today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 21, 2022

• xfwm4-wayland: wlroots branch merged into wayland branch

  The wlroots version of xfwm4-wayland now has partial support for the
  wlr-foreign-toplevel protocol.
  
  
  I have now declared feature parity with the libweston version, so I
  have merged the wlroots branch into the wayland branch.
  
  
  Link to the git repository:
  https://github.com/adlocode/xfwm4/tree/wayland
  
  
  Regards
  adlo
  

• Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day: December 2022 | Will's Blog

  Today is Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day where I spend some time taking stock of things and maybe move some projects to the done pile.

  In June, I ran a Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day [1] for Mozilla Data Org because the idea really struck a chord with me and we were about to embark on 2022h2 where one of the goals was to "land planes" and finish projects. I managed to pass off Dennis and end Puente. I also spent some time mulling over better models for maintaining a lot of libraries.

• 7 Best Cloud Gaming Apps for Android Devices

  Cloud gaming apps for Android are becoming increasingly popular nowadays. It’s because more and more people look for ways to access their favorite games on their smartphones and tablets. These apps let users stream high-quality video games to their devices without needing expensive hardware or device memory. Indeed, users don’t need to install games at all. With a stable internet connection and a compatible device, you can easily play your favorite games anywhere, anytime, with this kind of app.

• Open Source Projects to Help Measure and Manage Energy Use

  As the destructive effects of climate change become more apparent, “we need to fight climate change with both sword (cutting our emissions to fight further increases in warming) and shield (protecting ourselves from climate change’s increasing effects),” says the World Economic Forum.

  Both control and mitigation approaches must be pursued, and “everyone must be involved in deciding how societies will adapt,” says this COP27 report.

  One way to get involved is through open source. For example, we previously mentioned the Protontypes website as a valuable resource for finding projects that are actively working toward a more sustainable future. The site provides a comprehensive, curated list of open technology projects that can provide key information and help shape critical climate solutions.

• 2022 is almost over, welcome 2023! [Ed: OSI works for Microsoft and proprietary software; do not give them a dime!]

  As I’m closing out my first full year as executive director of the Open Source Initiative, I’m amazed by what our small team has accomplished. I’m proud to end the year with a solid 20% growth in revenue from sponsors and an even more impressive increase of the total number of corporate sponsors, to a whopping 51 up from 36 last year!

• Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]

  Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server), Fedora (samba, snakeyaml, thunderbird, xorg-x11-server, and xrdp), Slackware (libksba and sdl), and SUSE (cni, cni-plugins, java-1_7_1-ibm, kernel, openssl-3, and supportutils).

• Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers’ Cell Phone Calls

  This isn’t a new problem and it isn’t a Russian problem. Here’s a more general article on the problem from 2020.

• ‘We were allowed to be slaughtered’: calls by Russian forces intercepted | Russia | The Guardian

  Out on the frontline, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, on 8 November at 15.10, a Russian serviceman called Andrey decided to ignore the orders of his superiors and call his mother with an unauthorised mobile phone.

• Qualcomm QCX216 LTE Cat1 bis IoT-optimized modem integrates WiFi-based terrestrial positioning - CNX Software

  Qualcomm QCX216 is a new IoT-optimized LTE Cat1 bis modem with a data rate of up to 10 Mbps at ultra-low power and support for WiFi-based terrestrial positioning thanks to the company’s database of billions of geolocated beacons.

  LTE Cat1 bis is an update to LTE Cat1 that does not require software and hardware upgrades to the base stations, enables smaller, simpler, and cheaper designs with a single antenna, and delivers higher speeds than LTE Cat M1 typically used in IoT applications. Qualcomm QCX216 LTE IoT modem will be used in smart utility meters, trackers, e-mobility solutions, parking meters, home automation and security equipment, and other location-based solutions.

• EdgeBox-ESP-100 - An ESP32-S3 industrial controller with RS485, CAN Bus, DIO, 4G LTE, and more - CNX Software

  We’ve previously covered the EdgeBox-RPi4 industrial controller powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and plenty of I/Os such as RS485, RS232, digital inputs and outputs, and connectivity options such as Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5, and 4G LTE.

  But if you don’t quite need the power of a Linux controller, the EdgeBox-ESP-100 industrial edge controller based on an ESP32-S3 dual-core WiFi and Bluetooth microcontroller and offering a similar set of features, albeit with twists, may be an interesting option.