[NTLK] Pine64 Devices

[David Arnold]

A quite modest effort could provide eg. POP & SMTP without encryption on a private (firewalled) address, proxying to POPS/IMAPS and SMTP+TLS to reach an external provider.

Similarly, we’ve discussed previously a couple of web proxy services that can render HTML5 + CSS + some JavaScript into simpler HTML2 that the Newton browsers can handle.

I think those would be just a matter of installing and configuring already-existing software.

Extensions such as you describe could then be a second step?



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> On 7 Dec 2019, at 00:47, Jeff Sheldon <jeffsheldon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 6, 2019, at 06:26, David Arnold <davida at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> One thing that might make such a device additionally attractive is
>> that you could run various proxy services on the Linux side to support
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> This is exactly right.  An Einstein API and complimentary concierge daemon would be no small undertaking, but it could lead to features such as tap-to-call from the contacts app or via intelligent assist and perform a handoff back and forth to low-level phone services such as OFono.
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> I haven’t tried compiling Einstein in Linux I’m quite some time nor on ARM (at least in qemu), but will see how to process goes.  I can see the Pinebooks now as a potentially reasonable development environment despite the modest design. 
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> -Jeff
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