Author: ProHoster

5 more daring developer training projects (Layer, Squoosh, Calculator, Website Crawler, Music Player)

We continue the series of projects for training. 9 projects to hone your Front-End skills Six tasks for a Front-End developer Fun practice for a developer 8 training projects Another list of projects to practice on Layer www.reddit.com/r/layer Layer is a community where everyone can draw a pixel on common "board". The original idea was born on Reddit. The r/Layer community is a metaphor for co-creation […]

Digital events in St. Petersburg from 4 to 10 November

Selection of events for the week C++ Evening #2 November 07 (Thursday) NabOvodny Kan. 136 free At the meeting we will discuss different formats of configuration files, and also consider approaches to organizing CMake projects, modern and not so modern. Baltic Sea Hack November 09 (Saturday) - November 10 (Sunday) Peterburgskoye sh. 64korp1 free prize fund: 500 rubles; crazy networking: [...]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1

Red Hat announced the release of the first update for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x series. The new 8.1 release introduces a new predictable update cycle with small releases every six months. It also provides the best SELInux controls for working with containers. This release also focuses on increasing uptime with kernel fixes in […]

The formation of the thermostat: how it happened

After several years of fruitful work, it was decided to bring to the public our first product for climate control in a smart home - a smart thermostat for controlling heated floors. What is this device? This is a smart thermostat for any electric heated floor up to 3kW. Managed via an application, web page, HTTP, MQTT, therefore easily integrated into all systems […]

DevOpsDays Moscow is a conference that the DevOps community does for the community

On December 7, Moscow will host the third community conference for devops enthusiasts DevOpsDays. This is not yet another conference about devops. This is a conference made by the community for the community. Among the speakers: Baruch Sadogursky (JFrog), Alexander Chistyakov (vdsina.ru), Roman Boyko (AWS), Mikhail Chinkov (AMBOSS), Rodion Nagornov (Kaspersky Lab), Andrey Shorin (DevOps consultant). In the program: Kubernetes versus reality, Serverless applications on […]

Video: an enthusiast compared Overwatch 2 with the first part - the changes are barely noticeable

The author of the YouTube channel ohnickel published a video in which he compared the recently announced Overwatch 2 with the first part. Judging by the video, the changes are subtle. In his material, the enthusiast used demo gameplay of the sequel, shown at BlizzCon 2019, and recordings of matches in Overwatch. In the video you can see the battles for Genji and Reinhardt in two parts of the franchise. The characters' skills and their […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 distribution release

Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 distribution. Installation builds are prepared for the x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 architectures, but are available for download only to registered Red Hat Customer Portal users. The sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 rpm packages are distributed through the CentOS Git repository. The RHEL 8.x branch will be supported until at least 2029 […]

The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill on mandatory pre-installation of Russian software on smartphones

Deputies of the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the mandatory installation of domestic software on technically complex products, for example, smartphones, computers, TVs with the Smart-TV function. The corresponding decision was made during a meeting of the lower house of parliament. In case of final approval from July 1, 2020, the document will oblige companies when selling certain types of technically complex goods in Russia […]

Chrome OS 78 Released with Virtual Desktop Support

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome OS 78 operating system, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage assembly tools, open components and the Chrome 78 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and instead of standard programs, web browsers are used. apps, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. Building Chrome […]

The Joker as the main character and Reshade - the first mods for Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on PC today, a year after its release on PS4 and Xbox One. The game will be available on the Rockstar Games Launcher and Epic Games Store, and will reach Steam in December. However, modders are not asleep and have already published several interesting modifications for the western. The RedDeadModders team has released a mod that turns Arthur Morgan into the Joker […]

Vulnerabilities in cpio and libarchive

Four years after the last release, the cpio 2.13 file archiving utility, used in RPM packages and initramfs, has been released. The new release addresses three vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-1197 - allows files to be overwritten outside the directory in which the archive is expanded. CVE-2016-2037 - Causes an out-of-bound buffer write when processing specially crafted files […]

Co-founder of Devolver Digital urged developers not to cultivate addiction in games

At the Reboot Develop conference, Devolver Digital co-founder Mike Wilson spoke on the topic of gaming addiction. He mentioned that the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized over-indulgence in interactive works as a disease. The executive urged developers to “be conscious” about the kind of projects they create. And in his speech he compared the gaming industry to the drug business. Mike Wilson reported: "We feed […]