Author: ProHoster

Huawei is designing a smartphone with an unusual camera

The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is thinking about a new smartphone that will be equipped with an unusual multi-module camera. Information about the device, according to the LetsGoDigital resource, was published on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As you can see in the images, the rear camera of the smartphone will be made in the form of a round block with a truncated left side. Throughout […]

Coronavirus will not affect the timing of the return of the ISS crew to Earth

The state corporation Roscosmos does not intend to delay the return of the ISS crew to Earth. RIA Novosti reports this, citing information received from representatives of the state corporation. Until now, the current crew of the International Space Station was scheduled to return from orbit on April 17. However, recently there have been rumors that this may not happen due to the spread of the new coronavirus. […]

Sea Launch Launch Platform Delivered to Russia

The launch platform of the Sea Launch marine cosmodrome has arrived at the port of Slavyanka in the Far East. This was announced by Dmitry Rogozin, general director of the state corporation Roscosmos. We are talking about the Sea Launch project, which was developed back in the early 1990s. The idea was to create a floating rocket and space complex capable of providing the most favorable conditions for launch vehicles. Before […]

Release of antiX 19.2 lightweight distribution

The release of the lightweight Live distribution AntiX 19.2, built on the Debian package base and oriented for installation on outdated equipment, took place. The release is based on the Debian 10 package base (Buster), but ships without the systemd system manager and with eudev instead of udev. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager, but fluxbox, jwm and […]

The fourth volume of the book by A.V. Stolyarov “Programming: an introduction to the profession” has been released

The release of the fourth volume of the book “Programming: An Introduction to the Profession” was announced on A.V. Stolyarov’s website. The electronic version of the book is publicly available. The four-volume “Introduction to the Profession” covers the main stages of teaching programming from the basics of school computer science (in the first volume) to the intricacies of operating systems (in the third volume), object-oriented programming and other paradigms (in the fourth volume). The entire training course [...]

Microservices - Combinatorial Explosion of Versions

Hello, Habr! I present to your attention the author’s translation of the article Microservices – Combinatorial Explosion of Versions. At a time when the IT world is gradually moving towards microservices and tools like Kubernetes, only one problem is becoming more and more noticeable. This problem is the combinatorial explosion of microservice versions. Still, the IT community believes that today’s situation is much better than the “Dependency hell” of the previous […]

Give me back my monolith

It seems that the peak of hype for microservices is behind us. We no longer read posts several times a week “How I moved my monolith to 150 services.” Now I hear more common sense thoughts: “I don’t hate the monolith, I just care about efficiency.” We've even seen a few migrations from microservices back to monolith. When moving from one big [...]

Backups with WAL-G. What's there in 2019? Andrey Borodin

I suggest you read the transcript of the report from the beginning of 2019 by Andrey Borodin “Backups with WAL-G. What’s there in 2019?” Hi all! My name is Andrey Borodin. I am a developer at Yandex. I've been interested in PostgreSQL since 2016, after I talked to the developers and they said that everything is simple - you take the source code and build […]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered cover and banners in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare files

It looks like the announcement of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered will take place very soon. In the latest update of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, data miners found the game cover and other images of the updated version. The game files contain a splash screen for an updated version of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign, which will be displayed in the modern Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as […]

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia stopped the activity of mining farms in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MVD of Russia) announced an operation in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, during which a group of people engaged in mining (extraction) of cryptocurrencies by unauthorized connection to power grids was identified and detained. According to information provided by the department's press service, the attackers used modified electric meters programmed to underestimate electricity consumption. According to preliminary information, damage to [...]

Access to free Internet services will be opened for Russians from April 1

It became known that part of the “Affordable Internet” project, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin in January, will be implemented by April 1. This means that access to some “socially significant” Russian services will become free from April 1, and not from July 1, as originally planned. RIA Novosti reports this with reference […]

Guerrilla Games and Titan Comics will expand the Horizon Zero Dawn universe with a comic book series

Guerrilla Games and Titan Comics have jointly announced the first comic book series based on the Horizon Zero Dawn video game. She will talk about the events that happened after the events of the game. The comic will focus on the hunter Talana, who is looking for a target after Aloy disappears. While investigating a mysterious incident, she discovers a completely new type of killer machine. The story was written by Anne Toole and […]