Author: ProHoster

First alpha release of Protox, a Tox decentralized messaging client for mobile platforms.

Protox is a mobile application for exchanging messages between users without server participation based on the Tox protocol (toktok-toxcore). At the moment, only Android OS is supported, however, since the program is written on the cross-platform Qt framework using QML, it will be possible to port it to other platforms in the future. The program is an alternative to Tox for clients Antox, Trifa, Tok - almost all […]

ArmorPaint received a grant from the Epic MegaGrant program

Following Blender and Godot, Epic Games has continued to support free software development. This time the grant was awarded to ArmorPaint, a program for texturing 3D models, similar to Substance Painter. The reward was $25000. The author of the program said on his Twitter that this amount will be enough for him to develop during 2020. ArmorPaint is developed by one person. Source: linux.org.ru

7 Open Source Cloud Security Monitoring Tools You Should Know About

The widespread adoption of cloud computing helps companies scale their business. But the use of new platforms also means the emergence of new threats. Maintaining your own team within an organization responsible for monitoring the security of cloud services is not an easy task. Existing monitoring tools are expensive and slow. They are, to some extent, difficult to manage when it comes to securing large-scale cloud infrastructure. Companies […]

Data storage patterns in Kubernetes

Hello, Habr! We remind you that we have published another extremely interesting and useful book about Kubernetes patterns. It all started with “Patterns” by Brendan Burns, and, however, work in this segment is in full swing. Today we invite you to read an article from the MinIO blog that briefly outlines the trends and specifics of data storage patterns in Kubernetes. Kubernetes fundamentally […]

How we work on the quality and speed of selection of recommendations

My name is Pavel Parkhomenko, I am an ML developer. In this article, I would like to talk about the structure of the Yandex.Zen service and share technical improvements, the implementation of which has made it possible to increase the quality of recommendations. From this post you will learn how to find the most relevant ones for the user among millions of documents in just a few milliseconds; how to do continuous decomposition of a large matrix (consisting of millions of columns and […]

The first act and five prepared characters: what will be in Baldur's Gate 3 early access

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke, in an interview with PC Gamer, explained what content awaits buyers of the pre-release version of the hotly anticipated role-playing game Baldur's Gate 3. Baldur's Gate 3 will burst into early access with the first act and five prepared characters. After choosing one of them, the rest will be recruited as part of the walkthrough: Will (Wyll) is a person […]

Atmospheric yet casual bully sim Sludge Life is coming to PC and Switch this spring

The publishing house Devolver Digital announced on its microblog a new project - a comedy simulator of a bully Sludge Life from the creator of High Hell Terry Vellmann and the composer Enter the Gungeon under the pseudonym Doseone. Sludge Life is being developed for PC (Epic Games Store) and Nintendo Switch. The project is planned to be released this spring, but on the game’s digital […]

Rumors: the plot, enemies and improvements of Half-Life: Alyx, as well as information about the remake of the second part

Valve News Network YouTube channel author Tyler McVicker regularly shares information about Valve's activities. He recently released a new video in which he talked about the features of Half-Life: Alyx and touched on the topic of the remake of Half-Life 2. The blogger told the plot details of the upcoming Valve project. The events of the game show how the main character Alix Vance moves to City 17 with her father […]

Helicopter shooter Comanche has started OBT on Steam

THQ Nordic and Nukklear studio have announced the launch of an open beta test for the multiplayer helicopter shooter Comanche on Steam. It will end on March 2, at 21:00 (Moscow time). Comanche is a team-based shooter set in the near future. In the story, the US government has developed a helicopter program designed to create highly maneuverable and advanced machines for silent penetration into enemy territory and unloading a drone. […]

Mesa adds experimental GLES 3.0 support for Mali GPUs

Collabora announced the implementation of experimental support for OpenGL ES 3.0 in the Panfrost driver. The changes have been committed to the Mesa codebase and will be part of the next major release. To enable GLES 3.0, you need to start Mesa with the environment variable “PAN_MESA_DEBUG=gles3” set. The Panfrost driver is developed based on reverse engineering of the original drivers from ARM and is designed to work with […]

Let's Encrypt hit the one billion certificate milestone

Let's Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority that is controlled by the community and provides certificates free of charge to everyone, announced that it has reached the milestone of one billion certificates generated, which is 10 times more than it recorded three years ago. 1.2-1.5 million new certificates are generated daily. The number of active certificates is 116 million (a certificate is valid for three months) and covers about 195 million domains (a year […]