Author: ProHoster

Riot Games has announced a tactical shooter, fighting game and dungeon crawler in the LoL universe

Today, Riot Games announced a number of new projects in honor of the tenth anniversary of League of Legends. We have already written about the animated series Arcane and MOBA for consoles and mobile devices League of Legends: Wild Rift. But there are announcements besides them. Riot Games said it is developing a competitive tactical shooter for PC in the vein of Overwatch, codenamed […]

Suricata 5.0 attack detection system available

The OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) has published the release of the Suricata 5.0 network intrusion detection and prevention system, which provides tools for inspecting various types of traffic. In Suricata configurations, it is possible to use the signature database developed by the Snort project, as well as the Emerging Threats and Emerging Threats Pro rulesets. The source code of the project is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Major changes: New modules have been introduced […]

Khronos provided the opportunity for free certification of open drivers

The Khronos graphics standards consortium has given open graphics driver developers the opportunity to certify their implementations against the OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenCL and Vulkan standards without paying royalties or having to join the consortium as a member. Applications are accepted for both open hardware drivers and fully software implementations developed under the auspices of […]

The Tor project published OnionShare 2.2

The Tor project has announced the release of OnionShare 2.2, a utility that allows you to securely and anonymously transfer and receive files, as well as organize a public file sharing service. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready-made packages are prepared for Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows and macOS. OnionShare runs a web server on the local system that operates as a hidden service […]

Free Internet League

How to resist authoritarian regimes on the Internet Disconnecting? Woman in a Beijing Internet cafe, July 2011 Im Chi Yin / The New York Times / Redux Hmmm, I still have to preface this with a “translator’s note.” The discovered text seemed interesting and controversial to me. The only edits to the text are bold ones. I allowed myself to express my personal attitude in tags. The era of […]

Is it possible to earn more by working as an engineer in another country?

Contents: How can you compare countries in terms of cost of living now? About purchasing power parity Why BIM (engineers and coordinators) Conclusion 1. Different gross - equal net Conclusion 2. The lower the gross, the more m² Where did the data come from? Methodology for calculating PPP indicators Quite often, when talking with people from other countries, we start comparing salary levels fees. […]

Digital events in Moscow from 14 to 20 October

A selection of events for the Epic Growth week October 14 (Monday) - October 15 (Tuesday) 2nd Kozhukhovsky Ave 29building 6 from 13 rub. Conference on product marketing on strategies and tactics for product growth Closed meeting with the ex' Head of Avito General October 900 (Tuesday) BulEntuziastov 15 free Our guest is an expat (foreign top manager), so we […]

Hands-free admin = hyperconvergence?

This is a myth that is quite common in the field of server hardware. In practice, hyperconverged solutions (when everything is in one) are needed for many things. Historically, the first architectures were developed by Amazon and Google for their services. Then the idea was to make a computing farm from identical nodes, each of which had its own disks. All this […]

Liveness probes in Kubernetes can be dangerous

Note transl.: Lead engineer from Zalando - Henning Jacobs - has repeatedly noticed problems among Kubernetes users in understanding the purpose of liveness (and readiness) probes and their correct use. Therefore, he collected his thoughts in this capacious note, which will eventually become part of the K8s documentation. Health checks, known in Kubernetes as liveness probes (literally, […]

Features of the Q language and KDB + on the example of a real-time service

You can read about what the KDB+ base is, the Q programming language, what strengths and weaknesses they have in my previous article and briefly in the introduction. In the article, we will implement a service on Q that will process the incoming data stream and calculate various aggregation functions every minute in “real time” (i.e., it will keep up with everything […]

Two-year-old Core i7 analogue for $120: Comet Lake-S generation Core i3 will receive Hyper-Threading

Early next year, Intel is due to introduce a new, tenth generation of Core desktop processors, better known under the codename Comet Lake-S. And now, thanks to the SiSoftware performance test database, very interesting details have been revealed about the younger representatives of the new family, Core i3 processors. In the above-mentioned database, a record was found about testing the Core i3-10100 processor, according to which this […]

AMD Zen 3 Architecture Will Increase Performance by Over Eight Percent

The development of the Zen 3 architecture has already been completed, as far as can be judged by statements from AMD representatives at industry events. By the third quarter of next year, the company will, in close cooperation with TSMC, launch production of Milan generation EPYC server processors, which will be produced using EUV lithography using the second generation of 7 nm technology. It is already known that third-level cache memory in processors with [...]