Author: ProHoster

Mozilla sends the WebThing project free

The developers of Mozilla WebThings, a platform for consumer Internet devices, announced that they were separating from Mozilla and becoming an independent open source project. The platform has also been renamed from Mozilla WebThings to simply WebThings and is distributed through the new website webthings.io. The reason for the actions taken was the reduction of Mozilla's direct investment in the project and the transfer of related developments to the community. Project […]

FOSS News #34 - Free and Open Source News Digest September 14-20, 2020

Hi all! We continue to digest news and other materials about free and open source software and a bit about hardware. All the most important things about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. About the direction of Linux development and problems with its development process, about tools for finding the best FOSS software, the pain of using the Google Cloud Platform and reasoning about […]

opennebula. Short Notes

Hi all. This article is written for those who are still torn between the choice of virtualization platforms and after reading an article from the series “We installed proxmox and everything is fine, 6 years of uptime is not a single gap.” But after installing one or another boxed solution, the question arises, how to fix it here and here, so that monitoring is more […]

"Kubespray Features Overview": The difference between the original version and our fork

On September 23, 20.00 Moscow time, Sergey Bondarev will host a free webinar "Kubespray Capabilities Overview", where he will tell you how kubespray is prepared to make it fast, efficient and fault-tolerant. Sergey Bondarev will tell you the difference between the original version and our fork: The difference between the original version and our fork. Those who have already encountered cubespray are probably now wondering why I oppose kubeadm to cubespray, because cubespray […]

Huawei AppGallery updated user interface

Huawei has released an update for its proprietary digital content store AppGallery. It brings with it a number of user interface changes, as well as a new layout of controls. The main innovation is the appearance of additional elements on the panel located at the bottom of the workspace. Now the “Favorites”, “Applications”, “Games” and “My” tabs are located here. Thus, the previously used “Categories” tabs […]

AMS has created the world's first combined under-screen sensor for edge-to-edge smartphones

AMS announced the creation of an advanced combined sensor that will help smartphone developers produce devices with minimal bezels around the display. The product is designated TMD3719. It combines the functions of a light sensor, a proximity sensor and a flicker sensor. In other words, the solution combines the capabilities of several separate chips. The module is designed to be placed directly behind a display made using organic light-emitting diode technology [...]

Solaris has moved to a continuous update delivery model

Oracle has announced a continuous update delivery model for Solaris, whereby for the foreseeable future, new features and new package versions will appear in the Solaris 11.4 branch as part of monthly updates, without the formation of a new significant release of Solaris 11.5. The proposed model, which involves delivering new functionality in frequently released small versions, will speed up the […]

Drawing 0.6.0 image editor release

A new release of Drawing 0.6.0 has been published, a simple drawing program for Linux similar to Microsoft Paint. The project is written in Python and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready-made packages are prepared for Ubuntu, Fedora and in Flatpak format. GNOME is considered as the main graphical environment, but alternative interface layout options are offered in the style of elementaryOS, Cinnamon and MATE, as well as […]

In the Russian Federation intend to ban protocols that allow you to hide the name of the site

A public discussion has begun on a draft legal act on amendments to the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection,” developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications. The law proposes to introduce a ban on the use on the territory of the Russian Federation of “encryption protocols that make it possible to hide the name (identifier) ​​of an Internet page or website on the Internet, except in cases established […]

How does Data Science sell ads to you? Interview with a Unity engineer

A week ago, Nikita Aleksandrov, a Data Scientist, spoke on our social networks in Unity Ads, where he improves conversion algorithms. Nikita now lives in Finland, and among other things, he spoke about IT life in the country. We share with you the transcript and recording of the interview My name is Nikita Alexandrov, I grew up in Tatarstan and graduated from high school there, participated in Olympiads […]

Background Tasks on Faust, Part I: An Introduction

How did I get to this life? Not so long ago, I had to work on the backend of a highly loaded project, in which it was necessary to organize the regular execution of a large number of background tasks with complex calculations and requests for third-party services. The project is asynchronous and before I came in, it had a simple mechanism for cron-running tasks: a loop with checking the current […]