I was asking at the mailing lists about ofono configuration for PinePhone... and apparently it is not exactly simple to get it to work. (One thing is that there's no "RING" indication on AT channels, and it looks there's more.)
I'm looking for working calls and working SMSes, ideally with ringtones played when SMS arrives. So far postmarketOS with ( Read more... )

I suspected Linux Foundation went to the dark side when they started strange deals with Microsoft. But I'm pretty sure they went to dark side now. https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/21/linux-foundation-elisa/ If Linux can be certified for safety-critical stuff, ( Read more... )

Timing and side-channels are not normally considered side-effects, meaning compilers and cpus feel free to do whatever they want. And they do. Unfortunately, I consider leaking my passwords to remote attackers prety significant side-effect... Imagine simple function.
void handle(char secret) {}
That's obviously safe, right? And now
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It seems PCs are getting complex cameras. Which is bad news for PCs, because existing libv4l2 will not work there, but good news for OMAP3, as there will be bigger pressure to fix stuff.

Its crazy how complex PCs have become. ARMs are not exactly simple with the TrustZone and similar stuff, but.. this is crazy. If you thought you understand x86 architecture... this is likely to prove you wrong. There's now non-x86 cpu inside x86 that performs a lot of rather critical functions...
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/086.pdf
...and shows that ( Read more... )

My father got himself in a nice trap: he let his Lenovo notebook to update to Windows 10. Hard to blame him, as user interface was confusing on purpose.Now 2 out of 3 USB ports are non-functional (USB 2 port works USB 3 ports don't), and there's no way to fix that. And apparently, Microsoft knew about the problem. Congratulations, Microsoft...

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Just because you are paying for internet service does not mean O2 will not try to replace web-pages with advertising. Ouch. Seems like everyone needs to use https, we need better network-neutrality laws, and probably also class-action lawsuits.

Got Jolla installed. Ok, it looks cool. But already some unnice things can be seen. You _need_ jolla account to install apps. You need to agree to nasty legaleese. You are asked for name and password, it looks like that's all, and then it wants to know real name, email address, birthday... Appstore looks cool... but does not list licenses for ( Read more... )

23.4.2018, around 12:34... I realized how unix ttys are sabotaging my attempts to send SMS.. and solved it. So now I have Motorola Droid 4, running 4.17-rc1 kernel, with voice calls working, SMSes, data connection, GPS working and have some basic GUIs to control the stuff. WIFI works. Screen locks, and keyboard map still could be improved. Battery ( Read more... )

Rust... took me while to install. I decided I did not like curl | sh, so I created fresh VM for that. That took a while, and in the end I ran curl | sh, anyway. I coded weather forecast core in Rust... And I feel like every second line needs explicit typecast. Not nice, but ok; result will be fast, right? Rust: 6m45 seconds, python less then 1m7 ( Read more... )