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After several weeks of beta testing, the final release of SysV init, insserv and startpar was announced. Summary of key changes: SysV pidof has removed complex formatting as it caused security issues and potential memory errors without providing much benefit. Now the user can specify the separator himself, and use other tools such as tr. Documentation has been updated, [...]
The latest episode of the Habr Weekly podcast has been released. We are happy for Ivan Golunov and discuss the posts published on Habré this week: Dark themes will become default. Or not? The Russian Minister of Communications suggested that the Chinese move production to Russia. The Russian government suggested that Huawei use the Aurora OS (ex-Sailfish) for its smartphones. Personal data of 900 thousand clients of OTP Bank, Alfa Bank and HKF Bank leaked to […]
The classic init system sysvinit 2.95 has been released, which was widely used in Linux distributions in the days before systemd and upstart, and now continues to be used in distributions such as Devuan and antiX. At the same time, releases of the insserv 1.20.0 and startpar 0.63 utilities used in conjunction with sysvinit were created. The insserv utility is designed to organize the download process, taking into account dependencies between […]
Fatal Printer Fear the Danaans who bring gifts. – Virgil, “Aeneid” Again the new printer jammed the paper. An hour earlier, Richard Stallman, a programmer at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), sent a 50-page document to print on the office printer and plunged into work. And now Richard looked up from what he was doing, went to the printer and saw a most unpleasant sight: instead of the long-awaited 50 printed pages […]
After more than a year of development, the Linux distribution Kwort 4.3.4 was released, based on the developments of the CRUX project and offering a minimalist user environment based on the Openbox window manager. The distribution differs from CRUX in the use of its own package manager kpkg, which allows you to install binary packages from the repository developed by the project. Kwort is also developing its own set of GUI applications for configuration (Kwort user manager for […]
At E3 2019, Todd Howard and Elon Musk announced that the Fallout Shelter management simulator would be coming to Tesla cars. The release date has not been specified. Howard and Musk talked about a lot of things on one of the stages of the exhibition. The conversation was more friendly than official: about the past, technology, cars and even Fallout 76. […]
A new release of the image processing and conversion package GraphicsMagick 1.3.32 has been introduced, which addresses 52 potential vulnerabilities identified during fuzzing testing by the OSS-Fuzz project. In total, since February 2018, OSS-Fuzz has identified 343 problems, of which 331 have already been fixed in GraphicsMagick (for the remaining 12, the 90-day fix period has not yet expired). It is separately noted [...]
PlayStation Universe published interesting material regarding an interview with actress Ashley Johnson. It appeared on the Internet more than a week ago, but then no one noticed that the girl let slip about the release date of The Last of Us: Part II. You can watch the moment in the video below, starting at 1:07:25. When asked by the presenter about the timing of the project’s release, Ashley Johnson clearly […]
Publisher Focus Home Interactive and developers from Asobo studio took advantage of E3 2019 to thank all fans of the stealth adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence. The creative director of the studio, David Dedeine, addressed the players in a special video and shared some news. First of all, he thanked everyone for the excellent response to the game and the many comments that made the developers happy. […]
Paradox Interactive and Triumph studio presented a new trailer for the strategy Age of Wonders: Planetfall. The trailer showcases several factions, a variety of picturesque landscapes, from forests and plains to steppes and volcanoes, a development tree and military strength. In Age of Wonders, you must side with one of six factions to lead them to prosperity during the Dark Ages […]
Online sources report that Twitter administrators have blocked about 4800 accounts believed to be run by or associated with the Iranian government. Not long ago, Twitter released a detailed report on how it is combating the spread of fake news within the platform, as well as how it blocks users who violate the rules. In addition to Iranian accounts […]
St. Petersburg State University, together with Yandex, JetBrains and the Gazpromneft company, will open a faculty of mathematics and computer science. The faculty will have three undergraduate programs: “Mathematics”, “Modern Programming”, “Mathematics, Algorithms and Data Analysis”. The first two were already at the university, the third is a new program developed at Yandex. It will be possible to continue your studies in the master’s program “Modern Mathematics”, which is also [...]
