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Quietly and discreetly evolving for a couple of years, the Conversations fork has officially emerged – introducing Conversations Classic. The release title was inspired by a radical change in the UI to the trendy 'Material 2.0' in the upstream project, as well as unique reactions from Daniel, the creator of Conversations, to bug reports and pull requests. The changelog for version 2.2.2 includes backports from Cheogram DTMF during calls (which may be useful […]
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 24.5 has been announced, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers with processors based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard using Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. To create […]
After two years of development, the first release of the Conversations Classic project (2.2) has been published, developing the XMPP client Conversations for the Android platform. The application supports features such as end-to-end encryption, image and file transfers, audio and video calls, voice messages, conferences, read receipts, synchronization with desktop systems, integration with the address book, and binding multiple accounts. The project's code is written in […]
The Matebook X Pro laptops need no introduction. HUAWEI mobile computers combine not only lightness, compactness, and presentation but also the highest performance for devices in this class. Source: 3dnews.ru
Earlier this month, Google Cloud mistakenly deleted the account of the Australian pension fund UniSuper. After restoring the functionality of UniSuper's systems and completing an internal review, the company published information aimed at clarifying the nature of the incident. According to the report, the incident only affected a single client, only one of its services, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), and only in one […]
After two years of development, the release of the ravynOS 0.5 project has been published, developing an operating system based on FreeBSD aimed at achieving compatibility with macOS applications and providing a macOS-style user interface. The project's builds are distributed under the BSD license. The size of the bootable ISO image is 869 MB (x86_64). The project's goals include achieving compatibility with macOS applications at the level of […]
Drew DeVault, the author of the Sway user environment, the Aerc email client, the SourceHut co-development platform, and the Hare programming language, reported that he managed to write his own implementation of a UNIX clone in just 27 days. He named his operating system Bunnix. The system is a monolithic Unix-like operating system written in Hare with small inclusions of C. In user space, […]
A new version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 distribution has been released. This is an update of the previous branch, which will be supported parallelly with the RHEL 9.x branch until 2029. Installation builds are prepared for various architectures but are only available to registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal. RHEL 8.10 is the last release in the 8.x branch, formed during the full support stage, which includes functional […]
The Core i5-14400F is a processor with a very poor performance-to-price ratio. Even Intel has cheaper and more powerful solutions. Therefore, in this review, we thoroughly tested the not-so-impressive Core i5-14400F, but rather the much more capable Core i5-12600KF. And for good reason! Source: 3dnews.ru
The Rust Foundation has published statistics indicating that out of 127,000 significant packages presented in the crates.io catalog, over 24,000 (19.11%) use the keyword "unsafe" to enable features that allow unsafe memory operations in certain blocks of code, such as pointer dereferencing, calling external functions, or modifying static variables. 34.35% of packages make direct function calls […]
One of the 13 root DNS servers (c.root-servers.net) that support the functioning of the DNS root zone (the initial link in the domain name resolution chain, providing information about DNS servers serving top-level domains and keys for their verification using DNSSEC) was out of sync with the other root DNS servers for four days. The root DNS server 'C' (192.33.4.12) is supported by 12 servers located […]
For those who reacted negatively to the emergence of AI-generated information summaries in Google search results, a method has been found to forcibly restore the search engine to displaying the traditional 'ten blue links' by default—without advice to have glue and run with scissors, and without the need to manually enable the 'Web version' option each time. The option with a 'clean' Google search result was suggested by […]