IRC log for #maemo on 20191121

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06:43.13brolin_empeyI guess the answer is yes but is the term “letter” as in a form of written correspondence (spelling?) still used even when using a writing system such as Chinese or Japanese that does not use letters?
06:49.29brolin_empeyI guess in the same way that the term “right of way” is still used even where road traffic is on the left side of the road.
06:54.43sicelowhat is your syncevolution use case xmn? you're xman on tmo?
07:24.09Maxdamantusbrolin_empey: are you asking if people speaking English would use the word "letter" to refer to CJK characters?
07:25.05Maxdamantusbrolin_empey: because most English speakers probably don't spend much time talking about CJK characters.
07:25.47Maxdamantusbrolin_empey: and "letter" is an English word. In the more relevant languages, they're going to use different words which might have different meanings.
07:27.48MaxdamantusOh, you're asking if English speakers would describe letters written in Chinese as "letters".
07:28.40MaxdamantusI suspect the answer to that is "yes", but it's not going to be something most people think about.
07:29.15siceloalso i think (non-native English speaker here) that "right" in 'right of way' does not refer to the right side, but means "right" as something you are entitled to.
07:29.39MaxdamantusRight.
07:31.43MaxdamantusThe words are etymologically related in both cases, but they have fairly distinct meanings for their different uses.
07:32.43Maxdamantuseg, the notion of "left" and "right" used to correspond to evil/good, sinister/dexter
07:32.49Maxdamantuswrong/right
07:40.53KotCzarnynope, it was from the times where people travelled on horses
07:41.14KotCzarnyand there was left-lane convention
07:41.24KotCzarnyright hand was for holding the weapon
07:41.25KotCzarny;)
07:42.26MaxdamantusThat explains which side of the road people drive on (arguably), but it doesn't explain the connection between "right of way" and "right (direction)"
07:42.44KotCzarnywell, when cars were invented, it was forcibly standardized
07:42.47MaxdamantusI don't think "right of way" has ever referred particularly to the direction.
07:42.52KotCzarnyfor some other reason
07:43.08Maxdamantusalso, "right of way" doesn't even mean "which side of the road"
07:43.17KotCzarnybut the generic term 'right of way' comes from the horsies era
07:44.15KotCzarnyand as always, google helps to find etymology of that sentence
07:44.41Maxdamantusbut how much does "right of way" even have to do with "right (direction)"?
07:45.02MaxdamantusCurrently in countries that drive on the right, you tend to have the right of way if you're turning right.
07:45.16KotCzarnynever said that it came from the right/left. only said it was related to horsies
07:45.34Maxdamantusbut that's based on standardised rules (and to some extent, geometry).
07:46.03brolin_empeyI did not include the Korean language in my list of example languages that do not use an alphabet because my understanding as a Westerner but who has studied languages and writing systems is that the Korean language has multiple writing systems, specifically at least Hangul and Hanja but I thought that at least Hangul is closer to being like an alphabet than the Chinese writing system using Chinese characters/ideograms because I thought Hangul has much fewer
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07:46.05Maxdamantuseg, in NZ we've always driven on the left, but until recently, right-turning traffic had the right of way.
07:48.55Maxdamantusbrolin_empey: I think Japanese/Korean are kind of in a similar state there. Both have some sort of alphabet, but they also both use Hanzi/Kanji/Hanza.
07:49.17Maxdamantus(ideographs borrowed from Chinese)
07:50.16Maxdamantuss/Hanza/Hanja/
07:55.15sicelooh well, whatever the history of the expression may be, in current usage means the one with right of way is entitled to move first. in current usage it doesn't seem to have anything to do with direction.
07:55.32siceloass meant donkey for aeons. today ...
07:57.48KotCzarnyhello richard
07:57.49KotCzarny;)
07:58.35brolin_empeyStallman?
08:00.28MaxdamantusPresumably one that goes by "Dick".
08:00.49KotCzarnywords mutate
08:00.55KotCzarnylanguage is fluid
08:01.17KotCzarnyand memes are viruses that mutate it forcibly and fast
08:01.42KotCzarnyand live long changing other words and meanings on the way
08:03.06KotCzarnyads are artifically created capitalist memes
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09:56.57WikiwideWhy does it take so long for Modest to Send&Receive? It doesn't even show "Refreshing"!
09:57.48WikiwideI have nought in Outbox, so there is no Sending involved, even.
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10:35.16KotCzarnyssl negotiation and directories listing?
10:35.27KotCzarnyand checking mail ids
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12:24.27KotCzarnyhttp://www.electricstuff.co.uk/acadapter.html
12:24.28KotCzarnyhar har
12:28.41sicelogwd!
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12:41.33gamontecarloIs there any remotely recent browser for Maemo 5 on the N900 other than Opera?
12:47.12APiclynx 😉
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13:11.36gamontecarloSo PostmarketOS, which coincidentally would have a more recent version of Firefox.
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14:02.50buZzdoesnt dillo work?
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15:02.16bencohdillo works
15:02.30bencohbut it's not the best browser for modern websites (unfortunately)
15:08.04sicelopostmarketod does nit have firefox on n900, iirc (alpine loves purging stuff, and ff depends on something they currently don't have on ARM, possibly Rust)
15:08.31sicelotypos ... writing on samsung galaxy, :(
15:12.05bencohdesktop firefox on n900 would be plain unusable anyway
15:12.31bencohit's quite awful on droid4 ... I wouldn't even think about running it on n900
15:12.54sunshavisicelo: rust is installe on my opi+2e which is arm
15:12.58bencoh(well, on droid4 it's more okayish than awful ... but not great)
15:13.11sicelowhat about recent fennec, bencoh ?
15:14.12sicelosunshavi: i don't recall exact missing dependency, but iirc there's no FF for ARM in Alpine currently
15:15.20sunshavithat is weird. ff works on archlinux arm aka alarm
15:15.29sicelothere used to be, however, hence there are a couple of screenshots showing FF on pmOS devices
15:20.16sicelosunshavi: alpine/pmos is quick to remove stuff, so i don't find that weird (anymore)
15:25.48siceloFF only available on x86_64 and aarch64, https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=firefox&branch=edge
15:26.25sunshaviperhaps nobody is compiling it for 32 bits
16:21.41siceloso yes, it is Rust ..
16:21.44sicelohttps://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/pull/10778
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17:40.33tdlnxQuestion: I recently dug out my n900 (last used in 2014) - is there still a community keeping this thing useful?
17:40.43KotCzarnyyup
17:40.49KotCzarnygoogle about maemo-leste
18:14.02tdlnxAwesome
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20:34.08CatButtshttps://www.imbushuo.net/blog/archives/725
20:34.26CatButtsI was gonna ask if theoretically, windows 10 could be coaxed to run on an n900
20:34.43CatButtsbut I realize UEFI requirement is showstopper
21:05.18siceloeew!
21:05.46CatButtsfor shits and giggles
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22:51.08MaxdamantusWhy couldn't UEFI be implemented on N900?
22:52.21dreamerthere is no uefi
22:52.39dreameror you want uboot to emulate one or something?
23:18.53buZz> An implementation of the UEFI API was introduced into the Universal Boot Loader (Das U-Boot) in 2017.[75] On the ARMv8 architecture Linux distributions use the U-Boot UEFI implementation in conjunction with GNU GRUB for booting (e.g. SUSE Linux [76]), the same holds true for OpenBSD.[77] For booting from iSCSI iPXE can be used as a UEFI application loaded by U-Boot.[78]
23:19.01buZzseems to only exist on armv8? not sure
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23:24.55buZz[edit]
23:24.55buZzIntel's first Itanium workstations and servers, released in 2000, implemented EFI 1.02.
23:24.58buZzHewlett-Packard's first Itanium 2 systems, released in 2002, implemented EFI 1.10;
23:25.08buZzall that stuff is just retro enterprise :P

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