Author: ProHoster

"The best thing I've done in my career is send the job to hell." Chris Dancy on turning all life into data

I have a fierce aversion to everything related to “self-development” - life coaches, gurus, talkative motivators. I want to demonstratively burn “self-help” literature on a big bonfire. Without a drop of irony, Dale Carnegie and Tony Robbins infuriate me - more than psychics and homeopaths. It physically pains me to see how some “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” becomes a super-bestseller, and fucking Mark Manson writes […]

Telltale Games studio will try to be revived

LCG Entertainment announced plans to revive the Telltale Games studio. The new owner has purchased Telltale's assets and plans to resume game production. According to Polygon, LCG will sell part of the old licenses to the company that owns the rights to the catalog of already released games The Wolf Among Us and Batman. In addition, the studio has original franchises such as Puzzle Agent. […]

Google Hire recruiting service to close in 2020

According to network sources, Google intends to close the employee search service, which was launched just two years ago. The Google Hire service is popular and has integrated tools that make it easier to find employees, including selecting candidates, scheduling interviews, providing reviews, etc. Google Hire was created primarily for small and medium-sized businesses. Interaction with the system is carried out […]

Ultra graphics settings in Ghost Recon Breakpoint will only work on Windows 10

Ubisoft has presented the system requirements for the shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint - as many as five configurations, divided into two groups. The standard group includes the minimum and recommended configurations, which will allow you to play in 1080p resolution with low and high graphics settings, respectively. The minimum requirements are: operating system: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10; processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3,1 […]

Netflix has shipped more than 5 billion discs and continues to sell 1 million a week

It's no secret that the focus in the home entertainment business is currently on digital streaming services, but many may be surprised to learn that there are still quite a few people buying and renting DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Moreover, the phenomenon is so widespread in the United States that this week Netflix released its 5 billionth disc. A company that continues […]

Microsoft to add exFAT support to Linux kernel

One of the Microsoft engineers announced in a blog post that support for the exFAT file system has been added to the Linux kernel. Microsoft has also published a specification for exFAT for developers. Source: linux.org.ru

Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.0 distribution release

Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution kit for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has released the Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.0 distribution kit. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a turnkey solution for quickly creating a system for monitoring mail traffic and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are open under the AGPLv3 license. For […]

Thunderbird 68.0 mail client release

A year after the publication of the last significant release, the Thunderbird 68 email client was released, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies. The new release is classified as a long-term support version, for which updates are released throughout the year. Thunderbird 68 is based on the codebase of the ESR release of Firefox 68. The release is available for direct download only, automatic updates […]

Sway 1.2 custom environment release using Wayland

The release of the composite manager Sway 1.2 has been prepared, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 mosaic window manager and the i3bar panel. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use on Linux and FreeBSD. i3 compatibility is provided at the command, configuration file and IPC levels, allowing […]

6D.ai will create a 3D model of the world using smartphones

6D.ai, a San Francisco startup founded in 2017, aims to create a complete 3D model of the world using only smartphone cameras without any special equipment. The company announced the start of cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies to develop its technology based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. Qualcomm expects 6D.ai to provide better understanding of the space for Snapdragon-powered virtual reality headsets and […]

RFID News: Sales of chipped fur coats hit… ceilings

It is strange that this news did not receive any coverage either in the media or on Habré and GT, only the website Expert.ru wrote a “note about our boy.” But it’s strange, because it is “signature” in its own way and, apparently, we are on the threshold of grandiose changes in trade turnover in the Russian Federation. Briefly about RFID What is RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) and […]