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-               <title>Streaming the Linux desktop to Kodi using VLC and RTSP</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_VLC_and_RTSP.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A while back, I was asked by a friend how to stream the desktop to
-my projector connected to Kodi.  I sadly had to admit that I had no
-idea, as it was a task I never had tried.  Since then, I have been
-looking for a way to do so, preferable without much extra software to
-install on either side.  Today I found a way that seem to kind of
-work.  Not great, but it is a start.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I had a look at several approaches, for example
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/mfoetsch/dlna_live_streaming&quot;&gt;using uPnP
-DLNA as described in 2011&lt;/a&gt;, but it required a uPnP server, fuse and
-local storage enough to store the stream locally.  This is not going
-to work well for me, lacking enough free space, and it would
-impossible for my friend to get working.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next, it occurred to me that perhaps I could use VLC to create a
-video stream that Kodi could play.  Preferably using
-broadcast/multicast, to avoid having to change any setup on the Kodi
-side when starting such stream.  Unfortunately, the only recipe I
-could find using multicast used the rtp protocol, and this protocol
-seem to not be supported by Kodi.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the rtsp protocol is working!  Unfortunately I
-have to specify the IP address of the streaming machine in both the
-sending command and the file on the Kodi server.  But it is showing my
-desktop, and thus allow us to have a shared look on the big screen at
-the programs I work on.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I did not spend much time investigating codeces.  I combined the
-rtp and rtsp recipes from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/&quot;&gt;the
-VLC Streaming HowTo/Command Line Examples&lt;/a&gt;, and was able to get
-this working on the desktop/streaming end.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-vlc screen:// --sout \
-  &#39;#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{dst=projector.local,port=1234,sdp=rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp}&#39;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I ssh-ed into my Kodi box and created a file like this with the
-same IP address:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp \
-  &gt; /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note the 192.168.11.4 IP address is my desktops IP address.  As far
-as I can tell the IP must be hardcoded for this to work.  In other
-words, if someone elses machine is going to do the steaming, you have
-to update screenstream.m4u on the Kodi machine and adjust the vlc
-recipe.  To get started, locate the file in Kodi and select the m3u
-file while the VLC stream is running.  The desktop then show up in my
-big screen. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;When using the same technique to stream a video file with audio,
-the audio quality is really bad.  No idea if the problem is package
-loss or bad parameters for the transcode.  I do not know VLC nor Kodi
-enough to tell.&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
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+               <title>CasparCG Server for TV broadcast playout in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/CasparCG_Server_for_TV_broadcast_playout_in_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/CasparCG_Server_for_TV_broadcast_playout_in_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://casparcg.com/&quot;&gt;CasparCG Server&lt;/a&gt;, entered Debian
+today.  This completes many months of work to get the source ready to
+go into Debian.  The first upload to the Debian NEW queue happened a
+month ago, but the work upstream to prepare it for Debian started more
+than two and a half month ago.  So far
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/casparcg-server&quot;&gt;the
+casparcg-server package&lt;/a&gt; is only available for amd64, but I hope
+this can be improved.  The package is in contrib because it depend on
+the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdk-aac&quot;&gt;non-free fdk-aac
+library&lt;/a&gt;.  The Debian package lack support for streaming web pages
+because Debian is missing CEF, Chromium Embedded Framework.  CEF is
+wanted by several packages in Debian.  But because the Chromium source
+is &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/893448&quot;&gt;not available as a build
+dependency&lt;/a&gt;, it is not yet possible to upload CEF to Debian.  I
+hope this will change in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The reason I got involved is that
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;the Norwegian open channel
+Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; is starting to use CasparCG for our HD playout, and I
+would like to have all the free software tools we use to run the TV
+channel available as packages from the Debian project.  The last
+remaining piece in the puzzle is Open Broadcast Encoder, but it depend
+on quite a lot of patched libraries which would have to be included in
+Debian first.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2018?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_in_2018_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_in_2018_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2018 08:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Five years ago,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html&quot;&gt;I
-measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was&lt;/a&gt;, by
-analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive.  Since
-then, the DEP-11 AppStream system has been put into production, making
-the task a lot easier.  This made me want to repeat the measurement,
-to see how much things changed.  Here are the new numbers, for
-unstable only this time:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debian Unstable:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-  count MIME type
-  ----- -----------------------
-     56 image/jpeg
-     55 image/png
-     49 image/tiff
-     48 image/gif
-     39 image/bmp
-     38 text/plain
-     37 audio/mpeg
-     34 application/ogg
-     33 audio/x-flac
-     32 audio/x-mp3
-     30 audio/x-wav
-     30 audio/x-vorbis+ogg
-     29 image/x-portable-pixmap
-     27 inode/directory
-     27 image/x-portable-bitmap
-     27 audio/x-mpeg
-     26 application/x-ogg
-     25 audio/x-mpegurl
-     25 audio/ogg
-     24 text/html
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The list was created like this using a sid chroot: &quot;cat
-/var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz| zcat | awk &#39;/^
-- \S+\/\S+$/ {print $2 }&#39; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It is interesting to see how image formats have passed text/plain
-as the most announced supported MIME type.  These days, thanks to the
-AppStream system, if you run into a file format you do not know, and
-want to figure out which packages support the format, you can find the
-MIME type of the file using &quot;file --mime &amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;&quot;, and then
-look up all packages announcing support for this format in their
-AppStream metadata (XML or .desktop file) using &quot;appstreamcli
-what-provides mimetype &amp;lt;mime-type&amp;gt;.  For example if you, like
-me, want to know which packages support inode/directory, you can get a
-list like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype inode/directory | grep Package: | sort
-Package: anjuta
-Package: audacious
-Package: baobab
-Package: cervisia
-Package: chirp
-Package: dolphin
-Package: doublecmd-common
-Package: easytag
-Package: enlightenment
-Package: ephoto
-Package: filelight
-Package: gwenview
-Package: k4dirstat
-Package: kaffeine
-Package: kdesvn
-Package: kid3
-Package: kid3-qt
-Package: nautilus
-Package: nemo
-Package: pcmanfm
-Package: pcmanfm-qt
-Package: qweborf
-Package: ranger
-Package: sirikali
-Package: spacefm
-Package: spacefm
-Package: vifm
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Using the same method, I can quickly discover that the Sketchup file
-format is not yet supported by any package in Debian:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype  application/vnd.sketchup.skp
-Could not find component providing &#39;mimetype::application/vnd.sketchup.skp&#39;.
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I used it to figure out which packages support the STL 3D
-format:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype  application/sla|grep Package
-Package: cura
-Package: meshlab
-Package: printrun
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;PS: A new version of Cura was uploaded to Debian yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Learn to program with Minetest on Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Learn_to_program_with_Minetest_on_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Learn_to_program_with_Minetest_on_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A fun way to learn how to program
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.python.org/&quot;&gt;Python&lt;/a&gt; is to follow the
+instructions in the book
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nostarch.com/programwithminecraft&quot;&gt;Learn to program
+with Minecraft&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which introduces programming in Python to people
+who like to play with Minecraft.  The book uses a Python library to
+talk to a TCP/IP socket with an API accepting build instructions and
+providing information about the current players in a Minecraft world.
+The TCP/IP API was first created for the Minecraft implementation for
+Raspberry Pi, and has since been ported to some server versions of
+Minecraft.  The book contain recipes for those using Windows, MacOSX
+and Raspian.  But a little known fact is that you can follow the same
+recipes using the free software construction game
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://minetest.net/&quot;&gt;Minetest&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sprintingkiwi/pycraft_mod&quot;&gt;a
+Minetest module implementing the same API&lt;/a&gt;, making it possible to
+use the Python programs coded to talk to Minecraft with Minetest too.
+I
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/minetest-mod-pycraft_0.20%2Bgit20180331.0376a0a%2Bdfsg-1.html&quot;&gt;uploaded
+this module&lt;/a&gt; to Debian two weeks ago, and as soon as it clears the
+FTP masters NEW queue, learning to program Python with Minetest on
+Debian will be a simple &#39;apt install&#39; away.  The Debian package is
+maintained as part of the Debian Games team, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/unfinished/minetest-mod-pycraft&quot;&gt;the
+packaging rules&lt;/a&gt; are currently located under &#39;unfinished&#39; on
+Salsa.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;You will most likely need to install several of the Minetest
+modules in Debian for the examples included with the library to work
+well, as there are several blocks used by the example scripts that are
+provided via modules in Minetest.  Without the required blocks, a
+simple stone block is used instead.  My initial testing with a analog
+clock did not get gold arms as instructed in the python library, but
+instead used stone arms.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I tried to find a way to add the API to the desktop version of
+Minecraft, but were unable to find any working recipes.  The
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.epiphanydigest.com/tag/minecraft-python-api/&quot;&gt;recipes&lt;/a&gt;
+I &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/kbsriram/mcpiapi&quot;&gt;found&lt;/a&gt; are only
+working with a standalone Minecraft server setup.  Are there any
+options to use with the normal desktop version?&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>Debian APT upgrade without enough free space on the disk...</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_APT_upgrade_without_enough_free_space_on_the_disk___.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_APT_upgrade_without_enough_free_space_on_the_disk___.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2018 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Quite regularly, I let my Debian Sid/Unstable chroot stay untouch
-for a while, and when I need to update it there is not enough free
-space on the disk for apt to do a normal &#39;apt upgrade&#39;.  I normally
-would resolve the issue by doing &#39;apt install &amp;lt;somepackages&amp;gt;&#39; to
-upgrade only some of the packages in one batch, until the amount of
-packages to download fall below the amount of free space available.
-Today, I had about 500 packages to upgrade, and after a while I got
-tired of trying to install chunks of packages manually.  I concluded
-that I did not have the spare hours required to complete the task, and
-decided to see if I could automate it.  I came up with this small
-script which I call &#39;apt-in-chunks&#39;:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Upgrade packages when the disk is too full to upgrade every
-# upgradable package in one lump.  Fetching packages to upgrade using
-# apt, and then installing using dpkg, to avoid changing the package
-# flag for manual/automatic.
-
-set -e
-
-ignore() {
-    if [ &quot;$1&quot; ]; then
-       grep -v &quot;$1&quot;
-    else
-       cat
-    fi
-}
-
-for p in $(apt list --upgradable | ignore &quot;$@&quot; |cut -d/ -f1 | grep -v &#39;^Listing...&#39;); do
-    echo &quot;Upgrading $p&quot;
-    apt clean
-    apt install --download-only -y $p
-    for f in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb; do
-       if [ -e &quot;$f&quot; ]; then
-           dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
-           break
-       fi
-    done
-done
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The script will extract the list of packages to upgrade, try to
-download the packages needed to upgrade one package, install the
-downloaded packages using dpkg.  The idea is to upgrade packages
-without changing the APT mark for the package (ie the one recording of
-the package was manually requested or pulled in as a dependency).  To
-use it, simply run it as root from the command line.  If it fail, try
-&#39;apt install -f&#39; to clean up the mess and run the script again.  This
-might happen if the new packages conflict with one of the old
-packages.  dpkg is unable to remove, while apt can do this.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It take one option, a package to ignore in the list of packages to
-upgrade.  The option to ignore a package is there to be able to skip
-the packages that are simply too large to unpack.  Today this was
-&#39;ghc&#39;, but I have run into other large packages causing similar
-problems earlier (like TeX).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2018-07-08: Thanks to Paul Wise, I am aware of two
-alternative ways to handle this.  The &quot;unattended-upgrades
---minimal-upgrade-steps&quot; option will try to calculate upgrade sets for
-each package to upgrade, and then upgrade them in order, smallest set
-first.  It might be a better option than my above mentioned script.
-Also, &quot;aptutude upgrade&quot; can upgrade single packages, thus avoiding
-the need for using &quot;dpkg -i&quot; in the script above.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Non-blocking bittorrent plugin for vlc</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Non_blocking_bittorrent_plugin_for_vlc.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Non_blocking_bittorrent_plugin_for_vlc.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few hours ago, a new and improved version (2.4) of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;the VLC
+bittorrent plugin&lt;/a&gt; was uploaded to Debian.  This new version
+include a complete rewrite of the bittorrent related code, which seem
+to make the plugin non-blocking.  This mean you can actually exit VLC
+even when the plugin seem to be unable to get the bittorrent streaming
+started.  The new version also include support for filtering playlist
+by file extension using command line options, if you want to avoid
+processing audio, video or images.  The package is currently in Debian
+unstable, but should be available in Debian testing in two days.  To
+test it, simply install it like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;After it is installed, you can try to use it to play a file
+downloaded live via bittorrent like this:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+vlc https://archive.org/download/Glass_201703/Glass_201703_archive.torrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>The worlds only stone power plant?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power,
-solar power, and wood power are well known.  Until a few days ago, I
-had never heard of stone power.  Then I learn about a quarry in a
-mountain in
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger&quot;&gt;Bremanger&lt;/a&gt; i
-Norway, where
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/&quot;&gt;the
-Bremanger Quarry&lt;/a&gt; company is extracting stone and dumping the stone
-into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour.  This downward movement
-in this shaft is used to produce electricity.  In short, it is using
-falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and
-according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is
-using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power
-grid.  I find the concept truly amazing.  Is this the worlds only
-stone power plant?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Retten til kontant betaling er en rettighet som må brukes for å beholdes</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Retten_til_kontant_betaling_er_en_rettighet_som_m__brukes_for___beholdes.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Retten_til_kontant_betaling_er_en_rettighet_som_m__brukes_for___beholdes.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fn.no/Om-FN/Avtaler/Menneskerettigheter/FNs-verdenserklaering-om-menneskerettigheter&quot;&gt;FNs
+menneskerettighetserklæring&lt;/a&gt; artikkel 13 første punkt lyder som
+følger:&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
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+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+Enhver har rett til å bevege seg fritt og til fritt å velge
+oppholdssted innenfor en stats grenser.
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er altså en menneskerett å kunne bevege seg fritt i landet.
+For å bevege seg fritt i landet, så må en kunne bevege seg uten å bli
+sporet.  Det vil i dagens samfunn innebære å bevege seg uten å legge
+igjen digitale spor og uten å være radiomerket.  Hvis en vet at ens
+bevegelser, hvor en befinner seg når, og hvem som befinner seg i
+nærheten, blir samlet inn og gjort tilgjengelig for fremmede, det være
+seg myndighetene eller private organisasjoner, så kan en ikke lenger
+bevege seg fritt.  Dette gjør at det er en forutsetning for å ha glede
+av retten til å bevege seg fritt i landet at en motstår fristelsen til
+å legge igjen digitale spor når en betaler for seg.  Rettigheter som
+ikke blir brukt, blir fjernet.  Den eneste måten i dag å unngå å legge
+igjen digitale spor når en betaler for seg, er å betale med kontanter,
+samt takke nei til å legge igjen navn og adresse (slik f.eks. Elkjøp
+ber om &amp;mdash; jeg sier de kan legge inn «anonym anonym» når
+datasystemet deres trenger et navn).  Personlig anbefaler jeg å
+konsekvent bruke kontant betaling når man beveger seg rundt, for å
+bidra til forsvaret av menneskerettighetene i Norge.  Kanskje noe også
+for deg?  Merk at det ikke er tilstrekkelig for å unngå sporing å
+betale med kontanter, men det er et lite steg i riktig retning.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er flere andre argumenter i tillegg til
+menneskerettighetsargumentet for å bruke kontanter.  I går hadde
+Dagbladet en utmerket kommentar av sin journalist John Olav Egeland om
+hvilket
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/kontantlost-diktatur/70543434&quot;&gt;kontantløst
+diktatur&lt;/a&gt; som venter oss hvis mange nok slutter å insistere på å
+betale med kontanter.  Jeg anbefaler deg å lese den.&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>Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;My movie playing setup involve &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://openelec.tv&quot;&gt;OpenELEC&lt;/a&gt; (probably soon to be
-replaced with &lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt;) and an
-Infocus IN76 video projector.  My projector can be controlled via both
-a infrared remote controller, and a RS-232 serial line.  The vendor of
-my projector, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.infocus.com/&quot;&gt;InFocus&lt;/a&gt;, had been
-sensible enough to document the serial protocol in its user manual, so
-it is easily available, and I used it some years ago to write
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control&quot;&gt;a
-small script to control the projector&lt;/a&gt;.  For a while now, I longed
-for a setup where the projector was controlled by Kodi, for example in
-such a way that when the screen saver went on, the projector was
-turned off, and when the screen saver exited, the projector was turned
-on again.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, with very good help from parts of my family, I
-managed to find a Kodi Add-on for controlling a Epson projector, and
-got in touch with its author to see if we could join forces and make a
-Add-on with support for several projectors.  To my pleasure, he was
-positive to the idea, and we set out to add InFocus support to his
-add-on, and make the add-on suitable for the official Kodi add-on
-repository.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The Add-on is now working (for me, at least), with a few minor
-adjustments.  The most important change I do relative to the master
-branch in the github repository is embedding the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial&quot;&gt;pyserial module&lt;/a&gt; in
-the add-on.  The long term solution is to make a &quot;script&quot; type
-pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
-Kodi.  But until that in place, I embed it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The add-on can be configured to turn on the projector when Kodi
-starts, off when Kodi stops as well as turn the projector off when the
-screensaver start and on when the screesaver stops.  It can also be
-told to set the projector source when turning on the projector.
-
-&lt;p&gt;If this sound interesting to you, check out
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol&quot;&gt;the
-project github repository&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps you can send patches to
-support your projector too?  As soon as we find time to wrap up the
-latest changes, it should be available for easy installation using any
-Kodi instance.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For future improvements, I would like to add projector model
-detection and the ability to adjust the brightness level of the
-projector from within Kodi.  We also need to figure out how to handle
-the cooling period of the projector.  My projector refuses to turn on
-for 60 seconds after it was turned off.  This is not handled well by
-the add-on at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Why is your site not using Content Security Policy / CSP?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_site_not_using_Content_Security_Policy___CSP_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_site_not_using_Content_Security_Policy___CSP_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2018 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching on Frikanalen the OWASP
+talk by Scott Helme titled
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://frikanalen.no/video/626080/&quot;&gt;What We’ve Learned From
+Billions of Security Reports&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  I had not heard of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy&quot;&gt;Content
+Security Policy standard&lt;/a&gt; nor its ability to &quot;call home&quot; when a
+browser detect a policy breach (I do not follow web page design
+development much these days), and found the talk very illuminating.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The mechanism allow a web site owner to use HTTP headers to tell
+visitors web browser which sources (internal and external) are allowed to
+be used on the web site.  Thus it become possible to enforce a &quot;only
+local content&quot; policy despite web designers urge to fetch programs
+from random sites on the Internet, like the one
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/68966/hacking/browsealoud-plugin-hack.html&quot;&gt;enabling
+the attack&lt;/a&gt; reported by Scott Helme earlier this year.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Using CSP seem like an obvious thing for a site admin to implement
+to take some control over the information leak that occur when
+external sources are used to render web pages, it is a mystery more
+sites are not using CSP?  It is being
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP/&quot;&gt;standardized under W3C&lt;/a&gt; these
+days, and is supposed by most web browsers&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I managed to find &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/mozilla/django-csp&quot;&gt;a
+Django middleware for implementing CSP&lt;/a&gt; and was happy to discover
+it was already in Debian.  I plan to use it to add CSP support to the
+Frikanalen web site soon.&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
 
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-               <title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS&quot;&gt;VHS-kassettenes&lt;/a&gt;
-tid var det rett frem å ta vare på et TV-program en ønsket å kunne se
-senere, uten å være avhengig av at programmet ble sendt på nytt.
-Kanskje ønsket en å se programmet på hytten der det ikke var
-TV-signal, eller av andre grunner ha det tilgjengelig for fremtidig
-fornøyelse.  Dette er blitt vanskeligere med introduksjon av
-digital-TV og webstreaming, der opptak til harddisk er utenfor de
-flestes kontroll hvis de bruker ufri programvare og bokser kontrollert
-av andre.  Men for NRK her i Norge, finnes det heldigvis flere fri
-programvare-alternativer, som jeg har
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html&quot;&gt;skrevet&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html&quot;&gt;om&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html&quot;&gt;før&lt;/a&gt;.
-Så lenge kilden for nedlastingen er lovlig lagt ut på nett (hvilket
-jeg antar NRK gjør), så er slik lagring til privat bruk også lovlig i
-Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/&quot;&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/a&gt; ikke kunne
-bake undertekster fra NRK inn i videofilene, og at jeg derfor
-foretrakk andre alternativer.  Nylig oppdaget jeg at dette har endret
-seg.  Fordelen med youtube-dl er at den er tilgjengelig direkte fra
-Linux-distribusjoner som &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;
-og &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, slik at en slipper å
-finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
-underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
-brukes:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>New and improved Frikanalen Kodi addon version 0.0.3</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_and_improved_Frikanalen_Kodi_addon_version_0_0_3.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_and_improved_Frikanalen_Kodi_addon_version_0_0_3.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;If you read my blog regularly, you probably know I am involved in
+running and developing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian
+TV channel Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;.  It is an open channel, allowing everyone
+in Norway to publish videos on a TV channel with national coverage.
+You can think of it as Youtube for national television.
+In addition to distribution on RiksTV and Uninett, Frikanalen is also
+available as a Kodi addon.  The last few days I have updated the code
+to add more features.  A
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/addon/plugins-video-add-ons/frikanalen-nett-tv&quot;&gt;new
+and improved version 0.0.3 Frikanalen addon&lt;/a&gt; was just made
+available via the Kodi repositories.  This new version include a
+option to browse videos by category, as well as free text search
+in the video archive.  It will now also show the video duration in the
+video lists, which were missing earlier.  A new and experimental
+link to the HD video stream currently being worked on is provided, for
+those that want to see what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://casparcg.com/&quot;&gt;CasparCG&lt;/a&gt;
+output look like.  The alternative is the SD video stream, generated
+using MLT.  CasparCG is controlled by our
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Frikanalen/mltplayout/&quot;&gt;mltplayout
+server&lt;/a&gt; which instead of talking to mlt is giving PLAY instructions
+to the CasparCG server when it is time to start a new program.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;By now, you are probably wondering what kind of content is being
+played on the channel.  These days, it is filled with technical
+presentations like those from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debconf.org/&quot;&gt;Debconf&lt;/a&gt;, Makercon, and TED,
+but there are also some periods with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.empo.no/&quot;&gt;EMPT TV&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.p7.no/&quot;&gt;P7&lt;/a&gt;.

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
-  --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
-  https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no.  Resultatet er en
-MP4-fil med filmen og undertekster som kan spilles av med VLC.  Merk
-at VLC ikke viser frem undertekster før du aktiverer dem.  For å gjøre
-det, høyreklikk med musa i fremviservinduet, velg menyvalget for
-undertekst og så norsk språk.  Jeg testet også &#39;--write-auto-sub&#39;,
-men det kommandolinjeargumentet ser ikke ut til å fungere, så jeg
-endte opp med settet med argumentlisten over, som jeg fant i en
-feilrapport i youtube-dl-prosjektets samling over feilrapporter.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Denne støtten i youtube-dl gjør det svært enkelt å lagre
-NRK-innslag, det være seg nyheter, filmer, serier eller dokumentater,
-for å ha dem tilgjengelig for fremtidig referanse og bruk, uavhengig
-av hvor lenge innslagene ligger tilgjengelig hos NRK.  Så får det ikke
-hjelpe at NRKs jurister mener at det er
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html&quot;&gt;vesensforskjellig
-å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming&lt;/a&gt;, når det rent
-teknisk er samme sak.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
-prosjektoversikten for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html&quot;&gt;en
-komplett liste&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>Stortingsflertallet går inn for ny IP-basert sensurinfrastruktur i Norge</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper&quot;&gt;VG&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219&quot;&gt;Dagbladet&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;
-melder i dag at flertallet i Familie- og kulturkomiteen på Stortinget
-har bestemt seg for å introdusere en ny sensurinfrastruktur i Norge.
-Fra før har Norge en «frivillig» sensurinfrastruktur basert på
-DNS-navn, der de største ISP-ene basert på en liste med DNS-navn
-forgifter DNS-svar og omdirigerer til et annet IP-nummer enn det som
-ligger i DNS.  Nå kommer altså IP-basert omdirigering i tillegg.  Når
-infrastrukturen er på plass, er sensur av IP-adresser redusert et
-spørsmål om hvilke IP-nummer som skal blokkeres.  Listen over
-IP-adresser vil naturligvis endre seg etter hvert som myndighetene
-endrer seg.  Det er ingen betryggende tanke.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Time for an official MIME type for patches?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_an_official_MIME_type_for_patches_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_an_official_MIME_type_for_patches_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2018 08:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;As part of my involvement in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core&quot;&gt;the Nikita
+archive API project&lt;/a&gt;, I&#39;ve been importing a fairly large lump of
+emails into a test instance of the archive to see how well this would
+go.  I picked a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://notmuchmail.org/&quot;&gt;my
+notmuch email database&lt;/a&gt;, all public emails sent to me via
+@lists.debian.org, giving me a set of around 216 000 emails to import.
+In the process, I had a look at the various attachments included in
+these emails, to figure out what to do with attachments, and noticed
+that one of the most common attachment formats do not have
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml&quot;&gt;an
+official MIME type&lt;/a&gt; registered with IANA/IETF.  The output from
+diff, ie the input for patch, is on the top 10 list of formats
+included in these emails.  At the moment people seem to use either
+text/x-patch or text/x-diff, but neither is officially registered.  It
+would be better if one official MIME type were registered and used
+everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To try to get one official MIME type for these files, I&#39;ve brought
+up the topic on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/media-types&quot;&gt;the
+media-types mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  If you are interested in discussion
+which MIME type to use as the official for patch files, or involved in
+making software using a MIME type for patches, perhaps you would like
+to join the discussion?&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>En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
-kriminelt å åpne andres brev.  Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205&quot;&gt;§ 205
-(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)&lt;/a&gt;, som sier at «Med
-bot eller fengsel inntil 2 år straffes den som uberettiget ...  c)
-åpner brev eller annen lukket skriftlig meddelelse som er adressert
-til en annen, eller på annen måte skaffer seg uberettiget tilgang til
-innholdet.» Dette gjelder såvel postbud som alle andre som har
-befatning med brevet etter at avsender har befatning med et lukket
-brev. Tilsvarende står også tidligere utgaver av den norske
-straffeloven.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Når en registrerer seg på usikre digitale postkasseløsningene, som
-f.eks. Digipost og e-Boks, og slik tar disse i bruk, så gir en de som
-står bak løsningene tillatelse til å åpne sine brev.  Dette er
-nødvendig for at innholdet i digital post skal kunne vises frem til
-mottaker via tjenestens websider.  Dermed gjelder ikke straffelovens
-paragraf om forbud mot å åpne brev, da tilgangen ikke lenger er
-uberettiget.  En gir altså fremmede tilgang til å lese sin
-korrespondanse.  I tillegg vil bruk av slike usikre digitale
-postbokser føre til at det blir registrert når du leser brevene, hvor
-du befinner deg (vha. tilkoblingens IP-adresse), hvilket utstyr du
-bruker og en rekke annen personlig informasjon som ikke er
-tilgjengelig når papirpost brukes.  Jeg foretrekker at det er
-lovmessig beskyttelse av min korrespondanse, som jo inneholder privat
-og personlig informasjon.  Det bidrar til litt bedre vern av personlig
-integritet i dagens norske samfunn.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Measuring the speaker frequency response using the AUDMES free software GUI - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_the_speaker_frequency_response_using_the_AUDMES_free_software_GUI___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_the_speaker_frequency_response_using_the_AUDMES_free_software_GUI___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-10-22-audmes-measure-speakers.png&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My current home stereo is a patchwork of various pieces I got on
+flee markeds over the years.  It is amazing what kind of equipment
+show up there.  I&#39;ve been wondering for a while if it was possible to
+measure how well this equipment is working together, and decided to
+see how far I could get using free software.  After trawling the web I
+came across an article from DIY Audio and Video on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.diyaudioandvideo.com/Tutorial/SpeakerResponseTesting/&quot;&gt;Speaker
+Testing and Analysis&lt;/a&gt; describing how to test speakers, and it listing
+several software options, among them
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/projects/audmes/&quot;&gt;AUDio MEasurement
+System (AUDMES)&lt;/a&gt;.  It is the only free software system I could find
+focusing on measuring speakers and audio frequency response.  In the
+process I also found an interesting article from NOVO on
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://novo.press/understanding-speaker-specifications-and-frequency-response/&quot;&gt;Understanding
+Speaker Specifications and Frequency Response&lt;/a&gt; and an article from
+ecoustics on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ecoustics.com/articles/understanding-speaker-frequency-response/&quot;&gt;Understanding
+Speaker Frequency Response&lt;/a&gt;, with a lot of information on what to
+look for and how to interpret the graphs.  Armed with this knowledge,
+I set out to measure the state of my speakers.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The first hurdle was that AUDMES hadn&#39;t seen a commit for 10 years
+and did not build with current compilers and libraries.  I got in
+touch with its author, who no longer was spending time on the program
+but gave me write access to the subversion repository on Sourceforge.
+The end result is that now the code build on Linux and is capable of
+saving and loading the collected frequency response data in CSV
+format.  The application is quite nice and flexible, and I was able to
+select the input and output audio interfaces independently.  This made
+it possible to use a USB mixer as the input source, while sending
+output via my laptop headphone connection.  I lacked the hardware and
+cabling to figure out a different way to get independent cabling to
+speakers and microphone.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Using this setup I could see how a large range of high frequencies
+apparently were not making it out of my speakers.  The picture show
+the frequency response measurement of one of the speakers.  Note the
+frequency lines seem to be slightly misaligned, compared to the CSV
+output from the program.  I can not hear several of these are high
+frequencies, according to measurement from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://freehearingtestsoftware.com&quot;&gt;Free Hearing Test
+Software&lt;/a&gt;, an freeware system to measure your hearing (still
+looking for a free software alternative), so I do not know if they are
+coming out out the speakers.  I thus do not quite know how to figure
+out if the missing frequencies is a problem with the microphone, the
+amplifier or the speakers, but I managed to rule out the audio card in my
+PC by measuring my Bose noise canceling headset using its own
+microphone.  This setup was able to see the high frequency tones, so
+the problem with my stereo had to be in the amplifier or speakers.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Anyway, to try to role out one factor I ended up picking up a new
+set of speakers at a flee marked, and these work a lot better than the
+old speakers, so I guess the microphone and amplifier is OK.  If you
+need to measure your own speakers, check out AUDMES.  If more people
+get involved, perhaps the project could become good enough to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/910876&quot;&gt;include in Debian&lt;/a&gt;?  And if
+you know of some other free software to measure speakers and amplifier
+performance, please let me know.  I am aware of the freeware option
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.roomeqwizard.com/&quot;&gt;REW&lt;/a&gt;, but I want something
+that can be developed also when the vendor looses interest.&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>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
-re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.  I
-am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people&quot;&gt;sited
-by The Hill and others&lt;/a&gt;:
+               <title>Web browser integration of VLC with Bittorrent support</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Bittorrent is as far as I know, currently the most efficient way to
+distribute content on the Internet.  It is used all by all sorts of
+content providers, from national TV stations like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;, Linux distributors like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and of course the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;Internet archive&lt;/A&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;Almost a month ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a new
+package adding Bittorrent support to VLC&lt;/a&gt; became available in
+Debian testing and unstable.  To test it, simply install it like
+this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&quot;An American president does not lead the Free World by
-congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
-phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
-have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar&quot;&gt;kidnapped a
-completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
-Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
-sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since the plugin was made available for the first time in Debian,
+several improvements have been made to it.  In version 2.2-4, now
+available in both testing and unstable, a desktop file is provided to
+teach browsers to start VLC when the user click on torrent files or
+magnet links.  The last part is thanks to me finally understanding
+what the strange x-scheme-handler style MIME types in desktop files
+are used for.  By adding x-scheme-handler/magnet to the MimeType entry
+in the desktop file, at least the browsers Firefox and Chromium will
+suggest to start VLC when selecting a magnet URI on a web page.  The
+end result is that now, with the plugin installed in Buster and Sid,
+one can visit any
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p&quot;&gt;Internet
+Archive page with movies&lt;/a&gt; using a web browser and click on the
+torrent link to start streaming the movie.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin.  One is the
+fact that it will hang and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/13&quot;&gt;block VLC
+from exiting until the torrent streaming starts&lt;/a&gt;.  Another is the
+fact that it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/9&quot;&gt;will pick
+and play a random file in a multi file torrent&lt;/a&gt;.  This is not
+always the video file you want.  Combined with the first it can be a
+bit hard to get the video streaming going.  But when it work, it seem
+to do a good job.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For the Debian packaging, I would love to find a good way to test
+if the plugin work with VLC using autopkgtest.  I tried, but do not
+know enough of the inner workings of VLC to get it working.  For now
+the autopkgtest script is only checking if the .so file was
+successfully loaded by VLC.  If you have any suggestions, please
+submit a patch to the Debian bug tracking system.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
-one taken by any Free World.&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>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
-(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
-mostly in the USA.  What I find a bit surprising, is how little
-criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
-Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place.  And what about the
-people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
-And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
-handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
-No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
-that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
-lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
-selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
-in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed.  It is well known that
-Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
-nevertheless.  Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
-would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
-information about the millions of Facebook users.  Collected
-information will be misused sooner or later.  The only way to avoid
-such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place.  If
-you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
-the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
-information.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
-account, and take back some control of your personal information.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely&quot;&gt;According
-to The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
-account removal (and not just &#39;disabling&#39;).  You need to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content&quot;&gt;visit
-a specific Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; and click on &#39;let us know&#39; on that page
-to get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account&quot;&gt;the
-real account deletion screen&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps something to consider?  I
-would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
-perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
-exposure a bit.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
-Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
-Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; last april about
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/&quot;&gt;
-Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
-politics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
-use some end-to-end encrypted method like
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.signal.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; or
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx/&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;, and stop sharing your private
-messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;This morning, the new release of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/&quot;&gt;Nikita
+Noark 5 core project&lt;/a&gt; was
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2018-October/000406.html&quot;&gt;announced
+on the project mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  The 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 0.2
+since version 0.1.1 (from NEWS.md):
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix typos in REL names&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Tidy up error message reporting&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger()&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Change some String handling to StringBuffer&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix error reporting&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Code tidy-up&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid 
+      race conditions&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update methods to make them null-safe&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix many issues reported by coverity&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix CORS issues when downloading document&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Adding concept description of mail integration&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Better handling of required values during deserialisation &lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve parse error reporting.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Started on OData search and filtering.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Added support for OAuth2 authentication.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected handling of date/datetime fields.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe,
+   ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Several fixes for korrespondansepart*.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated web GUI:
+     &lt;ul&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Now handle both file upload and download.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Forms now fetches default values from API using GET.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats.&lt;/li&gt;
+     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The changes and improvements are extensive.  Running diffstat on
+the changes between git tab 0.1.1 and 0.2 show 1098 files changed,
+108666 insertions(+), 54066 deletions(-).&lt;/p&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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