Come to think of it, surely there’s some CLI way to set BM818 rules for certain incoming numbers.
That would be (signed) 16 bit but now that you are back in the game and since this is an open source phone, you could answer your own question. Right? 
More of a concern for me would be that the implementation starts to suffer performance failure i.e. concern that you could block 40,000 numbers but it will take so long to decide whether or not to block that the call times out / other similar adverse performance-related issues.
So you need to look both at hard limits and effective performance limits.
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Ach, you caught me in any obvious error. Thanks. (I have had 8 bits on the brain lately).
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Does that work for you? I signed up a long time ago, but it didn’t to make a difference.
A binary search of 1,000,000 sorted items is 20 operations/cycles, I don’t think 40k will be a problem as long as the block list is sorted.
I compiled phosh-antispam for my L5 a while ago, but never got to test it enough before I ran into serious issues with call audio and infinite ringing on the phone. Now when these issues seem mostly or completely resolved, I might try it again.
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I know it doesn’t help, it is the thought that counts.
Yes, if I can get my 30 year old mini to read a sorted 16 bit key in the blink of an eye on 20 year old hard disk. It shouldn’t be an issue for a 4 year old phone design on SD media.
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Huzzah! Let us know. I’ll just accept the portable binary.
Yes I know it should be “free”, but I’m sure you’d accept a 20 buck “donation”. And if you can get a few hundred folks to send you “donations” it would be worth it. (You might even have to get a biz license, around 50 bucks where I live.)
When a customer cancels their number it usually gets aged so that it isn’t used right away by another person. Much of this process is automated unless you pay for a vanity number. Spammers just blast an entire NNX of 10000 numbers and yours happened to be on their list.
I’ve gotten spam calls from the “CRA” (equiv to your IRS) saying the mounties were on their way to arrest me for tax evasion if I didn’t pay up to some guy with broken english. Those ones are super funny. Check out scammer payback on youtube if you want to have a chuckle at a guy that reverse hacks these guys…
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phosh-antispam is the goto solution. Chris (the upstream author) is using a Librem 5 as well: https://fosstodon.org/@kop316/110073815892169770
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Thanks just compiled it on the phone and it appears to work by blocking anonymous calls and launches when started from the terminal phosh-antispam.
It does not launch when selecting the icon. I will file a bug report.
This looks very promising. I will get around to building/trying it, but I wonder why it is not in the PureOS repository.
I cloned it from git and run meson _build -Dprefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
but it is missing the dependency “gtk4”. Is in safe to install “gtk4” or will this break other things on the phone?
Speaking of compilers, do the compilers come with the phone or does one have to download them separately? If so which ones? If not which ones are there? (Asking this without looking.)
The L5 runs Debian and you have access to the full Debian repository of packages, which currently numbers at about 59 000 pieces of compiled software for the x86 (pc) platform and something like 56 000 pieces of compiled software for the arm platform which would be the Librem 5.
Note, I can’t find the website that tracks these numbers with specificity, but that is very very close to the ballpark.
I don’t know what the PureOS store app is supposed to show because it doesn’t provide me a list of any software to explore and the search field doesn’t work. I assume they will be populating / are populating the store with apps they have approved somehow and perhaps have paid apps as well. I could be wrong.
However, regardless of what happens to the store, the Debian repositories will always be available to you to install either from the command line or from a graphical ui front end like Synaptic. I have not used Synaptic in like 17 years so I have no idea if it works but I am certain without looking that the ui is not designed for mobile so your experience may vary.
The very first that I did with my L5 is toss it on the network, ssh into my phone and install all of my favourite software including a whole bunch of compilers which included implementations of esoteric things like Common Lisp via SBCL. The Debian repos contain basically every compiler you will ever need to code up anything for anything barring some edge cases like vendor centric compilers and compilers that do not support the Arm platform.
I have compiled it now on my second L5. Also got the gtk4 error, turned out I needed to install the package libadwaita-1-dev. After that it compiles fine. Don’t know if affects anything else on the L5 though.
When you run sudo apt install libadwaita-1-dev this will pull a bunch of more packages:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
gir1.2-adw-1 gir1.2-graphene-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-4.0 gobject-introspection
libgirepository1.0-dev libgraphene-1.0-dev libgtk-4-dev python3-mako
python3-markdown python3-markupsafe
Suggested packages:
libadwaita-1-doc libgirepository1.0-doc libgraphene-doc libgtk-4-doc
gtk-4-examples python3-beaker python-mako-doc python-markdown-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.2-adw-1 gir1.2-graphene-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-4.0 gobject-introspection
libadwaita-1-dev libgirepository1.0-dev libgraphene-1.0-dev libgtk-4-dev
python3-mako python3-markdown python3-markupsafe
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Abort.
i.e. I will not do it and wait for an official package. The issue of unwanted calls is not very important to me, do not happen often.