Author: ProHoster

Microsoft received a license to supply Huawei with software

Microsoft representatives announced that the corporation has received a license from the US government to supply its own software to the Chinese company Huawei. “On November 20, the US Department of Commerce approved Microsoft's request to grant a license to export mass market software to Huawei. We appreciate the Department's actions in response to our request,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in response to the issue. On […]

The Honor V30 5G smartphone with Kirin 990 chip and Android 10 showed its capabilities in Geekbench

The Honor V30 smartphone will be officially presented next week. In anticipation of this event, the device was tested in the Geekbench benchmark, thanks to which some of its features became known before the official announcement. The Honor V30, known under the codename Huawei OXF-AN10, operates on the Android 10 software platform. It is assumed that the smartphone will have the following version of the user interface […]

Solving the problem with switching by alt + shift in Linux, in applications on Electron

Hello colleagues! I want to share my solution to the problem that is indicated in the title. I was inspired to write this article by my colleague brnovk, who was not too lazy and offered a partial (for me) solution to the problem. I made my own “crutch” which helped me. I'm sharing with you. Description of the problem I used Ubuntu 18.04 for work and recently noticed that when switching […]

Installing Vmware ESXi on Mac Pro 1,1

In this article I describe my experience installing VMware ESXi on an old Apple Mac Pro 1,1. The customer was given the task of expanding the file server. How the company’s file server was created on a PowerMac G5 in 2016, and how it was to maintain the created legacy is worthy of a separate article. It was decided to combine the expansion with modernization and make a file server from the existing MacPro. AND […]

How we hosted the scandalous 8chan imageboard

8chan (new name 8kun) is a popular anonymous forum with the ability for users to create their own thematic sections of the site and administer them independently. Known for its policy of minimal administration intervention in content moderation, which is why it has become popular with various dubious audiences. After lone terrorists left their messages on the site, persecution began on the forum - they began to be kicked out […]

Personal data in the Russian Federation: who are we all? Where are we going?

Over the past few years, we have all heard the phrase “personal data.” To a greater or lesser extent, they brought their business processes into compliance with the requirements of legislation in this area. The number of Roskomnadzor inspections that revealed violations in this area this year is persistently striving for 100%. Statistics from the Roskomnadzor Office for the Central Federal District for the 1st half of 2019 – 131 violations for […]

From blockchain to DAG: getting rid of intermediaries

In this article, I will tell you about DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) and its application in distributed ledgers, and we will compare it with blockchain. DAG is nothing new in the world of cryptocurrencies. You may have heard of it as a solution to blockchain scalability problems. But today we will not talk about scalability, but about [...]

The brain of the company. Part 2

Continuation of the story about the ups and downs of introducing AI in a trading company, about whether it is possible to completely do without managers. And what (hypothetically) this could lead to. The full version can be downloaded from Litres (free) *** The world has already changed, the transformation has already begun. We ourselves, of our own free will, become devices for reading instructions from a computer and smartphone. We think that […]

How I went to a meeting at School 21

Hello Not long ago I learned about the miracle school School 21 in an advertisement. The first impression from everything I read was wonderful. Nobody bothers you, they give you tasks, you do everything calmly. This includes teamwork, interesting acquaintances, and 2 internships in the largest IT companies in the country, plus everything is free with accommodation in a hostel (Kazan). IN […]

The brain of the company. Part 3

Continuation of the story about the ups and downs of introducing AI in a trading company, about whether it is possible to completely do without managers. And what (hypothetically) this could lead to. The full version can be downloaded from Litres (free) Bots decide everything - Max, I congratulate you, we have done almost everything along the sales chain. There are still improvements to be made, and you will receive interest for three years, [...]