Author: ProHoster

Logitech Folio Touch turns iPad Pro into a mini laptop

Logitech has announced a new accessory for the 11-inch iPad Pro tablet computers - the Folio Touch keyboard cover, which will go on sale before the end of this month. The new product allows you to transform the tablet into a small laptop with several operating modes. In particular, the gadget can be installed at a convenient angle for typing text or viewing multimedia materials. In addition, there are drawing modes and [...]

In China, the number of registered electric vehicles Tesla has updated a monthly record

The continued high demand for cars and government subsidies previously allowed national Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles to surpass world leaders in sales volumes, but Tesla, with the advent of its enterprise in China, is beginning to actively push them aside. In June, the number of Tesla electric cars registered in the country reached a record high. Bloomberg reports this with reference to recent statistics from China. IN […]

Thunderbird 78 mail client release

11 months after the publication of the last significant release, the Thunderbird 78 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 78 is based on the codebase of the ESR release of Firefox 78. The release is available for direct download only, […]

Online conference Open Source Tech Conference will be held from 10 to 13 August

The OSTconf (Open Source Tech Conference), which was previously held under the name “Linux Piter,” will take place on August 10–13. The conference topics have expanded from a focus on the Linux kernel to open source projects in general. The conference will be held online for 4 days. A large number of technical presentations are planned from participants from all over the world. All reports are accompanied by simultaneous translation [...]

GitHub saves open source archive in arctic repository

GitHub announced the implementation of a project to create an archive of open source texts, located in the Arctic repository Arctic World Archive, capable of surviving in the event of a global catastrophe. 186 piqlFilm film drives, which contain photographs of information and allow storing information for more than 1000 years (according to other sources, the service life is 500 years), have been successfully placed in an underground storage facility on the […]

Video surveillance HikVision - free

About six months ago, we quite spontaneously decided to give away outdated models of DVRs that we had in our warehouse. And were very surprised three times! First, the way they quickly scattered. It seemed to us that the video recorders, although new, were obsolete, so there would be no one who would especially want to get them. Secondly, we, of course, put a link to the catalog with modern […]

DVRs for video surveillance - free of charge

The Intems company has an almost New Year's tradition, every year in January we go to the bathhouse and take inventory in the warehouse. And this, of course, in itself is not a reason for publishing on Habré, but the fact is that in the darkest corner we found something that everyone had long forgotten about - several analog video recorders. In every […]

DevOps or how we are losing wages and the future of the IT industry

The saddest thing in the current situation is that IT is gradually becoming an industry where there is no word “stop” at all in the number of responsibilities per person. When reading vacancies, sometimes you even see not 1-2 people, but a whole company in one person, everyone is in a hurry, technical debt is growing, the old legacy against the background of new products looks like perfection, because it […]

Release of JPype 1.0, libraries for accessing Java classes from Python

The release of the JPype 1.0 layer is available, allowing Python applications to have full access to class libraries in the Java language. With JPype from Python, you can use Java-specific libraries to create hybrid applications that combine Java and Python code. Unlike Jython, integration with Java is achieved not by creating a Python variant for the JVM, but by interacting […]

GloDroid project develops Android 10 edition for PinePhone, Orange Pi and Raspberry Pi

Developers from the Ukrainian division of GlobalLogic are developing the GloDroid project with an edition of the Android 10 mobile platform from the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository for platforms based on Allwinner processors supported by the SUNXI project, as well as for Broadcom platforms. Installation is supported on a Pinephone smartphone, Pinetab tablet, Orange Pi Plus 2, Orange Pi Prime, Orange Pi PC/PC 2, […]

The edition of the PinePhone smartphone with postmarketOS is available for order

The Pine64 community has begun accepting pre-orders for the PinePhone postmarketOS Community Edition smartphone, equipped with firmware with the postmarketOS mobile platform based on Alpine Linux, Musl and BusyBox. The smartphone costs $150. Additionally, a more powerful PinePhone model is available for order, which is $50 more expensive, but comes with 3 GB of RAM instead of 2 GB and is equipped with twice the […]

10 open source alternatives to Google Photos

Do you feel like you are drowning in digital photos? It feels like the phone itself fills up with your selfies and shots, but choosing the best shots and organizing photos never happens without your intervention. Organizing the memories you create takes time, but structured photo albums are such a pleasure to work with. On your phone's operating system […]