A selection of events for the week. Lecture by Taras Pashchenko “Critical thinking as a skill of the 20st century” August 123 (Tuesday) Mira XNUMXb free At the lecture we will discuss what place critical thinking occupies among the skills of the XNUMXst century - soft skills that need to be developed in oneself, regardless of the field of activity. We will also get acquainted with the basic concepts of this concept, and a separate [...]
A little about what school “computer science” was like in the 90s, and why all programmers then were exclusively self-taught. How children were taught to program In the early 90s, Moscow schools began to selectively equip computer classes with computers. The rooms were immediately equipped with bars on the windows and a heavy iron-clad door. A computer science teacher appeared from somewhere (he looked like the most important friend […]
Juuso Alasuutari, who specializes in developing audio processing systems for Linux (author of jackdbus and LASH), formed the Proton-i project, aimed at porting the current Proton codebase to newer versions of Wine, without waiting for new major releases from Valve. Currently, a Proton version based on Wine 4.13 has already been proposed, identical in functionality to Proton 4.11-2 […]
A team of researchers from Georgetown University and the US Naval Research Laboratory analyzed the resistance of the Tor anonymous network to denial of service (DoS) attacks. Research in the area of compromising the Tor network is mainly built around censoring (blocking access to Tor), identifying requests through Tor in transit traffic, and analyzing the correlation of traffic flows before the entry node and after the exit […]
Game studio Frozenbyte has published a video with a 15-minute demonstration of the gameplay of the space simulator Starbase. In it, the developers showed battles on ships, as well as battles with weapons in their hands in the middle of space. Starbase is a multiplayer online game set in a space setting. The main task for players will be the construction of spaceships and stations. To do this, they will need to extract resources, engage […]
The State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos reports that our country has conducted a successful experiment to simultaneously receive information from two spacecraft. We are talking about using MSPA technology - Multiple Spacecraft Per Aperture. It makes it possible to receive data simultaneously from several spacecraft. In particular, during the experiment, information came from the orbital module […]
At the very end of May this year, Intel announced a new flagship desktop processor, the Core i9-9900KS, which will go on sale only in the fourth quarter. In the meantime, a record of testing a system with this chip was found in the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark database, due to which it can be compared with the regular Core i9-9900K. To begin with, let us remind you that [...]
Following a detailed list of characteristics of the next-generation Xbox console, new details about the future PlayStation 5 console have appeared on the Internet. A well-known and fairly reliable source of leaks under the pseudonym Komachi has published information about the clock frequency of the GPU of the future Sony console. The source provides data about the Ariel graphics processor, which is part of a single-chip platform codenamed Oberon. […]
According to online sources, Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei sent a letter calling for a major reorganization to all employees of the company. The letter noted that Huawei must “reorganize” within 3-5 years to develop a mode of operation that allows it to cope with US sanctions. Among other things, the message states that […]
Introduction In addition to vanity, I was prompted to take up the article by the depressing frequency of questions on this topic in specialized groups of the Russian-speaking telegram community. The article is aimed at novice administrators of Mikrotik RouterOS (hereinafter referred to as ROS). It considers only multivans, with an emphasis on routing. As a bonus, there are minimally sufficient settings to ensure safe and convenient operation. Those who are looking for disclosure of queue themes, balancing [...]
Typically, users expect new smartphones to improve performance compared to previous models. However, recently one of the characteristics of new iPhones and Android devices has not changed significantly. We are talking about the battery life of devices, since even the use of massive lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of 5000 mAh does not significantly increase this parameter. The situation may change if there is a transition from [...]
IP ATC Asterisk is a powerful machine in the field of IP telephony. And the FreePBX web interface, created for Asterisk, greatly simplifies setup and reduces the barrier to entry into the system. If you can think of any task related to IP telephony, then it can almost certainly be implemented in Asterisk. But rest assured that you will need perseverance and endurance. Before us stood […]
