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The canary is a small bird that sings continually. These birds are sensitive to methane and carbon monoxide. Even at low concentrations of excess gases in the air, they can lose consciousness or die. Gold miners and other miners took canaries with them as an indication: while the canaries sing, work can continue, but if they fall silent—it's time to leave the mine due to gas. Miners often sacrificed the little bird to escape.
Due to the widespread coronavirus epidemic, many organizations are transitioning employees to remote work from home and limiting office activities. In this regard, NordVPN cybersecurity expert Daniel Markuson provided tips for securing remote workspaces. According to Daniel, the top priority when working from home is ensuring the security of corporate data. To this end, the expert advises […]
The Itch.io platform has launched the pages "Games to Help You Stay Home" and "Budget Self-Isolation." Here, the portal is giving away several dozen indie projects. Anyone registered on the site can receive them. This promotion is linked to the quarantine announced in many countries around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time, it is unclear how long the giveaway will last, as representatives from Itch.io […]
At the beginning of this year, Microsoft released the final version of the Edge browser on the Chromium platform. However, both before and after that, the corporation was involved in development, actively adding new features and modifying existing ones. In particular, this concerns interface elements — buttons, switches, menus, and more. Last year, Microsoft introduced new controls in Chromium to […]
In addition to products like the new iPad Pro and MacBook Air, Apple today began selling the MacPro Afterburner Card as a standalone device. Previously, it was available only as an option when ordering the professional workstation Mac Pro, which could be added for $2000. Now, the device can be purchased separately for the same price, allowing any Mac owner […]
The release of the DXVK 1.6 layer has been formed, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting API Vulkan 1.1 are required, such as AMD RADV 18.3, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
The release of the alternative build of the Linux Mint distribution — Linux Mint Debian Edition 4, based on the Debian package base (the classic Linux Mint is based on the Ubuntu package base). Besides using the Debian package base, a key difference of LMDE from Linux Mint is the continuous package base update cycle (the continuous update model: partial rolling release, semi-rolling release), during which updates […]
ttf-parser is a library for parsing TrueType/OpenType fonts. The new version features full support for variable fonts and a C API, which is why I decided to promote it on the forum. Until recently, if there was a need to work with TrueType fonts, there were exactly two options: FreeType and stb_truetype. The former is a huge utility, while the latter supports a relatively small number of […]
This year, we plan to seriously develop themes around containers, Cloud-Native Java, and Kubernetes. A logical continuation of these themes will be a discussion of the Quarkus framework, which has already been covered on Habr. Today's article is dedicated not so much to the workings of 'subatomic super-fast Java' but rather the prospects that Quarkus brings to the Enterprise. Java and the JVM remain exceptionally popular, but when dealing with serverless technologies...
Introduction On March 7th, RedHat (soon to be IBM) introduced a new framework—Quarkus. According to the developers, this framework is based on GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot and is designed for Kubernetes. The Quarkus stack includes: JPA/Hibernate, JAX-RS/RESTEasy, Eclipse Vert.x, Netty, Apache Camel, Kafka, Prometheus, and more. The aim of creating it is to make Java the leading platform for deployment in Kubernetes...
During the development of LibreOffice 7.0, one of the main changes was the use of Google's Skia library, as well as support for Vulkan rendering. This library is used for drawing the user interface and rendering text. The feature works on Windows and Linux. There are no reports regarding macOS yet. According to Luboš Luňák from Collabora, the code based on Cairo is overly complex. […]
There is almost no doubt that the upcoming Intel Comet Lake-S desktop processors will be quite "power-hungry," especially as the flagship low-power model — the Core i9-10900T — is capable of consuming over 120 watts. Now the true "appetites" of other T-series processors have also been revealed — the Core i5-10500T and Core i7-10700T, discovered in the SiSoftware database. The Core i5-10500T processors […]