Author: ProHoster

Digital events in Moscow from 24 to 30 June

A selection of events for the week. First sales abroad: hacks, cases and mistakes of founders June 25 (Tuesday) Myasnitskaya 13 page 18 Free On June 25, we’ll talk about how an IT startup can launch its first sales on the international market with minimal losses and attract investment abroad. Summer discussion about serious marketing in B2B June 25 (Tuesday) Zemlyanoy Val 8 rub. […]

Consequences of untimely removal of wisdom teeth

Hello again! Today I would like to write a mini post and answer the question - “Why remove wisdom teeth if they don’t bother you?”, and comment on the statement - “My relatives and friends, dad/mom/grandfather/granny/neighbor/cat had a tooth removed and that’s it went wrong. Absolutely everyone had complications and now there are no removals.” To begin with, I would like to say that complications [...]

Midnight Commander 4.8.23 file manager release

After six months of development, the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.23 has been released, distributed in source code under the GPLv3+ license. List of main changes: The deletion of large directories has been significantly accelerated (previously, recursive deletion of directories was significantly slower than “rm -rf” since each file was iterated and deleted separately); The layout of the dialog displayed when attempting to overwrite an existing file has been redesigned. Button […]

Dell, HP, Microsoft and Intel oppose proposed tariffs on laptops and tablets

Dell Technologies, HP, Microsoft and Intel on Wednesday opposed US President Donald Trump's proposal to include laptops and tablets in the list of goods imported from China subject to import duties. Dell, HP and Microsoft, which together account for 52% of U.S. sales of laptops and tablets with detachable keyboards, said the proposed tariffs would increase […]

Updated NVIDIA Turing "Super" graphics cards get recommended prices

According to unofficial information, tomorrow NVIDIA may present an updated family of video cards with Turing architecture, which will receive faster memory, the “Super” suffix in the model designation, and most importantly, a more attractive combination of price and performance. As a rule, in each price niche, the GPU in the Super series will be borrowed from the older video card of the previous family, and the number of active cores […]

What do we know about microservices

Hello! My name is Vadim Madison, I lead the development of the Avito System Platform. How we in the company are moving from a monolithic architecture to a microservice has been said more than once. It's time to share how we transformed our infrastructure to get the most out of microservices and not get lost in them. How PaaS helps us here, how we […]

Seven threats from bots to your site

DDoS attacks remain one of the most discussed topics in the field of information security. At the same time, not everyone knows that bot traffic, which is the tool for such attacks, entails many other dangers for online business. With the help of bots, attackers can not only crash a website, but also steal data, distort business metrics, increase advertising costs, ruin the reputation […]

"Live in high" or my story from procrastination to self-development

Hello Friend. Today we will not talk about complex and not so complex aspects of programming languages ​​or some kind of Rocket Science. Today I will tell you a short story about how I took the path of a programmer. This is my story and you can’t change it, but if it helps at least one person become a little more confident, then it was […]

Mastodon 2.9.2

Mastodon is “decentralized Twitter.” Microblogs scattered across many independent servers interconnected into one network. The closest analogue is regular E-mail. You can register on any server and subscribe to messages from users of any other servers. Changes (since v2.9.0) New functionality Added API for moderation. Added audio loading. Added short_description and approval_required to the GET method […]

GNU APL 1.8 release

After more than two years of development, the GNU Project has released GNU APL 1.8, an interpreter for one of the oldest programming languages, APL, that fully meets the requirements of the ISO 13751 (“Programming Language APL, Extended”) standard. The APL language is optimized for working with arbitrarily nested arrays and supports complex numbers, which makes it popular for scientific calculations and data processing. […]

A new build of Slackware has been prepared as part of the TinyWare project

Builds of the TinyWare project have been prepared, based on the 32-bit version of Slackware-Current and shipped with 32- and 64-bit versions of the Linux 4.19 kernel. The iso image size is 800 MB. Main changes compared to the original Slackware: Installation on 4 partitions “/”, “/boot”, “/var” and “/home”. The “/” and “/boot” partitions are mounted in read-only mode, while the “/home” and “/var” partitions are mounted in […]