Notices by Dave MacFarlane (driusan@doomscroller.social)

I think I might be getting close to understanding how the audio on the pinephone is supposed to work. I wish the documentation wasn't such garbage.

The only way to understand most of it is to read the Linux src, and the only way to read the Linux src is to fight your way through 6000 layers of indirection.

I was just reading the Quectel AT commands manual and if it turns out the reason I couldn't get a response from the uart is because commands need to end with /r instead of /n I am going to be so mad/happy.

IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!

I put in a sim card and was able to send and receive a couple text messages with my wife. I was able to dial a phone call, but had no audio. It's possible there's some AT command to re-route the audio but I don't have time to look into it right now. This is definite progress.

#9phone #plan9 #9front

Trying to find a Canadian online store to buy a usb uart cable from.

Pine store is Hong Kong based and it costs $2 but $30 shipping. Amazon is American and doesn't seem to do free shipping anymore to try and force you into getting prime. Costs $30 anyways. Canakit doesn't seem to have anything. Adafruit is American.

The system cannot.

@sirjofri@mastodon.sdf.org's blog post about setting up dkim on 9front and @a@pdx.social's comment about adding a link to fediverse comments on it reminds me that I wanted to look into if parts of the dkim code could be extracted into an http signatures command that could be used for my plan9 activitypub implementation so that I could add activitypub support to my rc scripting based static site generator and wow I wish I wasn't so easy to nerd snipe.

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

#plan9 #9front

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Or they could just, like, put it in an envelope and drop it in a mailbox instead of using a courier for a $1 part.

Cost: $1
Weight: 0.010 kg

Shipping: $30

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-side-keys-flex-pcb/

TURN OFF THE OIL AND GAS. TURN OFF THE HYDROELECTRICITY.
PUT OWNERSHIP REGULATIONS ON CANADIAN MEDIA.
TARIFF TESLA. BAN X. STOP ENFORCING US COPYRIGHT.

YOU FUCKING IDIOTS. WHEN SOMEONE DECLARES WAR ON YOU YOU FIGHT BACK AND STOP GIVING THEM EVERYTHING FOR FREE.

I decided to put my (quite hideous) hacked together WIP attempt to get my Pinephone screen to work on up at https://github.com/driusan/9front-A64/ (it also includes sdmmc support) if anyone who's interested in getting a 9phone (@sirjofri@mastodon.sdf.org ?) working wants to start from non-scratch. I've hit enough walls that I don't think I can make much more progress myself.

On the off chance anyone does look into the screen, they can add any notes at https://github.com/driusan/9front-A64/issues/1

@albertcuesta@mastodont.cat @jon@social.vivaldi.net It will almost certainly become another X, the only question is on what time frame.

@chawopro@jorts.horse @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse It must be the middle of the three in the list.

@hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca Musk said in 2022 that Trump should “hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” prompting Trump to hit back at the time that Musk would be “worthless” without government subsidies. Wow, can't believe I agree with both of them.

Don't forget to block and report any social media posts claiming Nov 1 is an acceptable time to start Christmas season. The war on Christmas starts now. Christmas has already began its first incursions and we can't let it gain any more ground.

@a@pdx.social I was comfortably ignoring that thread until I saw that URL and was like "wait, what? What the fuck? What? Fuck."

Luckily I re-read it and it wasn't as embarrassing as I'm sure some of the things on that github.io site are.

@a@pdx.social @sirjofri@mastodon.sdf.org I don't know if any of them are still valid. (Though I guess it was based on 4e, so nothing's technically changed..)

When education is outlawed only outlaws have education.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-police-consulting-rcmp-in-probe-of-mcgill-encampments-ad-for-revolutionary-lessons