Sony Interactive Entertainment recently postponed the release of The Last of Us Part II indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to somehow reduce the disappointment of players from the transfer, developers from Naughty Dog began to talk more about the project. They were joined by Troy Baker, who played the role of Joel. The actor gave an interview to Fandom and hinted that The […]
As part of the Potato Mode column, journalists from the GameSpot portal decided to show what Half-Life: Alyx looks like on unexpectedly low graphics settings. This time, GameSpot employees decided not to bother setting the minimum acceptable parameters: modern games, as a rule, look decent even in such conditions. To ruin the graphics to the level of “potatoes,” journalists had to turn to the NVIDIA Profile program […]
Russian specialists from the Center for Molecular Diagnostics of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor are offering to test for coronavirus on a commercial basis to everyone without a doctor’s prescription. The service became available on April 6. The result of the analysis will be communicated to the person by email within one to two days. This is indicated on the department's website. The cost of the service is about 2 thousand rubles. It is currently available [...]
Valve does not change its traditions and continues to publish weekly sales reports on Steam. From March 28 to April 4, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord was the leader on the site and, judging by the maximum online presence in the game, it sold quite well. There is no need to judge the number of copies sold, since Valve hides these indicators and compiles a […]
Canonical has published a release of tools for organizing the operation of isolated containers LXC 4.0, the container manager LXD 4.0 and the virtual file system LXCFS 4.0 for simulation in /proc, /sys containers and the virtualized presentation cgroupfs for distributions without support for cgroup namespaces. The 4.0 branch is classified as a long-term support release, updates for which are generated over a period of 5 years […]
LXC (Linux Containers) is a virtualization system at the operating system level for running multiple isolated instances of the Linux operating system on one node. LXC does not use virtual machines, but creates a virtual environment with its own process space and network stack. All LXC instances share a single instance of the operating system kernel. (q) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC In version 4.0: full support for cgroup2 […]
A new version of the Nim system programming language has been released. It has partial incompatibility with version 1.0, for example due to stricter type conversion. But in this case there is a flag -useVersion:1.0. The main innovation is a new garbage collector, enabled by the -gc:arc option. The author of the language, Andreas Rumpf, is going to write a detailed article about the advantages of ARC, but for now he invites you to read his speech […]
Due to the covid-19 virus pandemic and general quarantine in many countries, the only way for many companies to continue working is remote access to workplaces via the Internet. There are many relatively safe methods for remote work - but given the scale of the problem, a simple method for any user to remotely connect to the office and without the need for additional settings is needed, […]
This article describes the implementation of pipelines in the Unix kernel. I was somewhat disappointed that a recent article entitled "How do pipelines work in Unix?" It turned out not to be about the internal structure. I became curious and dug into old sources to find the answer. What are we talking about? Pipelines—"probably the most important invention in Unix"—are a defining characteristic of […]
The author of the article, Douglas McIlroy, is an American mathematician, engineer and programmer. He is best known for developing the pipeline in the Unix operating system, the principles of component-oriented programming and several original utilities: spell, diff, sort, join, speak, tr. Sometimes you come across some really great programs. After digging through my memory, I've compiled a list of some of the true Unix gems over the years. Basically, these are quite rare and not [...]
It became known that thousands of recordings of video calls from the Zoom service were posted publicly on the Internet. This was reported by The Washington Post. The leaked recordings highlight the privacy risks faced by users of popular video conferencing services. The report said that recordings of video calls were found on YouTube and Vimeo. It was possible to identify [...]
Google will make coronavirus-related posts significantly more prominent in search results. The tech giant has introduced a way for websites to highlight posts so Google search users can view information about the coronavirus without ever clicking on a link. Currently, health and government websites can create such announcements. New types of messages can be used […]
