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In 1942, Albert Camus wrote a book called "The Myth of Sisyphus." It addresses a truly important philosophical problem: Given the circumstances of our existence, should we simply commit suicide? Here's the answer: First, Camus describes those moments in our lives when our perceptions of the world suddenly stop working, when all our efforts seem […]
On July 30, Blender 2.80 was released — the largest and most significant release ever. Version 2.80 marks a new beginning for Blender Foundation and elevates the 3D modeling tool to a qualitatively new level of professional software. Thousands of people contributed to the creation of Blender 2.80. Renowned designers developed a completely new interface that allows users to accomplish familiar tasks much faster, while the threshold […]
Corrective releases for Samba package versions 4.10.8 and 4.9.13 have been prepared, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-10197) that could allow a user to access the root directory where the Samba network share is located. The issue arises when the ‘wide links = yes’ option is specified in the settings in conjunction with ‘unix extensions = no’ or ‘allow insecure wide links = yes’. Access to files outside […]
More than a year after the last update, a new release of the SeaMonkey internet application suite 2.49.5 has been presented, which combines a set of web applications developed under the auspices of the Mozilla project into one product: a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom news feed aggregator system, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer (Chatzilla, DOM Inspector, and Lightning are no longer included in the basic set). The branch […]
On September 17, the Raiffeisen Bank Acceleration Team invites you to its first open Meetup, which will take place at the office in Nagatino. Trends in DevOps, building pipelines, managing product releases, and much more about DevOps! That evening, experiences and knowledge will be shared by: Mikhail Bijan, Raiffeisen Bank. TRENDS AND TENDENCIES IN THE DEVOPS INDUSTRY RIGHT NOW. Following the event that took place in June in London […]
An extremely unpleasant story happened to one of my acquaintances. However, as unpleasant as it was for Mikhail, it was equally entertaining for me. I must say, my friend is quite a UNIX user: he can install the system himself, set up MySQL, PHP, and make basic Nginx configurations. He has about a dozen or so websites dedicated to construction tools. One of those sites focuses on chainsaws tightly […]
In today's fourth (penultimate) part of the article on eBook applications for the Android operating system, we will cover a single, but extensive topic: games. Summary of the previous three parts of the article: In the first part, we thoroughly examined the reasons why it became necessary to conduct extensive testing of applications to determine their suitability for installation on eBooks, as well as […]
Hello, Community! My name is Mikhail Podivilov. I am the founder of the public organization 'Medium'. I have been repeatedly asked to write a brief but comprehensive guide on how to connect to the decentralized Internet service provider 'Medium' in overlay mode, that is, without directly connecting to the operator's router 'Medium', but by using the Internet and Yggdrasil as transport. In […]
Google has released the open mobile platform Android 10. The source code related to this release is available in the Git repository of the project (branch android-10.0.0_r1). Firmware updates have already been prepared for 8 Pixel series devices, including the original Pixel model. Universal GSI (Generic System Images) builds suitable for various devices based on ARM64 and x86_64 architectures have also been created. […]
On September 3, the Android mobile operating system development team published the source code of version 10. New features in this release include: Support for resizing the output image in applications for devices with foldable displays when opening or closing. 5G network support and an expanded corresponding API. The Live Caption feature, which converts speech to text in any application. Especially […]
Firefox 69 has been released. Key changes include: By default, blocking scripts that perform cryptocurrency mining is enabled. The setting 'Do not allow websites to play sound' allows blocking not only sound playback without explicit user interaction but also video playback. Behavior can be set globally or specifically for individual sites. An about:protections page has been added with statistics on tracking protection performance. The manager […]
The Go programming language 1.13 has been released, featuring major updates: The Go language now supports a more unified and modernized set of numeric literal prefixes, including for binary, octal, hexadecimal, and imaginary literals. Compatibility with Android 10 has been improved. TLS 1.3 support is enabled by default in the crypto/tls package. Error wrapping support for Unicode 11.0 is now available from the Go Unicode package. This is the last […]