Author: ProHoster

Ours in the 2019 quadrant! How the Gartner Meeting Solutions Analytical Report on Video Conferencing Has Changed in Five Years

The material was prepared by the editors of the Video+Conference website. Photo: Nashe Radio In 2019, for the first time, a Russian company appeared in Gartner’s analytical report on video communication and collaboration. Surrounded by Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Huawei and other industry monsters. First, we’ll tell you about the report itself and the changes over the past five years, and at the end, a small blitz from the heroes of the occasion […]

Habr Weekly # 31 / Rambler vs Nginx, Tinkoff did it all and “fell”, tax on purchases over €20, redesign of Habr

In this issue: 00:35 Tinkoff put its competitors in checkmate and fell 06:39 The Ministry of Finance proposed reducing the threshold for duty-free import of online purchases to 20 euros 11:58 The Nginx office is being searched at the request of Rambler. The Rambler press service confirmed the existence of claims, itsumma 19:15 Toaster, My Circle and Freelansim become part of Habr 19:54 Unofficial post about Habr rebranding + Competition 21:29 […]

A selection of entertaining statistical facts

A selection of graphs and results of various studies with short annotations. I spotted a graph from German Kaplun on Facebook, which he titled “Online supermarkets - everything is just beginning.” Russia is not on the list, but if you compare the turnover of Utkonos, Instamart and iGooods with one X5 Retail Group or Magnit, it will be clear that we are somewhere close to Brazil and India. But […]

A selection of videos from events for developers - December

Let's remember what events for developers took place this month in Moscow and watch videos from these meetings. Perhaps I might have missed something and I would be grateful if you could write what is missing. The list is sorted by date and will be updated as material becomes available: December 3 moscowcss No. 16 “BRAND x UI” “Recipe for a sought-after layout designer: design + code” […]

I came 8.2

The Vim text editor version 8.2 has been released. One of the main features of this release is the long-awaited support for pop-up windows (including for plugins). The list of other innovations includes: Dictionaries with the ability to use alphabetic keys: let options = #{width: 30, height: 24} The const command, which is used to declare immutable variables, for example: const TIMER_DELAY = 400. Available […]

D9VK 0.40 release, Direct3D 9 implementations on top of Vulkan

The D9VK 0.40 project has been released, providing an implementation of Direct3D 9 that works through translation of calls to the Vulkan graphics API. The project is based on the DXVK project codebase, which has been extended with support for Direct3D 9. Compared to the WineD3D-based Direct9D 3 implementation, D9VK achieves higher performance because the Direct3D 9 translation via OpenGL is slower than the […]

NomadBSD 1.3

Marcel Kaiser announced the release of a new version of NomadBSD - a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD with the Openbox window manager - 1.3. This version is based on FreeBSD 12.1. New version includes: Unionfs-fuse as an alternative to FreeBSD Unionfs (caused by locking issue). The MBR partition table, which replaced GPT to prevent problems with Lenovo systems that refuse to boot from GPT, […]

xine 1.2.10 release

Presented the release of xine-lib 1.2.10, a multi-platform library for playing video and audio files, as well as a set of related plugins. The library can be used in a number of video players, including Xine-UI, gxine, kaffeine. Xine supports multi-threaded operation, supports a large number of popular and little-known formats and codecs, and can process both local content and multimedia streams transmitted over the network. […]

EA Motive CEO: Electronic Arts now feels like a different quality company

Founded by Assassin's Creed producer Jade Raymond in 2015, Canadian studio EA Motive lost its leader in October 2018. Jade Raymond is now leading the first Google Stadia development team, but what about EA Motive? GamesIndustry recently published an interview with the new head of the studio, Patrick Klaus, also a former Ubisoft employee who is known […]

Firefox 73 will introduce single site browser mode. Strengthening the protection of add-on developer accounts

After adding support for working in Internet kiosk mode in Firefox 71, Mozilla developers added to the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which the Firefox 73 release will be formed, the ability to open a link using the “Site Specific Browser” (SSB) concept. The new mode limits opening in the window only links to pages of the current site (external links open in a separate browser window), and […]

Frostpunk: The Last Autumn add-on will tell about the world of the game before the onset of winter

11 bit studio has announced an expansion of the Frostpunk strategy called The Last Autumn. It will serve as a prequel to the plot of the main game. The story of The Last Autumn will tell about an important turning point in the Frostpunk universe. The addition will shed light on the events that occurred before the eternal frost. According to the plot of the DLC, the world of Frostpunk is still full of life and energy. The last remnants of civilization […]