Author: ProHoster

EVO 2020 Fighting Tournament in Las Vegas canceled in favor of an online event

EVO 2020 was expected to bring together professional players from around the world from July 31 to August 2 at the luxurious Mandalay Bay hotel and entertainment complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. But naturally, one of the largest fighting game tournaments has joined the list of other events in the world that have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The organizers of the EVO 2020 tournament announced their decision on Twitter. According to them, […]

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS

While Apple's macOS is hardly a virtual reality powerhouse, users have nonetheless had access to SteamVR since support was added in 2017. But Macs have never been known for their gaming capabilities, and that's especially true in something as niche as VR. Valve seems to have realized this. Most Mac computers […]

Video: cooperative pixel retro action game Huntdown will be released on May 12

Coffee Stain Publishing and developer Easy Trigger Games have announced that the retro co-op arcade platformer Huntdown will launch on May 12 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. Interestingly, a project in the spirit of Contra will first appear on the Epic Games Store, and a year later it will reach Steam. Along with the announcement, a fresh trailer is presented, which introduces the public [...]

The Italian store called the price and release date of the PlayStation 5

The Italian retailer GameLife announced the estimated price for the upcoming next-generation gaming console PlayStation 5 - 450 euros. According to the NotebookCheck resource, which drew attention to this, this figure will most closely correspond to the real cost of the new console. In addition, the release date of the new product was announced. We have previously heard various options for the estimated cost of the PlayStation 5. They […]

Fairphone launches /e/ smartphone with enhanced privacy

The Dutch company Fairphone, which positions itself as a manufacturer of smartphones with minimal harm to the environment, announced the release of a device that will provide owners with complete anonymity. We are talking about a special version of the flagship smartphone Fairphone 3, which will receive the /e/ operating system. The company says it surveyed potential buyers of the smartphone and they chose /e/ from the options offered. […]

Gave heat: budget Ryzen 3 3100 tested overclocked to 4,6 GHz

Well-known insiders TUM_APISAK and _rogame shared the test results of an overclocked sample of the budget processor AMD Ryzen 3 3100 via Twitter. Performance testing was carried out in synthetic tests Geekbench 4, Geekbench 5, 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme and 3DMark Time Spy. The $99 Matisse family processor has already surprised us earlier in its confrontation with the once flagship Core i7-7700K, and then […]

Valve has released Proton 5.0-7, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has published the release of the Proton 5.0-7 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes a DirectX implementation […]

Delta Chat received a request from Roskomnadzor for access to user data

The developers of the Delta Chat project reported receiving a requirement from Roskomnadzor to provide access to user data and keys that can be used to decrypt messages, as well as to register in the register of information dissemination organizers. The project rejected the request, citing the fact that Delta Chat is only a specialized email client whose users use […]

Pop!_OS Linux distribution release 20.04

System76, a company specializing in the production of laptops, PCs and servers that ship with Linux, has published the release of Pop!_OS 20.04, which is being developed to ship on System76 hardware instead of the previously offered Ubuntu distribution and comes with a redesigned desktop environment. Pop!_OS is based on the Ubuntu 20.04 package base and is also listed as a Long Term Support (LTS) release. The project's developments are being distributed [...]

QtProtobuf 0.3.0

A new version of the QtProtobuf library has been released. QtProtobuf is a free library released under the MIT license. With its help you can easily use Google Protocol Buffers and gRPC in your Qt project. Changes: Added support for JSON serialization. Added static compilation for Win32 platforms. Migration to the cAmEl register of field names in messages. Added release rpm packages and the ability […]

Convenient architectural patterns

Hello, Habr! In light of current events due to coronavirus, a number of Internet services have begun to receive increased load. For example, one of the UK retail chains simply stopped its online ordering site because there was not enough capacity. And it’s not always possible to speed up a server by simply adding more powerful equipment, but client requests must be processed (or they will go to competitors). In this […]

Top fakapov Cyan

All the best! My name is Nikita, I am the team leader of the Cian engineering team. One of my responsibilities at the company is to reduce the number of incidents related to infrastructure in production to zero. What will be discussed below brought us a lot of pain, and the purpose of this article is to prevent other people from repeating our mistakes or at least minimizing their impact. […]