Author: ProHoster

Increased Demand for 7nm Chips Leads to Shortfalls and Surplus Profits TSMC

As analysts at IC Insights predict, revenues at the largest contract semiconductor manufacturer, TSMC, will grow by 32% in the second half of the year compared to the same period last year. Considering that the overall integrated circuit market is expected to grow by only 10%, it turns out that TSMC's business will grow more than three times faster than the […]

Richard Stallman remains head of the GNU Project

As you know, Richard Stallman recently left the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and also resigned as head and board member of the FSF. Nothing was known about the GNU project itself at that time. However, on September 26, Richard Stallman reminded that he remains the head of the GNU Project and intends to continue working as such: [[[To all NSA agents […]

AERODISK vAIR hyperconverged solution. The basis is the ARDFS file system

Hello, Habr readers. With this article we open a series that will talk about the hyperconverged system AERODISK vAIR that we have developed. Initially, we wanted to tell everything about everything in the first article, but the system is quite complex, so we will eat the elephant in parts. Let's start the story with the history of the creation of the system, delve into the ARDFS file system, which is the basis of vAIR, as well as […]

Wine 4.17

A release for Wine 4.17 developers has become available. It fixed 14 bugs and made 274 changes. Main changes: updated Mono engine; added support for compressed textures in DXTn format; an initial version of the Windows Script runtime library was proposed; support for processing notifications about device changes via the XRandR API; RSA key generation support; for the ARM64 architecture, support for seamless proxies has been implemented for […]

Wi-Fi at the Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum

In 2019, the Arkhangelskoye museum-estate celebrated its 100th anniversary; colossal restoration work was carried out there. Normal Wi-Fi was introduced in the park so that art lovers could ask Alice what they see and what the artist wanted to say, and couples on the benches could post selfies between kisses. Couples generally love this park and buy tickets, but every […]

Firefox nightly builds disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 support

In nightly builds of Firefox, support for the TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols is disabled by default (the security.tls.version.min setting is set to 3, which sets TLS 1.2 as the minimum version). In stable releases, TLS 1.0/1.1 is planned to be disabled in March 2020. In Chrome, support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be dropped in Chrome 81, expected in January 2020. The TLS specification […]

Migrating from Nginx to Envoy Proxy

Hello, Habr! I bring to your attention a translation of the post: Migration from Nginx to Envoy Proxy. Envoy is a high-performance distributed proxy server (written in C++) designed for individual services and applications, it is also a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. When creating it, solutions to problems that arose during the development of such […]

Milton digital painting software release 1.9.0

Milton 1.9.0, a drawing, digital painting and sketching program, is now available. The program code is written in C++ and Lua. Rendering is done via OpenGL and SDL. The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Assemblies are generated only for Windows; for Linux and macOS the program can be compiled from source texts. Milton is focused on painting on an infinitely large canvas, […]

Habr Weekly #20 / 2FA authentication is not a panacea, Android 10 Go for the weakest, the history of jQuery, a film about Gates

We are interested in getting to know our listeners better: who you are and what you think about the podcast - what you like, what annoys you, what can be improved. Please take the survey. Your answers will help make the podcast better. Survey: u.tmtm.ru/podcast. In this issue: 01:31 - chronicle of the theft and return of a SIM card, mail and domain of a Matsun user 04:30 - banks - an example for all the guys, good […]

Exim 4.92.3 published with the elimination of the fourth critical vulnerability in a year

An emergency release of the Exim 4.92.3 mail server has been published with the elimination of another critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-16928), potentially allowing you to remotely execute your code on the server by passing a specially formatted string in the EHLO command. The vulnerability appears at the stage after privileges have been reset and is limited to code execution with the rights of an unprivileged user, under which the incoming message handler is executed. The problem only appears in the branch [...]

Why is karma on Habré good?

The week of posts about karma is coming to an end. Once again it is explained why karma is bad, once again changes are proposed. Let's figure out why karma is good. Let's start with the fact that Habr is a (near) technical resource that positions itself as “polite”. Insults and ignorance are not welcome here, and this is stated in the site rules. As a result, politics is prohibited [...]

Cuphead has sold more than five million copies in two years

Studio MDHR, which created Cuphead, boasted of the achievements of the popular platformer. On September 29, the game turned two years old and, according to the developers, during this time its sales exceeded five million copies. In addition, in honor of Cuphead's second anniversary, they made a 20% discount on the game: Steam - 335 rubles (instead of 419 rubles); Nintendo Switch - 1199 rubles (instead of [...]