WordPress, Hardware, Debian, and Red Hat

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2023,
updated Mar 07, 2023

• Your WordPress 6.2 Preview

  Watch this ‘live product demo’ recording with release squad members Anne McCarthy and Rich Tabor as they share exciting enhancements anticipated for the WordPress 6.2 release.

• Riotee batteryless stackable RP2040 IoT board embeds an nRF52833 module (Crowdfunding)

  Nessie Circuits' Riotee board combines Raspberry Pi R2040 microcontroller and a Riotee module based on Nordic nRF52833 WiSoC with a 2.4 GHz radio and targets batteryless IoT applications thanks to a stackable design taking a capacitors add-on board and a solar panel. Batteries introduce maintenance costs and environmental issues with millions of batteries disposed of every day.

• Allwinner R128 wireless SoC features 64-bit RISC-V core, Arm Cortex-M33 core, and HiFi 5 audio DSP

  Allwinner is mostly known for its low-cost Arm processor running Android or Linux, but the Allwinner R128 is a wireless audio SoC with a C906 64-bit RISC-V application core, an Arm Cortex-M33 real-time time core, a HiFi 5 DSP, and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. The SoC also comes with 1MB SRAM, up to 16MB flash, up to 32MB PSRAM, display and camera interfaces, support for microphone arrays, and plenty of I/Os that should make it suitable for smart speakers and other voice-controlled home appliances with or without display.

• Elfin-EW11 is a compact WiFi to RS485 unit with Modbus TCP support

  Elfin EW11/EW11A is a small WiFi to RS485 unit with Modbus TCP/IP support that works either in the 5 to 18V DC (EW11) or the 5 to 36V DC (EW11A) input range. The WiFi to RS485 adapter is offered with either an internal or external WiFi antenna, the RS485 interface is exposed through an RJ45 port, and an RJ45 to terminal block cable is usually included, as well as a DIN Rail mount.

• Accepted apt 2.6.0 (source) into unstable

• ChatGPT: 3 benefits for CIOs [Ed: For the fourth time in recent weeks Red Hat is openly promoting Microsoft proprietary spyware and its irrational hype]

• ChatGPT Generated Child Sex Abuse When Asked to Write BDSM Scenarios [Ed: Microsoft has a long tradition of helping pedophiles and actively recommending pedophilia to people who are not interested]

  ChatGPT can break its own rules to generate BDSM role-play, and when pushed further, sometimes adds in scenes of child exploitation.

• I Coaxed ChatGPT Into a Deeply Unsettling BDSM Relationship [Ed: Anything to keep this vapourware in headline? Is any publicity "good" publicity at this point?]

  ChatGPT is a fountain of boundless depravity—if you deceive it into bending the rules.

• Low-code app development: 4 key benefits