Author: ProHoster

Samsung Galaxy A81 smartphone may lose its unique PTZ camera

Renders of a protective case for the Galaxy A81 smartphone, which has not yet been officially presented, which Samsung is preparing to release, have appeared on the Internet. Last year, we recall, the South Korean giant announced the Galaxy A80, which features a unique rotating camera. It performs the functions of both the main and front blocks. The Galaxy A81 smartphone, according to the presented images, will be deprived of a rotary […]

Cyber ​​scammers hack mobile operators to get to subscribers' phone numbers

Remote desktops (RDP) are a convenient thing when you need to do something on your computer, but you don’t have the physical ability to sit in front of it. Or when you need to get good performance while working from an old or not very powerful device. Cloud provider Cloud4Y provides this service to many companies. And I couldn’t ignore the news about how scammers who trade […]

Dino 0.1 Released - New XMPP Client for Desktop Linux

Dino is a modern open source desktop chat client based on XMPP/Jabber. Written in Vala/GTK+. Development of Dino began 3 years ago, and it brought together more than 30 people involved in the process of creating the client. Dino meets all security requirements and is compatible with all XMPP clients and servers. The main difference from most similar clients is its clean, simple and modern interface. […]

LibreOffice 6.4 office suite release

The Document Foundation presented the release of the office suite LibreOffice 6.4. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS, as well as an edition for deploying the online version in Docker. In preparation for the release, 75% of the changes were made by employees of the companies supervising the project, such as Collabora, Red Hat and CIB, and 25% of the changes were added by independent enthusiasts. Key innovations: […]

Heptapod public hosting announced for open source projects using Mercurial

The developers of the Heptapod project, which develops a fork of the open collaborative development platform GitLab Community Edition, adapted to use the Mercurial source control system, announced the introduction of public hosting for Open Source projects (foss.heptapod.net) using Mercurial. Heptapod's code, like GitLab, is distributed under the free MIT license and can be used to deploy similar code hosting on its servers. […]

In 2019, Google paid out $6.5 million in rewards for finding vulnerabilities

Google has summed up the results of its reward program for identifying vulnerabilities in its products, Android applications and various open source software. The total amount of rewards paid in 2019 was $6.5 million, of which $2.1 million was paid for vulnerabilities in Google services, $1.9 million in Android, $1 million in Chrome and $800 thousand in […]

Linux Mint has released a new desktop computer "MintBox 3"

A new mini-computer “MintBox 3” has been released. There are Basic ($1399) and Pro ($2499) models. The difference in price and characteristics is quite large. MintBox 3 comes with Linux Mint pre-installed. Key characteristics of the Basic version: 6 cores 9th generation Intel Core i5-9500 16 GB RAM (can be upgraded up to 128 GB) 256 GB Samsung NVMe SSD (can be upgraded to 2x […]

The Half-Life series became free to download (only until the day of the release of Half-Life: Alyx)

Valve decided to make a small surprise - they made the Half-Life series games free to download and play on Steam. The promotion will last until the release date of Half-Life: Alyx in March, which is why the promotion was launched. The following listed games are eligible for the promotion: Half-Life Half-Life: Opposing Force Half-Life: Blue Shift Half-Life: Source Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode One […]

Solve the Unsolvable

I am often criticized at work for one strange quality - sometimes I spend too long on a task, whether managerial or programming, that seems unsolvable. It seems like it’s high time to quit and move on to something else, but I keep poking around and poking around. It turns out that everything is not so simple. I read a wonderful book here that explained everything again. I love this - here [...]

C++ Siberia 2020

On February 28-29, we will celebrate the end of winter by warming our brains to the highest possible temperature. At the next C++ Siberia we will discuss competition, functionality, reflection, new standards and epic files of the standardization committee. Timur Dumler, Anton Polukhin, Vitaly Bragilevsky and others will perform. The conference will be held in the lecture hall-bar POTOK, which is located at Novosibirsk, Deputatskaya, 46. See you at the conference! Source: linux.org.ru

Complementary feeding rules

What happens if you feed a two-month-old baby a Big Mac? What happens if a weightlifter weighing 60 kg is given a 150 kg deadlift in the first week of training? What happens if you put a couple of 200 nails into a meat grinder? It’s about the same as giving an intern the task of modifying PouchDB so that he can work with PostgeSQL. Here we have a company [...]