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+ <title>How does it feel to be wiretapped, when you should be doing the wiretapping...</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_does_it_feel_to_be_wiretapped__when_you_should_be_doing_the_wiretapping___.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>So the new president in the United States of America claim to be
+surprised to discover that he was wiretapped during the election
+before he was elected president. He even claim this must be illegal.
+Well, doh, if it is one thing the confirmations from Snowden
+documented, it is that the entire population in USA is wiretapped, one
+way or another. Of course the president candidates were wiretapped,
+alongside the senators, judges and the rest of the people in USA.</p>
+
+<p>Next, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ask the Department of
+Justice to go public rejecting the claims that Donald Trump was
+wiretapped illegally. I fail to see the relevance, given that I am
+sure the surveillance industry in USA believe they have all the legal
+backing they need to conduct mass surveillance on the entire
+world.</p>
+
+<p>There is even the director of the FBI stating that he never saw an
+order requesting wiretapping of Donald Trump. That is not very
+surprising, given how the FISA court work, with all its activity being
+secret. Perhaps he only heard about it?</p>
+
+<p>What I find most sad in this story is how Norwegian journalists
+present it. In a news reports the other day in the radio from the
+Norwegian National broadcasting Company (NRK), I heard the journalist
+claim that 'the FBI denies any wiretapping', while the reality is that
+'the FBI denies any illegal wiretapping'. There is a fundamental and
+important difference, and it make me sad that the journalists are
+unable to grasp it.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Norwegian Bokmål translation of The Debian Administrator's Handbook complete, proofreading in progress</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>For almost a year now, we have been working on making a Norwegian
+Bokmål edition of <a href="https://debian-handbook.info/">The Debian
+Administrator's Handbook</a>. Now, thanks to the tireless effort of
+Ole-Erik, Ingrid and Andreas, the initial translation is complete, and
+we are working on the proof reading to ensure consistent language and
+use of correct computer science terms. The plan is to make the book
+available on paper, as well as in electronic form. For that to
+happen, the proof reading must be completed and all the figures need
+to be translated. If you want to help out, get in touch.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-handbook/debian-handbook-nb-NO.pdf">A
+
+fresh PDF edition</a> in A4 format (the final book will have smaller
+pages) of the book created every morning is available for
+proofreading. If you find any errors, please
+<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">visit
+Weblate and correct the error</a>. The
+<a href="http://l.github.io/debian-handbook/stat/nb-NO/index.html">state
+of the translation including figures</a> is a useful source for those
+provide Norwegian bokmål screen shots and figures.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
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<title>Unlimited randomness with the ChaosKey?</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html</link>
<p>Quite the difference. :) I bought a few more than I need, in case
someone want to buy one here in Norway. :)</p>
+
+<p>Update: The dongle was presented at Debconf last year. You might
+find <a href="https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/94/">the talk
+recording illuminating</a>. It explains exactly what the source of
+randomness is, if you are unable to spot it from the schema drawing
+available from the ChaosKey web site linked at the start of this blog
+post.</p>
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- <item>
- <title>Appstream just learned how to map hardware to packages too!</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Appstream_just_learned_how_to_map_hardware_to_packages_too_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2016 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I received a very nice Christmas present today. As my regular
-readers probably know, I have been working on the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">the Isenkram
-system</a> for many years. The goal of the Isenkram system is to make
-it easier for users to figure out what to install to get a given piece
-of hardware to work in Debian, and a key part of this system is a way
-to map hardware to packages. Isenkram have its own mapping database,
-and also uses data provided by each package using the AppStream
-metadata format. And today,
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/appstream">AppStream</a> in
-Debian learned to look up hardware the same way Isenkram is doing it,
-ie using fnmatch():</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-% appstreamcli what-provides modalias \
- usb:v1130p0202d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00
-Identifier: pymissile [generic]
-Name: pymissile
-Summary: Control original Striker USB Missile Launcher
-Package: pymissile
-% appstreamcli what-provides modalias usb:v0694p0002d0000
-Identifier: libnxt [generic]
-Name: libnxt
-Summary: utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick
-Package: libnxt
----
-Identifier: t2n [generic]
-Name: t2n
-Summary: Simple command-line tool for Lego NXT
-Package: t2n
----
-Identifier: python-nxt [generic]
-Name: python-nxt
-Summary: Python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot
-Package: python-nxt
----
-Identifier: nbc [generic]
-Name: nbc
-Summary: C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks
-Package: nbc
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>A similar query can be done using the combined AppStream and
-Isenkram databases using the isenkram-lookup tool:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-% isenkram-lookup usb:v1130p0202d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00
-pymissile
-% isenkram-lookup usb:v0694p0002d0000
-libnxt
-nbc
-python-nxt
-t2n
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>You can find modalias values relevant for your machine using
-<tt>cat $(find /sys/devices/ -name modalias)</tt>.
-
-<p>If you want to make this system a success and help Debian users
-make the most of the hardware they have, please
-help<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">add
-AppStream metadata for your package following the guidelines</a>
-documented in the wiki. So far only 11 packages provide such
-information, among the several hundred hardware specific packages in
-Debian. The Isenkram database on the other hand contain 101 packages,
-mostly related to USB dongles. Most of the packages with hardware
-mapping in AppStream are LEGO Mindstorms related, because I have, as
-part of my involvement in
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">the Debian LEGO
-team</a> given priority to making sure LEGO users get proposed the
-complete set of packages in Debian for that particular hardware. The
-team also got a nice Christmas present today. The
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nxt-firmware">nxt-firmware
-package</a> made it into Debian. With this package in place, it is
-now possible to use the LEGO Mindstorms NXT unit with only free
-software, as the nxt-firmware package contain the source and firmware
-binaries for the NXT brick.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Isenkram updated with a lot more hardware-package mappings</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_updated_with_a_lot_more_hardware_package_mappings.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_updated_with_a_lot_more_hardware_package_mappings.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">The Isenkram
-system</a> I wrote two years ago to make it easier in Debian to find
-and install packages to get your hardware dongles to work, is still
-going strong. It is a system to look up the hardware present on or
-connected to the current system, and map the hardware to Debian
-packages. It can either be done using the tools in isenkram-cli or
-using the user space daemon in the isenkram package. The latter will
-notify you, when inserting new hardware, about what packages to
-install to get the dongle working. It will even provide a button to
-click on to ask packagekit to install the packages.</p>
-
-<p>Here is an command line example from my Thinkpad laptop:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-% isenkram-lookup
-bluez
-cheese
-ethtool
-fprintd
-fprintd-demo
-gkrellm-thinkbat
-hdapsd
-libpam-fprintd
-pidgin-blinklight
-thinkfan
-tlp
-tp-smapi-dkms
-tp-smapi-source
-tpb
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>It can also list the firware package providing firmware requested
-by the load kernel modules, which in my case is an empty list because
-I have all the firmware my machine need:
-
-<p><pre>
-% /usr/sbin/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
-info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules. exiting
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>The last few days I had a look at several of the around 250
-packages in Debian with udev rules. These seem like good candidates
-to install when a given hardware dongle is inserted, and I found
-several that should be proposed by isenkram. I have not had time to
-check all of them, but am happy to report that now there are 97
-packages packages mapped to hardware by Isenkram. 11 of these
-packages provide hardware mapping using AppStream, while the rest are
-listed in the modaliases file provided in isenkram.</p>
-
-<p>These are the packages with hardware mappings at the moment. The
-<strong>marked packages</strong> are also announcing their hardware
-support using AppStream, for everyone to use:</p>
-
-<p>air-quality-sensor, alsa-firmware-loaders, argyll,
-<strong>array-info</strong>, avarice, avrdude, b43-fwcutter,
-bit-babbler, bluez, bluez-firmware, <strong>brltty</strong>,
-<strong>broadcom-sta-dkms</strong>, calibre, cgminer, cheese, colord,
-<strong>colorhug-client</strong>, dahdi-firmware-nonfree, dahdi-linux,
-dfu-util, dolphin-emu, ekeyd, ethtool, firmware-ipw2x00, fprintd,
-fprintd-demo, <strong>galileo</strong>, gkrellm-thinkbat, gphoto2,
-gpsbabel, gpsbabel-gui, gpsman, gpstrans, gqrx-sdr, gr-fcdproplus,
-gr-osmosdr, gtkpod, hackrf, hdapsd, hdmi2usb-udev, hpijs-ppds, hplip,
-ipw3945-source, ipw3945d, kde-config-tablet, kinect-audio-setup,
-<strong>libnxt</strong>, libpam-fprintd, <strong>lomoco</strong>,
-madwimax, minidisc-utils, mkgmap, msi-keyboard, mtkbabel,
-<strong>nbc</strong>, <strong>nqc</strong>, nut-hal-drivers, ola,
-open-vm-toolbox, open-vm-tools, openambit, pcgminer, pcmciautils,
-pcscd, pidgin-blinklight, printer-driver-splix,
-<strong>pymissile</strong>, python-nxt, qlandkartegt,
-qlandkartegt-garmin, rosegarden, rt2x00-source, sispmctl,
-soapysdr-module-hackrf, solaar, squeak-plugins-scratch, sunxi-tools,
-<strong>t2n</strong>, thinkfan, thinkfinger-tools, tlp, tp-smapi-dkms,
-tp-smapi-source, tpb, tucnak, uhd-host, usbmuxd, viking,
-virtualbox-ose-guest-x11, w1retap, xawtv, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse,
-xserver-xorg-input-wacom, xserver-xorg-video-qxl,
-xserver-xorg-video-vmware, yubikey-personalization and
-zd1211-firmware</p>
-
-<p>If you know of other packages, please let me know with a wishlist
-bug report against the isenkram-cli package, and ask the package
-maintainer to
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">add AppStream
-metadata according to the guidelines</a> to provide the information
-for everyone. In time, I hope to get rid of the isenkram specific
-hardware mapping and depend exclusively on AppStream.</p>
-
-<p>Note, the AppStream metadata for broadcom-sta-dkms is matching too
-much hardware, and suggest that the package with with any ethernet
-card. See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/838735">bug #838735</a> for
-the details. I hope the maintainer find time to address it soon. In
-the mean time I provide an override in isenkram.</p>
-</description>
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