Author: ProHoster

Pokemon Sword and Shield get off to the best start in Nintendo Switch gaming history

Nintendo reported on the success of Pokemon Sword and Shield. In the first week of sales, more than 6 million copies of the new part of the role-playing series were sold - this is a record for the Nintendo Switch. As the publisher notes, 2 million copies were sold in Japan and the USA. For the American market, the launch of Pokemon Sword and Shield turned out to be the highest grossing in the history of the franchise. […]

Hello old friend: Valve has introduced Half-Life: Alyx - a full-fledged VR game in the Half-Life series

Valve has officially unveiled Half-Life: Alyx. This will be a full-fledged part of the Half-Life series, created specifically for virtual reality headsets. Support for Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality devices has been announced. The events of Half-Life: Alyx take place between Half-Life and Half-Life 2. In the role of Alyx Vance, you need to organize resistance against the Alliance, whose influence has increased exponentially after […]

The Humble Bundle store is giving away Serial Cleaner, an isometric stealth action game about the evidence cleaner

The Humble Bundle store regularly gives away a variety of games. One of these has started today - users can get a Serial Cleaner key for free to activate on Steam. The game is an isometric stealth action game about an evidence cleaner. The main character works for the mafia and is called when it is necessary to clean up crime scenes. Users arrive at the location to wash […]

The functionality of modern application protection systems (WAF) should be much wider than the list of vulnerabilities from OWASP Top 10

Retrospective The scale, composition and structure of cyber threats to applications are rapidly evolving. For many years, users have accessed web applications over the Internet using popular web browsers. It was necessary to support 2-5 web browsers at any given time, and the set of standards for developing and testing web applications was quite limited. For example, almost all databases were built using SQL. TO […]

Pirelli launches world's first 5G tires

Pirelli has demonstrated one of the possible scenarios for using fifth generation mobile communications (5G) to improve road safety. We are talking about the exchange of data collected by “smart” tires with other cars in the stream. The transmission of information will be organized through a 5G network, which will ensure minimal delays and high throughput - characteristics that are extremely important in conditions of intense traffic. […]

How to move to the Netherlands as a programmer

Disclaimer: This article was started back in the summer. Not long ago, there was a surge of articles on the hub on the topic of finding work abroad and moving. Each of them gave my butt some acceleration. Which ultimately forced me to overcome my laziness and sit down to write, or rather finish, another article. Some of the material may repeat articles by other authors, [...]

Slurm Basic in Moscow. The first day. A volley from CocaCola, the microphone was taken away from the host and support is on the alert

Slurm is growing. In St. Petersburg, there were 70 people in the hall at Slurm DevOps. Moscow parachuted 104 people into the conference hall of the Sevastopol Hotel. Another record that modestly tells us that we are going in the right direction. They settled down and not in cramped quarters, and not offended. Before the start of the Slurm, the lecturer asked the mobile phones to be turned off. He also asked […]

Zimbra and spam protection

One of the key tasks facing the administrator of his own mail server in the enterprise is filtering messages containing spam. The harm from spam is obvious and understandable: in addition to the threat to the information security of the enterprise, it takes up space on the server's hard drive, and also reduces the efficiency of employees when it enters the "Inbox". Separating spam from business email is not […]

Eco-fiction to protect the planet

Cli-Fi (climate fiction, a derivative of Sci-Fi, science fiction) began to be discussed in detail in 2007, although science fiction works touching on environmental issues had been published before. Cli-Fi is a very interesting subgenre of science fiction, which is based on theoretically possible or already existing technologies and scientific achievements of mankind that can radically ruin our lives. Ecofiction raises issues [...]

JSON-RPC? Take the tricky REST

I'm sure the headline elicited a healthy reaction - "well, it started again ..." But let me grab your attention for 5-10 minutes, and I will try not to deceive expectations. The structure of the article will be as follows: a stereotypical statement is taken and the “nature” of the emergence of this stereotype is revealed. I hope this will allow you to look at the choice of the data exchange paradigm in your projects from a new angle. In order to […]

Protecting Zimbra OSE from brute force and DoS attacks

Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open-Source Edition has several powerful information security tools in its arsenal. Among them are Postscreen, a solution to protect the mail server from botnet attacks, ClamAV, an antivirus that can scan incoming files and emails for malware, and SpamAssassin, one of the best spam filters today. […]

Batch Problems and Solutions (Part 1)

Almost all modern software products consist of several services. Often, long response times of interservice channels become a source of performance problems. The standard solution to this kind of problem is to pack multiple inter-service requests into one package, which is called batching. If you use batch processing, you may not be happy with the results in terms of performance or code clarity. This method is not so simple […]