animation studio Pixar and subsequently developed with the participation of Lucasfilm and Netflix. The package was used in the creation of films such as Coco, The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. OpenTimelineIO includes […]
At QuakeCon 2019, Bethesda announced plans for the development of Fallout 76 until the end of September. The developers will add an in-game Season meat event, perks in the “Nuclear Winter” battle royale mode, a new map and a raid. For completing the raid, users will be able to receive new armor and other rewards. In addition, the studio confirmed that it is working on several more events, […]
Following the launch of the new AMD processors, Ryzen 3000 series owners were faced with an unexpected problem: they were unable to play the co-op shooter Destiny 2. A similar glitch caused boot failures in the latest 2019 version of Linux distributions. Some people have been able to work around the Linux issue by porting the systemd component back to an older version or using a patched version of the distribution, but […]
Even though voice assistants are becoming increasingly popular, many people have concerns about the privacy of information that reaches developers. This week it became known that contractors testing Apple's voice assistant Siri for accuracy are listening to users' private conversations. The message also stated that in some cases Siri records the user's […]
Introduced in June, the level-rotating action-platformer Exception will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC on August 13th. This was announced by developers from the Traxmaster Software studio, who published a trailer with gameplay on this occasion. Reportedly, the cost of the game will be $14,99 (on Russian Steam the price will probably be lower, but for now it […]
Wolfenstein: Youngblood players have discovered a way to avoid microtransactions to purchase cosmetic items. To do this, you need to change several game files. All in-game goods can be purchased not only for real money, but also for in-game currency. As it turned out, the latter indicator is not tied to the developers’ servers, so anyone can change it to any number using the CheatEngine program. […]
The Chinese platform AliExpress, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, organizes supplies of goods to Russian stores. Essentially, AliExpress is starting to work as a wholesale supplier. It is expected that the new services will be of interest primarily to small and medium-sized businesses. In particular, AliExpress will begin shipping goods for small chains. “Now is the test stage, AliExpress itself is agreeing on a partnership and discussing the assortment. Delivery and […]
