Author: ProHoster

Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York Visual Novel Coming to Nintendo Switch March 24

Draw Distance Studios has announced that Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York will be released on Nintendo Switch on March 24th. Versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will go on sale "very soon." The console versions of Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York will be released with updated graphics, such as redrawn character portraits and backgrounds […]

Ad blocking list abuse EN AdList

RU AdList is a popular subscription in Runet that contains filters for blocking ads in browser add-ons such as AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin, etc. Subscription support and changes to blocking rules are currently carried out by participants under the nicknames “Lain_13” and “dimisa”. The second author is particularly active, as can be judged by the official forum and history […]

Firefox Preview 4.0 for Android is available

The experimental browser Firefox Preview 4.0 has been released for the Android platform, developed under the code name Fenix ​​as a replacement for the Firefox edition for Android. Firefox Preview uses the GeckoView engine, built on Firefox Quantum technologies, and a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries, which are already used to build the Firefox Focus and Firefox Lite browsers. GeckoView is a variant of the Gecko engine, […]

Release of Hobbits 0.21, visualizer for reverse engineering binary files

The release of the Hobbits 0.21 project is available, developing a graphical interface for analyzing, processing and visualizing binary data in the process of reverse engineering. The code is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the MIT license. Parsing, processing and visualization functions are included in the form of plugins, which can be selected depending on the type of data being analyzed. Plugins are available to display […]

The growth in the number of transistors in chips continues to follow Moore's Law

Obstacles to the development of semiconductor production no longer resemble barriers, but tall walls. And yet the industry is moving forward step by step, following Gordon Moore's empirical law derived 55 years ago. Although with reservations, the number of transistors in chips continues to double every two years. In order not to be unfounded, analysts from IC Insights published a report on […]

The British Parliament's Defense Committee will review the safety of Huawei's 5G technologies

The UK Parliament's Defense Committee plans to examine security concerns over the use of the 5G mobile network, a group of lawmakers said on Friday in response to pressure from the US and ongoing public concern about the risks of using equipment from Chinese company Huawei. In January of this year, the government of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson allowed the use of equipment from third-party suppliers, including the telecommunications company […]

Space objects have threatened the ISS more than 200 times

It has been 55 years since the formation of the Space Control Center (SCSC). In honor of this event, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published statistics on the detection and acceptance of various space objects for escort. The Central Control Commission was created in March 1965 to organize information support for the flight safety of domestic spacecraft, control over the activities of foreign states in outer space and ensure […]

Zhabogram 2.3

Zhabogram is a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber network (XMPP) to the Telegram network, written in Ruby. Successor to tg4xmpp. Ruby dependencies >= 2.4 xmpp4r == 0.5.6 tdlib-ruby == 2.2 with compiled tdlib == 1.6 Features Authorization in Telegram Sending, receiving, deleting and editing messages and attachments Adding and deleting contacts Synchronizing the list of contacts, statuses and VCard Management [ …]

systemd 245

A new release of perhaps the most famous free system manager. The most interesting (in my opinion) changes in this release: systemd-homed - a new component that allows you to transparently and conveniently manage encrypted home directories, providing portability (no need to worry about different UIDs on different systems), security (LUKS backend by default) and the ability to migrate to freshly installed systems by copying one file. In […]

TrueNAS Open Storage is the result of the combination of FreeNAS and TrueNAS

On March 5th, iXsystems announced the merger of the code base of its two projects FreeNAS and TrueNAS under the common name - TrueNAS Open Storage. FreeNAS is a free operating system for organizing network storage. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD OS. The main features include integrated support for ZFS, the ability to manage the system via a web interface written in Python using […]

Creating your own image with pure CentOS 8.1 in the Amazon cloud

This guide is a “fork” of the article of the same name about CentOS 5.9, and takes into account the features of the new OS. There is currently no official Centos8 image from centos.org in the AWS Marketplace. As you know, in the Amazon cloud, virtual instances are launched based on images (the so-called AMI). Amazon provides a large number of them, and you can also use public images prepared by third parties, for which […]

Creating your own image with pure CentOS 5.9 in the Amazon cloud

As you know, in the Amazon cloud, virtual instances are launched based on images (the so-called AMI). Amazon provides a large number of them; you can also use public images prepared by third parties, for which the cloud provider, of course, does not bear any responsibility. But sometimes you need a clean system image with the necessary parameters, which is not in the list of images. Then the only way out is to do [...]