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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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                <title>Debian Edu interview: Yvan Masson</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 06:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been way too long since my last interview, but as the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
community is still active, and new people keep showing up on the IRC
channel &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;the debian-edu mailing
list&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to give it another go.  I was hoping someone else
might pick up the idea and run with it, but this has not happened as
far as I can tell, so here we are… This time the announcement of a new
free software tool to
&lt;a href=&quot;https://framagit.org/Yvan-Masson/WhosWho&quot;&gt;create a school year
book&lt;/a&gt; triggered my interest, and I decided to learn more about its
author.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My name is Yvan MASSON, I live in France. I have my own one person
business in computer services.  The work consist of visiting my
customers (person&#39;s home, local authority, small business) to give
advise, install computers and software, fix issues, and provide
computing usage training.  I spend the rest of my time enjoying my
family and promoting free software.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is your approach for promoting free
software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When I think that free software could be suitable for someone, I
explain what it is, with simple words, give a few known examples, and
explain that while there is no fee it is a viable alternative in many
situations. Most people are receptive when you explain how it is
better (I simplify arguments here, I know that it is not so simple):
Linux works on older hardware, there are no viruses, and the software
can be audited to ensure user is not spied upon. I think the most
important is to keep a clear but moderated speech: when you try to
convince too much, people feel attacked and stop listening.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I can not remember how I first heard of Skolelinux / Debian Edu,
but probably on planet.debian.org. As I have been working for a
school, I have interest in this type of project.

&lt;p&gt;The school I am involved in is a school for &quot;children&quot; between 14
and 18 years old.  The French government has recommended free software
since 2012, but they do not always use free software themselves.  The
school computers are still using the Windows operating system, but all
of them have the classic set of free software: Firefox ESR,
LibreOffice (with the excellent extension Grammalecte that indicates
French grammatical errors), SumatraPDF, Audacity, 7zip, KeePass2, VLC,
GIMP, Inkscape…

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is free software! Built on Debian, I am sure that users are not
spied upon, and that it can run on low end hardware.  This last point
is very important, because we really need to improve &quot;green IT&quot;.  I do
not know enough about Skolelinux / Debian Edu to tell how it is better
than another free software solution, but what I like is the &quot;all in
one&quot; solution: everything has been thought of and prepared to ease
installation and usage.&lt;/p&gt;

I like Free Software because I hate using something that I can not
understand. I do not say that I can understand everything nor that I
want to understand everything, but knowing that someone / some company
intentionally prevents me from understanding how things work is really
unacceptable to me.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Secondly, and more importantly, free software is a requirement to
prevent abuses regarding human rights and environmental care.
Humanity can not rely on tools that are in the hands of small group of
people.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Again, I don&#39;t know this project enough. Maybe a dedicated website?
Debian wiki works well for documentation, but is not very appealing to
someone discovering the project. Also, as Skolelinux / Debian Edu uses
OpenLDAP, it probably means that Windows workstations cannot use
centralized authentication. Maybe the project could use Samba as an
Active Directory domain controller instead, allowing Windows desktop
usage when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(Editors note: In fact Windows workstations can
&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Buster/HowTo/Samba&quot;&gt;use
the centralized authentication in a Debian Edu setup&lt;/a&gt;, at least for
some versions of Windows, but the fact that this is not well known can
be seen as an indication of the need for better documentation and
marketing. :)&lt;/p&gt;
     
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nothing original: Debian testing/sid with Gnome desktop, Firefox,
Thunderbird, LibreOffice…&lt;/p&gt;
     
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every effort to spread free software into schools is important,
whatever it is. But I think, at least where I live, that IT
professionals maintaining schools networks are still very &quot;Microsoft
centric&quot;.  Schools will use any working solution, but they need people
to install and maintain it.  How to make these professionals sensitive
about free software and train them with solutions like Debian Edu /
Skolelinux is a really good question :-)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Jami as a Zoom client, a trick for password protected rooms...</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2020 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Half a year ago,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jami_Ring__finally_functioning_peer_to_peer_communication_client.html&quot;&gt;I
wrote&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;https://jami.net/&quot;&gt;the Jami communication
client&lt;/a&gt;, capable of peer-to-peer encrypted communication.  It
handle both messages, audio and video.  It uses distributed hash
tables instead of central infrastructure to connect its users to each
other, which in my book is a plus.  I mentioned briefly that it could
also work as a SIP client, which came in handy when the higher
educational sector in Norway started to promote Zoom as its video
conferencing solution.  I am reluctant to use the official Zoom client
software, due to their &lt;a href=&quot;https://zoom.us/terms&quot;&gt;copyright
license clauses&lt;/a&gt; prohibiting users to reverse engineer (for example
to check the security) and benchmark it, and thus prefer to connect to
Zoom meetings with free software clients.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jami worked OK as a SIP client to Zoom as long as there was no
password set on the room.  The Jami daemon leak memory like crazy
(approximately 1 GiB a minute) when I am connected to the video
conference, so I had to restart the client every 7-10 minutes, which
is not a great.  I tried to get other SIP Linux clients to work
without success, so I decided I would have to live with this wart
until someone managed to fix the leak in the dring code base.  But
another problem showed up once the rooms were password protected.  I
could not get my dial tone signaling through from Jami to Zoom, and
dial tone signaling is used to enter the password when connecting to
Zoom.  I tried a lot of different permutations with my Jami and
Asterisk setup to try to figure out why the signaling did not get
through, only to finally discover that the fundamental problem seem to
be that Zoom is simply not able to receive dial tone signaling when
connecting via SIP.  There seem to be nothing wrong with the Jami and
Asterisk end, it is simply broken in the Zoom end.  I got help from a
very skilled VoIP engineer figuring out this last part.  And being a
very skilled engineer, he was also able to locate a solution for me.
Or to be exact, a workaround that solve my initial problem of
connecting to password protected Zoom rooms using Jami.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So, how do you do this, I am sure you are wondering by now.  The
trick is already
&lt;a href=&quot;https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/202405539-H-323-SIP-Room-Connector-Dial-Strings#sip&quot;&gt;documented
from Zoom&lt;/a&gt;, and it is to modify the SIP address to include the room
password.  What is most surprising about this is that the
automatically generated email from Zoom with instructions on how to
connect via SIP do not mention this.  The SIP address to use normally
consist of the room ID (a number), an @ character and the IP address
of the Zoom SIP gateway.  But Zoom understand a lot more than just the
room ID in front of the at sign.  The format is &quot;&lt;tt&gt;[Meeting
ID].[Password].[Layout].[Host Key]&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;, and you can hear see how you
can both enter password, control the layout (full screen, active
presence and gallery) and specify the host key to start the meeting.
The full SIP address entered into Jami to provide the password will
then look like this (all using made up numbers):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;tt&gt;sip:657837644.522827@192.168.169.170&lt;/tt&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now if only jami would reduce its memory usage, I could even
recommend this setup to others. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>GnuCOBOL, a free platform to learn and use COBOL - nice free software</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/GnuCOBOL__a_free_platform_to_learn_and_use_COBOL___nice_free_software.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;The curiosity got the better of me when
&lt;a href=&quot;https://developers.slashdot.org/story/20/04/06/1424246/new-jersey-desperately-needs-cobol-programmers&quot;&gt;Slashdot
reported&lt;/a&gt; that New Jersey was desperately looking for
&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL&quot;&gt;COBOL&lt;/a&gt; programmers,
and a few days later it was reported that
&lt;a href=&quot;https://onezero.medium.com/ibm-rallies-cobol-engineers-to-save-overloaded-unemployment-systems-eeadf13eddce&quot;&gt;IBM
tried to locate COBOL programmers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I thus decided to have a look at free software alternatives to
learn COBOL, and had the pleasure to find
&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/&quot;&gt;GnuCOBOL&lt;/a&gt; was
already &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnucobol&quot;&gt;in
Debian&lt;/a&gt;.  It used to be called Open Cobol, and is a &quot;compiler&quot;
transforming COBOL code to C or C++ before giving it to GCC or Visual
Studio to build binaries.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I managed to get in touch with upstream, and was impressed with the
quick response, and also was happy to see a new Debian maintainer
taking over when the original one recently asked to be replaced.  A
new Debian upload was done as recently as yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Using the Debian package, I was able to follow a simple COBOL
introduction and make and run simple COBOL programs.  It was fun to
learn a new programming language.  If you want to test for yourself,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL&quot;&gt;the GnuCOBOL Wikipedia
page&lt;/a&gt; have a few simple examples to get you startet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As I do not have much experience with COBOL, I do not know how
standard compliant it is, but it claim to pass most tests from COBOL
test suite, which sound good to me.  It is nice to know it is possible
to learn COBOL using software without any usage restrictions, and I am
very happy such nice free software project as this is available.  If
you as me is curious about COBOL, check it out.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Totalovervåkning av innbyggernes bevegelser - nei takk!</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Totaloverv_kning_av_innbyggernes_bevegelser___nei_takk_.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg er blitt spurt hva jeg synes om lansering av smittestopp-appen,
overvåkningsløsningen lansert av Folkehelseinstituttet,
Simula-senteret og Regjeringen i dag, fulgt av klare trusler fra
regjeringen om konsekvenser hvis befolkningen ikke tar den i bruk.
Rekker ikke skrive noe fyldig om temaet, men det er klart for meg at
den utraderer retten til privatliv samt utgjør en personlig
sikkerhetsrisiko for alle som tar den i bruk.  Bare det er nok til at
det fremstår som en svært dårlig ide å bli med på denne &quot;dugnaden&quot;.
Det finnes andre og bedre tilnærminger enn den valgt av FHI.  Har de
valgt sin tilnærming for å sikre seg nok et datasett i den fremtidige
ehelse-portalen?  Potensialet for misbruk av informasjon samlet inn av
appen er for stort, effekten på neste krise for klar og gevinsten for
liten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For å si det med forhenværende leder i Datatilsynet, Georg Apenes,
som skrev i en kronikk den gang Datatilsynet vernet
privatsfæren at
«&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/rent-mel-i-bilen/66333882&quot;&gt;SENTRALT
I en liberal forestillingsverden finner vi aksept av borgerens rett
til å kunne velge å være i fred; å være u-iakttatt, uregistrert og
anonym&lt;/a&gt;».  Det er ikke uten grunn han startet kronikken med
«Personvern et fremmedord i enkelte av de statsorganene som samler
inn, oppbevarer og bruker personopplysninger».  Der har nok
statsorganene bare blitt dårligere på 13 år.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det er jo også verdt å merke seg at personvernrådet i EU (EDPB)
mener smittestopp-appen
&lt;a href=&quot;https://nrkbeta.no/2020/04/16/personvernrad-i-eu-mener-norsk-app-bryter-med-viktig-personvernprinsipp/&quot;&gt;opererer
i strid med prinsippet om dataminimering&lt;/a&gt;.  Også de ser at det
finnes mye bedre måter å gjøre dette på.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
til min adresse
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Ny URL til den frie norske stavekontrollen</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_URL_til_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Det er lenge siden jeg har sett på den norske stavekontrollen, sist
jeg skrev om temaet var i 2016, og i mellomtiden har nettstedet
no.speling.org forsvunnet, og både git-depotet på Alioth og
mailman-tjenesten som hadde epostlistene for oversettelser blitt lagt
ned.  Men bokmål og nynorsk trenger fortsatt stavekontroll, så etter
et par purringer fra en som har lyst til å forbedre stavekontrollen
har jeg endelig fått lagt ut ny offentlig kopi av git-depotet.  Jeg
valgte gitlab foran github..  Siste utgave av stavekontrollen kan
hentes ned fra
&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/norwegian-language-tools/spell-norwegian&quot;&gt;https://gitlab.com/norwegian-language-tools/spell-norwegian&lt;/a&gt;.
Ingen ny versjon i denne omgang altså, bare et nytt sted å samle
forbedringer til den frie norske stavekontrollen. :)

&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
til min adresse
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Nikita version 0.5 released - updated free software archive API server</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, after many months of development, a new release of
&lt;ahref=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/&quot;&gt;Nikita
Noark 5 core project&lt;/a&gt; was finally
&lt;ahref=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2020-March/000519.html&quot;&gt;announced
on the project mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  The Nikita free software solution is
an implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
government offices in Norway.  These were the changes in version 0.5
since version 0.4, see the email link above for links to a demo
site:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;Updated to Noark 5 versjon 5.0 API specification.
    &lt;ul&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Changed formatting of _links from [] to {} to match IETF draft
      on JSON HAL.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Merged Registrering og Basisregistrering in version 4 to
      combined Registrering.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;DokumentObjekt is now subtype of ArkivEnhet.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Introducing new entity Arkivnotat.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Changed all relation keys to use /v5/ instead of /v4/.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Corrected to use new official relation keys when possible.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Renamed Sakspart to Part and connect it to Mappe, Registrering
      and Dokumentbeskrivelse instead of only Saksmappe.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Moved Korrespondansepart connection from Journalpost to
      Registrering.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Moved Part and Korrespondansepart from package sakarkiv to
      arkivstruktur.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Renamed presedensstatus to presedensStatus.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Use new JSON content-type &quot;application/vnd.noark5+json&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Updated prepopulated format list to use PRONOM codes.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Implemented endpoint for system information.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Implemented national identifiers for both file and record.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;Implemented comments.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;implemented sign off.&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;implemented conversion.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Improved/implemented OData search and paging support for more entities.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;No longer exposes attribute Dokumentobjekt.referanseDokumentfil,
   one should use the relation in _links instead.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Corrected relation keys under
   https://rel.arkivverket.no/noark5/v5/api/administrasjon/, replacing
   &#39;administrasjon&#39; with &#39;admin&#39;.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Fixed several security and stability issues discovered by Coverity.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Corrected handling ETag errors, now return code 409.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Improved handling of Kryssreferanse.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Changed internal database model to use UUID/SystemID as primary keys
   in tables.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Changed internal database table names to use package prefix.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Changed time zone handling for date and datetime attributes, to be
   more according to the new definition in the API specification.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Change revoke-token to only drop token on POST requests, not GET.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Updated to newer Spring version.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Changed primary key and URL component for metadata code lists to
   use the &#39;kode&#39; value instead of a SystemID.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Corrected implementation of Part and Sakspart.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Changed instance lists with subtypes (like .../registrering/ and
   .../mappe/) to include the attributes and _links entries for the
   subtype in the supertype lists.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Adjusted _links relations to make it possible to figure out the
   entity of an instance using the self-&gt;href-&gt;relation key lookup
   method.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Fixed several end points to make sure GET, PUT, POST and DELETE
   match each other.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Updated DELETE endpoints to work with UUID based entity
   identifiers.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Restructured code to use more common URL related constants in entry
   point values and replace @RequestMapping with method specific
   annotations.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Added first unit test code.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Updated web GUI to work with the updated API.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Changed integer fields, enforce them as numeric.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Rewrote and simplify metadata handling to use common service and
   controller code instead of duplicating for each type.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Implemented the remaining metadata types.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Changed Country list source from Wikipedia to Debian iso-codes and
   updated the list of Countries.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Many many corrections and improvements.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
you, please contact us on IRC
(&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita&quot;&gt;#nikita on
irc.freenode.net&lt;/a&gt;) or email
(&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark&quot;&gt;nikita-noark
mailing list&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Blockchain and IoT articles accepted into Records Management Journal</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blockchain_and_IoT_articles_accepted_into_Records_Management_Journal.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;On Tuesday, two scietific articles we have been working on for a
while, was finally accepted for publication into
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0956-5698&quot;&gt;Records
Management Journal&lt;/a&gt;.  Still waiting for the assigned DOI urls to
start working, but you can have a look at the LaTeX originals here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The first article is
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-02-25-rmj-iot-record-keeping.pdf&quot;&gt;A
record-keeping approach to managing IoT-data for government
agencies&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050&quot;&gt;DOI
10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050&lt;a/&gt;) by Thomas Sødring, Petter Reinholdtsen
and David Massey, and sketches some approaches for storing measurement
data (aka Internet of Things sensor data) in a archive, thus providing
a well defined mechanism for screening and deletion of the information &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The second article is
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-02-25-rmj-block-chain-record-keeping.pdf&quot;&gt;Publishing
and using record-keeping structural information in a blockchain&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
(&lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056&quot;&gt;DOI
10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056&lt;/a&gt;) by Thomas Sødring, Petter Reinholdtsen
and Svein Ølnes, where we describe a way for third parties to validate
authenticity and thus improve trust in the records kept in a
archive.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2020-04-26&lt;/strong&gt;: Initially managed to swap the
DOI numbers.  Fixed it.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Redaksjon på plass for Noark 5 tjenestegrensesnitt</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Redaksjon_p__plass_for_Noark_5_tjenestegrensesnitt.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Arbeidet med å lage et godt, fritt og åpent standardisert maskinelt
grensesnitt for arkivering, med tilhørende fri
programvareimplementasjon fortsetter.  Jeg snakker om
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard&quot;&gt;Noark
5 Tjenestegrensesnitt&lt;/a&gt; og
&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/&quot;&gt;Nikita&lt;/a&gt;.
Siste nytt etter
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20200127-noark-seminar/&quot;&gt;seminaret
for noen dager siden&lt;/a&gt;, er vi i Nikita-prosjektet har fått beskjed
fra Arkivverket at det blir satt ned en redaksjon for å videreutvikle
spesifikasjonen.  Redaksjonen består av Mona Danielsen og Anne Sofie
Knutsen ved arkivverket, Thomas Sødring ved OsloMet, og meg selv fra
NUUG.  De to sistenevnte tar seg av de åpenbare forbedringene, mens
hele redaksjonen diskuterer tvilstilfeller.  Jeg håper dette vil bidra
til at vi lykkes i å gjøre denne protokollspesifikasjonen så entydig
og klar at den vil bidra til et velfungerende marked for
arkivsystemer, og sikre at programmer som trenger å snakke med
arkivsystemet kan snakke med enhver implementasjon av
API-spesifikasjonen.  Nikita er den første implementasjonen, men det
bør blir flere.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det gjenstår riktig nok endel før vi er i mål, selv om svært mye
allerede er på plass.  Med innspill og forslag til forbedringer fra
alle som vil ha et leverandøruavhengig og fullstendig
datamaskinlesbart grensesnitt til arkivet, så tror jeg vi vil
lykkes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
til min adresse
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Artikkel om Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt og Nikita i Arkivråd nummer 3 for 2019</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Artikkel_om_Noark_5_Tjenestegrensesnitt_og_Nikita_i_Arkivr_d_nummer_3_for_2019.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Like før julaften ble en artikkel jeg har skrevet om vedlikehold av
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard&quot;&gt;Noark
5 Tjenestegrensesnitt&lt;/a&gt; og Nikita publisert i &lt;a
href=&quot;https://www.arkivrad.no/arkivrad&quot;&gt;tidsskriftet Arkivråd&lt;/a&gt;.
Det er basert på
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pen_og_gjennomsiktig_vedlikehold_av_spesifikasjonen_for_Noark_5_Tjenestegrensesnitt.html&quot;&gt;min bloggpost
om samme tema&lt;/a&gt; som ble publisert 2019-03-11.  Jeg oppdaget nettopp
at nettsiden til tidsskriftet Arkivråd er oppdatert med siste utgave,
og artikkelen dermed er tilgjengelig for alle. Du finner den i
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.arkivrad.no/sites/arkivrad/files/arkivrad_03_2019_nett.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF-en
til nummer 2019/3 på side 30-33&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg håper leserne av
tidsskriftet får lyst til å sjekke ut tjenestegrensesnittet og at
artikkelen vil gjøre det enklere for flere å bidra til en enda bedre,
klarere og mer entydig API-spesifikasjon.  Det kan gjøre at
&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/&quot;&gt;arkivsystemet
Nikita&lt;/a&gt; kan bli enda bedre når spesifikasjonen forbedres.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
til min adresse
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Meningsløst, men for hvem...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;En historie som har betydd endel for meg, og som jeg av og til
tenker på når hverdagen tynger, ble så vidt jeg har klart å finne ut,
skrevet av &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Eiseley&quot;&gt;Loren
Eiseley&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Thrower&quot;&gt;i
flere ulike varianter&lt;/a&gt;.  På norsk tror jeg den går under navnet
«Gutten og sjøstjernen», og jeg fant en oversettelse av en utgave av den
hos
&lt;a href=&quot;https://no.quora.com/Hva-er-din-favoritthistorie&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt;.
Fant også &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qClChUdlfI&quot;&gt;en
filmatisering&lt;/a&gt;, men den versjonen jeg liker best fant jeg
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/56782.Loren_Eiseley&quot;&gt;hos
Goodreads&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg oversatte den utgaven til norsk i går, og har lyst
til å dele den med deg:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mens jeg tok en pause fra skrivingen og vandret på en
øde strand ved daggry, så jeg en gutt i det fjerne bøye seg ned og
kaste noe mens han vandret mot meg over den endeløse stranden.  Da han
kom nærmere, kunne jeg se at han kastet sjøstjerner, som var etterlatt
i sanden av tidevannet, tilbake i havet. Da han var nær nok spurte jeg
ham hvorfor han jobbet så hardt på denne merkelige oppgaven. Han sa at
solen snart ville stå opp og tørke sjøstjernene slik at de ville
dø.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg sa til ham at dette var helt meningsløst.  Det var kilometer på
kilometer med strand, og det lå sjøstjerner hele veien.  En person
alene kunne ikke gjøre noen forskjell.  Han smilte da han plukket opp
neste sjøstjerne. Mens han kastet den så langt ut i havet som han
klarte sa han, «for denne gjør det en forskjell».  Jeg droppet
skrivingen og tilbrakte resten av morgenen med å kaste
sjøstjerner.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;- Loren Eiseley&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Kanskje noe du også kan ha glede av å tenke på når ting virker
håpløst?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Teksten er gjengitt og oversatt basert på utgaven på Good Read,
uten tillatelse fra noen andre enn meg selv.  Jeg håper på tilgivelse,
hvis det er et problem for noen, da det er gjort i beste mening.  Hvis
eventuell rettighetshaver tar kontakt vil jeg fjerne teksten og i
stedet legge ut henvendelsen der teksten kreves fjernet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
til min adresse
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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