Author: ProHoster

How the received power from wireless charging varies depending on the location of the phone

In this part, I want to answer some of the questions that were asked in the first article. Below is information about various improvements to wireless charging and a little information about the power received depending on the location of the phone on charge. Modifications There are various "chips" for wireless charging: 1. Reverse charging. There were a lot of comments about her, on the Internet […]

Backend section on DUMP: Serverless, Postgres and Go, .NET Core, GraphQL and more

April 19 in Yekaterinburg will host a conference of developers DUMP. The program directors of the Backend section — Andrey Zharinov, head of the Yandex development office, Konstantin Beklemishev, head of the Naumen Contact Center development department, and Denis Tarasov, a software engineer from Kontur — told what reports developers are waiting for at the conference. There is an opinion that one should not expect insights from the reports at the "festival" conference. We think, […]

The new Microsoft Edge will support 4K video streaming and Fluent Design

Microsoft is almost ready to officially introduce the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. Early leaks have already given users a pretty clear idea of ​​what to expect. However, it looks like the Redmond-based corporation has a couple of aces up its sleeve. Chromium-based Microsoft Edge will reportedly be able to support 4K video streaming. The corresponding flag was found in […]

PS4 and Switch owners will go in search of memories in Path to Mnemosyne on April 16

Hidden Trap and Devilish Games have announced that they will release the hypnotic adventure Path to Mnemosyne on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on April 16th (17th on the European PlayStation Store). In Path to Mnemosyne you need to follow a given path, recover lost memories and solve dozens of puzzles. As the publisher describes, the game is suitable for everyone thanks to the mysterious story, [...]

PS4 and Switch owners will go in search of memories in Path to Mnemosyne on April 16

Hidden Trap and Devilish Games have announced that they will release the hypnotic adventure Path to Mnemosyne on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on April 16th (17th on the European PlayStation Store). In Path to Mnemosyne you need to follow a given path, recover lost memories and solve dozens of puzzles. As the publisher describes, the game is suitable for everyone thanks to the mysterious story, [...]

Python for the Web: what a junior needs to know to work and develop

We made a short transcript with the main thoughts from the Python Junior Podcast: in it we discussed where to start and where to go as a beginner Python developer. Lately we have a lot of content for middles and seniors, but this episode is definitely for juniors. Main topics: What knowledge does a novice programmer need to engage in web development? What are they waiting for […]

Oppo A7n smartphone announced - more memory and better camera

A couple of weeks after the announcement of the A5s smartphone, Oppo today introduced its modified version in China, called the A7n. The specifications of the new product are almost identical to those of the Oppo A5s, with the exception of an improved selfie camera and an additional 1 GB of RAM to the previous model. The new smartphone comes with 4GB of RAM and a 16-megapixel camera for […]

Razer laptops continue to be sold with a long-known security "hole"

Since 2011, Razer, previously well known for its stylish computer peripherals, has also begun promoting high-performance gaming laptops. And if with mice and keyboards there is no particular hassle in terms of security concerns, then with laptops everything is very difficult. It turned out that Razer treats the security of computing systems, as they say, carelessly. Infosec specialists discovered that […]

Comparison of space communication systems

Friends, as you already know, we are preparing a new geek project at full speed - "Server in the Clouds 2.0", or "Space Data Center". In a nutshell: on April 12, we will launch a self-made server on a stratospheric balloon to a height of about 30 km, we will transmit data to it via a space communication system, and from the server we will broadcast data to Earth via radio. AND […]

HTTPS is not always as secure as it seems. Vulnerabilities found in 5,5% of HTTPS sites

One of Alexa's top sites (central circle), protected by HTTPS, with subdomains (gray) and dependencies (white), among which there are vulnerable ones (dashed fill). Nowadays, the HTTPS secure connection icon has become a standard and even a necessary attribute of any serious site. If the certificate is missing, almost all recent browsers show a warning that the connection to the site is "not secure" and discourage […]

Building blocks of distributed applications. First approach

In the last article, we discussed the theoretical foundations of reactive architecture. It's time to talk about data flows, ways to implement reactive Erlang/Elixir systems and their messaging patterns: Request-response Request-Chunked Response Response with Request Publish-subscribe Inverted Publish-subscribe Task distribution SOA, MSA and SOA messaging, MSA - system architectures that define the rules for building systems, while […]