Author: ProHoster

"Yandex" and St. Petersburg University will open the Faculty of Computer Science

St. Petersburg State University, together with Yandex, JetBrains and the Gazpromneft company, will open a faculty of mathematics and computer science. The faculty will have three undergraduate programs: “Mathematics”, “Modern Programming”, “Mathematics, Algorithms and Data Analysis”. The first two were already at the university, the third is a new program developed at Yandex. It will be possible to continue your studies in the master’s program “Modern Mathematics”, which is also [...]

Habr Weekly #5 / Dark themes are everywhere, Chinese factories in Russia, where bank bases have leaked, Pixel 4, ML pollutes the atmosphere

The latest episode of the Habr Weekly podcast has been released. We are happy for Ivan Golunov and discuss the posts published on Habré this week: Dark themes will become default. Or not? The Russian Minister of Communications suggested that the Chinese move production to Russia. The Russian government suggested that Huawei use the Aurora OS (ex-Sailfish) for its smartphones. Personal data of 900 thousand clients of OTP Bank, Alfa Bank and HKF Bank leaked to […]

Free as in Freedom in Russian: Chapter 1. Fatal Printer

Fatal Printer Fear the Danaans who bring gifts. – Virgil, “Aeneid” Again the new printer jammed the paper. An hour earlier, Richard Stallman, a programmer at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), sent a 50-page document to print on the office printer and plunged into work. And now Richard looked up from what he was doing, went to the printer and saw a most unpleasant sight: instead of the long-awaited 50 printed pages […]

E3 2019: Fallout Shelter will appear in Tesla cars

At E3 2019, Todd Howard and Elon Musk announced that the Fallout Shelter management simulator would be coming to Tesla cars. The release date has not been specified. Howard and Musk talked about a lot of things on one of the stages of the exhibition. The conversation was more friendly than official: about the past, technology, cars and even Fallout 76. […]

The actress who played Ellie hinted at the release date of The Last of Us: Part II

PlayStation Universe published interesting material regarding an interview with actress Ashley Johnson. It appeared on the Internet more than a week ago, but then no one noticed that the girl let slip about the release date of The Last of Us: Part II. You can watch the moment in the video below, starting at 1:07:25. When asked by the presenter about the timing of the project’s release, Ashley Johnson clearly […]

E3 2019: new trailer for the futuristic strategy Age of Wonders: Planetfall and comparison of editions

Paradox Interactive and Triumph studio presented a new trailer for the strategy Age of Wonders: Planetfall. The trailer showcases several factions, a variety of picturesque landscapes, from forests and plains to steppes and volcanoes, a development tree and military strength. In Age of Wonders, you must side with one of six factions to lead them to prosperity during the Dark Ages […]

Cabinets, modules or blocks - what to choose for power management in the data center?

Modern data centers require a careful approach to power supply. It is necessary to simultaneously monitor the status of loads and manage the connection of equipment. This can be done using cabinets, modules, or power distribution units. About what type of power equipment is best suited for specific situations, we talk in our post on examples of Delta solutions. Powering a dynamic data center is often a daunting task. […]

Hybrid clouds: a reminder for novice pilots

Hello, Khabrovites! According to statistics, the cloud services market in Russia is constantly gaining momentum. Hybrid clouds are trending more than ever, despite the fact that the technology itself is far from new. Many companies are thinking about how expedient it is to maintain and maintain a huge fleet of hardware, including the one that is needed situationally, in the form of a private cloud. Today we are going to talk about which […]

Slurm: the caterpillar turned into a butterfly

Slurm really allows you to get into the Kubernetes topic or improve your knowledge. The participants are happy. There are only a few of those who have not learned anything new or have not solved their problems. The unconditional moneyback of the first day (“If you feel that Slurm is not suitable for you, we will refund the full price of the ticket”) was used by only one person, justifying that he overestimated his strength. Next […]

Read datasheets 2: SPI on STM32; PWM, timers and interrupts on STM8

In the first part, I tried to tell hobby electronics engineers who have grown up from Arduino pants how and why they should read datasheets and other documentation for microcontrollers. The text turned out to be large, so I promised to show practical examples in a separate article. Well, I called myself a load... Today I will show you how to use datasheets to solve quite simple, but necessary for many projects […]

Dark times are coming

Or what you should keep in mind when developing a dark mode for an application or website. 2018 showed that dark modes are on the way. Now that we're halfway through 2019, we can say with confidence: they're here, and they're everywhere. An example of an old green-on-black monitor Let's start with the fact that dark mode is not a new concept at all. It is used […]

A website with databases of almost a million clients of Russian banks has been blocked

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reports that in our country access to a forum distributing personal data bases of 900 thousand clients of Russian banks has been blocked. We reported a few days ago about a major leak of information about clients of Russian financial organizations. Information about OTP clients has become publicly available […]