| bencoh | Hey there! Can anyone recommend a call blocker for maemo5? | 10:16 |
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| KotCzarny | i think i way using pycallblock | 10:17 |
| KotCzarny | *was | 10:17 |
| KotCzarny | was a bit quirky because it required some nudging after a reboot, but otherwise worked | 10:17 |
| bencoh | hmm | 10:24 |
| Vajb | I think I used callerx | 10:33 |
| Vajb | Worked well, but needed whitelist reloading after reboot. | 10:34 |
| KotCzarny | har har | 10:34 |
| Vajb | Got rid of phone spam with it by blocking all the unknown callers :) | 10:35 |
| KotCzarny | i just blocked unknown numbers on operator's level | 10:35 |
| KotCzarny | saves some battery ;) | 10:35 |
| KotCzarny | s/unknown/hidden/ | 10:36 |
| Vajb | Oh, didn't know that is possible | 10:36 |
| KotCzarny | it is, at least in .pl | 10:36 |
| KotCzarny | you can request to disallow calls from hidden numbers | 10:36 |
| Vajb | Oh yeah, might be dependent of country | 10:36 |
| KotCzarny | and most operators support it here | 10:37 |
| Vajb | Then again it might be possible here tooo | 10:37 |
| Vajb | Since i recall that at some point phone marketers switched from using blocked numbers to visible numbers | 10:38 |
| KotCzarny | yup | 10:38 |
| KotCzarny | pity that virtual operators allow it for such a cheap price (to get new numbers) | 10:38 |
| KotCzarny | would be swell to be able to enter regex in any of blocker apps | 10:39 |
| KotCzarny | trivial to implement, yet, rarely done | 10:39 |
| KotCzarny | and i didnt have any spam call for a long time. might be also that im requesting removal of my numbers from their databases | 10:40 |
| Vajb | Yes, i do that too, but there are just so many of them... | 10:43 |
| KotCzarny | i suspect being unpleasant also helps them to tick the 'nocall' checkbox | 10:44 |
| Vajb | It might work, but in the end they are just doing their job | 10:45 |
| Vajb | Kind of don't shoot the messenger situation | 10:45 |
| KotCzarny | ya, and who knows what procedures they must follow | 10:45 |
| KotCzarny | also, working as a marketer is worse than being a slave | 10:46 |
| KotCzarny | one girl at my current workplace used to work as one | 10:46 |
| KotCzarny | and they had some strict rules to follow | 10:46 |
| KotCzarny | ie. they couldnt disconnect themselves | 10:46 |
| Vajb | Yup, I'd rather live at street | 10:46 |
| KotCzarny | untill all questions are asked | 10:46 |
| KotCzarny | even when the other person repeated 'no, thanks' | 10:47 |
| KotCzarny | they also had daily quota, time per call, couldnt go to WC too often etc etc | 10:48 |
| Vajb | I'm amazed that they have employees | 10:50 |
| KotCzarny | young/old folks' lack of skills + need of money == agreement to slave labor | 10:50 |
| Vajb | I were young and needed the money, eh eh | 10:52 |
| sixwheeledbeast | bencoh: I am still using callerx if that helps, I found them both to be a bit flaky but the best of both | 11:52 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Those types of call centres are often like battery cage farms | 11:55 |
| bencoh | sixwheeledbeast: I went for callerx as well for now ... I'd need to run strace on it for a long period of time to see how it idles | 12:58 |
| bencoh | (but it seemed "okay" thus far) | 12:58 |
| sixwheeledbeast | bencoh: IIRC pycallblocker eats into hildon home over time. | 12:58 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Although maybe it was something else, there where a lot of python things that leaked into hildon. | 12:59 |
| bencoh | huhu | 12:59 |
| bencoh | I didn't even dare trying to let a python daemon run fulltime on my phone | 13:00 |
| sicelo | :) | 13:00 |
| bencoh | (I wasn't exactly happy with the fact that callerx is Qt either, especially since I don't understand the need for Qt there, but ... so be it) | 13:00 |
| bencoh | it doesn't even have any UI ... | 13:01 |
| bencoh | I feel like I should write some simple daemon in C | 13:01 |
| bencoh | from what I understand, all you need is to handle a few dbus callbacks | 13:01 |
| sixwheeledbeast | the GUI it does have a gui AFAIK | 13:01 |
| bencoh | callerxui you mean? | 13:02 |
| bencoh | I didn't install it | 13:02 |
| sixwheeledbeast | i see it's two packages | 13:03 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I suppose, it's how Qt works | 13:03 |
| bencoh | yeah | 13:03 |
| bencoh | err, yeah about two packages | 13:03 |
| KotCzarny | best would be implementing white/blacklists natively though | 13:04 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I have a lot of respect for Qt and Maemo integration TBH, it helped me make packages I wouldn't have been able to | 13:04 |
| bencoh | sixwheeledbeast: oh, I have nothing against Qt on maemo, apart from the fact that n900 only has 256MB of memory ;-) | 13:09 |
| bencoh | so I'd rather not have background applications written in Qt | 13:09 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Yer obviously the lighter the better | 13:10 |
| sixwheeledbeast | ideally everything UI wise would be GTK | 13:10 |
| KotCzarny | and implemented in core elements | 13:10 |
| KotCzarny | without the need of additional apps/tools | 13:10 |
| sixwheeledbeast | A simple daemon would be nice tho, I'd be happy with some "/home/user/.callblacklist" file that was manually edited. | 13:12 |
| KotCzarny | with regexps! | 13:12 |
| KotCzarny | ;) | 13:12 |
| Tr4sK | Hey there | 23:06 |
| Tr4sK | I started playing with my old N900 phone once again. Pretty impressive, still usable for basic need | 23:07 |
| akossh | Hey there | 23:08 |
| akossh | It can still be usable. | 23:08 |
| akossh | However lately I only used it to record GPS track logs of my flights | 23:09 |
| akossh | unfortunately it is affected by the week number rollover problem. | 23:09 |
| Tr4sK | I would like to try maemo-leste. For this I want to do it with u-boot. But, for some reason I cannot install u-boot-flasher. Got some dependencies problem | 23:09 |
| Tr4sK | unmeet dependencies u-boot-flasher: Depends: kernel-modules (= 2.6.28-20103103+0m5) | 23:10 |
| akossh | I have no idea, but do you have all the repositories? | 23:12 |
| akossh | (in a working state) | 23:12 |
| Tr4sK | Not really sure what I should install for that u-boot thing. | 23:13 |
| Tr4sK | akossh: I followed that https://dt.iki.fi/nokia-n900-resurrect | 23:13 |
| Tr4sK | So, everything should be good | 23:14 |
| Tr4sK | Switched all the repo to working one. On CSSU3 | 23:14 |
| akossh | I have u-boot-flasher installed | 23:18 |
| akossh | and also that kernel-modules pachkage | 23:19 |
| akossh | however I have installed it back in 2018 | 23:19 |
| Tr4sK | http://paste.debian.net/1139618/ | 23:21 |
| Tr4sK | That’s what I get inf I try to install kerner-modules | 23:21 |
| Tr4sK | http://paste.debian.net/1139619/ | 23:22 |
| Tr4sK | With my source.list | 23:22 |
| akossh | my repositories are about the same without the CSSU | 23:30 |
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