The theme of post-apocalypse has long been firmly established in all spheres of culture and art. Books, games, films, Internet projects - all this has long been firmly established in our lives. There are even particularly paranoid and fairly wealthy people who seriously build shelters and buy cartridges and stewed meat in reserve, hoping to wait out the dark times. However, few people thought about […]
Dumps of historical slices with BSD 3 code published in the public domain also contain the /etc/passwd file with password hashes of the founders of Unix. Since the passwords are hashed using the DES method, which is easy to guess for modern computing, enthusiasts have tried to recover the passwords used by the founders of Unix. The passwords of almost all the founders of Unix were guessed by almost […]
Sharp Corporation announced the S7 smartphone with a “pure” version of the Android operating system, created under the Android One program. The device belongs to the average level. It is equipped with a Snapdragon 630 processor, which combines eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores with a frequency of up to 2,2 GHz, an Adreno 508 graphics controller and an X12 LTE cellular modem. The amount of RAM is 3 GB, the capacity of the flash drive […]
Rostelecom and Russian Standard Bank presented a service for paying for purchases in stores, which involves the use of biometric technologies to recognize customers. We are talking about identifying users by face. Reference images for personal recognition will be downloaded from the Unified Biometric System. In other words, individuals will be able to make biometric payments after registering a digital image. To do this, the potential buyer needs to submit biometric […]
Presented is the release of the NixOS 19.09 distribution, based on the Nix package manager and providing a number of proprietary developments that simplify system setup and maintenance. For example, NixOS uses a single system configuration file (configuration.nix), provides the ability to quickly roll back updates, supports switching between different system states, supports installation of individual packages by individual users (the package is placed in the home directory), simultaneous installation of […]
Every third DUMP speaker said during the selection process: “Wow, how serious things are with you!” or “What, maybe a few runs?” Maybe, maybe... Hardcore and practice, practice and hardcore - this is what the middles who come to DAMPs expect. And the program committee runs each application through 3 selection stages. On November 8, Alexander Orlov (Stratoplan), […]
Electronic Arts announced that the FIFA 20 audience has reached 10 million players. FIFA 20 is available through subscription services EA Access and Origin Access, so 10 million players does not mean 10 million copies sold. Still, it's an impressive milestone that the project was able to achieve in less than two weeks since its release. Electronic Arts […]
Publisher Blowfish Studios and Sky Machine Studios have announced the Victorian isometric stealth action game Winter Ember. “Sky Machine has created an immersive stealth game that makes great use of lighting, verticality and a deep toolbox to allow players to sneak around as they see fit,” said Blowfish Studios co-founder Ben Lee. — We look forward to showing more Winter Ember […]
This article will compare backup tools, but first you should find out how quickly and well they cope with restoring data from backups. For ease of comparison, we will consider restoring from a full backup, especially since all candidates support this mode of operation. For simplicity, the numbers are already averaged (the arithmetic mean of several runs). […]
The XFX company, according to the VideoCardz.com resource, has prepared for release the Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra graphics accelerator for gaming desktop computers. Let us recall the key characteristics of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT series solutions. These are 2560 stream processors and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 256-bit bus. For reference products, the base frequency is 1605 MHz, the boost frequency is […]
CD Projekt RED invites gamers to join the closed beta testing of the mobile version of the card game GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, which will begin next week. As part of closed beta testing, iOS users will be able to play GWENT: The Witcher Card Game on Apple devices for the first time. To participate, you only need a GOG.COM account. Players will be able to transfer their profile from the PC version […]
Hello, Habr! Previously, I complained about life in the Infrastructure as code paradigm and did not offer anything to solve the current situation. Today I’m back to tell you what approaches and practices will help you escape from the abyss of despair and steer the situation in the right direction. In the previous article “Infrastructure as code: first acquaintance” I shared my impressions of this area, […]
