Author: ProHoster

PostgreSQL Anonymizer 0.6, an extension for anonymizing data in a DBMS

A new release of the PostgreSQL Anonymizer project is available, providing an add-on to the PostgreSQL DBMS that solves the problem of hiding or replacing confidential or trade secret data. Data can be hidden on the fly based on specially defined rules and lists of users whose responses to requests must be anonymized. The code is distributed under the PostgreSQL license. For example, using the add-on in question, you can provide access […]

4MLinux 32.0 distribution release

The release of 4MLinux 32.0 has been published, a minimalistic user distribution that is not a fork from other projects and uses a JWM-based graphical environment. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, but also as a system for disaster recovery and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and […]

Photo of the day: the best pictures of the asteroid Bennu

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reports that the OSIRIS-REx robot has made its closest approach to the asteroid Bennu to date. Let us recall that the OSIRIS-REx project, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, is aimed at collecting rock samples from the named cosmic body and delivering them to Earth. Carrying out the main […]

Tesla gets green light to sell China-made Long Range Model 3s

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China announced on Friday that Tesla has been granted permission to sell locally manufactured Model 3 long-range electric vehicles in China. The statement from the Chinese agency indicates that we are talking about vehicles with a range of more than 600 km on a single battery charge, while the standard version of the Model […]

Leak points to Bluetooth 5 and extended battery life of Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones

The first images have emerged of the Sony WH-1000XM4, the much-anticipated new version of the WH-1000XM3 on-ear wireless headphones, which are in high demand for their exceptional noise canceling quality, comfort and battery life. The M4s were first spotted by Everton Favretto in photos published by Anatel, a Brazilian communications device certification service. The most striking thing that can be noted from the image is the maximum […]

Pinebook Pro: personal impressions of using a laptop

In one of the previous publications, I promised, after I received my copy, to share my impressions of using the Pinebook Pro laptop. In this article I will try not to repeat myself, so if you need to refresh your memory about the main technical characteristics of the device, I suggest you first read the previous post about this device. What about the timing? Devices are made in batches, or rather even in pairs [...]

Pinebook Pro: no longer a Chromebook

Sometimes it seems that Chromebooks are mainly bought to install Linux on them. Offhand, the articles on the hub: one, two, third, fourth, ... Therefore, the company PINE Microsystems Inc. and the PINE64 community decided that in addition to semi-finished Chromebooks, the market lacks Pinebook Pro, which was immediately created with Linux/*BSD in mind as an operating system. On […]

Setting up NVMe on Linux

Good day. I wanted to draw the community’s attention to a characteristic feature of Linux when working with multiple NVMe SSDs in one system. It will be especially relevant for those who like to make software RAID arrays from NVMe. I hope that the information below will help protect your data and eliminate annoying errors. We are all accustomed to the following Linux logic […]

Final Fantasy XV's Stadia-exclusive content looks like a bad PSOne game

The Stadia version of the Japanese action RPG Final Fantasy XV has exclusive content, and no one paid much attention to it. But then user @realnoahsan on Twitter showed what new things were added to Final Fantasy XV. And, as it turned out, it’s good that none of this is in the other versions. @realnoahsan started a Twitter thread that showcases exclusive content. First of all […]

The Vivaldi browser will have a built-in clock with the ability to set an alarm

The Vivaldi browser continues to receive new features. As is the case with other web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, new features appear in the test build of Snapshot before being added to the stable version of the program. This time, the developers have added a clock to the browser status bar, which not only shows the time, but can also be used […]

“You haven’t played such worms yet”: Team17 studio announced Worms 2020

Team17 studio has announced Worms 2020 - the next part of the franchise about fighting worms. At the moment, the developers have published only a short teaser dedicated to the game. The first details about the project should appear soon. In the new video, footage from previous parts of Worms appears first, accompanied by noise. Viewers are then shown that the gameplay is being broadcast on an old TV, which is […]

Video: dismantling weapons and creating new parts in the Gunsmith Simulator trailer

Game Hunters studio and PlayWay publisher have announced Gunsmith Simulator - a simulator of a master gunsmith. The process of working with various firearms was shown in every detail in the first trailer of the game. In the project, users transform into a gunsmith working in his small workshop. Clients send the main character a variety of shooting samples that need repairs. You need to find all the problematic elements, replace them, [...]