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This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

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Re: This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

#101

Post by xx_ns »

MayeulC wrote: post #99

Slightly misleading title. This blog post is not hosted over LTE. Instead, the web server just happens to run inside the Pinephone modem. Internet --> USB --> Pinephone CPU --> (ADB forwarding) --> Pinephone modem with webserver. That's cool, but I am slightly disappointed. I was hoping to find out that some ISPs allowed to forward ports over LTE. Here, I don't really see the advantage over doing it on the main CPU,…

Sorry if it's a bit misleading! Wasn't my intention.

However, there's nothing stopping me from getting a data SIM from my provider (who does allow forwarding ports over LTE). I just currently don't have any spare SIM cards at hand. But that is the plan.

Re: This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

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Post by xx_ns »

teddyh wrote: post #102

Does this mean that every Pinephone is also constantly running this secret proprietary non-updateable machine?

Yep! You can read about it here: https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/24/setting-the-record-straigh... although bear in mind that the article is obviously a bit biased.

Re: This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

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Post by slim »

teddyh wrote: post #102

Does this mean that every Pinephone is also constantly running this secret proprietary non-updateable machine?

it's surprising, but it's not secret. every mobile phone runs a similar machine. and then another even lower level machine which is your sim card. it's as microcontroller running javacard which can be programmed remotely by your telco.

Re: This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

#105

Post by Iwan-Zotow »

oblio wrote: post #20
fouc wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's probably about the same ram & cpu as my desktop 16 years ago.

I started with a Pentium I, 166Mhz, 16MB, 1GB HDD, and I'm not even that old. I imagine we have folks here that started on a PDP :-) My P1 would stutter while playing MP3s :-))

> started on a PDP

make it CDC 6500

Re: This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

#106

Post by yakubin »

bogwog wrote: post #80

So a modem on a pine phone can survive the HN hug of death (and the number one post no less)? Am I missing something here? Because there's no way I believe that!

HN traffic isn't all that demanding[1]. Websites falling under the load are a testament to the poor quality of the software stack used to host them.

[1]: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...>

Re: This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

cormorant wrote: post #97
bogwog wrote: post #80

So a modem on a pine phone can survive the HN hug of death (and the number one post no less)? Am I missing something here? Because there's no way I believe that!

Something in front of it, maybe? It reports nginx. $ curl --head 'https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html' HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:28:26 GMT content-type: text/html content-length: 12937 last-modified: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:40:40 GMT etag: "6066e698-3289" accept-ranges: bytes

Could be. The statuspage from the device shows darkhttpd as the server, not nginx: https://nns.ee/blog/status.html

Re: This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

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Post by megous »

teddyh wrote: post #102

Does this mean that every Pinephone is also constantly running this secret proprietary non-updateable machine?

It's not secret, it's updateable, and doesn't need to be running constantly, and doesn't need to be proprietary.

It's possible to just not load the modem firmware and have Pinephone as a device with two ARM SoCs both running mainline Linux and open bootloader. ;)

You'll just not be able to use EG25-G as a modem with modem FW not loaded. There are also options in between.

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