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

#131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I see nginx there too. % curl -I https://nns.ee/blog/status.html HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:48:48 GMT content-type: text/html content-length: 8754 last-modified: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:48:31 GMT etag: "60672ebf-2232" accept-ranges: bytes

I meant the content of the page, which shows running processes on the system.

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

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post #126

> While developing software on the PinePhone, I came across this peculiar message in dmesg: Beautiful seeing this on top of HN. :) That message is from me. Nice to see someone using the access for something cool. One of the reasons I decided to add it there was to give some visibility to this "feature" of EG-25G FW to people interested enough to look at dmesg.

Brilliant! Thanks for drawing attention to this "feature".

The world is a small place indeed.

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

#134

Wait wait wait, does this mean data is going over a cellular network? On a data plan from some phone company? And their blog post just showed up here, on the front page of HN, which is notorious for crushing small servers with traffic? LOLSOB, I really hope this poor person isn't in the US. Or the cellphone overage charges...

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

#135

Wait wait wait, does this mean data is going over a cellular network? On a data plan from some phone company? And their blog post just showed up here, on the front page of HN, which is notorious for crushing small servers with traffic? LOLSOB, I really hope this poor person isn't in the US. Or the cellphone overage charges...

He's not actually serving data over the cellular network, but even if he did, how much traffic does being on the front page of HN generate ? His blog is very light, this page is only 22.2kB. Assuming 100k pageviews from HN, that would be 2.2GB. Well within most mobile plans.

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

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post #70

Now it just needs to charge / run from solar and it can be dropped anywhere with signal. I wonder what sort of wattage this thing draws.

For a while I've really liked the thought of small little cheap hardened devices that could be surreptitiously dropped to act like wifi extenders as a "guerilla mesh". Of course there'd probably need to be some thought put into making them safe and look harmless enough not to trigger any kind of severe response if found. But imagine taking a bag around town and dropping "disposable" devices with low enough power use…

Seems quite a lot of us have had the same idea.

I keep thinking the Meshtastic network is heading in that direction, maybe Disaster.Radio might have some features, and generally there seem to be a ton of projects that contain some but not all of the pieces you'd want.

I'm down to build the hardware, I just haven't a clue on the software side of things.

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

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post #109
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.

It's a stretch to call it unneeded, being able to communicate over the cellular network is pretty much the definition of what a mobile phone is, if you remove that it stops being a phone. In that sense running the phone with any system is optional too since you can always use it to weigh down some papers on your desk ...

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

#138

Is there something like the PinePhone that is manufactured in a place with substantial political freedom (however you wish to define that)?

Depending on your definition of political freedom, USA might fit: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa. It's expensive, since practically no phones are produced in USA. Alternatively, https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 has its components produced in China and assembled in USA.

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

#139

Is there something like the PinePhone that is manufactured in a place with substantial political freedom (however you wish to define that)?

You can buy an American-made Purism phone, which may or may not fit your definition. It's not cheap, though.

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

#140

I have never really tried but it surprises me providers let you accept connections on a gsm connection.

His blog is hosted on the modem but it does not actually use the cellular network, he routes traffic back to the host using adb port forwarding and then to some other host via USB and then to the Internet.
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