Author: ProHoster

How to open comments and not drown in spam

When your job is to create something beautiful, you don’t have to talk too much about it, because the result is before everyone’s eyes. But if you erase inscriptions from fences, no one will notice your work as long as the fences look decent or until you erase something wrong. Any service where you can leave a comment, review, send a message or [...]

How Mail for Business works - online stores and large senders

Previously, in order to become a Mail client, you had to have special knowledge about its structure: understand the tariffs and rules, get through restrictions that only employees knew about. The conclusion of the contract took two weeks or more. There was no API for integration; all forms were filled out manually. In a word, it’s a dense forest that business has no time to wade through. Ideal […]

The YouTube Music app on Android has been redesigned

Google continues to develop and improve its music app YouTube Music. Previously, it announced the ability to upload your own tracks. Now there is information about a new design. The developer company has published a version of the application with an updated user interface, which provides all the necessary functionality and at the same time looks very good. At the same time, some aspects of the work have changed. For example, a button for [...]

Facebook's spammer detection system has blocked more than 6 billion fake accounts

Facebook engineers have developed an effective tool for detecting and blocking fake accounts. The system, which uses machine learning technology, blocked 6,6 billion fake accounts last year alone. Notably, this figure does not take into account the “millions” of attempts to create fake accounts that are blocked daily. The system is based on Deep Entity Classification technology, which uses machine learning to analyze not only active accounts […]

Final Fantasy VII Remake producer on Parasite Eve's future: 'It would be stupid not to use these characters'

The producer of the Final Fantasy VII remake, Yoshinori Kitase, in an interview with Canadian wrestler Tyson Smith, known under the pseudonym Kenny Omega, shared his thoughts about a possible sequel to Parasite Eve. According to Smith, Parasite Eve is a unique hybrid of horror and RPG that would certainly appeal to current audiences: “It was very original and distinctive, [...]

Google Assistant can now read web pages aloud

The Google Assistant virtual assistant for the Android platform is becoming more useful for people with vision problems, as well as those who study foreign languages. The developers have added the ability for the assistant to read aloud the contents of web pages. Google says that the new feature combines many of the company's achievements in the field of speech technology. This makes the feature work more naturally [...]

Walk through Raccoon City in new Resident Evil 3 Remake gameplay demo

Late in the evening of March 4, Capcom held a live broadcast in which it demonstrated more than 20 minutes of gameplay of the Resident Evil 3 remake in English. The official recording of the broadcast is currently available exclusively on Capcom’s Twitch channel, while unofficial ones have already appeared on YouTube. The version below contains only the gameplay portion of the stream. The main character of Resident Evil 3 in the video is controlled […]

Firefox nightly builds now allow sites to be installed as apps

Nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which Firefox 75 will be released, have added the ability to install and open sites in the form of applications (Apps), allowing you to organize work with the site as with a regular desktop program. To enable it, you need to add the “browser.ssb.enabled=true” setting to about:config, after which the “Install […]

PowerShell 7.0 command shell available

Microsoft introduced the release of PowerShell 7.0, the source code of which was opened in 2016 under the MIT license. The new shell release is prepared not only for Windows, but also for Linux and macOS. PowerShell is optimized for automating command line operations and provides built-in tools for processing structured data in formats such as JSON, […]

New version of curl 7.69

A new version of the utility for receiving and sending data over the network is available - curl 7.69.0, which provides the ability to flexibly formulate a request with parameters such as cookie, user_agent, referer and any other headers. cURL supports HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2.0, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, RTSP, RTMP and other network protocols. At the same time, an update was released for the libcurl library being developed in parallel, […]

LetsEncrypt plans to revoke its certificates due to a bug

LetsEncrypt, which offers free SSL certificates for encryption, is forced to revoke some certificates. The problem is due to a software bug in the Boulder management software used to build the CA. Typically, the DNS verification of a CAA record occurs simultaneously with confirmation of domain ownership, and most subscribers receive a certificate immediately after verification, but software developers have made it so that the result of the verification […]

Index health in PostgreSQL through the eyes of a Java developer

Hello. My name is Vanya and I am a Java developer. It so happens that I work a lot with PostgreSQL - setting up the database, optimizing the structure, performance, and playing a little DBA on the weekends. Recently, I have tidied up several databases in our microservices and wrote a java library pg-index-health, which makes this work easier, saves my time and helps […]