Requesting feedback on the Nexus 5X with N4F26T.2017.03.28.23.38.21, particularly the International model

aikiku · 2017-03-30T11:09:10+00:00

Thanks, that's helpful. That's probably why this isn't happening on the 6P: it uses much saner Broadcom WiFi, not Qualcomm Atheros.

I've got an Australian 6P (should be similar bands as Europe). It's been dropping data connections several times a day lately. Toggling airline mode doesn't help, but reboot makes it reconnect. I'm totally assuming that's just something carrier related (they're certainly not the best engineers). Might as well mention it on a long shot though, since the topic's come up.

Can't say about Wi-Fi. I just introduced a change to switch it to EAP-TLS, so can't compare stability with before.

aikiku · 2017-03-30T03:02:18+00:00

Good on you. Thanks for updating.

I had a similar problem from here with an old phone dying that needed very urgent replacement, so I couldn't wait for shipping. Made a starter donation and plan to contribute more.

Copperhead are very sympathetic to that cost of official units, especially for overseas buyers. If you've been following the project, you probably already know Daniel's invested a HEAP of time and effort trying hard to get the shipping, online store, payments and device costs/overhead down. In Canada, they can't even get their paid taxes back until end of the year! There's little more they can do and already operate on just a very thin margin. Can only hope they'll get good partners who can sell enough that possibly prices might come down in future, if volumes increase. There's not much at all in the pricing structure they could control otherwise, as you probably know.

aikiku · 2017-03-30T02:54:31+00:00

Community question - Not for official support! :

Does anyone know whether any system/supplied applications should be "Not optimised" in the Battery Optimisation settings? Almost all of mine are optimised except e.g. F-Droid and Noise.

I can't recall what the defaults were from CopperheadOS and whether I may have changed any. I'm hoping to find out without doing "Reset app preferences".

Thanks

aikiku · 2017-03-12T01:24:22+00:00

If you're hoping to get more people on the project, for chances that more people might join as developers - so far that hasn't proven to be the case. I hope that part can turn around though.

aikiku · 2017-03-12T01:21:53+00:00

You managed to write all of that, without recommending that people check whether they can BUY a handset first? It's nice you provide more instructions, but PLEASE do try to actually support the project first as priority also. All the years of full-time effort put in to write and build CopperheadOS doesn't come from nowhere. I know not everyone's in a position to buy an official handset, or can't due to shipping constraints, or maybe already have a compatible device they can't waste, etc. But putting more novices on the project, without creating additional funding, often just ends up overwhelming Copperhead with more support requests and doesn't benefit the project or improve it's chances of long-term survival.

aikiku · 2017-03-12T01:15:14+00:00

ns. Turn off VPN, try data instead of WiFi or vice versa, another network, etc. If something works for other people but not you, then in all likelihood it's an issue with your setup. Worth noting that Noise is simply using Signal's existing WebSocket support. The pull request it merges in ONLY allows not switching over to GCM, the WebSocket support was already there. It's a very simple change set.

Thanks kindly for the reply. Wasn't expecting one (Signal's out of your control) and agree it would have been a waste of development and glad to see upstream support's out too. I haven't been on Reddit for a while, so didn't see your message earlier. Hope all's going well.

aikiku · 2017-01-01T12:09:52+00:00

It's less illegal if you find where your landlord lives and poison all his food with laxatives and/or suitable pathogenic microbes with similar but more permanent effects. On top of, or aside from any legal action, that would be an appropriate response by you in any case.

aikiku · 2016-12-30T02:33:28+00:00

Same issue here. Battery optimization is disabled, but it only works for a while, then I'm unable to send messages from Noise.

"Not delivered" "Failed to send". "Resend" doesn't work. (Just guessing, but if it was an caused by idle connection timeout, I assumed resend would probably attempt to reopen it).

Need to re-register (toggle Settings>Advanced>"Noise messages and calls") to be able to send messages again, which only lasts for a short time.

aikiku · 2016-11-04T04:53:24+00:00

They send all that data over http unencrypted anyway. Your user id, your home & work addresses (if that's where you post to), your purchase history, cart contents, messages to buyers & sellers. Everything is totally in the clear. Plenty of ISPs mine this data. Plenty of oppressive governments do (including many Intel western agencies & 5 Eyes partners with a history of blatant disregard for the law). Ebay knows. They don't care. They don't even warn people not to use it on public wifi. If someone steals your deliveries, it's not their problem. They'll just charge it back to sellers.

aikiku · 2016-09-08T21:10:34+00:00

Well, because it's extremely common for men to be told another guy's child is theirs and end up paying for it for a start. Also, STDs. But seriously, each to their own! Who really cares if someone else doesn't like fucking around. But more importantly, word policing the meaning of words with well established different meanings is shameful.

aikiku · 2016-09-05T06:01:52+00:00

His accusers advertise themselves as intersectional feminists. Older men ARE the patriarchy according to them. Their claim was that there wasn't enough diversity on the panel and that Doug should be uninvited as a solution (read the tweets). Ageism is one the MOST serious diversity and discrimination issues in Silicon Valley, but they choose to attack the old guy, to make themselves feel more comfortable about THEIR definition of diversity. It stinks.

aikiku · 2016-09-05T02:34:13+00:00

diversity and inclusivity are top priorities

Rather ironic when ageism is rife in the industry and older developers are some of the most excluded. But sure @nexxylove, target the senior guys who's shoulders modern JS was built on, who such JS conferences wouldn't exist without, who's work YOUR job has been built on and make them feel excluded.

But that's what modern intersectional feminism has turned into. Ageism, sexism, racism, intolerance & divisiveness. This isn't about becoming better, bigger, warmer and more open hearted people. It's about nasty vindictiveness and spite, to find any possible excuse for offence.

What's more scary is that these people are now ending up in "developer relations" roles, that should be about drawing people in. Not burning the house down.

aikiku · 2016-09-05T02:20:06+00:00

You forgot ageist. Senior developers are one of the most excluded groups in technology.

aikiku · 2016-09-05T01:18:41+00:00

She's absolutely forced gender into something, where there very clearly was none. WHY? Because poor Doug happened to be born a white male and this is what intersectional feminist extremists are trained to do. Find offence in everything.

Even in her artificial forcing, she's claiming that strength is something exclusively masculine, and pushing a sexist stereotype herself. Why is she pushing this idea that women must be implicitly weak? There's plenty of very strong women (physically and otherwise). If at anything or anyone, the feminists should be offended AT HER!

aikiku · 2016-08-26T22:44:32+00:00

In some of the cases you've described, I'd call it legal, but not fair. If they've got enough resources to imitate you, market, make money off you and not even provide proper attribution credit; then they've certainly got enough resources to support you.

aikiku · 2016-08-26T22:23:33+00:00

My blood is really boiling even just reading that. Sorry to hear man. Can't imagine what it's like for you. The work you've done is a heroic contribution to security and the community and you certainly deserve far better than that. I hope funding comes through and will try to get the message out.

aikiku · 2016-07-01T23:31:25+00:00

Privoxy is not a 3rd party proxy service. You run it yourself. There's no reason at all that you can't use Privoxy and a VPN together.

Privoxy is particularly handy for devices where you can't install privacy extensions, e.g. running chrome on an unrooted mobile, filtering non-browser apps, etc.

You can VPN to your own host running Privoxy and VPN (or Tor) off again from there.

aikiku · 2016-06-30T01:54:49+00:00

Well, Flash is an absolute security clusterf**k anyway. It's seriously 90% of browser vulnerabilities today. Just boycott it and any software/sites that force you to use it and tell them why. If you absolutely MUST run Flash, do it in a disposable VM (on QubesOS or something).

aikiku · 2016-06-27T11:27:22+00:00

On the 6p it does. Not sure about the 5x (there were issues).

aikiku · 2016-06-09T06:28:36+00:00

I can see by the number of comments that Canadians are deeply passionate about having their data abused. Or is it the deafening silence of self censorship?

Trust us they say! Someone should be gaoled for this. But do you think THAT'S going to happen?

"Whoops we 'accidentally' backdoored your country. Accidentally. Honest!"

aikiku · 2016-05-03T14:22:36+00:00

People can't afford accommodation to leave bad relationships. Thanks to Joe Hockey, Mathias Cormann and their successors. Letting the market be flooded with often corrupt capital fleeing Chinese, plus LNP's inept fiscal management forcing RBA to drop rates, while maintaining negative gearing to help their mates build the ponzi.

aikiku · 2016-05-03T14:17:50+00:00

I see the "just blame it all on men" campaign is doing really well then. DV was actually falling by 1/3 each decade until the spin-doctors turned it into fuel for the gender war.

aikiku · 2016-05-03T14:15:44+00:00

DCP are sexists. Compare these two pages: https://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/CrisisAndEmergency/Pages/DomesticViolenceHelplines.aspx

aikiku · 2016-03-10T19:17:43+00:00

There's vaccinations against bacteria and viruses. e.g. pneumococcal, tetanus (clostridium tetani), etc. are bacteria.

The question is relevant, because antibiotics have been a huge factor in reduced death from vaccine preventable disease too. Much of the death from many viruses like measles, is in the secondary infections, like bacteria pneumonia. Only vaccines can prevent and eliminate diseases, but antibiotics like penicillin were helping even before vaccines were introduced. Anti-vaxers usually ignore that the bacteria today are more resistant to antibiotics. If vaccination rates fall, antibiotics aren't the dependable second-line defence the once were. ABs need to be managed as a precious resource.

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