Author: ProHoster

A year without Splunk - how an American company changed the machine data analytics market in Russia and who it left behind

Almost a year ago, Splunk disappeared in Russia. This article is largely a review. It is about machine data, and about a market niche, and about an example of import substitution that happened without loud slogans - simply because the market demanded it. Exclusively - the author’s version of the reason for Splunk’s departure from Russia, but it is possible that everything was not […]

ProtonVPN client application code is open

Proton Technologies, which develops a secure email service and VPN, announced the open source of ProtonVPN client programs for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS (the Linux console client is open initially). The code is open under the GPLv3 license. At the same time, reports on an independent audit of these applications were published. Issues that could lead to decryption of VPN traffic or escalation of privileges were not found during the audit […]

Don't cry, girl! Reply to the author from vc.ru to a letter about Habré

I am a long-time member of Habr - an ordinary reader and corporate author. For me, Habr is a well-known, studied, native and non-hostile environment, so every time I am surprised to read the arguments of the “karmasrach” participants and bypass them, because there is no time to write comments of 5000 characters. But this morning I received a link to a post from vc.ru, [...]

CRM 2020

The IT sector is a thankless thing and the forecasts here are the same as with the weather last summer, you will still freeze. Or you'll get wet. Or sunstroke will sting. But as time has shown, we did well with our predictions for 2019, so we decided to talk about CRM 2020 trends as we see them for small and medium-sized businesses. We have them […]

Release of nginx 1.17.8 and njs 0.3.8

The main branch of nginx 1.17.8 has been released, within which the development of new features continues (in the parallel supported stable branch 1.16, only changes related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities are made). Main changes: The grpc_pass directive now supports the use of a variable in the parameter that defines the address. If the address is specified as a domain name, the name is searched among the described server groups […]

Sway 1.4 (and wlroots 0.10.0) i3 compatible compositor for Wayland

A new version of the i3-compatible frame window manager Sway 1.4 has been released (for Wayland and XWayland). Updated wlroots 0.10.0 composer library (allowing you to develop other WM for Wayland). Version number 1.3 was skipped due to technical reasons. Main changes: VNC support via wayvnc (RDP support removed) Partial support for MATE panel xdg-shell v6 support removed Source: linux.org.ru

Complex, vulnerable, underconfigured: cyber threats 2020

Technologies develop and become more complex year after year, and along with them, attack techniques improve. Modern realities require online applications, cloud services and virtualization platforms, so it is no longer possible to hide behind a corporate firewall and not stick your nose into the “dangerous Internet”. All this, together with the spread of IoT/IIoT, the development of fintech and the growing popularity of remote work beyond recognition […]

A new version of the embeddable JavaScript engine from the founder of QEMU and FFmpeg

French mathematician Fabrice Bellard, who once founded the QEMU and FFmpeg projects, has published an update to the compact embedded JavaScript engine he developed, QuickJS. The engine supports the ES2019 specification and additional mathematical extensions such as BigInt and BigFloat types. In terms of performance, QuickJS is noticeably superior to existing analogues (XS by 35%, DukTape by more than twice, JerryScript by three […]

GameMode 1.5 is available, Linux game performance optimizer

Feral Interactive has published the release of the GameMode 1.5 optimizer, implemented as a background process that changes various Linux system settings on the fly to achieve maximum gaming application performance. The project code is written in C language and is distributed under the BSD license. For games, it is proposed to use the special libgamemode library, which allows you to request the inclusion of certain optimizations at the time of game execution, without […]

Office plankton - evolution

Work is home, work is home, and so on every day. They say that life is a great adventure, but in the monotony of the days you don’t even feel like you’re living. This led to a reflection on the topic “Is there intelligent, meaningful life in the kingdom of office plankton?”, and the conclusion was, perhaps, provided that every single cell strives to do its job […]

A Plague Tale, Indivisible, Sea Salt and Fishing Sim World join Xbox Game Pass for console

Microsoft has unveiled the next wave of Xbox Game Pass games for the console. It includes A Plague Tale: Innocence, Indivisible, Sea Salt and Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour. A Plague Tale: Innocence follows the fate of a young girl, Amicia, and her younger brother Hugo during the medieval plague. In addition to an unstoppable cloud of rats, the heroes are being pursued by the Inquisition. A Plague […]

Release of GhostBSD 20.01

A release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 20.01 is available, built on the TrueOS platform and offering the MATE user environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC init system and the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for x86_64 architecture (2.2 GB). […]