IRC log for #openmoko-cdevel on 20170330

00:12.48pabs3\o/ firmware-ath9k-htc (free WiFi firmware) accepted into Debian unstable!
00:13.17pabs3rah: does anything ever impress you? :)
00:13.49pabs3PaulFertser: thanks again for helping with firmware-ath9k-htc
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05:58.25DocScrutinizer05pabs3: ooh, I'm massively impressed by this hoax :-D
05:58.44pabs3hm?
05:58.51DocScrutinizer05https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/a-fully-free-cell-phone-experience-no-baseband-required/
05:59.28DocScrutinizer05I mean, "cell phone experience without cellphone radio" is a paradoxon
06:00.14DocScrutinizer05OF COURSE you need some wireless technology when you want a cell phone alike user experience
06:00.53DocScrutinizer05it's not like WiFi SIP phones were a new thing, they exist since I guess 10 or more years
06:01.11DocScrutinizer05obvious downside: they need free APs
06:01.46DocScrutinizer05then there's also string and cans "phone" ;-P
06:06.12DocScrutinizer05https://www.voipsupply.com/voip-phones/wi-fi
06:17.39DocScrutinizer05shakes head at folks that don't understand that you need a sort of license for operating ANY RF transmitter in the range anywhere from 50kHz to ~1mm, and that cellphones as we know them only exist *because* FCC_et_al approval of the transmitter controlling radio stack firmware is mandatory
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06:25.49DocScrutinizer05(~1mm) iirc I've actually seen German FTZ issuing a generic approval to "use electromagnetic transmitters in the range from 10um to 800nm [infrared!] without individual type approval"
06:27.10DocScrutinizer05wonders where's the type approval for humans which emit in the millimeter range
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06:45.03DocScrutinizer05https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzsender#Abgrenzung
06:50.51DocScrutinizer05hey, 2002 there were already 150 trials against "terrorists using High Power Microwave" : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikrowellen#Einsatz_als_Waffe
06:54.53DocScrutinizer05ooh I was wrong, the controlled frequency range for RF starts at 9kHz, not 50kHz - and actually ends at 1mm wavelength aka 300GHz
06:55.52DocScrutinizer05actually it starts at 3kHz but 3 to 9 kHz has a global generic approval
06:56.40DocScrutinizer05by ITU
07:00.54DocScrutinizer05so you actually may operate your own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEVS_(transmitter) legally, alas the bandwidth is too low for audio transmission in realtime, unless you use spread spectrum
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07:12.49DocScrutinizer05also you'll have implementation problems with your PA, antenna and your battery in the mobile device ;-)
07:23.00DocScrutinizer05also see https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-30A1.pdf and e.g. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/hey-fcc-dont-lock-wi-fi-routers/
07:24.23DocScrutinizer05>>the FCC explicitly told [...] that it’s fine with mods and open source software “as long as they do not add the functionality to modify the underlying operating characteristics of the RF parameters.”<<
07:24.47DocScrutinizer05read: radio stack
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07:36.14DocScrutinizer05so much for the future of firmware-ath9k-htc free radio stack and similar stuff
07:38.01DocScrutinizer05I guess basically any chip designs that allow messing with the RF parameters are legacy that will vanish sooner or later
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15:16.41rahpabs3: this: https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/15/nasa-plans-to-make-a-telescope-out-of-the-sun/
15:16.44rahpabs3: this impresses me :-)
15:17.50pabs3fair enough :)
15:18.08pabs3*cough*not*open*source*cough*
15:18.22rahlol :-)
15:20.53bencoh:D
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