K2 Media Group Europe
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We are a niche media group formed in chaotic environment back in 2017. Speaking voluntary community management, desktop software development and self-controlled infrastructure.
Well, the weekend definitely was a blast as we forgot to post on July 16th when it was our 9th anniversary. At least we finally recovered from an outage caused by the hosting provider's upstream. Our helpdesk is up again. That's the process of ours and thank you for staying with us.
The digital circus you probably already know is not where it is. #Russia strikes again with prohibiting non-domestic authorization methods, e.g. some OpenID Connect endpoint you have integrated long ago. Good old email logon is sufficient to avoid fines but headache will be gone with the GeoIP ban.
Рунет без Google Login: что теперь делать с авторизацией
Вход — это важно! В России снова обсуждают вход на сайты через Google, Apple ID, GitHub и другие иностранные аккаунты. Повод — подписанный закон № 199-ФЗ от 26.06.2026 ,...
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Recently with Visual Studio 2026 we ran into an issue with ASP.NET Core Blazor components—if you run a debug session and edit at the same time, a few language server "features" will crash, e.g. Razor FindAllReferences or Razor Hover. Had anyone this happening in #JetBrains Rider?
Meet the built-in CMake integration with PVS-Studio for C/C++! Learn more about the enhanced integration in the article:
PVS-Studio in CMake: It′s official now!
If you′re working on a cross-platform project in C or C++, you usually don′t rely on a single build system, but instead use a build script generator. CMake, the most popular one, has recently been...
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Saw this fluffy ball in the recent #JetBrains Rider 2026.1 Nightly build published on April 16th, 2026. #Cats are absolutely welcome!
@jsnover.com: "When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop." Yet another good read on #Windows software development! Should we mention that the last #Microsoft's UX/UI design guidelines had lost their consistency as well?
Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…
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A good read from @domenic.me. Here are our two cents—is the RAM shortage we have now is an aftermath of #Microsoft being ignorant on native app development for decades? Might be a conspiracy theory but vibecoded Electron/VW2 apps are the soup we have today. Unfortunately. domenic.me/windows-nati...
Windows Native App Development Is a Mess
I tried to build a Windows native app using Microsoft's latest technologies. Now I understand why everyone builds Electron apps.
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Trivia: we wanted to use FreeBSD (but not OpenBSD at the time) for our e-mail server but urgency to deploy one called for Debian 13. Who knows, maybe we will adapt it, too!
PVS-Studio@cody-programmer08.bsky.social · 7mo ago🐡Everyone is talking about Linux, but what about the BSDs? Are they too complex, or just too quiet? One of the members in the OpenBSD community will help us explore these questions in the interview. #OpenBSD #OpenSource #OS #BSD #unix
During a weekend one of us walked through @youtrack.cloud's timeline on Wayback Machine. "Wait, that's a bird? I thought it to be a telescope facing forwards!" was a reaction when they looked at the May 2014 snapshot.
Sphere Matchers community spotlight: @deathknight.bsky.social had released a small program that allows Luxor and Luxor: Amun Rising to share more rich-detailed gameplay state in Discord. Try it, show everyone you're into the immortal classics! github.com/vaishnav67/S...
A "very small indie IT company" that is funded by government of a large country had decided to charge users for being able to use IMAP, SMTP and POP3. Because they lose revenue from ads. Because nobody wants to use email service with no privacy. @vivaldi.com, perfect time for Vivaldi Mail, isn't it?
Thank you, @bsky.app for verifying our profile. We're #AlwaysHappyToHelp our audience here get the most out of their communication on Bluesky with us.
Happy New Year! Let your business and personal things go silky smooth, stay healthy and everything will come along!
Our moments outside of business tasks with @vivaldi.com's Vivaldi Mail involved. One of us is doing an annual checkup of accounts to migrate to personal Vivaldi Mail account. Today they discovered they can move e-mail between accounts right within Vivaldi Mail's user interface in Vivaldi itself!
With help of @deathknight.bsky.social and @hw12.dev the problem of running Luxor, Luxor: Amun Rising and Luxor 2 from Steam is now gone after 13 years! Hayden did the most difficult part—a new wrapper that is compatible with Windows 8 and onwards; Steam DRM remains intact! modworkshop.net/mod/54642
We chose to continue servicing our forums board. The new lifecycle policy—effective December 7th, 2025—determines activity windows and our responsibility for upkeeping them. No rocket science there!
K2 Media Group Europe@k2mg.net · 11mo agoWe were directly asked if it is still reasonable to maintain our own forums board, EI Forums, due to low guest-to-users conversion and severe search engine indexing issues. The question was followed by suggestion to archive it and freeze in "read only" state. We will tell you the answer in a week.
We were directly asked if it is still reasonable to maintain our own forums board, EI Forums, due to low guest-to-users conversion and severe search engine indexing issues. The question was followed by suggestion to archive it and freeze in "read only" state. We will tell you the answer in a week.
Ouch. Vivaldi 7.7 offers some interesting interactions in the @cloudflare.social's Turnstile `iframe` but there's no way to click there. Bug report time for @vivaldi.com, we guess?
pvs-studio.com/en/blog/post... Not long ago, we took a deep dive into some bugs in the 86Box v5.0 emulator and explored a few ways to fix them. But we saved the best for last: one click is all it takes to break everything! No worries, though — @86box.net has already fixed it :) #cpp #programming
Box of bugs (exploded): Perils of cross-platform development
In September, we broke down the 86Box v5.0 release, timed for the 30th anniversary of Windows 95 retail launch, and promised to show you something else. What is it that we promised? And why did we...
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It has been one month since #SteelHunters permanent shutdown. While most people consider it was a live service, we think it wasn't. Service can be considered "live" only after it passes the EAP phase and not any second earlier. We are not advocating Wargaming for decisions done but sharing thoughts.
Quoting @vivaldi.com here: big tech? BIG NO!
Altair@a1asriel.bsky.social · 11mo agoI'm breaking the silence to draw attention to the inappropriate situation that YouTube has allowed to happen. Allowing AI to make drastic decisions like terminating a channel is a huge slap in the face to their users and speaks volumes about how they treat us.
On this Saturday, October 25th, we will be shutting down our #BlacklightRetribution server that was part of the #BLRevive project for over a year. We ran into severe technical issues. We would like to thank them for inviting us to the community of the game unusual to us, it was certainly a blast!
86Box 5.0 attracts users' attention with enhanced hardware support and a new dynamic processor recompiler. And PVS-Studio was attracted too, but with errors that were neatly packed into this tiny box. @86box.net pvs-studio.com/en/blog/post... #86box #cpp #programming #staticanalyzer
Box of bugs (emulated)
On August 24, 2025, 86Box 5.0 was released. The low-level emulator for IBM PCs and compatibles has received a new dynamic processor instruction recompiler, broader hardware support, and significant...
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🎉 Cloudflare turns 15! #BirthdayWeek 2025 is almost here — our biggest innovation week. What to expect next week: ⚡ Democratizing development 🔒 Securing the future 🌐 Performance & networking 📺 Full episode: https://youtu.be/-apo2xbgYCo 🌐 ThisWeekinNET.com 🌐 cloudflare.com/birthday-week
Friendly reminder for those who hadn't upgraded yet: #YouTrack 2025.2 is available *only* as Docker images, ZIPs are gone. There is a detour—download the layer with YouTrack distribution only and do the upgrade like usual! Keep in mind that such upgrades are not supported and your warranty is void!
We still have our sealed #windows95 "For distribution with a new PC only" in our stash. Not voiding the seal as we cannot find that new PC that bundled this kit! 😅
Akage Megane💾@thebaratusii.bsky.social · last yr.IT IS OFFICIAL! Windows 95 is now a 30 year old operating system! Happy 30th Birthday to the operating system that I look at as the best operating system alongside Windows 98SE and Windows XP. #windows95 #retrogaming #dosgaming
'The Day Before' was a victim of development mismanagement, which lead to its doomsday in first place. This game definitely set its name in stone.
PVS-Studio@cody-programmer08.bsky.social · last yr.Unreal Engine powers a growing number of projects—from the acclaimed "The Witcher" to the equally impressive "The Day Before" As projects scale, the cost of unnoticed errors rises dramatically. pvs-studio.com/en/blog/post... #unrealengine #cpp #cplusplus
(ex)Terminating bugs is such a pleasure, both for developers and users when they receive updates. Give PVS-Studio a try if you are a software engineer!
PVS-Studio@cody-programmer08.bsky.social · last yr.What do you need to control your OS using only the keyboard? Every developer has their own take on the answer—Microsoft's was to release Windows Terminal. But what's going on under its hood? pvs-studio.com/en/blog/post... #cpp #csharp #os #microsoft #windows #staticanalysis #staticanalyzer
