Author: ProHoster

Dung Beetle GPS: Multimodal Orientation System

There are questions that we asked or tried to answer: why is the sky blue, how many stars are there in the sky, who is stronger - a white shark or a killer whale, etc. And there are questions that we didn’t ask, but that doesn’t make the answer any less interesting. Such questions include the following: what is so important that scientists from […]

Public performance. Briefly about the main thing

Public speaking is a weapon in the battle of winning minds. If you are not a conqueror, you have no use for it. Otherwise, here are the “blueprints” of this weapon! Everyone decides for himself what comes first in a public speech – the presentation or the spoken text. For example, I almost always start with a presentation, which I then “overlay” with text. […]

Vector 0.3.0

This week, version 0.3.0 of the free Vector utility, designed for collecting, converting and saving log data, metrics and events, was released. Being written in the Rust language, it is characterized by high performance and low RAM consumption compared to its analogues. In addition, much attention is paid to functions related to correctness, in particular the ability to save unsent events to a buffer […]

Hacking Canonical GitHub repositories (advanced)

On the official Canonical company page on GitHub, the appearance of ten empty repositories with the names “CAN_GOT_HAXXD_N” was recorded. Currently, these repositories have already been deleted, but their traces remain in the web archive. There is no information yet about account compromise or vandalism by employees. It is also not yet clear whether the incident affected the integrity of existing repositories. Addition: David Britton (David […]

Firefox won't use DNS-over-HTTPS in UK due to blocking claims

Mozilla has no plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS support by default for UK users due to pressure from the UK Internet Service Providers Association (UK ISPA) and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). However, Mozilla is working to find potential partners to expand the use of DNS-over-HTTPS technology in other European countries. A few days ago, UK ISPA nominated Mozilla […]

Dedicated to fans of The Avengers: a special version of Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro

The Redmi brand, created by the Chinese company Xiaomi, has presented a special version of the flagship smartphone K20 Pro, addressed to fans of the Avengers from Marvel Comics. The new product is called Redmi K20 Pro Avengers Limited Edition. The back panel of the device has a black color and design in the spirit of “The Avengers”. The kit includes a protective panel in the appropriate style. Of course, the smartphone will […]

Reference Radeon RX 5700 Series Package Images

In just a few days, on July 7, AMD will release not only Ryzen 3000 desktop processors, but also Radeon RX 5700 series video cards. In the meantime, the Chinese online store JD.com has published images of the packaging of all upcoming video cards: Radeon RX 5700, RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. As is the case with other anniversary […]

How we broke through the Great Chinese Firewall (Part 1)

Hi all! Nikita is in touch, a systems engineer from SEMrush. Today I will tell you about how we faced the task of ensuring the stability of our semrush.com service in China, and what problems we encountered during its implementation (given the location of our data center on the east coast of the United States). This will be a big story, divided into several [...]

How we broke through the Great Chinese Firewall (Part 2)

Hello! Nikita is with you again, a systems engineer from SEMrush. And with this article I continue the story about how we came up with a solution to bypass the Chinese Firewall for our service semrush.com. In the previous part, I talked about what problems arise after the decision is made “We need to make our service work in China” what problems […]

What is GitOps?

Note transl.: After the recent publication of material about pull and push methods in GitOps, we saw interest in this model in general, but there were very few Russian-language publications on this topic (there are simply none on Habré). Therefore, we are pleased to offer to your attention a translation of another article - albeit almost a year ago! — from Weaveworks, head […]

Video: PS4 Asymmetrical Multiplayer Don't Even Think Launches July 10th

Since November 2018, the free-to-play battle royale Don't Even Think has been in beta on the PlayStation Store. Recently, publisher Perfect World Games and developer Dark Horse Studio announced that the project will be fully launched on July 10 on PS4, first in North America. A trailer was also presented. However, the concept has clearly changed significantly: [...]