Author: ProHoster

How we at ZeroTech made friends with Apple Safari and client certificates with websockets

The article will be useful to those who: know what a Client Cert is and understand why it needs websockets on mobile Safari; I would like to publish web services to a limited circle of people or only to myself; thinks that everything has already been done by someone, and would like to make the world a little more convenient and safer. The history of web sockets started about 8 years ago. Previously, methods of the form […]

Solar power plant, internet in the village and self-isolation

Almost a year has passed since my publication about the installation of a solar power plant on a house of 200 square meters. In early spring, a pandemic broke out and forced everyone to reconsider their views on their homes, the possibility of living in isolation from society, and their attitude to technology. For me, during this time, the baptism of fire of all equipment and my approach to the self-sufficiency of my home has passed. Today […]

Google Stops Selling Pixel 3a Smartphones Ahead of Pixel 4a Announcement

Google has curtailed sales of mid-range smartphones Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL. This was reported by the Android Police resource, citing information received from representatives of the American IT giant. These devices debuted in May last year. The devices carry a Snapdragon 670 processor with eight Kryo 360 cores with a frequency of up to 2,0 GHz and Adreno 615 graphics. […]

LG B Project: Rolling smartphone to debut in 2021

LG Electronics, according to Internet sources, next year intends to introduce the first smartphone equipped with a flexible rollable display. The device is allegedly being created as part of an initiative codenamed B Project. The production of prototypes of the unusual device has allegedly already been organized: for the purpose of comprehensive testing, from 1000 to 2000 copies of the gadget will be manufactured. There is practically no information about the characteristics of the smartphone. It is known […]

SK Hynix began mass production of the fastest HBM2E memory chips

It took SK Hynix less than a year to move from the stage of completing the development of HBM2E memory to the beginning of its mass production. But the main thing is not even this amazing efficiency, but the unique speed characteristics of the new HBM2E chips. The throughput of HBM2E SK Hynix chips reaches 460 GB/s per chip, which is 50 GB/s higher than previous figures. A significant boost in productivity [...]

Wine 5.12 release and Wine staging 5.12

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.12 - took place. Since the release of version 5.11, 48 bug reports have been closed and 337 changes have been made. The most important changes: The NTDLL library has been converted to PE format; Added support for WebSocket API; Improved RawInput support; Vulkan API specification updated; Error reports related to the operation of games and applications are closed: Grand […]

GParted Live 1.1.0-3 distribution release

A release of the Live distribution kit GParted LiveCD 1.1.0-3 is available, focused on system recovery after a failure and working with disk partitions using the GParted partition editor. The distribution is based on the Debian Sid package base as of July 1. The boot image size is 382 MB (amd64, i686). The distribution includes GParted 1.1.0, which includes faster minfo and […]

Google working on Steam support on Chrome OS via Ubuntu virtual machine

Google is developing the Borealis project, aimed at providing Chrome OS with the ability to run gaming applications distributed through Steam. The implementation is based on the use of a virtual machine in which components of the Ubuntu Linux 18.04 distribution are launched with a pre-installed Steam client and a Wine-based package for running Proton Windows games. To build the vm_guest_tools toolkit with Borealis support, the “USE=vm_borealis” flag is provided. […]

Computer system simulators: the familiar full-platform simulator and the unknown bar and trace

In the second part of the article on computer system simulators, I will continue to talk in a simple introductory form about computer simulators, namely the full-platform simulation that the average user encounters most often, as well as the per-cycle model and traces that are more common in development circles. In the first part, I talked about what simulators are in general, as well as levels […]

Free minecraft server on AWS with zero knowledge of linux

Hey Habr! More precisely, crooks who are looking for how to set up a minecraft server to play with friends. The article is intended for non-programmers, non-sysadmins, in general, not for the main audience of Habr. The article contains step-by-step instructions for creating a minecraft server with a dedicated IP, adapted for people who are far from IT. If this is not about you, it is better to skip the article. What's happened […]

Tesla has become the most valuable automaker: the giant Toyota is at a loss

This Wednesday, Tesla's market capitalization exceeded Toyota's for the first time, thereby making Elon Musk's brainchild the most valuable automaker in the world. Tesla shares rose 5% to a new all-time high of $1135, valuing the company at $206,5 billion, compared with Toyota's roughly $202 billion. In essence, the market […]

An affordable Xiaomi POCO M2 Pro has been spotted on the GeekBench database

Earlier today it was reported that the POCO M2 Pro smartphone will be presented on July 2th. Now, ahead of the launch, test results of the device have been found in the database of the popular benchmark GeekBench. A screenshot showing the test results was shared by one of the Twitter users. It is reported that the smartphone is identified in the database as Xiaomi POCO MXNUMX Pro. It will be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor coded […]