Open Hardware: Librem, ESP32, and More

• Purism’s Librem 5 USA, Privacy-first Smartphones Ship Within 10 Business Days

  Purism’s Made in USA phone, Librem 5 USA uses a tighter supply chain. It is powered by PureOS, and designed for longevity. Standard orders ship within 10 days.

• ESP32 board with rotary encoder gets 2-key keypad shield - CNX Software

  LILYGO TTGO T-Encoder, a round-shaped ESP32 board with a built-in rotary encoder, has gotten a shield with a 2-key keypad based on WCH CH552 8-bit microcontroller. Launched several months ago, the TTGO T-Encoder is a USB-powered rotary encoder with ESP32 microcontroller offering WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and now, you can build a keypad with rotary encoder thanks to T-Encoder shield that features two mechanical switches and keycaps with RGB LED backlight.

• AquaPing is an open-source, battery powered acoustic water leak detector module (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software

  The AquaPing is an open-source hardware, ultra-low power acoustic water leak detector sensor based on Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller and a microphone that can detect leaks without having to do any plumbing, instead capturing audio for water leak detection, and it even works for leaks behind walls. All signal processing and analysis occur on the MSP430 MCU, so no audio is streamed to the cloud and eavesdropping is impossible, plus the sensor only captures high frequencies out of the range of normal conversations, so eavesdropping is not feasible, plus those higher frequencies are also said to provide highest sensitivity and reliability.

Programming Leftovers

• Godot Engine - Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

  We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 alpha 14! Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work.

• Considering adopting Nim language

• CPM0 frl-plugin:perlscript: ERROR: 'times' trapped by operation mask at /usr/lib64/perl5/B.pm line 183. | kavya [blogs.perl.org]

  When "use DateTime;" library is included in perl file ,getting the error as "CPM0 frl-plugin:perlscript: ERROR: 'times' trapped by operation mask at /usr/lib64/perl5/B.pm line 183."

• Please relicense from "Perl 5" to MIT or Apache 2.0 license

  Following from my previous post, I am now actively encouraging everyone to switch licenses to MIT/ISC license or Apache 2.0. My reasoning is that in the vast majority of cases the author and contributors want the software to be used by as many businesses and hobbyists as possible. Previously I described how the burden of understanding and complying with licenses, including open source licenses, can be an unintended barrier to them using the software. Perl modules tend to use "Perl 5" combination as the default license i.e. "Licensed under the same terms as Perl itself". And the "Perl 5" license is actually a dual licensing of the problematic Artistic 1.0 license and the dated GPL1.0 license which also has problems. Both are rarely used outside of Perl and in my view present a barrier to adoption. Recall I described how permissive ("BSD") and copyleft ("GPL") licenses are functionally identical if no binary is distributed (websites) or for scripted languages that remain in source form.

• 9 Examples of for Loops in Linux Bash Scripts [Ed: GNU Bash, not Linux Bash]

  The versatile Bash for loop does much more than loop around a set number of times. We describe its many variants so you can use them successfully in your own Linux scripts.

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.63.0

  The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.63.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

• Rust 1.63.0 released [LWN.net]

  Version 1.63.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the addition of scoped threads, a new ownership model for raw file descriptors, and the completion of the borrow-checker transition...

Microsoft's Office Ripoff, Linux Foundation Fronting for Microsoft Again, and Non-Linux-Related Fluff

• Never fear, Microsoft Office users - you won't be cut off early after all [Ed: Just move to LibreOffice and stop being hostage of Microsoft]

  Microsoft has apparently gone back on initial plans to cut off some generations of its Office software.

• Aviz Joins the Linux Foundation and Announces Free Support for SONiC Evaluations in The Enterprise [Ed: Linux Foundation as a front group of Microsoft]

• Aviz Joins the Linux Foundation and Announces Free Support for SONiC Evaluations in The Enterprise

• Boeing joins the ELISA Project as a Premier Member to Strengthen its Commitment to Safety-Critical Applications

• Boeing joins the ELISA Project as a Premier Member to Strengthen its Commitment to Safety-Critical Applications

  Today, the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) Project announced that Boeing has joined as a Premier member, marking its commitment to Linux and its effective use in safety critical applications. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, ELISA is an open source initiative that aims to create a shared set of tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications and systems.

• Boeing Joins ELISA Project, To Lead New Aerospace Working Group

Ubuntu 22.04.1 Arrives in Style with Rock Solid Updates

Release highlights of Ubuntu 22.04.1 which is the first point release of Jammy Jellyfish that brings updated software and bug fixes.