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An asynchronous implementation of DISCARD is introduced for Btrfs

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An asynchronous implementation of the DISCARD operation (tagging freed blocks that can no longer be physically stored) has been presented for the btrfs file system, developed by engineers at Facebook. The essence of the problem: in the original implementation, DISCARD is executed synchronously with other operations, which in some cases leads to performance issues since it requires waiting for the corresponding commands to complete with the storage devices, consuming additional time. This can become […]

The OASIS Technical Committee has approved the OpenDocument 1.3 specification.

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The Technical Committee of the OASIS consortium has approved the final version of the ODF 1.3 (OpenDocument) specification. After approval by the Technical Committee, the ODF 1.3 specification received the status of 'Committee Specification', indicating that the work has been fully completed, the specification will remain unchanged in the future, and the document is ready for use by third-party developers and companies. The next step will be to approve the presented specification as an OASIS and ISO/IEC standard. The key differences of OpenDocument […]

Preparing the SDL2 project for Android deployment

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Hello everyone. Today we will look at how to prepare a project using the sdl2 library to run a game on Android. First, you need to download Android Studio, install it, and everything required in this development environment. For example, I currently have Kde Neon, and in this system, there is a file /etc/environment, which also exists in Ubuntu. There […]

Eric Ciaramella as an example of Wikipedia/Google censorship.

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In this article, I will share how I was banned on the English subdomain of Wikipedia for political reasons, how a large number of information companies censor "He Who Must Not Be Named". Just look up "Eric Ciaramella" on YouTube and try to edit, you will get a 404 error (this is before downvoting karma, the comment will be deleted, I'm betting). I will also share what I've learned over the last […]

Introducing donate ― a self-hosted donation service for tasks

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Features: KISS; self-hosted; no fees (for example, bountysource and gitcoin take 10% of the payout); support for multiple cryptocurrencies (currently Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano); planned support for GitLab, Gitea, and other Git hosting services in the future. A global task list from all (that is one, at the time of writing the news) instances at donate.dumpstack.io. The working mechanism for […]

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation proposed creating a code archive that duplicates GitHub.

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In case Russia is disconnected from global code repositories due to sanctions, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation proposed creating a domestic analog of GitHub to host an archive of the most in-demand projects and repositories developed on Western collaborative development platforms. It has been proposed to allocate 2.1 billion rubles for the project. It is expected that, in addition to the reserve, the new service can be used for code publication, […]

Release of the Midnight Commander 4.8.24 file manager

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After six months of development, the release of the Midnight Commander 4.8.24 console file manager has been published, distributed in source texts under the GPLv3+ license. The main changes include: A dialog has been added to display a list of files recently viewed or edited in the built-in viewer or editor (accessed via the Alt-Shift-e combination); a fully functioning command shell (subshell, accessed via […] in the separately launched mceditor, mcviewer, and mcdiffviewer).

The Rust framework actix-web has been revived and will be handed over to the community

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The author of the actix-web web framework, who was recently removed due to harassment, has restored the repository with the code as it was in demand by some developers. However, the author of actix-web still does not intend to continue development but will hand over the project to the community and has recommended participant JohnTitor, who previously assisted with development, for the leadership position. Source: opennet.ru

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will receive a demo at the end of the month

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Playtonic Games Studio announced on its microblog the upcoming release of a demo version of the platformer Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, which was released last October. The trial version will first appear on Steam — this will happen on January 23. A week later, on January 30, it will be available for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The release dates for the Xbox One and Epic Games demo are […]

How the critical vulnerability Citrix NetScaler CVE-2019-19781 exposed hidden issues in the IT industry

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Dear reader, first of all, I would like to point out that as a resident of Germany, I am primarily describing the situation in this country. Perhaps the situation in your country is radically different. On December 17, 2019, information about a critical vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway product lines was published on the Citrix Knowledge Center page […]

SRE Sloerm — learning to ensure user happiness

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On February 3, SRE Slurm will kick off in Moscow. This is the first intensive course where we have moved away from the 'Repeat after the instructor' model. You will work on an SRE project, as close to real-life conditions as possible. You will have a fully functional project in your hands and will work with it in real-time. You will encounter a typical SRE task: working with unfamiliar code, synchronization issues in distributed […]

Postgres Tuesday #5: "PostgreSQL and Kubernetes. CI/CD. Test Automation"

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At the end of last year, another live broadcast of the Russian PostgreSQL community #RuPostgres took place, during which its co-founder Nikolai Samokhvalov spoke with the technical director of 'Flant', Dmitry Stolyarov, about this DBMS in the context of Kubernetes. We publish a transcript of the main part of this discussion, and the full video recording is available on the community's YouTube channel: Databases and Kubernetes NS: We will not discuss today […]

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