Author: ProHoster

What is a game of validators or “how to run a proof-of-stake blockchain”

So, your team has finished the alpha version of your blockchain, and it's time to launch testnet and then mainnet. You have a real blockchain, with independent participants, a good economic model, security, you have designed governance and now it’s time to try all this in action. In an ideal crypto-anarchic world, you publish the genesis block, the final node code and the validators yourself […]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super and GTX 1650 Super Final Specs

NVIDIA has revealed to the press the final specifications of the GeForce GTX 1660 Super and GTX 1650 Super video cards. And the fact that this information is protected by a non-disclosure agreement did not stop the VideoCardz resource from publishing it. The characteristics of the GeForce GTX 1660 Super have long been known from many leaks. Therefore, let's start with the younger GeForce GTX 1650 Super, about which […]

5 Useful Ways to Use Your Raspberry Pi

Hello Habr. Almost everyone probably has a Raspberry Pi at home, and I would venture to guess that many have it lying around idle. But Raspberry is not only a valuable fur, but also a completely powerful fanless computer with Linux. Today we will look at useful features of the Raspberry Pi, for which you don’t have to write any code at all. For those who are interested, details [...]

We write protection against DDoS attacks on XDP. Nuclear part

eXpress Data Path (XDP) technology allows random traffic processing to be performed on Linux interfaces before the packets enter the kernel network stack. Application of XDP - protection against DDoS attacks (CloudFlare), complex filters, statistics collection (Netflix). XDP programs are executed by the eBPF virtual machine, so they have restrictions on both their code and the available kernel functions depending […]

Digital events in Moscow from October 28 to November 3

Selection of events for the week Accelerator of companies in the service sector October 29 (Tuesday) - December 19 (Thursday) Myasnitskaya 13с18 free Upgrade your business in the accelerator for small businesses in the service sector! The accelerator is organized by the IIDF and the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of Moscow. This is a great opportunity if your company operates in the field of preschool education, catering, beauty or tourism industry. […]

Phone surveys and CRM search in 3CX CFD, new WP-Live Chat Support plugin, Android app update

Over the past couple of weeks we have introduced several exciting updates and one new product. All these new products and improvements are in line with 3CX’s policy of creating an accessible multi-channel call center based on UC PBX. 3CX CFD update - Survey and Search components in CRM The latest release of 3CX Call Flow Designer (CFD) Update 3 received a new Survey component, […]

You are all lying! About CRM advertising

“It’s also written on the fence, and there’s firewood behind it,” is perhaps the best saying that can describe advertising on the Internet. You read one thing, and then you find out that you read it wrong, understood it wrong, and there were two stars in the upper right corner. This is the same “naked” advertising that makes adblock thrive. And even advertisers are getting tired of the flow [...]

Installing and configuring Nexus Sonatype using the infrastructure as code approach

Sonatype Nexus is an integrated platform through which developers can proxy, store and manage Java (Maven) dependencies, Docker, Python, Ruby, NPM, Bower images, RPM packages, gitlfs, Apt, Go, Nuget, and distribute their software security. Why do you need Sonatype Nexus? For storing private artifacts; For caching artifacts that are downloaded from the Internet; Artifacts supported in the basic Sonatype distribution […]

Alan Kay: What is the most amazing thing that computers have made possible

Quora: What is the most amazing thing that computers have made possible? Alan Kay: Still trying to learn how to think better. I think the answer will be very similar to the answer to the question “what is the most amazing thing that writing (and then the printing press) has made possible.” It is not that writing and printing made possible a completely different kind of […]

Something is bound to go wrong, and that's okay: how to win a hackathon with a team of three

What kind of lineup do you usually attend hackathons? Initially, we stated that the ideal team consists of five people - a manager, two programmers, a designer and a marketer. But the experience of our finalists showed that you can win a hackathon with a small team of three people. Of the 26 teams that won the final, 3 competed and won with musketeers. How can they […]

wc-themegen, a console utility for automatically adjusting the Wine theme

A year ago I learned C, mastered GTK, and in the process wrote a wrapper for Wine, which simplifies the setup of many tedious actions. Now I don’t have the time or energy to complete the project, but it had a convenient function for adapting the Wine theme to the current GTK3 theme, which I put into a separate console utility. I know that Wine-staging has a “mimicry” function for the GTK theme, [...]

WorldSkills final, development of IT solutions for business - what it is, how it was and why 1C programmers won there

WorldSkills is an international movement dedicated to professional competitions for young people under the age of 22. The international final is held every two years. This year, the venue for the final was Kazan (the last final was in 2017 in Abu Dhabi, the next one will be in 2021 in Shanghai). WorldSkills Championships are the biggest world championships [...]