Author: ProHoster

Programmer moving to Estonia: work, money and cost of living

Articles about moving to different countries are quite popular on Habré. I collected information about moving to the capital of Estonia - Tallinn. Today we’ll talk about whether it’s easy for a developer to find vacancies with the possibility of relocation, how much you can earn and what to generally expect from life in the north of Europe. Tallinn: a developed startup ecosystem Despite the fact that the entire population of Estonia is […]

Interview with market researcher and software development trends in Central and Eastern Europe, Eugene Schwab-Chesaru

As part of my job, I interviewed a person who has been researching the market, software development trends and IT services in Central and Eastern Europe for many years, 15 of them in Russia. And although the most interesting, in my opinion, the interlocutor left behind the scenes, nevertheless, this story can be both interesting and inspiring. See for yourself. Eugene, […]

Residential Voltage Monitoring Relay

Nowadays, it has become a fairly common practice to install voltage control relays in the residential sector to protect electrical equipment from zero loss, from overvoltage and undervoltage. On Instagram and YouTube you can see that many of my colleagues are experiencing problems in this area, after installing voltage control relays from Meander, and some other manufacturers who very often come out of […]

PrivacyGuard support in Linux 5.4 on new Lenovo ThinkPads

New Lenovo ThinkPad laptops come with PrivacyGuard to limit the vertical and horizontal viewing angles of the LCD display. Previously, this was possible using special optical film coatings. The new function can be turned on/off depending on the situation. PrivacyGuard is available on select new ThinkPad models (T480s, T490, and T490s). The issue of enabling support for this option on Linux was to determine […]

LG's OLED 4K TVs will try their hand at gaming monitors thanks to G-Sync

For quite a long time, NVIDIA has been promoting the idea of ​​BFG displays (Big Format Gaming Displays) - giant 65-inch gaming monitors with a high refresh rate, low response time, supporting HDR and G-Sync technology. But so far, as part of this initiative, there is only one model actually available for sale - the 65-inch HP OMEN X Emperium monitor with a price of $4999. However, this is not at all [...]

DPI (SSL inspection) goes against the grain of cryptography, but companies are implementing it

Chain of trust. CC BY-SA 4.0 Yanpas SSL traffic inspection (SSL/TLS decryption, SSL or DPI analysis) is becoming an increasingly hot topic of discussion in the corporate sector. The idea of ​​decrypting traffic seems to contradict the very concept of cryptography. However, the fact is a fact: more and more companies are using DPI technologies, explaining this by the need to check content for malware, data leaks, etc. […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 39 Stacking and Switch Chassis Aggregation

Today we will look at the advantages of two types of switch aggregation: Switch Stacking, or switch stacks, and Chassis Aggregation, or switch chassis aggregation. This is section 1.6 of the ICND2 exam topic. When developing a company network design, you will need to provide for the placement of Access Switches, to which many user computers are connected, and Distribution Switches, to which these access switches are connected. […]

The new Xiaomi external battery has a capacity of 10 mAh

The Chinese company Xiaomi has released a new external battery designed to replenish the batteries of various mobile devices. The new product is called Xiaomi Wireless Power Bank Youth Edition. The capacity of this battery is 10 mAh. The product supports Qi wireless charging technology. This system uses magnetic induction method. The new Xiaomi Wireless Power Bank Youth Edition is reported to support 000W […]

DDR4-6016 mode submitted to the system based on the Intel Core i9-9900K processor

In the field of extreme memory overclocking, the first half of the year passed under the banner of Intel processors from the Coffee Lake Refresh family, since they quickly pushed the limiting memory operating modes beyond DDR4-5500, but each subsequent step was given with great difficulty. The AMD platform managed to make up a little bit after the release of the Ryzen 3000 processors, but the current memory overclocking record for systems based on […]

Deliver Us The Moon Gameplay Trailer Coming October 10th on PC and 2020 on Consoles

Initially, the first part of the sci-fi adventure Deliver Us The Moon, subtitled Fortuna, was released on PC in September 2018, and this year the developers were going to release the full game in versions for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. However, studio KeokeN Interactive and publisher Wired Productions have revised their plans once again, so the game is now […]

Acer Joins Linux Vendor Firmware Service

After a long time, Acer has joined Dell, HP, Lenovo and other manufacturers who offer firmware updates for their systems through the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). This service provides resources for software and hardware manufacturers to keep their products updated. Simply put, it allows you to update UEFI and other firmware files automatically without user intervention. […]

Germany and France will block Facebook's Libra digital currency in Europe

The German government is opposed to granting regulatory approval for the use of digital currency in the European Union, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing a member of Germany's conservative CDU party, whose leader is Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU lawmaker Thomas Heilmann said in an interview with Spiegel that once a digital currency issuer begins to dominate the […]