Author: ProHoster

Video: archeology of a lost civilization in the story game Some Distant Memory for Switch and PC

Publisher Way Down Deep and developers from the Galvanic Games studio presented the project Some Distant Memory (in Russian localization - "Vague memories") - a story-driven game about exploring the world. The release is scheduled for the end of 2019 in versions for PC (Windows and macOS) and the Switch console. The Nintendo eShop does not yet have a corresponding page, but it already exists on Steam, […]

Introduced the first solution to the problem of insufficient RAM in Linux

Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera has announced a possible solution to the problem of low RAM in Linux. This is an application called Low-Memory-Monitor, which is supposed to solve the problem of system responsiveness when there is a lack of RAM. This program is expected to improve the experience of the Linux user environment on systems where the amount of RAM is small. The operating principle is simple. The Low-Memory-Monitor daemon monitors the volume […]

Disney+ subscribers will get 4 streams at the same time and 4K is much cheaper

According to CNET, the Disney+ streaming service will launch on November 12 and will offer four simultaneous streams and 6,99K support for a base price of $4 per month. Subscribers will be able to create and configure up to seven profiles on one account. This will make the service highly competitive with Netflix, which raised prices at the beginning of the year and set stricter […]

Installing Wasteland 3 will require 55 GB of free space

The company inXile Entertainment announced the system requirements for the post-apocalyptic role-playing game Wasteland 3. Compared to the previous part, the requirements have changed quite a lot: for example, now you need twice as much RAM, and you will have to allocate 25 GB more free disk space. The minimum configuration is as follows: operating system: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 […]

Valve showed two new heroes for Dota 2019 at The International 2 — Void Spirit and Snapfire

Valve presented the new 2th hero at the Dota 119 World Championship - Void Spirit. As the name suggests, he will be the fourth spirit in the game. Currently it contains Ember Spirit, Storm Spirit and Earth Spirit. Void Spirit has come from the void and is ready to fight with enemies. At the presentation, the character conjured a double-sided glaive for himself, which hints at […]

ShIoTiny: Wet Room Ventilation (Sample Project)

Main points or what this article is about We continue the series of articles about ShIoTiny - a visually programmable controller based on the ESP8266 chip. This article describes, using the example of a ventilation control project in a bathroom or other room with high humidity, how the program for ShIoTiny is built. Previous articles in the series. ShIoTiny: small automation, Internet of things or “for […]

Google bans dessert names from Android releases

Google has announced that it will end the practice of assigning the names of sweets and desserts to Android platform releases in alphabetical order and will switch to regular digital numbering. The previous scheme was borrowed from the practice of naming internal branches used by Google engineers, but caused a lot of confusion among users and third-party developers. Thus, the currently developed release of Android Q is now officially […]

How to collect user cohorts in the form of graphs in Grafana [+ docker image with example]

How we solved the problem of visualizing user cohorts in the Promopult service using Grafana. Promopult is a powerful service with a large number of users. Over the 10 years of operation, the number of registrations in the system has exceeded one million. Those who have encountered similar services know that this array of users is far from homogeneous. Someone signed up and “fell asleep” forever. Someone forgot the password and [...]

The Unix operating system is 50 years old

In August 1969, Ken Thompson and Denis Ritchie of the Bell Laboratory, dissatisfied with the size and complexity of the Multics OS, after one month of hard work, presented the first working prototype of the Unix operating system, created in assembly language for the PDP-7 minicomputer. Around this time, the high-level programming language Bee was developed, which a few years later evolved into […]

Telegram, who's there?

Several months have passed since the launch of our secure call to owner service. Currently, 325 people are registered on the service. A total of 332 objects of ownership are registered, of which 274 are cars. The rest is all real estate: doors, apartments, gates, entrances, etc. Frankly speaking, not very much. But during this time, some significant things have happened in our immediate world, [...]

Release of the CUPS 2.3 printing system with a change in the license for the project code

Almost three years after the formation of the last significant branch, Apple introduced the release of the free printing system CUPS 2.3 (Common Unix Printing System), used in macOS and most Linux distributions. The development of CUPS is completely controlled by Apple, which in 2007 absorbed the company Easy Software Products, which created CUPS. Starting with this release, the license for the code has changed [...]