The release of the free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs - Mesa 20.2.0 - has been presented. Mesa 20.2 includes full OpenGL 4.6 support for Intel (i965, iris) and AMD (radeonsi) GPUs, OpenGL 4.5 support for AMD (r600), NVIDIA (nvc0) and llvmpipe GPUs, OpenGL 4.3 for virgl (virgil3D virtual GPU for QEMU /KVM), as well as Vulkan 1.2 support for […]
Hey Habr! In this article, I will talk about the generation of pseudo-random numbers by participants who do not trust each other. As we will see below, it is quite easy to implement an “almost” good generator, but it is difficult to implement a very good one. Why do you need to generate random numbers for participants who do not trust each other? One area of application is decentralized applications. For example, an application that […]
a man with a paper bag on his head Today, after updating Catalina from 15.6 to 15.7, the Internet speed dipped, something heavily loaded my network and I decided to look at network activity. I ran tcpdump for a couple of hours: sudo tcpdump -k NP > ~/log And the first thing that caught my eye: 16:43:42.919443 () ARP, Request who-has 192.168.1.51 tell 192.168.1.1, length […]
Balloon Man by Cimuanos Scalability is a key requirement for cloud applications. With Kubernetes, scaling an application is as easy as increasing the number of replicas for a given deployment or ReplicaSet - but it's a manual process. Kubernetes allows applications (i.e. a Pod in a Deployment or a ReplicaSet) to be automatically scaled in a declarative manner using the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler specification. Default […]
inXile Entertainment CEO Brian Fargo said on Twitter that his team is currently working on new “great” role-playing games. The studio recently released the critically acclaimed Wasteland 3. Microsoft currently owns three studios that are famous for their RPGs: inXile Entertainment, Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Game Studios. In the future, Xbox may be the best choice […]
Bandai Namco Entertainment presented a trailer for the upcoming action role-playing game Scarlet Nexus and the second main character - Kasane Randall. Also, as part of the Tokyo Game Show 2020 Online, the developer presented the gameplay of various aspects of the project. Scarlet Nexus will tell the story of two main characters - the developers previously hid almost all information about Kasane Randall. Now it has become known [...]
Today, Chinese smartphone maker OPPO introduced a new device called A33. The phone is very reminiscent of the OPPO A53 presented a month earlier. The difference between the devices lies primarily in memory configurations and cameras. OPPO A33 is built on a budget Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 processor, which works in conjunction with 3 GB of RAM. The capacity of the built-in storage is 32 [...]
We saw the release of a free cross-platform interpreter of classic quests, ScummVM 2.2.0, which replaces executable files for games and allows you to run many classic games on platforms for which they were not originally intended. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. In total, it is possible to launch more than 250 quests and about 1600 interactive text games, including games from LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, Revolution […]
The release of the Mir 2.1 display server is presented, the development of which continues by Canonical, despite the refusal to develop the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing it to run in […]
The Ubuntu GamePack 20.04 build is available for download, which includes tools for launching more than 85 thousand games and applications, both specifically designed for the GNU/Linux platform and games for Windows launched using PlayOnLinux, CrossOver and Wine, as well as old games for MS-DOS and games for various game consoles (Sega, Nintendo, PSP, Sony PlayStation, […]
Judging by the number of questions that began to arrive to us via SD-WAN, the technology began to take root thoroughly in Russia. Vendors, of course, do not sleep and offer their concepts, and some brave pioneers are already implementing them on their networks. We work with almost all vendors, and for several years in our laboratory, I managed to delve into the architecture of each […]
DevOps Live 2020 (September 29-30 and October 6-7) will be held online in an updated format. The pandemic has accelerated the time for change and has made it clear that entrepreneurs who are able to quickly redesign their product to work online are outperforming “traditional” businessmen. Therefore, on September 29-30 and October 6-7, we will look at DevOps from three sides: from the business, infrastructure, and service side. Let's talk more […]
