Author: ProHoster

China adopted its “Yarovaya package”

Late last year, the Chinese government introduced a new cybersecurity law, the so-called Cybersecurity Muti-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS 2.0). The law, which took effect in December, effectively means the government has unlimited access to all data within the country, regardless of whether it is stored on Chinese servers or transmitted through Chinese networks. This […]

How we saved 120 rubles a year on the paid Yandex.Maps API

I'm developing a website builder called Creatium, and one of the components used to build pages is Yandex Map. Some time ago, search stopped working in this component. Why fixing the search could cost us 120 rubles a year, and how we avoided it - under the cut. This is a key function of the component, because it is through the search that clients indicate the address [...]

Paul Graham announces new programming language Bel

The Bel language is written in the Bel language. In 1960, John McCarthy described Lisp, a new type of programming language. I say "new type" because Lisp was not just a new language, but a new way of describing languages. To define Lisp, he started with a small set of statements, a kind of axioms, which he then used to write an interpreter for […]

Full Backup using standard Windows tools

As people say, admins are divided into two types, the first type are those who have not yet done Backup and the second are those who are already doing it. So let’s get down to business right away and not associate ourselves with these types. How it all started and it all started with the fact that one wonderful day my hard drive crashed [...]

An interesting project in a friendly team, or how much does the right employee cost?

Already in several articles there have flashed phrases like “IT developers eat too much,” and solutions to problems like: So, interesting tasks that allow you to develop skills in the comfortable environment of Russian organizations are an excellent counter to the attractiveness of high salaries in the USA and Europe Well, yes, Dad, what are we Shall we eat today? It’s okay, I’m working on an interesting project in a friendly team. IN […]

TOP 25 largest ICOs: what's wrong with them now?

We decided to study which ICOs became the largest in terms of fees and what happened to them at the moment. The top three are led by EOS, Telegram Open Network and UNUS SED LEO with a large gap from the rest. In addition, these are the only projects that have raised more than a billion through ICO. EOS is a blockchain platform for decentralized applications and businesses. Team […]

Me and my moped. Scaling inefficiencies

Do you work in the evenings? And at lunch? On the weekend? Sometimes? How much is “sometimes”? And I'm working. There are all sorts of beautiful sayings about extracurricular work, for example - I work to live, and I don’t live to work. I propose to do without them, and to comprehend the concept of efficiency. Efficiency is the cost of producing a result, or, more simply, the cost of the result. Further […]

First release of wZD 1.0.0, compact storage server for small files

The first release of wZD 1.0.0 is available - a server for efficiently storing large numbers of files in a compact form, which from the outside looks like a regular WebDAV server. A modified version of BoltDB is used for storage. The project code is written in Go and distributed under the BSD license. The server allows you to significantly reduce the number of small files on regular or clustered file systems with full support […]

Released PinePhone - secure Linux-smartphone

The Pine64 company announced the start of sales of the free, secure smartphone PinePhone. The smartphone is aimed at those who believe that a person should have complete control over technology and their life. Anyone who values ​​privacy and hates Android and iOS telemetry is a potential PinePhone buyer. It's time to send big brother to /dev/null! The first batch sold like hotcakes, but [...]

Capcom released a saving patch for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, but it did not help everyone

Capcom announced the release of a promised patch for the PC version of Monster Hunter: World, which was designed to fix performance issues and eliminate the disappearance of saves in the Iceborne add-on. The developers note that protection against lost progress has its price: for users whose files were created before November 22, 2018, with the release of the new patch, the keyboard layout will return to standard values. […]

Soon The Elder Scrolls Online will receive official Russian localization

In addition to the announcement of the major addition “Dark Heart of Skyrim” for The Elder Scrolls Online, publisher Bethesda Softworks and studio ZeniMax Online also announced that the game will be officially localized into Russian this year. Director Matt Firor addressed Russian-speaking players in a separate video, saying that a version of the MMORPG for […]