Author: ProHoster

Dota Underlords Coming Out of Early Access February 25th

Valve has announced that Dota Underlords will be leaving Early Access on February 25th. Then the first season will begin. As the developer stated on the official blog, the team is working hard on new features, content and interface. The first season of Dota Underlords will add a City Raid, rewards, and a full-fledged battle pass. In addition, before the game was released from early […]

Mitsubishi denies allegations of fraud amid German investigation

Mitsubishi Motors Corp said on Thursday there was no reason to believe it engaged in fraud by installing devices in its diesel vehicles to falsify emissions tests. Let us remind you that the Frankfurt prosecutor's office in Germany has opened an investigation into this matter. According to Mitsubishi's statement, none of the engines it produces and […]

Frankfurt International Motor Show to close in 2021

After 70 years, the Frankfurt International Motor Show, an annual exhibition of the latest developments in the automotive industry, is no longer in existence. The German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie, VDA), the organizer of the exhibition, announced that Frankfurt will not host motor shows from 2021. Car dealerships are experiencing a crisis. Declining attendance is causing many automakers to question the merits of elaborate displays, boisterous […]

OPPO smart watch with a curved screen appeared on the official image

OPPO Vice President Brian Shen posted an official image of the company's first smart watch on the Weibo social network. The gadget shown in the render is made in a gold-colored case. But, probably, other color modifications will also be released, for example, black. The device is equipped with a touch display that folds onto the sides. Mr. Shen noted that the new product may become one of the most attractive […]

OPNsense 20.1 Firewall Distribution Available

A distribution kit for creating firewalls OPNsense 20.1 has been released, which is a fork from the pfSense project, created with the goal of creating a completely open distribution kit that could have functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not controlled by one company, developed with the direct participation of the community and […]

Google unveils OpenSK open stack for creating cryptographic tokens

Google has introduced the OpenSK platform, which allows you to create firmware for cryptographic tokens that fully comply with the FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards. Tokens prepared using OpenSK can be used as authenticators for primary and two-factor authentication, as well as to confirm the physical presence of the user. The project is written in Rust and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. OpenSK makes it possible to create [...]

Free Software Foundation collects signatures to open source Windows 7

Microsoft is known to want to support free software. Microsoft has finally stopped supporting Windows 7. Why not open source the system? The Free Software Foundation wants to collect 7 signatures on the "Upcycle Windows 777" petition. The life of an old operating system does not have to end. Microsoft can demonstrate through its actions that the company truly respects its users and their freedom. […]

Linux 5.5 kernel release

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.5. Among the most notable changes: the ability to assign alternative names to network interfaces, integration of cryptographic functions from the Zinc library, the ability to mirror to more than 2 disks in Btrfs RAID1, a mechanism for tracking the state of Live patches, the kunit unit testing framework, improving the performance of the mac80211 wireless stack, the ability access to the root partition via [...]

ProtonVPN open-sourced all of their apps

On January 21, the ProtonVPN service opened the source codes of all remaining VPN clients: Windows, Mac, Android, iOS. The sources of the Linux console client were open source from the very beginning. Recently, the Linux client was completely rewritten in Python and acquired many new features. Thus, ProtonVPN became the first VPN provider in the world to open source all client applications on all platforms and undergo a full independent code audit […]

As I taught, and then wrote a manual on Python

For the past year, I worked as a teacher in one of the provincial training centers (hereinafter referred to as TCs), specializing in teaching programming. I will not name this training center; I will also try to do without the names of companies, names of authors, etc. So, I worked as a teacher in Python and Java. This CA purchased teaching materials for Java, and […]

Where to go: upcoming free developer events in Moscow (January 30 - February 15)

The upcoming free events for developers in Moscow with open registration: January 30, Thursday 1) Master's degree or second higher education; 2) Problems with DDD implementation Tuesday, February 4 Open Load Testing Community MeetUp Thursday, February 6 Ecommpay Database Meetup Open Domain Driven Design MeetUp February 15, Saturday FunCorp iOS meetup * Event links work inside the post […]