Author: ProHoster

Stallman's departure from the presidency of the Free Software Foundation will not affect his leadership of the GNU project

Richard Stallman explained to the community that the decision to resign as president concerns only the Free Software Foundation and does not affect the GNU Project. The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation are not the same thing. Stallman remains the head of the GNU project and has no plans to leave this post. Interestingly, the signature to Stallman's letters continues to mention his involvement with the SPO Foundation, […]

Retentioneering: how we wrote open-source product analytics tools in Python and Pandas

Hello, Habr. This article is devoted to the results of four years of development of a set of methods and tools for processing user movement trajectories in an application or website. The author of the development is Maxim Godzi, who heads the team of product creators and is also the author of the article. The product itself was called Retentioneering; it has now been converted into an open-source library and posted on Github so that anyone […]

Review of the book: “Life 3.0. Being human in the era of artificial intelligence"

Many who know me can confirm that I am quite critical of a lot of issues, and in some ways I even show a fair amount of maximalism. I'm hard to please. Especially when it comes to books. I often criticize fans of science fiction, religion, detective stories and much other nonsense. I think it’s high time to take care of really important things and stop living in the illusion of immortality. In […]

The KDE project calls on web designers and developers to help!

The KDE project resources, available at kde.org, are a huge, confusing collection of various pages and sites that have evolved little by little since 1996. It has now become obvious that this cannot continue like this, and we need to seriously start modernizing the portal. The KDE Project encourages web developers and designers to volunteer. Subscribe to the mailing list to stay up to date with the work [...]

TR-069 at Mikrotik. Testing Freeacs as an autoconfig server for RouterOS

In this article, I will try to describe step by step the process of installing a test server of the excellent Freeacs project to a fully operational state, and show practical techniques for working with mikrotik: configuration through parameters, executing scripts, updating, installing additional modules, etc. The purpose of the article is to encourage colleagues to give up managing network devices with the help of terrible rakes and crutches, in the form of […]

How retentioneering is implemented in App in the Air

Keeping a user in a mobile application is a whole science. Its basics were described in our article on VC.ru by the author of the course Growth Hacking: mobile application analytics Maxim Godzi, head of the Machine Learning division at App in the Air. Maxim talks about the tools developed in the company using the example of work on analysis and optimization of a mobile application. This systematic approach to [...]

Russia proposes world's first standard for satellite navigation in the Arctic

The Russian Space Systems (RSS) holding, part of the Roscosmos state corporation, has proposed a standard for satellite navigation systems in the Arctic. As reported by RIA Novosti, specialists from the Polar Initiative Scientific Information Center took part in developing the requirements. By the end of this year, the document is planned to be submitted to Rosstandart for approval. “The new GOST defines technical requirements for geodetic equipment software, reliability characteristics, […]

"Router for pumping": tuning TP-Link equipment for Internet providers 

According to the latest statistics, more than 33 million Russians use broadband Internet. Although the growth of the subscriber base is slowing down, the income of providers continues to grow, including through improving the quality of existing services and the emergence of new ones. Seamless Wi-Fi, IP television, smart home - to develop these areas, operators need to switch from DSL to higher speed technologies and update network equipment. In that […]

Soon half of the calls will be from robots. Tip: don't answer (?)

Today we have an unusual material - a translation of an article about illegal automated calls in the USA. From time immemorial, there have been people who used technology not for good, but to fraudulently profit from gullible citizens. Modern telecommunications are no exception; spam or outright scams can overtake us via SMS, mail, or telephone. Phones have become even more fun, [...]

We make our own Google Call Screening based on Voximplant and Dialogflow

You may have heard or read about the Call Screening feature that Google rolled out for its Pixel phones in the US. The idea is great - when you receive an incoming call, the virtual assistant begins to communicate, while you see this conversation in the form of a chat and at any time you can start speaking instead of the assistant. This is very useful in [...]

Backup, part at the request of readers: Overview of UrBackup, BackupPC, AMANDA

This review note continues the cycle on backup, written at the request of readers, it will talk about UrBackup, BackupPC, and AMANDA. UrBackup review. At the request of member VGusev2007, I am adding a review of UrBackup, a client-server backup system. It allows you to create full and incremental backups, can work with device snapshots (Win only?), and can also create […]

World of Warcraft 'Reckoning' Short Film Concludes Saurfang's Story

In preparation for the launch of the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth expansion, Blizzard Entertainment presented a story short video dedicated to the legendary Horde warrior Varok Saurfang, who was broken by the endless bloodshed and the actions of Sylvanas Windrunner to destroy the Tree of Life Teldrassil. Then the next video was released, in which King Anduin Wrynn, also tired and depressed from the long war […]