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- <title>E-tjenesten ber om innsyn i eposten til partiene på Stortinget</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/E_tjenesten_ber_om_innsyn_i_eposten_til_partiene_p__Stortinget.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 6 Sep 2016 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I helga kom det et hårreisende forslag fra Lysne II-utvalget satt
-ned av Forsvarsdepartementet. Lysne II-utvalget var bedt om å vurdere
-ønskelista til Forsvarets etterretningstjeneste (e-tjenesten), og har
-kommet med
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/norge/Utvalg-sier-ja-til-at-E-tjenesten-far-overvake-innholdet-i-all-internett--og-telefontrafikk-som-krysser-riksgrensen-603232b.html">forslag
-om at e-tjenesten skal få lov til a avlytte all Internett-trafikk</a>
-som passerer Norges grenser. Få er klar over at dette innebærer at
-e-tjenesten får tilgang til epost sendt til de fleste politiske
-partiene på Stortinget. Regjeringspartiet Høyre (@hoyre.no),
-støttepartiene Venstre (@venstre.no) og Kristelig Folkeparti (@krf.no)
-samt Sosialistisk Ventreparti (@sv.no) og Miljøpartiet de grønne
-(@mdg.no) har nemlig alle valgt å ta imot eposten sin via utenlandske
-tjenester. Det betyr at hvis noen sender epost til noen med en slik
-adresse vil innholdet i eposten, om dette forslaget blir vedtatt, gjøres
-tilgjengelig for e-tjenesten. Venstre, Sosialistisk Ventreparti og
-Miljøpartiet De Grønne har valgt å motta sin epost hos Google,
-Kristelig Folkeparti har valgt å motta sin epost hos Microsoft, og
-Høyre har valgt å motta sin epost hos Comendo med mottak i Danmark og
-Irland. Kun Arbeiderpartiet og Fremskrittspartiet har valgt å motta
-eposten sin i Norge, hos henholdsvis Intility AS og Telecomputing
-AS.</p>
-
-<p>Konsekvensen er at epost inn og ut av de politiske organisasjonene,
-til og fra partimedlemmer og partiets tillitsvalgte vil gjøres
-tilgjengelig for e-tjenesten for analyse og sortering. Jeg mistenker
-at kunnskapen som slik blir tilgjengelig vil være nyttig hvis en
-ønsker å vite hvilke argumenter som treffer publikum når en ønsker å
-påvirke Stortingets representanter.</p
-
-<p>Ved hjelp av MX-oppslag i DNS for epost-domene, tilhørende
-whois-oppslag av IP-adressene og traceroute for å se hvorvidt
-trafikken går via utlandet kan enhver få bekreftet at epost sendt til
-de omtalte partiene vil gjøres tilgjengelig for forsvarets
-etterretningstjeneste hvis forslaget blir vedtatt. En kan også bruke
-den kjekke nett-tjenesten <a href="http://ipinfo.io/">ipinfo.io</a>
-for å få en ide om hvor i verden en IP-adresse hører til.</p>
-
-<p>På den positive siden vil forslaget gjøre at enda flere blir
-motivert til å ta grep for å bruke
-<a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a> og krypterte
-kommunikasjonsløsninger for å kommunisere med sine kjære, for å sikre
-at privatsfæren vernes. Selv bruker jeg blant annet
-<a href="https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">FreedomBox</a> og
-<a href="https://whispersystems.org/">Signal</a> til slikt. Ingen av
-dem er optimale, men de fungerer ganske bra allerede og øker kostnaden
-for dem som ønsker å invadere mitt privatliv.</p>
-
-<p>For øvrig burde varsleren Edward Snowden få politisk asyl i
-Norge.</p>
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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><p>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
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i
+Norway, where
+<a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the
+Bremanger Quarry</a> 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?</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">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</description>
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- <title>First draft Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator's Handbook now public</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_draft_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_now_public.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_draft_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_now_public.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>In April we
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html">started
-to work</a> on a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the "open access" book on
-how to set up and administrate a Debian system. Today I am happy to
-report that the first draft is now publicly available. You can find
-it on <a href="https://debian-handbook.info/get/">get the Debian
-Administrator's Handbook page</a> (under Other languages). The first
-eight chapters have a first draft translation, and we are working on
-proofreading the content. If you want to help out, please start
-contributing using
-<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">the
-hosted weblate project page</a>, and get in touch using
-<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators">the
-translators mailing list</a>. Please also check out
-<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/">the instructions for
-contributors</a>. A good way to contribute is to proofread the text
-and update weblate if you find errors.</p>
-
-<p>Our goal is still to make the Norwegian book available on paper as well as
-electronic form.</p>
+ <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><p>My movie playing setup involve <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a>,
+<a href="https://openelec.tv">OpenELEC</a> (probably soon to be
+replaced with <a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a>) 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, <a href="https://www.infocus.com/">InFocus</a>, 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
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control">a
+small script to control the projector</a>. 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial">pyserial module</a> in
+the add-on. The long term solution is to make a "script" type
+pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
+Kodi. But until that in place, I embed it.</p>
+
+<p>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.
+
+<p>If this sound interesting to you, check out
+<a href="https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol">the
+project github repository</a>. 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</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">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</description>
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- <title>Coz can help you find bottlenecks in multi-threaded software - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Coz_can_help_you_find_bottlenecks_in_multi_threaded_software___nice_free_software.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Coz_can_help_you_find_bottlenecks_in_multi_threaded_software___nice_free_software.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>This summer, I read a great article
-"<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2016/curtsinger">coz:
-This Is the Profiler You're Looking For</a>" in USENIX ;login: about
-how to profile multi-threaded programs. It presented a system for
-profiling software by running experiences in the running program,
-testing how run time performance is affected by "speeding up" parts of
-the code to various degrees compared to a normal run. It does this by
-slowing down parallel threads while the "faster up" code is running
-and measure how this affect processing time. The processing time is
-measured using probes inserted into the code, either using progress
-counters (COZ_PROGRESS) or as latency meters (COZ_BEGIN/COZ_END). It
-can also measure unmodified code by measuring complete the program
-runtime and running the program several times instead.</p>
-
-<p>The project and presentation was so inspiring that I would like to
-get the system into Debian. I
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830708">created
-a WNPP request for it</a> and contacted upstream to try to make the
-system ready for Debian by sending patches. The build process need to
-be changed a bit to avoid running 'git clone' to get dependencies, and
-to include the JavaScript web page used to visualize the collected
-profiling information included in the source package.
-But I expect that should work out fairly soon.</p>
-
-<p>The way the system work is fairly simple. To run an coz experiment
-on a binary with debug symbols available, start the program like this:
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-coz run --- program-to-run
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>This will create a text file profile.coz with the instrumentation
-information. To show what part of the code affect the performance
-most, use a web browser and either point it to
-<a href="http://plasma-umass.github.io/coz/">http://plasma-umass.github.io/coz/</a>
-or use the copy from git (in the gh-pages branch). Check out this web
-site to have a look at several example profiling runs and get an idea what the end result from the profile runs look like. To make the
-profiling more useful you include &lt;coz.h&gt; and insert the
-COZ_PROGRESS or COZ_BEGIN and COZ_END at appropriate places in the
-code, rebuild and run the profiler. This allow coz to do more
-targeted experiments.</p>
-
-<p>A video published by ACM
-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0V-p1odPg">presenting the
-Coz profiler</a> is available from Youtube. There is also a paper
-from the 25th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles available
-titled
-<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/curtsinger">Coz:
-finding code that counts with causal profiling</a>.</p>
-
-<p><a href="https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz">The source code</a>
-for Coz is available from github. It will only build with clang
-because it uses a
-<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55606">C++
-feature missing in GCC</a>, but I've submitted
-<a href="https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz/pull/67">a patch to solve
-it</a> and hope it will be included in the upstream source soon.</p>
-
-<p>Please get in touch if you, like me, would like to see this piece
-of software in Debian. I would very much like some help with the
-packaging effort, as I lack the in depth knowledge on how to package
-C++ libraries.</p>
+ <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><p>I <a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS">VHS-kassettenes</a>
+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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">skrevet</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">om</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html">før</a>.
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
+<a href="https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a> 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 <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
+og <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, slik at en slipper å
+finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.</p>
+
+<p>For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
+underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
+brukes:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
+ --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
+ https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>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 '--write-auto-sub',
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">vesensforskjellig
+å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming</a>, når det rent
+teknisk er samme sak.</p>
+
+<p>Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
+prosjektoversikten for
+<a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html">en
+komplett liste</a>.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sales_number_for_the_Free_Culture_translation__first_half_of_2016.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sales_number_for_the_Free_Culture_translation__first_half_of_2016.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>As my regular readers probably remember, the last year I published
-a French and Norwegian translation of the classic
-<a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">Free Culture book</a> by the
-founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig. A bit less
-known is the fact that due to the way I created the translations,
-using docbook and po4a, I also recreated the English original. And
-because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I published it
-too. The revenue from the books are sent to the Creative Commons
-Corporation. In other words, I do not earn any money from this
-project, I just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available
-for a wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative
-Commons is needed.</p>
-
-<p>Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at
-Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping. Much to
-my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the
-French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been
-available in English since it was first published. In total, 24 paper
-books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:</p>
-
-<table border="0">
-<tr><th>Title / language</th><th>Quantity</th></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Culture Libre / French</a></td><td align="right">3</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Fri kultur / Norwegian</a></td><td align="right">7</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">Free Culture / English</a></td><td align="right">14</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book
-stores like Amazon and Barnes&Noble. Most revenue, around $10 per
-book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold
-directly by Lulu.com. The other channels give less revenue. The
-summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold via the Amazon channel, 10
-via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly by Lulu. And Lulu.com tells
-me that the revenue sent so far this year is USD $101.42. No idea
-what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do not know if that is a
-good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or not. But it make me
-happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope they enjoy reading it
-as much as I did.</p>
-
-<p>The ebook edition is available for free from
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Github</a>.</p>
-
-<p>If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native
-language, I would be happy to help make it happen. Please get in
-touch.</p>
+ <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>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper">VG</a>,
+<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219">Dagbladet</a>
+og
+<a href="https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381">NRK</a>
+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.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Vitenskapen tar som vanlig feil igjen - relativt feil</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskapen_tar_som_vanlig_feil_igjen___relativt_feil.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskapen_tar_som_vanlig_feil_igjen___relativt_feil.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2016 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>For mange år siden leste jeg en klassisk tekst som gjorde såpass
-inntrykk på meg at jeg husker den fortsatt, flere år senere, og bruker
-argumentene fra den stadig vekk. Teksten var «The Relativity of
-Wrong» som Isaac Asimov publiserte i Skeptical Inquirer i 1989. Den
-gir litt perspektiv rundt formidlingen av vitenskapelige resultater.
-Jeg har hatt lyst til å kunne dele den også med folk som ikke
-behersker engelsk så godt, som barn og noen av mine eldre slektninger,
-og har savnet å ha den tilgjengelig på norsk. For to uker siden tok
-jeg meg sammen og kontaktet Asbjørn Dyrendal i foreningen Skepsis om
-de var interessert i å publisere en norsk utgave på bloggen sin, og da
-han var positiv tok jeg kontakt med Skeptical Inquirer og spurte om
-det var greit for dem. I løpet av noen dager fikk vi tilbakemelding
-fra Barry Karr hos The Skeptical Inquirer som hadde sjekket og fått OK
-fra Robyn Asimov som representerte arvingene i Asmiov-familien og gikk
-igang med oversettingen.</p>
-
-<p>Resultatet, <a href="http://www.skepsis.no/?p=1617">«Relativt
-feil»</a>, ble publisert på skepsis-bloggen for noen minutter siden.
-Jeg anbefaler deg på det varmeste å lese denne teksten og dele den med
-dine venner.</p>
-
-<p>For å håndtere oversettelsen og sikre at original og oversettelse
-var i sync brukte vi git, po4a, GNU make og Transifex. Det hele
-fungerte utmerket og gjorde det enkelt å dele tekstene og jobbe sammen
-om finpuss på formuleringene. Hadde hosted.weblate.org latt meg
-opprette nye prosjekter selv i stedet for å måtte kontakte
-administratoren der, så hadde jeg brukt weblate i stedet.</p>
+ <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><p>Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
+kriminelt å åpne andres brev. Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
+<a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205">§ 205
+(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)</a>, 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Techno TV broadcasting live across Norway and the Internet (#debconf16, #nuug) on @frikanalen</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Techno_TV_broadcasting_live_across_Norway_and_the_Internet___debconf16___nuug__on__frikanalen.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Techno_TV_broadcasting_live_across_Norway_and_the_Internet___debconf16___nuug__on__frikanalen.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Did you know there is a TV channel broadcasting talks from DebConf
-16 across an entire country? Or that there is a TV channel
-broadcasting talks by or about
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625529/">Linus Torvalds</a>,
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625599/">Tor</a>,
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/624019/">OpenID</A>,
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625624/">Common Lisp</a>,
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625446/">Civic Tech</a>,
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625090/">EFF founder John Barlow</a>,
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625432/">how to make 3D
-printer electronics</a> and many more fascinating topics? It works
-using only free software (all of it
-<a href="http://github.com/Frikanalen">available from Github</a>), and
-is administrated using a web browser and a web API.</p>
-
-<p>The TV channel is the Norwegian open channel
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a>, and I am involved
-via <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">the NUUG member association</a> in
-running and developing the software for the channel. The channel is
-organised as a member organisation where its members can upload and
-broadcast what they want (think of it as Youtube for national
-broadcasting television). Individuals can broadcast too. The time
-slots are handled on a first come, first serve basis. Because the
-channel have almost no viewers and very few active members, we can
-experiment with TV technology without too much flack when we make
-mistakes. And thanks to the few active members, most of the slots on
-the schedule are free. I see this as an opportunity to spread
-knowledge about technology and free software, and have a script I run
-regularly to fill up all the open slots the next few days with
-technology related video. The end result is a channel I like to
-describe as Techno TV - filled with interesting talks and
-presentations.</p>
-
-<p>It is available on channel 50 on the Norwegian national digital TV
-network (RiksTV). It is also available as a multicast stream on
-Uninett. And finally, it is available as
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/">a WebM unicast stream</a> from
-Frikanalen and NUUG. Check it out. :)</p>
+ <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>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>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,
+<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people">sited
+by The Hill and others</a>:
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>"An American president does not lead the Free World by
+congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">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</a>.</p>
+
+<p>USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
+one taken by any Free World.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Unlocking HTC Desire HD on Linux using unruu and fastboot</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlocking_HTC_Desire_HD_on_Linux_using_unruu_and_fastboot.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlocking_HTC_Desire_HD_on_Linux_using_unruu_and_fastboot.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Yesterday, I tried to unlock a HTC Desire HD phone, and it proved
-to be a slight challenge. Here is the recipe if I ever need to do it
-again. It all started by me wanting to try the recipe to set up
-<a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy">an
-hardened Android installation</a> from the Tor project blog on a
-device I had access to. It is a old mobile phone with a broken
-microphone The initial idea had been to just
-<a href="http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_ace">install
-CyanogenMod on it</a>, but did not quite find time to start on it
-until a few days ago.</p>
-
-<p>The unlock process is supposed to be simple: (1) Boot into the boot
-loader (press volume down and power at the same time), (2) select
-'fastboot' before (3) connecting the device via USB to a Linux
-machine, (4) request the device identifier token by running 'fastboot
-oem get_identifier_token', (5) request the device unlocking key using
-the <a href="http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/">HTC developer web
-site</a> and unlock the phone using the key file emailed to you.</p>
-
-<p>Unfortunately, this only work fi you have hboot version 2.00.0029
-or newer, and the device I was working on had 2.00.0027. This
-apparently can be easily fixed by downloading a Windows program and
-running it on your Windows machine, if you accept the terms Microsoft
-require you to accept to use Windows - which I do not. So I had to
-come up with a different approach. I got a lot of help from AndyCap
-on #nuug, and would not have been able to get this working without
-him.</p>
-
-<p>First I needed to extract the hboot firmware from
-<a href="http://www.htcdev.com/ruu/PD9810000_Ace_Sense30_S_hboot_2.00.0029.exe">the
-windows binary for HTC Desire HD</a> downloaded as 'the RUU' from HTC.
-For this there is is <a href="https://github.com/kmdm/unruu/">a github
-project named unruu</a> using libunshield. The unshield tool did not
-recognise the file format, but unruu worked and extracted rom.zip,
-containing the new hboot firmware and a text file describing which
-devices it would work for.</p>
-
-<p>Next, I needed to get the new firmware into the device. For this I
-followed some instructions
-<a href="http://www.htc1guru.com/2013/09/new-ruu-zips-posted/">available
-from HTC1Guru.com</a>, and ran these commands as root on a Linux
-machine with Debian testing:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-adb reboot-bootloader
-fastboot oem rebootRUU
-fastboot flash zip rom.zip
-fastboot flash zip rom.zip
-fastboot reboot
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>The flash command apparently need to be done twice to take effect,
-as the first is just preparations and the second one do the flashing.
-The adb command is just to get to the boot loader menu, so turning the
-device on while holding volume down and the power button should work
-too.</p>
-
-<p>With the new hboot version in place I could start following the
-instructions on the HTC developer web site. I got the device token
-like this:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-fastboot oem get_identifier_token 2>&1 | sed 's/(bootloader) //'
-</pre>
-
-<p>And once I got the unlock code via email, I could use it like
-this:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>And with that final step in place, the phone was unlocked and I
-could start stuffing the software of my own choosing into the device.
-So far I only inserted a replacement recovery image to wipe the phone
-before I start. We will see what happen next. Perhaps I should
-install <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> on it. :)</p>
+ <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>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
+account, and take back some control of your personal information.
+<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely">According
+to The Guardian</a>, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
+account removal (and not just 'disabling'). You need to
+<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content">visit
+a specific Facebook page</a> and click on 'let us know' on that page
+to get to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account">the
+real account deletion screen</a>. 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.</p>
+
+<p>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 <a href="">NUUG</a> last april about
+<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/">
+Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
+politics</a>.</p>
+
+<p>And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
+use some end-to-end encrypted method like
+<a href="https://www.signal.org/">Signal</a> or
+<a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, and stop sharing your private
+messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>How to use the Signal app if you only have a land line (ie no mobile phone)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_use_the_Signal_app_if_you_only_have_a_land_line__ie_no_mobile_phone_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_use_the_Signal_app_if_you_only_have_a_land_line__ie_no_mobile_phone_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2016 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>For a while now, I have wanted to test
-<a href="https://whispersystems.org/">the Signal app</a>, as it is
-said to provide end to end encrypted communication and several of my
-friends and family are already using it. As I by choice do not own a
-mobile phone, this proved to be harder than expected. And I wanted to
-have the source of the client and know that it was the code used on my
-machine. But yesterday I managed to get it working. I used the
-Github source, compared it to the source in
-<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/signal-private-messenger/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk?hl=en-US">the
-Signal Chrome app</a> available from the Chrome web store, applied
-patches to use the production Signal servers, started the app and
-asked for the hidden "register without a smart phone" form. Here is
-the recipe how I did it.</p>
-
-<p>First, I fetched the Signal desktop source from Github, using
-
-<pre>
-git clone https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop.git
-</pre>
-
-<p>Next, I patched the source to use the production servers, to be
-able to talk to other Signal users:</p>
-
-<pre>
-cat &lt;&lt;EOF | patch -p0
-diff -ur ./js/background.js userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/background.js
---- ./js/background.js 2016-06-29 13:43:15.630344628 +0200
-+++ userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/background.js 2016-06-29 14:06:29.530300934 +0200
-@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
- });
- });
-
-- var SERVER_URL = 'https://textsecure-service-staging.whispersystems.org';
-- var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = 'https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments-staging.s3.amazonaws.com';
-+ var SERVER_URL = 'https://textsecure-service-ca.whispersystems.org:4433';
-+ var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = 'https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com';
- var messageReceiver;
- window.getSocketStatus = function() {
- if (messageReceiver) {
-diff -ur ./js/expire.js userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/expire.js
---- ./js/expire.js 2016-06-29 13:43:15.630344628 +0200
-+++ userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/expire.js2016-06-29 14:06:29.530300934 +0200
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- ;(function() {
- 'use strict';
-- var BUILD_EXPIRATION = 0;
-+ var BUILD_EXPIRATION = 1474492690000;
-
- window.extension = window.extension || {};
-
-EOF
-</pre>
-
-<p>The first part is changing the servers, and the second is updating
-an expiration timestamp. This timestamp need to be updated regularly.
-It is set 90 days in the future by the build process (Gruntfile.js).
-The value is seconds since 1970 times 1000, as far as I can tell.</p>
-
-<p>Based on a tip and good help from the #nuug IRC channel, I wrote a
-script to launch Signal in Chromium.</p>
-
-<pre>
-#!/bin/sh
-cd $(dirname $0)
-mkdir -p userdata
-exec chromium \
- --proxy-server="socks://localhost:9050" \
- --user-data-dir=`pwd`/userdata --load-and-launch-app=`pwd`
-</pre>
-
-<p> The script start the app and configure Chromium to use the Tor
-SOCKS5 proxy to make sure those controlling the Signal servers (today
-Amazon and Whisper Systems) as well as those listening on the lines
-will have a harder time location my laptop based on the Signal
-connections if they use source IP address.</p>
-
-<p>When the script starts, one need to follow the instructions under
-"Standalone Registration" in the CONTRIBUTING.md file in the git
-repository. I right clicked on the Signal window to get up the
-Chromium debugging tool, visited the 'Console' tab and wrote
-'extension.install("standalone")' on the console prompt to get the
-registration form. Then I entered by land line phone number and
-pressed 'Call'. 5 seconds later the phone rang and a robot voice
-repeated the verification code three times. After entering the number
-into the verification code field in the form, I could start using
-Signal from my laptop.
-
-<p>As far as I can tell, The Signal app will leak who is talking to
-whom and thus who know who to those controlling the central server,
-but such leakage is hard to avoid with a centrally controlled server
-setup. It is something to keep in mind when using Signal - the
-content of your chats are harder to intercept, but the meta data
-exposing your contact network is available to people you do not know.
-So better than many options, but not great. And sadly the usage is
-connected to my land line, thus allowing those controlling the server
-to associate it to my home and person. I would prefer it if only
-those I knew could tell who I was on Signal. There are options
-avoiding such information leakage, but most of my friends are not
-using them, so I am stuck with Signal for now.</p>
+ <title>H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
+helsevesenet. Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
+Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
+samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
+tid. Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
+Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
+dit vi havner gitt nok tid. I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
+oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
+bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
+medfødte sykdommer. Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
+<a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true">Stortingets
+flertallsinnstilling</a> er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
+at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
+undersøkelsen.</p>
+
+<p>Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+
+ <p>«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
+ synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
+ diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
+ hele befolkningen.»</p>
+
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
+blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
+<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info">folkehelseinstituttets
+lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
+og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven</a> viser at en ikke kan være
+trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
+misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.</p>
+
+<p>Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
+blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
+gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
+det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
+samtykke. Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
+<a href="https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/">folkehelseinstituttets
+websider</a>, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
+sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
+greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.</p>
+
+<p>I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
+er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
+konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
+brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
+dette i dag.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>The new "best" multimedia player in Debian?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html">which
-multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats /
-MIME types</a>, I was a bit surprised how varied the sets of MIME types
-the various players claimed support for. The range was from 55 to 130
-MIME types. I suspect most media formats are supported by all
-players, but this is not really reflected in the MimeTypes values in
-their desktop files. There are probably also some bogus MIME types
-listed, but it is hard to identify which one this is.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, in the mean time I got in touch with upstream for some of
-the players suggesting to add more MIME types to their desktop files,
-and decided to spend some time myself improving the situation for my
-favorite media player VLC. The fixes for VLC entered Debian unstable
-yesterday. The complete list of MIME types can be seen on the
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">Multimedia
-player MIME type support status</a> Debian wiki page.</p>
-
-<p>The new "best" multimedia player in Debian? It is VLC, followed by
-totem, parole, kplayer, gnome-mpv, mpv, smplayer, mplayer-gui and
-kmplayer. I am sure some of the other players desktop files support
-several of the formats currently listed as working only with vlc,
-toten and parole.</p>
-
-<p>A sad observation is that only 14 MIME types are listed as
-supported by all the tested multimedia players in Debian in their
-desktop files: audio/mpeg, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, audio/x-mpegurl,
-audio/x-ms-wma, audio/x-scpls, audio/x-wav, video/mp4, video/mpeg,
-video/quicktime, video/vnd.rn-realvideo, video/x-matroska,
-video/x-ms-asf, video/x-ms-wmv and video/x-msvideo. Personally I find
-it sad that video/ogg and video/webm is not supported by all the media
-players in Debian. As far as I can tell, all of them can handle both
-formats.</p>
+ <title>First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
+Commons. This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
+from those around the globe making a living using Creative
+Commons.</p>
+
+<p>Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
+translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
+<a href="https://madewith.cc">Made with Creative Commons from 2017</a>
+was complete. The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
+Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work. Get in
+touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
+translate into your mother tongue.</p>
+
+<p>The whole book project started when
+<a href="http://gwolf.org/node/4102">Gunnar Wolf announced</a> that he
+was going to make a Spanish edition of the book. I noticed, and
+offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
+translating the
+<a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Free
+Culture</a> and
+<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian">The Debian
+Administrator's Handbook</a> books to Norwegian Bokmål. To make a
+long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
+first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
+Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself. The first
+proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
+reading remains. We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
+create a book cover. Once it is done we will publish the book on
+paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.</p>
+
+<p>The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
+downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
+The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
+using pandoc. The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
+is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators. The translated
+PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
+create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
+create the final PDF. The end result is a set of editions of the
+manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.</p>
+
+<p>The translation is conducted using
+<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/">the
+Weblate web based translation system</a>. Please have a look there
+and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
+reading. :)</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">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>A program should be able to open its own files on Linux</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_program_should_be_able_to_open_its_own_files_on_Linux.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_program_should_be_able_to_open_its_own_files_on_Linux.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 5 Jun 2016 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Many years ago, when koffice was fresh and with few users, I
-decided to test its presentation tool when making the slides for a
-talk I was giving for NUUG on Japhar, a free Java virtual machine. I
-wrote the first draft of the slides, saved the result and went to bed
-the day before I would give the talk. The next day I took a plane to
-the location where the meeting should take place, and on the plane I
-started up koffice again to polish the talk a bit, only to discover
-that kpresenter refused to load its own data file. I cursed a bit and
-started making the slides again from memory, to have something to
-present when I arrived. I tested that the saved files could be
-loaded, and the day seemed to be rescued. I continued to polish the
-slides until I suddenly discovered that the saved file could no longer
-be loaded into kpresenter. In the end I had to rewrite the slides
-three times, condensing the content until the talk became shorter and
-shorter. After the talk I was able to pinpoint the problem &ndash;
-kpresenter wrote inline images in a way itself could not understand.
-Eventually that bug was fixed and kpresenter ended up being a great
-program to make slides. The point I'm trying to make is that we
-expect a program to be able to load its own data files, and it is
-embarrassing to its developers if it can't.</p>
-
-<p>Did you ever experience a program failing to load its own data
-files from the desktop file browser? It is not a uncommon problem. A
-while back I discovered that the screencast recorder
-gtk-recordmydesktop would save an Ogg Theora video file the KDE file
-browser would refuse to open. No video player claimed to understand
-such file. I tracked down the cause being <tt>file --mime-type</tt>
-returning the application/ogg MIME type, which no video player I had
-installed listed as a MIME type they would understand. I asked for
-<a href="http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=382">file to change its
-behavour</a> and use the MIME type video/ogg instead. I also asked
-several video players to add video/ogg to their desktop files, to give
-the file browser an idea what to do about Ogg Theora files. After a
-while, the desktop file browsers in Debian started to handle the
-output from gtk-recordmydesktop properly.</p>
-
-<p>But history repeats itself. A few days ago I tested the music
-system Rosegarden again, and I discovered that the KDE and xfce file
-browsers did not know what to do with the Rosegarden project files
-(*.rg). I've reported <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/825993">the
-rosegarden problem to BTS</a> and a fix is commited to git and will be
-included in the next upload. To increase the chance of me remembering
-how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files
-from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.</p>
-
-<p>The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types.
-There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from
-<tt>file --mime-type</tt> mentioned above, and the content of the
-shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/). The file MIME
-type is mapped to programs supporting the MIME type, and this
-information is collected from
-<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec/">the
-desktop files</a> available in /usr/share/applications/. If there is
-one desktop file claiming support for the MIME type of the file, it is
-activated when asking to open a given file. If there are more, one
-can normally select which one to use by right-clicking on the file and
-selecting the wanted one using 'Open with' or similar. In general
-this work well. But it depend on each program picking a good MIME
-type (preferably
-<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml">a
-MIME type registered with IANA</a>), file and/or the shared MIME
-registry recognizing the file and the desktop file to list the MIME
-type in its list of supported MIME types.</p>
-
-<p>The <tt>/usr/share/mime/packages/rosegarden.xml</tt> entry for
-<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec">the
-Shared MIME database</a> look like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
-&lt;mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"&gt;
- &lt;mime-type type="audio/x-rosegarden"&gt;
- &lt;sub-class-of type="application/x-gzip"/&gt;
- &lt;comment&gt;Rosegarden project file&lt;/comment&gt;
- &lt;glob pattern="*.rg"/&gt;
- &lt;/mime-type&gt;
-&lt;/mime-info&gt;
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>This states that audio/x-rosegarden is a kind of application/x-gzip
-(it is a gzipped XML file). Note, it is much better to use an
-official MIME type registered with IANA than it is to make up ones own
-unofficial ones like the x-rosegarden type used by rosegarden.</p>
-
-<p>The desktop file of the rosegarden program failed to list
-audio/x-rosegarden in its list of supported MIME types, causing the
-file browsers to have no idea what to do with *.rg files:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-% grep Mime /usr/share/applications/rosegarden.desktop
-MimeType=audio/x-rosegarden-composition;audio/x-rosegarden-device;audio/x-rosegarden-project;audio/x-rosegarden-template;audio/midi;
-X-KDE-NativeMimeType=audio/x-rosegarden-composition
-%
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The fix was to add "audio/x-rosegarden;" at the end of the
-MimeType= line.</p>
-
-<p>If you run into a file which fail to open the correct program when
-selected from the file browser, please check out the output from
-<tt>file --mime-type</tt> for the file, ensure the file ending and
-MIME type is registered somewhere under /usr/share/mime/ and check
-that some desktop file under /usr/share/applications/ is claiming
-support for this MIME type. If not, please report a bug to have it
-fixed. :)</p>
+ <title>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
+choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
+While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
+info screen booting with some text scrolling. I was not quick enough
+with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
+screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
+corrupt file system:
+
+<p align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img align="center" width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg" alt="[photo of subway info screen]"></a></p>
+
+<p>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
+content on the screen worries me.</p>
+
+<p>The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid',
+indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
+after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
+Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14. Since Lenny Debian
+has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
+(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history">a Debian
+version history on Wikpedia</a>. This mean the system is running
+around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
+many years.</p>
+
+<p>This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
+Ruter, running outdated software. In 2012,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html">I
+discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000</a>,
+and this was
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html">still
+the case in 2016</a>. Given the response from the responsible people
+in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
+Windows 2000. Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.</p>
+
+<p>The photo is made available under the license terms
+<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons
+4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</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">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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