Sony's flagship smartphones have always been a bit of a mixed bag in recent years, especially in the area of built-in cameras. But with the release of Xperia 1, it seems that this trend began to change - our review of this device in comparison with Huawei P30 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S10+, Apple iPhone Xs Max and OnePlus 7 Pro can be found in a separate article by Viktor Zaikovsky. […]
Continuation of the concept of a social-role universe connecting the real and virtual worlds. The article describes personal impressions of the “quests” carried out since the beginning of the month, and tasks for the second half of September have been added to the event calendar. The main idea was to look for like-minded people and begin to create something like a kind of social organization that looks after an imaginary fairy-tale universe. Social current […]
It's interesting to see how the concept of a compact smartphone changes over time. Once upon a time, the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch screen seemed large, but in the current lineup, the iPhone Xs with a 5,8-inch screen is considered small. And indeed, in 2019, the small iPhone really does look small – the average screen size is growing, there’s no getting around it. […]
Today we congratulate on the holiday the people who every day make sure that there is a little more order in the world - testers. On this day, GeekUniversity from Mail.ru Group opens a faculty for those who want to join the ranks of fighters against the entropy of the Universe. The course program is structured in such a way that the profession of “Software Tester” can be mastered from scratch, even if you have previously worked […]
The translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the Cloud Services course. Interested in developing in this direction? Watch the master class by Egor Zuev (TeamLead at InBit) “AWS EC2 service” and join the next course group: starts on September 26. More people are migrating to AWS Lambda for scalability, performance, savings, and the ability to handle millions or even trillions of requests per month. […]
The Manjaro Linux desktop distribution will now be supervised by Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG, created with the support of Blue Systems (one of the main sponsors of KDE). In this regard, the following key points have been announced: full-time developers and maintainers will be hired; the company will manage donations, provide expenses for equipment, events and specialists; behind the Manjaro community […]
The first corrective update of the Debian 10 distribution has been generated, which includes package updates released in the two months since the release of the new branch, and eliminated shortcomings in the installer. The release includes 102 updates that fix stability problems and 34 updates that fix vulnerabilities. Among the changes in Debian 10.1, we can note the removal of 2 packages: pump (unmaintained and […]
KDE Akademy has introduced a new application for controlling quadcopters - Kirogi (wild goose in Korean). It will be available on desktops, tablets and smartphones. Currently the following quadcopter models are supported: Parrot Anafi, Parrot Bebop 2 and Ryze Tello, their number will increase in the future. Features: direct first-person control; indicating the route with points on the map; change settings […]
Lydia Pintscher, president of the non-profit organization KDE eV, which oversees the development of the KDE project, in her welcoming speech at the Akademy 2019 conference, introduced new goals for the project, which will be given increased attention during development in the next two years. Goals are selected based on community voting. Past goals were set in 2017 and focused on improving the usability […]
At the KDE developer conference taking place these days, a new application, Kirogi, was presented, providing an environment for controlling drones. The program is written using Qt Quick and the Kirigami framework from the KDE Frameworks, which allows you to create universal interfaces suitable for smartphones, tablets and PCs. The project code will be distributed under the GPLv2+ license. At the current stage of development, the program can work with drones […]
After a year of development, the release of the decentralized web platform ZeroNet 0.7 was released, which proposes to use Bitcoin addressing and verification mechanisms in combination with BitTorrent distributed delivery technologies to create sites that cannot be censored, faked or blocked. The content of sites is stored in a P2P network on visitors’ machines and is verified using the owner’s digital signature. For addressing, a system of alternative root […]
The interactive firewall TinyWall 2.0 has been released. The project is a small bash script that reads from the logs information about packets that are not included in the accumulated rules, and displays a request to the user to confirm or block the identified network activity. The user's choice is saved and subsequently used for similar traffic based on IP (“one connection => one question => […]
