2011-12-31 00:06 urandom__ [urandom__!~user@p548A22C7.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 00:28 wpwrak: (cyanogen) I have cyanogen, of course 2011-12-31 00:29 the stock firmware is not only absolutely close-sourced, but also horribly unusable 2011-12-31 00:29 not like in "not as good as iphone" but more like "oh crap is this fucking beta?!!" 2011-12-31 00:29 prior to installing cyanogen, I've almost entirely lost my faith in Google making something usable 2011-12-31 00:30 actually, that wasn't Google's fault. 2011-12-31 00:31 cyanogen isn't ideal either--some nitpicking applies, and browser hangs sometimes--but it is really really good. I'd say it approaches Apple's software quality in several areas 2011-12-31 00:31 it's CM 7, which is based on Android 2.3. People say that CM9 based on Android 4 is even better, but it is not ready for my phone yet 2011-12-31 00:32 as per the blobs 2011-12-31 00:32 CM "releases" for different phones actually consist of identical CM codebase + blobs extracted from the stock firmware 2011-12-31 00:33 so it's just the same (except that blobs are often written by idiots and fail because of some minor differences, and _also_ some of them don't work with CM 9 because of ABI changes) 2011-12-31 00:35 (close-sourced stock fw) Samsung has released the full kernel sources--there are no kernel binary drivers--but there are blobs in Android, and they didn't obviously released any of their Android modifications 2011-12-31 00:35 another thing I like about this phone is its bootloader: a) unbrickable b) not tivoized. 2011-12-31 00:37 it tracks the count of reflashes, and I think records if a custom firmware was ever installed on phone, but you won't need to get support due to software problems (see a), and I never heard of people whose phone got rejected on warranty service because of custom firmware, if there was a hardware problem. 2011-12-31 00:40 still sounds like an unfriendly place to be. i think i'll stick with my cute little x830 dumbphone for a little longer ;-) 2011-12-31 00:43 deltalinuxero [deltalinuxero!~daniel@190.86.145.117] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 00:45 urandom__ [urandom__!~user@p548A4B7E.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 00:46 wpwrak: depends on your definition of "friendly" 2011-12-31 00:47 yes, it has blobs. My notebook does, too: fglrx. 2011-12-31 00:48 otherwise, the OS is fine. I'm more worried about applications. Android doesn't have very fine-grained permission model (I doubt it could have it without imposing needless restrictions), and they're closed-source 2011-12-31 00:48 I think twice before installing anything. 2011-12-31 00:49 e.g. all applications which want to save any sensible amount of data--games, anything with cache, etc.--has the "read and write SD card permission" 2011-12-31 00:49 *have 2011-12-31 00:50 they could as well gather all of my passwords and dump them somewhere. 2011-12-31 00:52 xiangfu [xiangfu!~xiangfu@fidelio.qi-hardware.com] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 00:52 for example, I'm looking at permissions for Angry Birds now 2011-12-31 00:52 "modify/delete SD card contents" 2011-12-31 00:52 "coarse (network-based) location" 2011-12-31 00:53 "full Internet access" 2011-12-31 00:53 "read phone state and identity" 2011-12-31 00:53 this is just a huge WTF. 2011-12-31 00:53 no, really? phone identity? 2011-12-31 00:54 ;-) 2011-12-31 00:54 android - bringing all the joy of the windows world to linux-based telephony :) 2011-12-31 00:54 just what I thought 2011-12-31 00:55 for decades, firewalls were required in *nix world to prevent something getting inside 2011-12-31 00:55 and in the *doze world to prevent what's already inside from spreading further 2011-12-31 00:56 but at least I can finally trust my OS. This is, I should note, not true with dumbphones. 2011-12-31 01:00 the key to security on dumbphones is simply that they can't do much :) 2011-12-31 01:08 I, personally, can't live without GPS 2011-12-31 01:08 that has some implications. 2011-12-31 01:08 a separate GPS navigator is an option, but it's easier to not install anything you see on Market. 2011-12-31 01:09 wpwrak: yes, you just said it (bring windows) 2011-12-31 01:09 my personal plan on reducing the amount of crap in the world is as follows: 2011-12-31 01:09 a) identify crap b) contain it c) destroy by replacing with something better 2011-12-31 01:09 android is on step b). 2011-12-31 01:10 step c) sounds good :) 2011-12-31 01:10 I mean, in the whole ecosystem. As OS it approaches c). 2011-12-31 01:10 just OS? 2011-12-31 01:11 kristianpaul: sadly, you still have all the binary drivers and unholy GSM, and you can't do anything with the latter 2011-12-31 01:11 and i really wonder if my fridge has decided to die this year ... that would be a rather inconvenient moment. or maybe it's just defrosting. 2011-12-31 01:11 and the state of mobile applications isn't very promising when it comes to FOSS 2011-12-31 01:12 just defrosting is not very commoun unless scheduled :-) 2011-12-31 01:12 wpwrak: err... can your fridge decide to go defrosting on its own? sounds scary 2011-12-31 01:12 kristianpaul: oh, it does that automatically from time to time. just seems to let things get suspiciously warm. 2011-12-31 01:12 wow ! 2011-12-31 01:12 a machine rebel! 2011-12-31 01:12 my mom will like that ;) 2011-12-31 01:13 whitequark: i think better modern fridges normally do that 2011-12-31 01:14 the critter is almost ten years old. i'm not sure if it's just coincidence or if its age is showing. 2011-12-31 01:15 as per that osmocombb link (catcher) 2011-12-31 01:16 I really hope that the developers live in a good place no government on Earth knows about 2011-12-31 01:16 too dramatic :) 2011-12-31 01:17 that wasn't entirely serious :) 2011-12-31 01:17 it's not that particular project, through 2011-12-31 01:17 the whole GSM situation is a bomb waiting to explode 2011-12-31 01:18 a textbook example on why you don't do closed protocols 2011-12-31 01:19 GSM explode by it self i bet :) 2011-12-31 01:19 and obsolete sooner or latter 2011-12-31 01:20 yeah, it's more surprising that it has not exploded yet 2011-12-31 01:20 (obsolete) I don't know practically anything on LTE or another 3-to-5 letter acronyms 2011-12-31 01:20 but I bet they're quite similar in that sense 2011-12-31 01:23 telcos hate nothing more than change. did you know that ATM (that's 155 Mbps and beyond technology, which was fast at its time) signaling still included dialing individual digits ? so you could send the destination address one digit per signaling message ... 2011-12-31 01:23 LOL 2011-12-31 01:24 not surprising :) 2011-12-31 01:24 this considerably raises the bar on the most stupid technology thing I've seen 2011-12-31 01:25 wpwrak: are you sure it's nothing like an April's fool RFC? :D 2011-12-31 01:26 that wuold be more the domain of all the crazy "tcp without tcp" schemes they hatched in the atm world 2011-12-31 01:30 udp :) 2011-12-31 02:28 cladamw [cladamw!~adamwang@host-222.80-43-115.dynamic.totalbb.net.tw] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 02:30 Jon Phillips: Via @qihardware qihardware: Open Hardware Manufacturing (from China) http://t.co/CVCY1QOD http://t.co/9KdjM3JV ( 152939504087465986@rejon - 8s ago via Ping.fm ) 2011-12-31 05:44 whitequark: http://f-droid.org/ for FOSS Android apps 2011-12-31 06:01 DocScrutinizer2 [DocScrutinizer2!~halley@p5493B627.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 06:01 DocScrutinizer2 [DocScrutinizer2!~halley@openmoko/engineers/joerg] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 07:17 pabs3: thanks 2011-12-31 07:18 whitequark: theres also http://replicant.us/ if you want to get rid of the OS blobs 2011-12-31 07:19 personally I would bet on FSO and distros containing it though 2011-12-31 07:59 pabs3: err, no WiFi, no BT 2011-12-31 07:59 sorry, I bought that phone because it has WiFi 2011-12-31 07:59 not the other way around 2011-12-31 08:04 panda|x201 [panda|x201!~hzhang@222.35.86.13] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 08:48 wolfspraul [wolfspraul!~wolfsprau@p5B0AB9E0.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 09:01 Jay7 [Jay7!jay@95-29-193-112.broadband.corbina.ru] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 09:39 kristoffer [kristoffer!~kristoffe@c-e9d8e555.010-30-6c6b7012.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 10:48 whitequark: eh? Replicant is an Android fork, not a phone :) 2011-12-31 10:50 pabs3: it does not plan to support wifi 2011-12-31 10:50 pabs3: it's in their list of "what we will probably never achieve" 2011-12-31 10:52 viric: I guess you can copy the wifi blobs from CM or plain Android 2011-12-31 10:54 pabs3: then how it will be different from CM? 2011-12-31 10:54 CM is already FOSS 2011-12-31 10:55 * 2011-12-31 10:55 * except for blobs copied from stock fw, obviously 2011-12-31 10:55 but without blobs it's unusable. 2011-12-31 11:32 kilae [kilae!~chatzilla@catv-161-018.tbwil.ch] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 12:36 urandom__ [urandom__!~user@p548A46C1.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 12:50 wolfspraul [wolfspraul!~wolfsprau@p5B0AA279.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 12:57 wpwrak: one of my fridges one day decided to mutate to a breeding box, butter inside was melting liquid. It definitely exaggerated the defrosting, both in temperature rise and duration (which was 'infinite') 2011-12-31 12:58 that must be why they warn of that "dual use" technology ;-) 2011-12-31 13:02 basically "switching" is as easy as cutting one wire of the starter C, so compressor motor doesn't start turning anymore, still consumes ~100W. The Freon "heatpipe" will conventiently transport the heat from motor to vaporizer inside 2011-12-31 13:03 of course a simple blocked bearing will do as well 2011-12-31 13:04 only inconvenience: usually the thermostat isn't built to control that operation mode, so you can't set your fridge to 35°C for breeding canary eggs 2011-12-31 13:07 I thought of selling my hp49g on ebay... 2011-12-31 13:07 noone gives a cent for that 2011-12-31 13:08 I should have done that 10 years ago 2011-12-31 13:16 viric: wait another 10 years :) 2011-12-31 13:19 hmmm HP49 2011-12-31 13:20 * DocScrutinizer sobs a little thinking of his HP45CV that got incinerated some 4 years ago 2011-12-31 13:24 what, not a HP41 ? now i'm disappointed 2011-12-31 13:33 errr, 41? Look, my brain rots 2011-12-31 13:35 I'd not be surprised if this was related to the incident that killed my HP calculator. I don't want to know what toxic fumes that fire produced and exposed me to 2011-12-31 13:36 zear [zear!~zear@h196n1-g-kt-a31.ias.bredband.telia.com] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 13:37 NiCad cells, LiIon cells, several handheld devices, all incinerated *indoors* - with me extinguishing the fire (and burning my face) 2011-12-31 13:37 oh 2011-12-31 13:38 sure, looking at the wikipedia picture, it obviously been a hp-41cv 2011-12-31 13:56 hah ! :) 2011-12-31 14:02 meh, hp-49 has a crappy keyboard 2011-12-31 14:06 DocScrutinizer: why the fire has started? 2011-12-31 14:08 probably a runaway NiMH battery in a "table hoover" that sat on his charging bay 2011-12-31 14:08 but nobody can tell from the ashes 2011-12-31 14:13 cheap chinese crap, charging the batteries with constant current all the time, from a poorly stabilized wallwart PSU 2011-12-31 14:13 once a NiMH runs away and gets hot, there's no stopping anymore 2011-12-31 14:14 as voltage drops, thus current increaes -> even ore heat produced 2011-12-31 14:17 some cheap crap like http://www.amazon.de/Tristar-KR-2155-Handstaubsauger-nass-trocken/dp/B002OI9SKO/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1325340999&sr=8-10 2011-12-31 14:18 DocScrutinizer: yes, very bad keyboard compared to hp48 2011-12-31 14:19 the keys were the one most outstanding thing of good HP calculators like HP-25, HP-41 2011-12-31 14:20 I only experienced 48 and 49 2011-12-31 14:21 oh In 2003, the CAS source code of the 49G ROM was released under the LGPL. 2011-12-31 14:57 wejp [wejp!~j@m2.mullvad.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 15:09 * kristianpaul sold its HP50g to buy the Nanonote 2011-12-31 15:11 i wasnt using latelly so much anyway since learn bit of scilab and discover some CAS for linux 2011-12-31 15:11 but i miss the keyboard :/ 2011-12-31 15:13 wejp [wejp!~j@m2.mullvad.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 15:14 hmm btw no Maxima in the nanonote.. 2011-12-31 15:14 openwrt's* 2011-12-31 15:32 viric: just 49G? 2011-12-31 15:32 interesting 2011-12-31 15:32 why i dint knew that.. 2011-12-31 15:34 hp50g looks "decent" - would like to get one 2011-12-31 15:36 but for today it's just cursing my company for doing wages money transfer just yesterday, so neither hp50g nor anything else for me this year :-( 2011-12-31 15:36 kristianpaul: didn't know what? 2011-12-31 15:37 viric: relesed sourced code for 49g 2011-12-31 15:37 ah 2011-12-31 15:37 released* 2011-12-31 15:37 me neither. 2011-12-31 15:37 probably I won't be able to afford the public transport ticket to go to work on Monday ;-P 2011-12-31 15:37 ?? 2011-12-31 15:37 DocScrutinizer: this year? There is little left of this year 2011-12-31 15:38 exactly 2011-12-31 15:38 that's what's pissing me off 2011-12-31 15:39 no shopping this year, no food nor booze for this night, no shopping for next week's working days - whatever I planned to buy between xmess and new year 2011-12-31 15:40 oh. 2011-12-31 15:40 I'm sorry 2011-12-31 15:41 a credit with 0% interest for the employer, from every employee 2011-12-31 15:41 they did the wages transfer yesterday, or did not? 2011-12-31 15:41 they allegedly did, now it's between the banks 2011-12-31 15:42 ah ok 2011-12-31 15:42 hell, this is no better than working as freelancer 2011-12-31 15:42 where I also sent my invoice last of month usually 2011-12-31 15:43 error: cannot download mplayer_jz47xx-0.1.2.tar.gz from any mirror 2011-12-31 15:43 so WTF are they paying just a third of what a freelancer would earn? 2011-12-31 15:43 companies are made to give money to company owners 2011-12-31 15:43 not for any other purpose 2011-12-31 15:44 indeed, and it's making me sick to get abised by them 2011-12-31 15:44 abused 2011-12-31 15:44 abusing is a good way of making money 2011-12-31 15:45 hire experts, send them to a company for much money, pay then a fraction of what they earn you, and then even transfer that money at latest possible point in time 2011-12-31 15:47 wejp [wejp!~j@m2.mullvad.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 15:47 DocScrutinizer: 1/3 before or after taxes? 2011-12-31 15:48 hmm, maybe 1/4 after 2011-12-31 15:49 like 40% before 2011-12-31 15:49 you should probably not have signed that contract 2011-12-31 15:50 skynet-2000 [skynet-2000!~skynet-20@unaffiliated/skynet2000] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 15:50 1/4 = 40% ? 2011-12-31 15:51 eh? 2011-12-31 15:52 1/4 after taxes, 40% before taxes 2011-12-31 15:52 ah .. after tax / before tax. i see. 2011-12-31 15:52 100%=freelancer, 40%=employee bruto, 25%=employee netto 2011-12-31 15:52 freelancers don't pay taxes ? 2011-12-31 15:52 they do 2011-12-31 15:52 depends 2011-12-31 15:52 sure they do 2011-12-31 15:53 but not ~50% of bruto income 2011-12-31 15:53 and they even pay more on social security 2011-12-31 15:54 because here in germany your employer pays about half of it 2011-12-31 15:54 depends, this time on country I guess 2011-12-31 15:54 yes, but we are talking about you 2011-12-31 15:54 I can't see how I pay any social taxes as a freelancer 2011-12-31 15:55 here employers pay the social security, after that we name it 'bruto', then the employee pays the taxes, and after that, we name it 'netto'. 2011-12-31 15:55 it's more like I pay for pension now that I'll never get 2011-12-31 15:55 no health insurance? 2011-12-31 15:56 well, that been like 5..10% of my bruto income as freelancer, for the last few jobs 2011-12-31 15:57 and taxes are probably progressive. so with a lower income, you also lose a smaller fraction to feeding the banksters 2011-12-31 15:57 definitely not that much 2011-12-31 15:58 I'm anyway already close to max of almost 50% incl all with my income 2011-12-31 15:58 if the visible tax burden is suddenly much worse after becoming an employee, then you may not have paid all the taxes before :) 2011-12-31 15:58 and for freelancers there's no such progression 2011-12-31 15:58 DocScrutinizer: i would way if you'd get 55%-65% brutto of your freelancer income it would be ok 2011-12-31 15:58 for health at least 2011-12-31 15:59 less is bad, more is good 2011-12-31 15:59 DocScrutinizer: not health insurance but other taxes 2011-12-31 15:59 'i would say' 2011-12-31 16:00 wpwrak: I got no unemployment ensurance as frelancer, so hadn't to pay for it 2011-12-31 16:00 I got no pension taxes to pay as freelancer as well 2011-12-31 16:01 and my health insurance was definitely less as well 2011-12-31 16:03 you pay more although you earn less? 2011-12-31 16:03 woakas [woakas!~woakas@200.106.218.64] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 16:03 I got a completely different class of insurance for health 2011-12-31 16:04 now you get a hospital room for you, if you catch a cold? 2011-12-31 16:04 haha 2011-12-31 16:04 I got that before, after paying my own share of max 2000EUR per year 2011-12-31 16:04 private insurance 2011-12-31 16:04 now I pay more, for less 2011-12-31 16:04 ok 2011-12-31 16:05 mstevens [mstevens!~mstevens@fsf/member/pdpc.active.mstevens] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 16:06 but not paying any 2000€ on my own, so every fool can visit doc 8 times a month, asking for whatever prescription, and that's what makes this insurance WAY more expensive 2011-12-31 16:06 which "doesn't care, as employer does all that for you, so you got no choice anyway 2011-12-31 16:08 "working in Taipei" was the most economic thing, regarding taxes 2011-12-31 16:12 well, life sucks, we all know that ;) 2011-12-31 16:12 and whining about it, won't change it 2011-12-31 16:20 bingo :) 2011-12-31 16:20 :D http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/ 2011-12-31 16:21 rss are fantastic ;) 2011-12-31 16:21 we are still lucky, because 80K people die every day in the world due to lack of access to food. 2011-12-31 16:21 not by chance they can't access food, of course. 2011-12-31 16:25 wolfspraul: should consider at http://planet.osmocom.org/ to our planet at some point 2011-12-31 16:26 kristianpaul: i heard you like planets, so i put a planet on planet? 2011-12-31 16:28 he 2011-12-31 16:29 thats the problem 2011-12-31 16:29 ah nv 2011-12-31 16:30 i got, the planet was fed by the this trac 2011-12-31 16:30 http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/blog?format=rss 2011-12-31 16:30 phew 2011-12-31 16:40 lars_: Microsoft is evil, and quoting Helmut Kohl doesn't change that - sounds as much to the point 2011-12-31 16:44 not really 2011-12-31 16:52 rzk [rzk!~rzk@95-25-162-206.broadband.corbina.ru] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 17:08 kyak [kyak!~kyak@176.14.251.50] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 17:08 kyak [kyak!~kyak@unaffiliated/kyak] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 17:12 emeb [emeb!~ericb@ip72-223-81-94.ph.ph.cox.net] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 17:12 anyway happy new year to the asian and australian areas 2011-12-31 17:33 they may be all drunk already 2011-12-31 17:33 here they're already ;) 2011-12-31 17:34 and no 2012 yet 2011-12-31 18:21 I update the nanonixos in the nanonote for the new year :) 2011-12-31 18:42 phew, vpn out ! i can rest in peace :) 2011-12-31 18:44 cxadams_ [cxadams_!~cxadams@li155-180.members.linode.com] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 18:46 roh [roh!~roh@yamato.hyte.de] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 18:49 blogic [blogic!~blogic@nbd.name] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 18:50 valhalla [valhalla!~valhalla@81-174-22-51.dynamic.ngi.it] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 19:37 blogic [blogic!~blogic@nbd.name] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 19:51 skynet-2000 [skynet-2000!~skynet-20@unaffiliated/skynet2000] has joined #qi-hardware 2011-12-31 22:01 grr 2011-12-31 22:02 so loud 2011-12-31 22:06 ? 2011-12-31 22:16 I thought this was an interesting year-end Android roundup https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/75aLL1dWY2u 2011-12-31 22:16 from an open source perspective 2011-12-31 22:17 I played with an android tablet today, I was surprised how non-crap they are 2011-12-31 22:17 from a UI perspective 2011-12-31 23:03 i can imagine 2011-12-31 23:04 i always was curios to check first UI for android early devices witn no touch, i guess/hope they can be inspiring for our little nanonote 2011-12-31 23:16 wolfspraul: can you pastebin for those of us who disable JS? 2011-12-31 23:21 I should see what the current nanonote software is like 2011-12-31 23:32 pabs3: w3m works quite nice 2011-12-31 23:32 pabs3: http://paste.debian.net/150648/ just in case 2011-12-31 23:50 thanks