IRC log of #maemo for Saturday, 2016-02-13

Wizzupcan you break down the problems?00:20
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jonwilBasically I need to somehow get the standard microb-engine build process (i.e. go into the folder and do dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot) to also compile certain tools (specifically the one that lets you manipulate the cert8.db file).00:26
jonwilI can manually compile the tools by going into nss folder and running make nss_build_all but that doesn't help, I need it to be built at the same time as the rest of microb-engine00:28
jonwilThat or we need to figure out another way to remove the various bogus intermediate certificates from the cert8.db file as part of updating the set of root CA certicficates00:29
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MaxdamantusCan't you just add it to the build instructions somewhere?00:44
Maxdamantuscd blah/nss && make nss_build_all00:45
Maxdamantusdebian/rules would probably be a reasonable place.00:46
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jonwilExcept that it would pollute the build tree with garbage (you cant run a full mozilla build AND a nss_build_all build in the same build tree)00:52
jonwilSo I want to figure out how to do an out-of-tree nss_build_all build that keeps all the files out of the build tree in a separate place00:52
KotCzarnyis that a problem?00:57
jonwilyes it is00:57
KotCzarnyi think it gets deleted after compiling/packaging anyway00:57
keriohow recent of a NSS are we talking here00:58
MaxdamantusUsually with ./configure-based things you just invoke the configure script from a different directory, though I have a feeling Gecko explicitly disallows that.01:03
Maxdamantustar -xvf foo.tar.xz && mkdir foo-build && cd foo-build && ../foo/configure && make01:04
Hurrianditto'ing Maxdamantus' answer, that's usually how I build gcc01:15
Maxdamantusgcc requires it afaik01:15
MaxdamantusSome combination of glibc, binutils and gcc don't support building in the source directory, so you have to do it somewhere else.01:16
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Maxdamantus1: 2101, 2: 2104, 3: 220401:25
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jrghello03:20
jrgis the N900 the only device that runs maemo still nowadays?03:20
MaxdamantusThe N770/N800/N810 also run "maemo".03:21
jrgyeah but those are ancient. i was just curious if there was some sort of newer hardware device that has come out since the N900 that can run maemo503:22
jrgor is the N900 the latest hardware capable of running it?03:22
Hurrianjrg: nope, the N900 is so far, the only device properly running all of Fremantle03:23
jrgah ok. that's a shame. really miss my N900. it was a great device but the hardware became so outdated03:24
jrgit because a pain to run microb03:24
Maxdamantushttp://maxdamantus.eu.org/3n.jpg03:25
jrgi was hoping after all this time maybe someone released something that it could run on like maybe an x86 device like a zen fone03:25
jrgi loved the qwerty on the N900... too bad those are a thing of the past :(03:26
* Maxdamantus uses Dvorak on his.03:26
Hurrianjrg: fwiw, browsing the internet nowadays is even more painful, thanks to all the Javascript.03:26
Hurrian*browsing on the N90003:26
jrgHurrian: oh i don't disagree with you there.. but using safari on ios vs using microb on an N90003:26
jrgi mean if the N900 had more power behind it .. it wouldn't be bad at all03:27
MaxdamantusLike if it were a Neo900?03:27
HurrianI miss using the arrow keys to scroll long pages.03:27
jrgbut the small ram coupled with the "swap" just slowed it to a crawl towards the end where i finally gave up on it03:27
HurrianMaxdamantus: the Neo900 is still somewhat slow, IMO - it's about par with a N9/5003:28
jrgisn't that still better than an N900? :)03:28
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Hurrianit'd be miles faster than the N900, and you can say good bye to swap (finally!)... but it'd still be kinda on the slow side nowadays.03:29
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jrgneo900 has a resistive screen still? :)03:29
MaxdamantusI don't think getting rid of swap is a good idea.03:30
Maxdamantusunless everything is running in some sort of VM where memory usage can be tightly controlled, you really should still have swap.03:30
jrgthe neo900 looks interesting03:30
Maxdamantusotherwise the OOM killer will eventually kill things.03:30
jrgwhen is that thing due for release?03:31
HurrianI'm working on a teeny Freescale i.MX6 board, derived from the Novena - while still behind flagship phones, it's probably good enough. And purchasable in quantities less than $FEW_THOUSAND.03:31
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OksanaaFor those who heard of or know about Nokia's battery charger DT-33: how to counter its sensitivity to ambient temperature?06:30
OksanaaIts temperature sensor is intended to detect battery being too cold or too warm, and abort charging. However, it results in annoying no-charging when temperature is too high (like, 28°C in shadow inside house). High humidity (50%-75%) might also contribute06:32
OksanaaWhile I appreciate craftsmanship of the plastic case, I would prefer the electronics to survive 50°C and 80% humidity extremes (while not charging), and reliably charge in 30°C temperatures06:37
OksanaaIt might require different position of temperature sensor(s)06:38
* Oksanaa speaks as user, not as electronics or battery-charging expert06:41
MaxdamantusMeh, the carrier for the SIM in my N9 only supports HSDPA.06:46
MaxdamantusSo .. need a third plan.06:46
OksanaaFuuun... Three SIM slots in mobile phone, anybody?06:46
MaxdamantusCapitalism sucks.06:47
* Oksanaa nods06:47
MaxdamantusIn rural areas, you have three towers in the same place, hosted by three different carries. In that place because it's relatively optimal in area covered.06:48
MaxdamantusThen when you're outside of that area, you're fucked.06:48
OksanaaThere are some devices which fork one SIM slot into two slots. Combine that with two-SIM-slots-phone, and you feel better. If software handles this, of course06:49
* Oksanaa remembers something for making N900 two-SIMs-capable06:49
OksanaaI can be mistaken, I wasn't testing it06:50
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MaxdamantusI imagine it'd depend on the modem.06:54
MaxdamantusI think the SIM card is connected electronically to that.06:54
Maxdamantuss/electronically/electrically/06:54
infobotMaxdamantus meant: I think the SIM card is connected electrically to that.06:54
* Maxdamantus wants to try using his laptop's phone functionality, but apparently has to run something in Windows to enable it.06:56
* Maxdamantus has never booted Windows on his laptop.06:56
OksanaaWhy in Windows? Phone functionality sounds like something to be enabled in BIOS?06:57
MaxdamantusAssuming the BIOS knows about it.06:59
MaxdamantusIt doesn't.06:59
MaxdamantusWell, it might, depending on the scope of "BIOS".07:00
MaxdamantusI suspect it involves agreeing to some license.07:00
OksanaaThen it's closed-source driver-like-switch for something-cellular implemented only for Windows?07:00
OksanaaIf it wasn't niche, there would have been hope of RE-ing it, I guess...07:01
MaxdamantusThere are open source drivers for talking to the modem. You just have to flick some switch using some particular software that runs on Windows .. for some reason.07:02
OksanaaIs it common in phone-laptops, or specific to this manufacturer?07:02
Maxdamantushttp://support.lenovo.com/nz/en/downloads/migr-6849507:02
MaxdamantusDunno.07:02
OksanaaMaxdamantus: have to windows it. maybe, live cd windows? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ThinkPad_mobile_internet07:10
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KotCzarnyhurrian: remember that in n9 most of mem is eaten by some java engine (if my memory is not mistaken), so on fremantle 1GB should be more suitable, still, 2G would be even better09:07
KotCzarnymaxd: there are physical adapters that can switch sim cards (cut out) even in single slot phones09:07
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MaxdamantusJava engine? O_o10:12
MaxdamantusNothing in `ps aux` here matching "java"10:13
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KotCzarnywell, its not java per se10:13
KotCzarnyjust some sandbox engine10:13
MaxdamantusI don't think it uses any sandbox other than Linux itself.10:13
KotCzarnyhrm10:13
KotCzarnythen my memory must be playing tricks10:14
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ceenenobody seems to have tested new yappari at -devel12:13
KotCzarny..yet12:13
ceenethey're my guinea pigs!12:13
ceenei don't want to push it to -testing until someone says something12:13
ceeneit's working for me, but...12:14
Sicelogoing to install shortly, when on wifi :)12:14
ceenei was thinking too of splitting gui and whatsapp12:15
ceenemake libyap12:15
Sicelobut, i won't be able to test registration, which i guess was the main reason? anything else that changed?12:15
ceenein the end it's the thing that has the most changes12:15
ceeneyou will, that's the thing i've solved12:15
Sicelosounds like good idea that .. :)12:15
ceenethere's some much things i should do12:16
ceenei should just use libwa from coderus12:16
ceenebut the apis are not compatible right now12:16
ceeneand i'd have to backport libwa to qt412:16
ceeneon the other side, it already supports textsecure12:17
KotCzarnytalk to him about common maintainship of WA stack12:19
ceeneif i backport it to qt4 i guess he'd be willing to merge it12:19
KotCzarnymaybe he would help you with that?12:22
KotCzarnywho knows12:22
ceenei just hate this thing12:32
ceenehttps://github.com/stenyak/breakbot12:33
ceenemaybe this thing works12:33
ceeneor some other12:33
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ceenething is, we don't even have a good telegram client for n90012:35
ceeneso i can't even try and persuade my friends to use it12:35
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Siceloindeed. some geek friends i have have switched to telegram, but again ... not many users. :)12:58
buZzif they dont irc, they are just not really geeks13:04
Sicelo:)13:10
buZzmake sure to tell them that :P13:11
buZzmaybe with something like 'once you used that practise stuff enough, you can come join the real irc'13:11
ceenebest im application for maemo right now is yappari... which is quite sad13:20
merlin1991wat?13:21
merlin1991jabber works13:21
Siceloyes, jabber is great :)13:30
Sicelobut again .. who uses it? :)13:30
Sicelopersonally i'd be happy to use only irc and jabber (as jabber has everything: calls, im, video)13:31
merlin1991I do, so do a few of my friends :D13:32
ceenemerlin1991: it's not the same "works" than "sends image and video, reports and gets receipt/read reports", etc13:35
merlin1991iirc there is an extension to the jabber protocol for that13:36
ceeneon n900 the only thing that does that is yappari13:36
ceenei'm not saying there aren't alternatives better than whatsapp13:36
ceenei'm saying there aren't any for n90013:36
buZzjust send them a handwritten letter13:37
ceenei'd be thrilled to receive one13:39
buZznow, pay those emotions forward ceene13:39
ceenei can send you a handwritten letter if you want13:39
ceenepostcards were nice13:40
ceenei remember there was one piece of software whose author instead of asking for donations, asked for postcards from its users13:40
buZzyeah its a license type13:41
ceenepostcard-ware13:41
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jonwilhi14:11
ceenehi, jonwil14:11
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DocScrutinizer05errwhat? >>iPhone's preinstalled app 'health' constantly records all sports activities, without user asking for that<< (quote from TV news, sidenote in a report about health apps)17:27
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DocScrutinizer05spyPhone, indeed17:28
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Wizzupand don't tell it the date is 1 january, 197017:46
KotCzarny;)17:46
KotCzarnygood sploit17:46
KotCzarny'can i see your phone for a moment?'17:46
DocScrutinizer05why? what will happen?17:58
KotCzarnyhe he17:58
DocScrutinizer05self destruct?17:58
Wizzupit will fail to boot17:58
Wizzupon all the 64 bit arm ones at least17:58
DocScrutinizer05lol17:58
Wizzupand then 4chan made https://i.imgur.com/mnfsKzF.png17:59
DocScrutinizer05well, in case you just have to wait one day and then you can edit the resulting date from 2nd Jan 1970 to something more sane ;-)17:59
Wizzupyes18:00
DocScrutinizer05nice gimmick18:01
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DocScrutinizer05I just hope it doesn't bootloop and kill the battery before the "day" is over18:02
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Wizzupif it does, then the clock is reset too18:02
Wizzupprobably to manufacture date18:02
DocScrutinizer05oooh18:03
DocScrutinizer05ok18:03
DocScrutinizer05I had expected it resets to 1st Jan 1970 :-P18:03
DocScrutinizer05well, possibly the bootloader takes care to set a bogus but less 'rogue' date, only if the RTC got reset18:04
* DocScrutinizer05 ponders trying a `>xxx; touch --date="1955-01-01" yyy`18:08
DocScrutinizer05s/yyy/xxx/18:08
DocScrutinizer05wow18:10
DocScrutinizer05jr@saturn:~/tmp> touch --date="1855-01-01" xxx; ll xxx18:10
DocScrutinizer05-rw-r--r-- 1 jr users 0  1. Jan 1855  xxx18:10
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Wizzupvery few devices that I know reset to 197018:12
Wizzupexcept for the sheevaplug18:12
DocScrutinizer05man 2 stat; man 2 time  >>time() returns the time as the number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).<<18:13
DocScrutinizer05I wonder how the heck the filesystem stores, and stat() resturns, dates like 1. Jan 185518:14
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DocScrutinizer05time_t clearly seems to be a uint (or ulong, whatever) with seconds since epoch18:16
DocScrutinizer05or has that recently been changed to a 64bit int with seconds since bigbang?18:17
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DocScrutinizer05ummm    #define __TIME_T_TYPE           __SYSCALL_SLONG_TYPE18:24
DocScrutinizer05# define __SYSCALL_SLONG_TYPE   __SLONGWORD_TYPE18:25
DocScrutinizer05so it's a signed 64bit?18:27
DocScrutinizer05~ 2**63/3600/24/36518:28
infobot292471208677.53601074218818:28
DocScrutinizer05suffices til Y2Trillion-problem kicks in ;-)18:29
DocScrutinizer05nevermind Y2K-problem ;-P18:30
DocScrutinizer05s/(time() returns the time as the number of seconds )since( the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).)/\1since\/before\2/18:32
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DocScrutinizer05~ 1970 + 2**31/3600/24/36518:42
infobot2038.09625976661618:42
DocScrutinizer05Wizzup: anyway you're right. RTCs generally work completely different, having no idea about epoch18:47
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DocScrutinizer05depends on chip what date they reset to on POR18:48
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DocScrutinizer05most RTC have a 2digit BCD year value from 00 to 9919:03
DocScrutinizer05so odds are it would reset to year (20)0019:04
Wizzupolimex boards reset to 201019:05
Wizzupat least the ones that I have19:05
DocScrutinizer05wow, so they have a one digit year only19:05
KotCzarny:)19:06
DocScrutinizer05or a N-bit binary integer for year value19:06
DocScrutinizer05Y1Decade problem approaching in 4 years19:08
DocScrutinizer05prolly the designers thought it's safe to assume their product won't get older than 16 years, so 4 bit for the year value are just fine ;-)19:10
DocScrutinizer05actually you might get away with assuming your system gets booted at least once per 16 years, and you store a new offset somewhere in persistent storage and adjust the RTC accordingly19:12
DocScrutinizer05when you assume your system gets booted at least once per year, this scheme can get away without any year values in RTC19:13
DocScrutinizer05downside of such scheme: restoring backups will mess up your system time massively19:17
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DocScrutinizer05when Amiga had no RTC, they simply forward-adjusted the syystem time accordingly whenever they found an arbitrary file on storage with a modification/access time supposedly into the future ;-)19:20
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DocScrutinizer05so adding a true clock was the very first hack I applied to all my Amiga devices19:21
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DocScrutinizer05later it got augmented by a DCF77 receiver with decoding in software (had to write a decoder for that)19:37
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DocScrutinizer05ROTFL, if only I knew back when:  >>There was also a Morse code station identification until 2006, sent during minutes 19, 39 and 59 of each hour<<19:48
DocScrutinizer05https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF7719:49
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* DocScrutinizer05 idly wonders if it wuld be a feasible worthwhile and funny experiment to directly connect a 77.5kHz ferrite antenna + capacitor rrsonant circuit with a FET amp to a computer's audio-in20:14
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kerioDocScrutinizer05: why didn't you use a NTP client? :>20:42
KotCzarny~ugt20:47
infobothmm... ugt is Universal Greeting Time. Created in #mipslinux, it is a rule that states that whenever somebody enters an IRC channel it is always morning, and it is always late when the person leaves. The local time of any other people in the channel, including the greeter, is irrelevant. http://www.total-knowledge.com/~ilya/mips/ugt.html20:47
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