Author: ProHoster

PostgreSQL Anonymizer 0.6 - a tool for anonymizing database queries

PostgreSQL Anonymizer is an addition to the PostgreSQL DBMS that allows you to hide or change confidential data or information that represents a trade secret. Data hiding occurs on the fly using user lists for anonymization and customized rule templates. The tool can be used to provide access to the database to third parties (for example, analytical services), automatically cutting out personal data such as phone numbers […]

Firefox Preview 4.0 for Android released

On March 9th, the mobile browser Firefox Preview version 4.0 was released. The browser is being developed under the code name Fenix ​​and is being considered as a replacement for the current Firefox browser for Android. The browser is based on the GeckoView engine, based on Firefox Quantum, as well as a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries. GeckoView is a variant of the Gecko engine, designed as a separate library with […]

PostgreSQL Antipatterns: A Tale of Iterative Refinement of Search by Name, or "Optimizing Back and forth"

Thousands of managers from sales offices across the country record tens of thousands of contacts in our CRM system every day - facts of communication with potential or existing clients. And for this, you must first find a client, and preferably very quickly. And this happens most often by name. Therefore, it is not surprising that, once again sorting out “heavy” requests for [...]

Full home automation in a new building. Continuation

Unexpectedly, an article about my experience in automating a one-room apartment of 41 square meters. m. in a new building, published two weeks ago, became popular and as of March 10, it had been bookmarked by 781 people, viewed 123 times, and Habr even posted an advertising block in the “Recommended” section marked “Interesting.” 921 meters of laid cables are not visible after the completion of the repair. […]

Alexey Naidenov. ITooLabs. Development case on Go (Golang) phone platform. Part 1

Alexey Naydenov, CEO of ITooLabs, talks about the development of a telecommunications platform for telecom operators in the Go programming language (Golang). Alexey also shares his experience in deploying and operating the platform in one of the largest Asian telecom operators, which used the platform to provide voice mail services (VoiceMail) and Virtual PBX (Cloud PBX). Alexey Naydenov (hereinafter – AN): – Hello everyone! Me […]

SkillFactory opens a new set for a full course in Data Science

Have you already heard about advances in the field of machine learning, neural networks and AI? Would you like to work in this field, but don't know where to start? Pay attention to the field of Data Science! Big data provides an inexhaustible number of possibilities - it helps determine the likelihood of developing diseases, find tumors in an image, show personalized advertising, find fraudulent transactions, and much more. Here […]

Ubisoft also supports NVIDIA GeForce Now cloud gaming service

Following the recent words of Epic Games, Ubisoft also announced that it fully supports the NVIDIA GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Thanks to this, PC owners can stream most Assassin's Creed games, two parts of the action series The Division and the latest shooters in the Far Cry series. In a conversation with Kotaku, Ubisoft Vice President of Partnerships and Revenue Chris […]

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Kickstarter Campaign Ends, Over $2 Million Raised to Create Game

The Kickstarter campaign for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous from Owlcat Games, which began on February 4, has come to an end. Over 36 days of fundraising, the developers managed to attract 35 thousand investors who donated more than $2,05 million for the creation of the game. The achieved result allowed Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous to double the crowdfunding indicators of Pathfinder: Kingmaker (18 thousand investors and $900 thousand) and perform […]

Microsoft destroys the Necurs botnet of more than 9 million computers

Microsoft Corporation, together with partners from 35 countries, has begun implementing a plan to disrupt one of the largest botnet networks in the world, Necurs, consisting of more than 9 million infected computers. The company's specialists have been monitoring the network for about 8 years and planning actions that will ensure that criminals will no longer be able to use key elements of the botnet infrastructure to […]

Firefox 74 release

The Firefox 74 web browser was released, as well as the mobile version of Firefox 68.6 for the Android platform. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch 68.6.0 has been created. In the near future, the Firefox 75 branch will enter the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for April 7 (the project has moved to a 4-5 week development cycle). For the beta branch of Firefox 75, the formation of assemblies for Linux has begun […]

Photo of the day: space "bouquet" for the day of March 8

Today, March 8, a number of countries around the world, including Russia, celebrate International Women's Day. To coincide with this holiday, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) timed the publication of a “bouquet” of photographs of beautiful x-ray objects. The composite image shows the remnants of supernovae, a radio pulsar, a cluster of young stars in a star-forming region in our galaxy, and […]