Author: ProHoster

"Is there life after Signor?" or what we will talk about at SECR-2019

Hello Habr! For each team there are simply events, and there are those for which you prepare especially. For us at Reksoft, this is the Software Engineering Conference Russia or SECR, which will be held on November 14-15 in St. Petersburg. For us, this is not just a get-together of developers, team leads, architects, designers and testers, but practically our home, the same atmosphere of our offices in […]

Trends in computer vision. Highlights ICCV 2019

Neural networks in computer vision are actively developing, many problems are still far from being solved. To be on trend in your field, just follow influencers on Twitter and read relevant articles on arXiv.org. But we had the opportunity to go to the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019. This year it is being held in South Korea. Now we […]

Cppcheck project raises funds to implement improvements

The developer of Cppcheck (Daniel Marjamäki) is going to add the ability to verify software in C and C++ to his static analyzer. Verifying Software in Cppcheck In "verification" mode, Cppcheck will issue a warning if it cannot confirm that the code is safe, but this may result in noise (multiple warnings). Implementation plans The verification mode will be implemented sequentially. At the first stage the work will […]

Trigeneration: an alternative to centralized energy supply

Compared to European countries, where distributed generation facilities today account for almost 30% of all output, in Russia, according to various estimates, the share of distributed energy today is no more than 5-10%. Let's talk about whether Russian distributed energy has a chance to catch up with global trends, and whether consumers have the motivation to move towards an independent energy supply. Source In addition to numbers. […]

Mozilla WebThings Gateway 0.10, gateway for smart home and IoT devices available

Mozilla has published a new release of WebThings Gateway 0.10, which, combined with the WebThings Framework libraries, forms the WebThings platform for providing access to various categories of consumer devices and using a universal Web Things API to interact with them. The project code is written in JavaScript using the Node.js server platform and is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. […]

Janayugom is the first newspaper in the world to switch completely to open source

Janayugom is a Malayalam-language daily newspaper published in Kerala, India, with approximately 100,000 subscribers. Until recently, they used proprietary Adobe PageMaker, but the age of the software (the last release was already in 2001), as well as the lack of Unicode support, pushed management to look for alternatives. Finding out that industry standard Adobe InDesign instead of one-off […]

NGINX Unit 1.13.0 Application Server Release

The NGINX Unit 1.13 application server has been released, within which a solution is being developed to ensure the launch of web applications in various programming languages ​​(Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js and Java). NGINX Unit can simultaneously run multiple applications in different programming languages, the launch parameters of which can be changed dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]

Release of Firefox Lite 2.0, a compact browser for Android

The release of the Firefox Lite 2.0 web browser has been published, which is positioned as a lightweight version of Firefox Focus, adapted to work on systems with limited resources and low-speed communication channels. The project is being developed by a team of Mozilla developers from Taiwan and is aimed primarily at delivery in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China and developing countries. The key difference between Firefox Lite and Firefox Focus […]

X019: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition release trailer is loaded with nostalgia

You can already begin to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games: Microsoft has released an anniversary version of Age of Empires II with the subtitle Definitive Edition. The project includes redesigned graphics with 4K Ultra HD support, updated sound and a new addition - “The Last Khans”, including 3 campaigns and 4 new civilizations. To coincide with the launch of the updated game, the developers of Forgotten Empires, Tantalus […]

Fraudsters have started using new ways to steal from bank cards

Telephone scammers have begun to use a new method of stealing from bank cards, said the Izvestia resource with reference to the REN TV channel. Reportedly, the fraudster called a resident of Moscow on the phone. Posing as a bank security officer, he said that money was being debited from her card, and in order to block the process, she urgently needed to apply for an online loan for 90 thousand rubles […]