Wizards of the Coast has announced the digital release of Magic: The Gathering, Zendikar Rising, now available in Magic: The Gathering Arena. Zendikar Rising contains 280 cards, including 36 double-faced copies. You can view the entire list on a special page on the official Wizards of the Coast website. With the release […]
As expected, Apple did not present the iPhone 12 series smartphones at the online event on September 15, but announced the new A14 Bionic processor as part of the iPad, which will form the basis of the new Apple smartphones. The new processor is produced according to TSMC's 5nm process technology and contains 11,8 billion transistors. For comparison, the 7nm A13 Bionic chip contains 8,5 billion transistors. Apple […]
The release of the Geary 3.38 email client has been introduced, aimed at use in the GNOME environment. The project was originally founded by the Yorba Foundation, which created the popular photo manager Shotwell, but later development was taken over by the GNOME community. The code is written in Vala and is distributed under the LGPL license. Ready assemblies will soon be prepared in the form of a self-contained flatpak package. […]
Rich Geldreich moved the LZHAM and Crunch compression libraries he developed into the Public Domain category, i.e. completely renounced proprietary copyrights and provided the opportunity for distribution and use in any form by everyone without restrictions. For jurisdictions where the category of public domain is not recognized, appropriate reservations are left. Previously, projects were distributed under MIT and […]
GitHub has published the first release of the multi-platform GitHub CLI toolkit, which allows you to manage your projects from the command line. For work, the “gh” utility is offered, with which you can create and view error messages (issues), create and parse pull requests, review changes, and manage the formation of releases. The toolkit also allows you to create scripts that use the GitHub API. Toolkit builds are available for Linux (deb, […]
The latest version of Windows 10 for Insiders (20211) received another update to the WSL 2 subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Now, using console commands without additional software, you can mount partitions (or entire disks) into the WSL subsystem, and this file system will be available to the entire Windows. Now there is no need for third-party software to mount ext4; In addition, it is indicated that [...]
This is me, writing a script to enumerate parameters for a POST request to gov.tr, sitting in front of the border to Croatia. How it all began My wife and I travel the world and work remotely. We recently moved from Turkey to Croatia (the best point to visit Europe). In order not to go into quarantine in Croatia, you need to have a negative […]
For a number of reasons, it was necessary to establish a VPN connection between the network in VMWare Cloud Director and a separate Ubuntu machine in the cloud. The note does not pretend to be a full description, it's just a small howto. The only 2015 article on this topic was found on the network “Site to Site IPSEC VPN between NSX Edge and Linux strongSwan”. Unfortunately, using it directly […]
Hello! My name is Mikhail, I'm Deputy IT Director at Sportmaster. I want to share a story about how we coped with the difficulties that arose during the pandemic. In the early days of new realities, the usual offline trading format of Sportmaster stopped, and the load on our online channel, primarily in terms of delivery to the client’s address, increased 10 times. […]
The PlayStation 5 Showcase event was packed with announcements and gameplay demos. Viewers were shown the gameplay of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Demon's Souls remake, and were also introduced to Hogwarts Legacy and Final Fantasy XVI for the first time. And in the end, Sony surprised the audience even more, as a teaser for the continuation of God of War appeared on the screens. A short video about the project contains [...]
Bluepoint Games and SIE Japan Studio presented a relatively long gameplay excerpt of the updated version of the action role-playing game Demon's Souls as part of the PlayStation 5 Showcase online show. The lion's share of the four-minute video is devoted to passing the starting location. The segment ends with the first boss encounter (see image above), which does not end well for the protagonist. The last half minute of the trailer was devoted to cutting gameplay […]
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that PlayStation Plus subscribers will definitely not be left without games on PlayStation 5: a number of selected projects from the previous generation will be available to them. PlayStation Plus Collection will give PlayStation Plus subscribers access to a catalog of PlayStation 4 games that they can download and play on PlayStation 5. It includes hits such as […]
