Author: ProHoster

Second hand ASIC miner: risks, verification and re-glued hashrate

Today on the Internet you can often find cases on mining BTC and altcoins with stories about the profitable use of used ASIC miners. As the exchange rate rises, interest in mining is returning, and the crypto winter left a huge number of used devices on the secondary market. For example, in China, where the cost of electricity did not allow one to count on even the minimum profitability of crypto-emissions at the beginning of the year, in the secondary […]

IP KVM over QEMU

Troubleshooting operating system boot problems on servers without KVM is not an easy task. We create a KVM-over-IP for ourselves via a recovery image and a virtual machine. If problems arise with the operating system on the remote server, the administrator downloads the recovery image and carries out the necessary work. This method works great when the cause of the failure is known, and the recovery image and installed on the server […]

How to become a cyberlawyer

The most high-profile bills in recent years are related to the regulation of the Internet space: the Yarovaya package, the so-called bill on the sovereign RuNet. Now the digital environment is the subject of close attention of legislators and law enforcement officers. Russian legislation regulating activities on the Internet is just being created and tested in practice. They began actively monitoring the Runet in 2012, when Roskomnadzor received the first powers to supervise […]

Bank ratings. Participation can't be fixed

People love ratings. How many applications, games and other things have already been made in the name of a person’s desire to be on some list a couple of lines higher than someone else. Or than a competitor, for example. People achieve places in the rankings in different ways, depending on their motivation and moral character. Someone will try to become better and honestly move from place #142 to #139, and […]

Complete anonymity: protecting your home router

Salute to everyone, dear friends! Today we will talk about how to turn a regular router into a router that will provide all your connected devices with an anonymous Internet connection. Let's go! How to access the network via DNS, how to set up a permanently encrypted connection to the Internet, how to protect your home router - and some more useful tips you will find in our article. To prevent […]

You can’t sleep to code: how to assemble a team and prepare for a hackathon?

I organized hackathons in Python, Java, .Net, each of which was attended by 100 to 250 people. As an organizer, I observed the participants from the outside and was convinced that the hackathon was not only about technology, but also about competent preparation, coordinated work and communication. In this article I have collected the most common mistakes and non-obvious life hacks that […]

Projects that didn't take off

Cloud4Y has already talked about interesting projects developed in the USSR. Continuing the topic, let's remember what other projects had good prospects, but for a number of reasons did not receive wide recognition or were shelved altogether. Gas station During preparations for the 80 Olympics, it was decided to demonstrate to everyone (and primarily to capital countries) the modernity of the USSR. And gas stations became one [...]

Recruiting. Cold summer 2019

Hello, Habr! For the last 15 years, we have been involved in HR in IT and in those areas where people, personnel, create world-class intellectual products and services. We also do recruiting. Our specialty is building teams that are successful in the global marketplace. Without oil, gas, hemp and sable skins. In the cold summer of 2019, we decided to conduct an experiment on living people […]

Like Durov: a “golden passport” in the Caribbean and a start-up offshore for change

What is known about Pavel Durov? According to Forbes in 2018, this man had a fortune of $1,7 billion. He had a hand in creating the VK social network and the Telegram messenger, and launched the Telegram Inc. cryptocurrency. and held an ICO in the summer of 2019. Durov also left the Russian Federation in 2014, declaring that he had no intention of returning. But do you know […]

The world of Cyberpunk 2077 will be slightly smaller than in the third “The Witcher”

The world of Cyberpunk 2077 will be smaller in area than in the third “The Witcher”. Project producer Richard Borzymowski spoke about this in an interview with GamesRadar. However, the developer noted that its saturation will be significantly higher. “If you look at the area of ​​the world of Cyberpunk 2077, it will be slightly smaller than in The Witcher 3, but the content density will be […]

gamescom 2019: the creators of Skywind showed 11 minutes of gameplay

The Skywind developers brought to gamescom 2019 an 11-minute demonstration of the gameplay of Skywind, a remake of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on the Skyrim engine. The recording appeared on the authors’ YouTube channel. In the video, the developers showed the passage of one of the Morag Tong quests. The main character went to kill the bandit Sarain Sadus. Fans will be able to see a giant map, remade wastelands of TES III: Morrowind, monsters, and […]