Nat Friedman, the head of GitHub, confirmed the company's intention to switch to using the default name for main branches instead of "master" in solidarity with protesters against police violence and racism in the United States. The new name will be used only for new repositories; in existing projects, the “master” branch will retain its name. However, the possibility of […]
The developers of the KDE project intend to enable by default an alternative layout of the taskbar, displayed at the bottom of the screen and providing navigation through open windows and running applications. Instead of traditional buttons with the name of the program, it is planned to switch to displaying only large square icons (46px), implemented by analogy with the Windows panel. This option has been optionally supported in the panel for quite a long time, but now [...]
Google has added a change to the Chromium codebase that will power Chrome 85 that will disable the display of path elements and query parameters in the address bar by default. Only the site domain will remain visible, and the full URL can be seen after clicking on the address bar. The change is planned to be rolled out to users gradually through pilot runs spanning […]
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Hello Habr, my name is Ilya, I work in the Exness platform team. We develop and implement the basic infrastructure components that our product development teams use. In this article, I would like to share my experience of implementing encrypted SNI (ESNI) technology in the infrastructure of public websites. The use of this technology will increase the level of security when working with a public website and […]
The world of analog devices has practically disappeared, but storage media still remains. Today I will tell you how I encountered the need to digitize and store home archive data. I hope that my experience will help you choose the right devices for digitization and save a lot of money by doing the digitization yourself. “- And this, what is this? - Oh, this is actually a plague, Comrade Major! Take a look: this is [...]
At the recent PC Gaming Show 2020, developers from Modern Storyteller and publisher Dear Villagers showed a new teaser for The Forgotten City - a detective adventure that has grown into a standalone game from a mod for TES V: Skyrim. A short video demonstrates the arrangement of an ancient city in the Roman Empire, characters and battles with enemies. The synopsis reads: “Deep underground, on the streets […]
Publisher Deep Silver and German studio King Art presented a fresh trailer for the dieselpunk strategy Iron Harvest, which will send the player to an alternative 1920s. The video is timed to coincide with the opening of pre-orders - the game is scheduled to launch on September 1 in versions for PC (Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG), PS4 and Xbox One. The pre-order price on Steam is […]
At the last PC Gaming Show 2020 event, Bounding Box Software and publisher Humble Games presented a new trailer for Prodeus, a first-person shooter that references the classic Doom and Quake. The video shows dynamic shootouts using a variety of weapons, different types of enemies and arenas in which skirmishes take place. At the beginning of the video, shots of locations and […]
Specialists from Digital Foundry on the Eurogamer website published another preliminary review of the technical component of the ambitious action game The Last of Us Part II from Naughty Dog. Employees of the technical department of Eurogamer complained about the embargo conditions that limit the possibility of showing the game, and promised to release a voluminous video demonstrating all the graphical advantages of the project closer to release. In the meantime, Digital […]
Developers from the French Amplitude Studios, which created Endless Space and Endless Legend, have confirmed that the ambitious 4X strategy game Humankind will not be released this year. A new trailer shown at the PC Gaming Show event reveals that the release will take place in 2021. Although the creators are talking about postponing the release, they were initially not sure that they would be able to release the game in 2020. Finish work […]
The authoritative Chinese tech blog Digital Chat Station has already reported that Realme is preparing a new mid-price smartphone - the X50t 5G model. Now information about this device has appeared in the Google Play Console database. The device is a “relative” of the Realme X50m 5G released in May (it is the one shown in the images) and will apparently be presented in the coming days. Publication in […]
