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Re:Ask HN: What's your backup solution? on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:07PM (#13002814)
Re:The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile (2014) on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:50PM (#13002738)
Closest thing I can think of is the Emacs interface to the freesmartphone.org (FSO) DBus APIs:

https://github.com/paulfertser/fso-el/wiki

You can always manually send DBus messages to the FSO/oFono daemons, here is an example for oFono:

https://together.jolla.com/question/17992/sending-an-sms-via...

I expect similar things are possible with Android RILs.

I love the FaiF podcast for this:

http://faif.us/

Re:Beyond Nokia: A love story on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:13PM (#13002555)
Maemo lives on in https://neo900.org/
Re:The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile (2014) on Saturday November 19, 2016 @09:05PM (#12996886)
Android phones run Linux and most have busybox/toybox installed, which gives you a form of Unix.

The rest of what you want needs a bit of coding but should be possible to do, just need to interface with the RIL.

Re:The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile (2014) on Saturday November 19, 2016 @09:03PM (#12996876)
ImgTec are still trying to hire someone to work on open source powervr drivers:

https://careers.imgtec.com/cw/en/job/495752/linux-graphics-d...

Re:NSA Said to Use Manhattan Tower as Listening Post on Saturday November 19, 2016 @04:37PM (#12995833)
They might be same in windowlessness, but the scale is completely different.

Here's a photo that more better captures its size:

https://www.emporis.com/images/show/446315-Large-fullheightv...

Re:The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile (2014) on Saturday November 19, 2016 @07:58AM (#12993288)
Re:Kaspersky OS on Saturday November 19, 2016 @02:05AM (#12992426)
Not just open hardware, you need trustworthy fabs:

https://lwn.net/Articles/688751/

Some folks trying to do open hardware:

http://riscv.org/ http://www.lowrisc.org/

Re:A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand on Friday November 18, 2016 @12:04PM (#12988171)
People like to dig at the size of GNU's /bin/true and /bin/false, but the reality is - who cares? Does anyone actually ever use it?

    $ type true
    true is a shell builtin
Technology can be made impervious to spies but organisations based on humans cannot.
Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:34PM (#12982385)
> I'm worried about their plans to switch to LXQt.

Is there something in LXDE that's missing in LXQt?

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