IRC log of #maemo for Wednesday, 2019-04-17

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brolin_empeyDocScrutinizer05: Do you mean an address in a place referred to as China or do you mean an address written in a Chinese language?07:36
brolin_empeyI guess English can be considered a Chinese language since it seems to be commonly used in the two Chinas.07:39
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brolin_empeyWell, a language of China but maybe not a Chinese language, maybe similar to the difference between, for example, a flag of Canada and a Canadian flag: the flag of British Columbia is a Canadian flag but it is not the flag of Canada.07:42
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Oksanamaps.google.com does work in Fennec, at least partially, but very slowly, at legendary slow pace of Fennec09:05
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siceloOksana: the j2me Google Maps application works quite well and fast with phoneme/cvm. only it can't get gps coordinates, althought it manages to turn gps on09:29
brolin_empeyRun Google Maps for Android on Maemo?09:52
sicelohow?09:53
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brolin_empeysicelo: I do not remember the specifics but I think they were discussed in this channel, likely involving me, years ago.  You need a kernel that includes some stuff used by Android (drivers?) and a GNU+Linux application whose name I forget that can run Android applications on GNU+Linux.09:56
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siceloah10:01
brolin_empeyI remember being interested in running Android applications on Maemo 5 in 2014 and maybe 2013 too but I never actually tried it because I switched to Android because my N900 user experience in Canada was too bad.10:04
brolin_empeyMy N900 has been running idle on my computer table at home for months by now but my N900 is so slow that it literally takes a few seconds between me sliding the switch on the side and something being drawn on the display.10:08
brolin_empeyI mean sliding the switch on the side when the display was off.10:09
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brolin_empeyPartially incidentally: Does DirectFB still exist?  I remember it from over a decade ago but have not heard of it for a long time by now.10:14
luke-jrthings rarely cease to exist10:17
luke-jrdigital things*10:18
luke-jrlast commit was 3 years ago tho https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB10:19
brolin_empeyhttp://digital.com/ is no longer used by DEC/Compaq/HP. ;-)10:20
brolin_empeyluke-jr: In this case, I meant is the DirectFB project still active/supported/usable with current hardware and software.  I was reading about DirectFB on en.wikipedia.org after I asked here.10:24
luke-jrbrolin_empey: well, DirectFB can run in an X11 window, so..10:24
luke-jrI wrote some software that uses it in 2014, and it still works :P10:25
brolin_empeyOK but there are projects such as Mac-on-Linux that still exist but appear to be mostly inactive and no longer working with current software, in this case presumably because Mac-on-Linux became significantly less relevant after Apple switched from PowerPC to x86.10:28
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brolin_empeyThat said, I do not know if it is still feasible to use a current GNU+Linux distribution on PowerPC because I believe Apple was the primary user of PowerPC for desktop/notebook computers.10:31
luke-jrApple, those fools10:32
luke-jrbrolin_empey: PPC is making a come back10:32
luke-jrbrolin_empey: my new desktop is PPC10:32
luke-jrwell, 1 year old now I guess, but still pretty bleeding edge10:33
luke-jrnew enough to have driver issues still :p10:33
brolin_empeyluke-jr: PowerPC or Power ISA but not PowerPC?10:34
luke-jrbrolin_empey: Power ISA 3.010:34
luke-jrwhich is apparently still considered PowerPC10:34
brolin_empeyWhat about XFree68?  Yes, not XFree86.  Is XFree68 still alive?  I thought even Debian GNU+Linux dropped the m68k port.10:36
luke-jrXFree86 died before Maemo was a thing..10:37
luke-jrnever heard of XFree6810:37
brolin_empeyXFree86 continued for a while after the X.Org fork.  XFree68 was XFree86 for m68k if I recall correctly, hence the name.10:39
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Oksanabrolin_empey: sicelo : apkenv needs to be compiled/packaged for N900. Last I remember, it's packaged for N9/or/Pandora but not N900? Should be trivial, but requires knowledge of Debian packaging, time and patience.11:38
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brolin_empeyhttps://www.linuxjournal.com/article/209011:49
brolin_empey“One side effect of the UFB approach is virtually all Linux/m68k binaries are compatible with all Linux/m68k platforms. For example, the XFree68 server binary can operate all of the display hardware supported by Linux/m68k on both the Atari and Amiga. Even the kernel can be compiled to run on both Ataris and Amigas, and was distributed this way until the 2.0 series, when the number of devices needed for each OS made the combined kernel too large for users11:49
brolin_empeywith only 4 MB of RAM. More programs supporting the UFB interface are forthcoming.”11:49
brolin_empeyApparently at least some of my speculation about binary compatibility between different computer platforms using the same ISA/CPU architecture was incorrect but this article is from 1997, by which point Commodore (the company) had died and Apple had already begun switching from m68k to PowerPC.  The title of this article is kind of a misnomer at least in a literal sense because it says Linux runs on the 68000 but the body of the article then says Linux only11:49
brolin_empeyruns on 68020 and higher.11:49
brolin_empeyOksana: N900 is the hardware, not a software environment.  Apparently Android can run as the host OS with limitations on the N900 but I do not know why someone would want to do that compared to using, for example, an HTC myTouch 4G Slide that ships with Android.11:56
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rhn_mk1hi there! is the calendar GUI open source? I'd like to hack some14:46
rhn_mk1also, bugs.maemo.org has an expired certificate14:47
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rhn_mk1there it is: https://github.com/gidzzz/qalendar15:10
rhn_mk1a bit too complicated, but it seems to do support biweekly schedules15:11
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siceloyes, qalendar is nice15:54
siceloso a few hours ago i found out that on Android, one can send the location using an SMS (no need to know what the coordinates are), and i like this for use with friends & family who are not bothered to understand GPS coordinates15:57
sicelobut then, google encodes the link, e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/place/@/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x1ee8cedc944f8bcd:0x13f41fdb0b5f97ce15:57
siceloyou can get the GPS coordinates by using curl for example, and finding the part with /maps/preview/place/16:01
brolin_empeyIf I recall correctly, “GPS coordinates” are actually WGS84 coordinates?16:01
sicelojust wondering if someone else has played with this before and found easy way to extract gps coordinates16:02
buZzbrolin_empey: EPSG:432616:11
buZzaka WGS 8416:11
brolin_empeybuZz: OK.16:17
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rhn_mk1sicelo: not extract, but... https://osm.org/go/0GDiC7rp16:41
rhn_mk1it also exposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_URI_scheme16:42
sicelothanks. sorry i think i didn't explain myself properly ... i need to be able to retreive the coordinates from the Google-formatted location.16:56
sicelothe idea is that someone using an android device sends their location via SMS, i find the latitude/longitude from their URL, and can feed that to Ovi Maps to find my way to them, for example16:58
sicelothese are the perks of using N900 as opposed to 'sane' modern devices :-)17:00
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rhn_mk1well I can't offer you a solution for your current workflow, but I can propose a workflow based on OSM and standards instead :)17:11
rhn_mk1does anyone know what target rustc needs to compile for the N900? any pitfalls I should expect?17:12
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sicelorhn_mk1: i don't know if i'm missing something, but i can't see a connection between OSM and a location link formatted like https://www.google.com/maps/place/@/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x1ee8cedc944f8bcd:0x13f41fdb0b5f97ce17:17
rhn_mk1a link formatted like this: https://osm.org/go/0GDiC7rp provides the same service: it sends the location from one person to another17:18
siceloi understand you  a bit better now17:19
sicelo:-)17:19
rhn_mk1I admit I might be a bit pushy about OSM ;)17:24
siceloi love OSM, and have contributed a few times to the map17:28
bencohrhn_mk1: assuming you're targetting maemo5, it should be armel/softfp iirc17:40
rhn_mk1I'm going to try armv4t-unknown-linux-gnueabi, Debian's armel is v4t17:41
brolin_empeyThe N900 is ARMv7 if I recall correctly.17:45
brolin_empeyI mean the Cortex A8 CPU used in the N900 is ARMv7.17:46
brolin_empeyWikipedia says that the Cortex A8 is ARMv7-A.17:55
rhn_mk1that's a good thing, because Rust's armv4t cross-tolchain is not easily testable. I'll go up step by step17:59
brolin_empeyThe Samsung S3C2410A(L) and S3C2440 are ARMv4.18:02
brolin_empeyFreescale i.MX283 is ARMv5.  Original Raspberry Pi is ARMv6.18:04
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rhnit was worth a try: "./rust-1.34.0-arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/rustc/bin/rustc: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found"20:27
rhnback to cross-compiling20:27
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