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Book "Programming Add-Ons for Blender 2.8" published

Witold Jaworski has published a free book in English on developing Python add-ons for Blender 2.80 under the CC-NC-ND 3.0 license. This is the second edition of the previously published book “PyDev Blender” (the first edition was focused on creating add-ons for Blender 2.5x-2.7x) PS: Witold has been involved in 3D modeling of aircraft in Blender (and creating add-ons for Blender) for many years [... ]

Kenneth Reitz is looking for new maintainers for his repositories

Kenneth Reitz, a renowned software engineer, international speaker, open source advocate, street photographer, and electronic music producer, invites free software developers to take on the burden of maintaining one of his Python library repositories: requests records requests-html setup. py legit responder Also, other little-known projects are available for obtaining maintainership and the right to become an “owner”. Kenneth […]

Release of the distribution kit for creating firewalls OPNsense 19.7

After 6 months of development, the release of the distribution kit for creating firewalls OPNsense 19.7 is presented, which is a fork from the pfSense project, created with the goal of forming a completely open distribution kit that could have functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not controlled by one company, developed with direct […]

Vulnerability in firmware of BMC controllers affecting servers of many manufacturers

Eclypsium has identified two vulnerabilities in the firmware of the BMC controller included in Lenovo ThinkServer servers, allowing a local user to spoof the firmware or execute arbitrary code on the BMC chip side. Further analysis showed that these problems also affect the firmware of BMC controllers used in Gigabyte Enterprise Servers server platforms, which are also used in servers from companies such as Acer, AMAX, Bigtera, Ciara, […]

Contract for 10 billion: who will deal with the cloud for the Pentagon

We understand the situation and provide the community’s opinions regarding the potential deal. Photo - Clem Onojeghuo - Unsplash Background In 2018, the Pentagon began working on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program (JEDI). It provides for the transfer of all organization data to a single cloud. This even applies to secret information about weapons systems, as well as data about military personnel and combat […]

AERODISK Engine: Disaster recovery. Part 2. Metrocluster

Hello, Habr readers! In the last article, we talked about a simple means of disaster recovery in AERODISK ENGINE storage systems - replication. In this article, we will dive into a more complex and interesting topic - the metrocluster, that is, a means of automated disaster protection for two data centers, allowing data centers to operate in active-active mode. We'll tell you, show you, break it and fix it. How […]

Manage mobile devices and more with Sophos UEM solution

Today, many companies actively use not only computers, but also mobile devices and laptops in their work. This raises the challenge of managing these devices using a unified solution. Sophos Mobile successfully copes with this task and opens up great opportunities for the administrator: Managing mobile devices owned by the company; BYOD, containers for access to corporate data. In details […]

Why Hidden Game Mechanics Are Necessary

Video games are a unique art. It's all because of the way they create experiences. The player controls what happens and creates a level of immersion that cannot be compared to anything else. He doesn't just observe something, he participates in it. Creating these feelings is what game design is all about. Every twist or game mechanic helps create emotion. Most of them […]

How an online tournament can discourage the desire to “finish it next week”

Hi all! I want to talk about an online competition for projects and startups, where I have been playing for the third month with Loresome as a project. This time was the most productive and focused not only in the life of the project, but probably in my life in general. A quick summary of the article for those who don't have time: Pioneer is an online tournament similar to a hackathon […]

Another PS4 Exclusive Coming to PC – Tetris Effect Pre-Orders Launched on the Epic Games Store

Enhance Games studio suddenly announced that its Tetris Effect project will no longer be a PS4 exclusive. The game will be released on PC and will be temporarily available for purchase only on the Epic Games Store. In honor of the release on the new platform, the authors released a trailer with press ratings and a list of improvements in the PC version. The new video shows gameplay footage accompanied by a cheerful […]

AMD Radeon Driver 19.7.2 Brings Gears 5 Beta Support

If the first July driver brought support for new technologies like Radeon Anti-Lag, Radeon Image Sharpening and Radeon RX 5700 video cards, then Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.7.2 is focused on supporting the action movie Gears 5, the first stage of beta testing of which will begin on July 19 and end July 22. In addition, the company's engineers have fixed a number of existing problems: Radeon streaming is unavailable […]

Google Pixel 4 with its unusual camera spotted in public again

Google took an unprecedented step last month by confirming the development of the Pixel 4 smartphone and releasing an official image. The device has previously been spotted in public, and 9to5Google recently obtained another set of photos showing off the Pixel 4 and its very noticeable rear camera. Reportedly, one of the readers of the resource met the Pixel 4 on the London Underground. How can […]