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- <title>Using appstream in Debian to locate packages with firmware and mime type support</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">appstream system</a> is
-taking shape in Debian, and one feature set that is very convenient is
-its ability to tell you want package to install to get a given
-firmware file. This can be done using apt-file too, but that is for
-someone else to blog about. :)</p>
-
-<p>Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware
-file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly
-picked from the set of firmware announced using appstream in Debian
-unstable. In general you would be looking for the firmware requested
-by the kernel during kernel module loading. To find the package
-providing the example file, do like this:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides firmware:runtime ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin | \
- awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
-firmware-qlogic
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>See <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">the
-appstream wiki</a> page to learn how to embed the package metadata in
-a way appstream can use.</p>
-
-<p>This same approach can be used to find any package supporting a
-given MIME type. This is very useful when you get a file you do not
-know how to handle. First find the mime type using <tt>file
---mime-type</tt>, and next look up the package providing support for
-it. Lets say you got an SVG file. Its MIME type is image/svg+xml,
-and you can find all packages handling this type like this:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype image/svg+xml | \
- awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
-bkchem
-phototonic
-inkscape
-shutter
-tetzle
-geeqie
-xia
-pinta
-gthumb
-karbon
-comix
-mirage
-viewnior
-postr
-ristretto
-kolourpaint4
-eog
-eom
-gimagereader
-midori
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>I believe the MIME types are fetched from the desktop file for
-packages providing appstream metadata.</p>
+ <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>
</description>
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- <title>Creepy, visualise geotagged social media information - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Most people seem not to realise that every time they walk around
-with the computerised radio beacon known as a mobile phone their
-position is tracked by the phone company and often stored for a long
-time (like every time a SMS is received or sent). And if their
-computerised radio beacon is capable of running programs (often called
-mobile apps) downloaded from the Internet, these programs are often
-also capable of tracking their location (if the app requested access
-during installation). And when these programs send out information to
-central collection points, the location is often included, unless
-extra care is taken to not send the location. The provided
-information is used by several entities, for good and bad (what is
-good and bad, depend on your point of view). What is certain, is that
-the private sphere and the right to free movement is challenged and
-perhaps even eradicated for those announcing their location this way,
-when they share their whereabouts with private and public
-entities.</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-01-24-nice-creepy-desktop-window.png"></p>
-
-<p>The phone company logs provide a register of locations to check out
-when one want to figure out what the tracked person was doing. It is
-unavailable for most of us, but provided to selected government
-officials, company staff, those illegally buying information from
-unfaithful servants and crackers stealing the information. But the
-public information can be collected and analysed, and a free software
-tool to do so is called
-<a href="http://www.geocreepy.com/">Creepy or Cree.py</a>. I
-discovered it when I read
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Slik-kan-du-bli-overvaket-pa-Twitter-og-Instagram-uten-a-ane-det-7787884.html">an
-article about Creepy</a> in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten i
-November 2014, and decided to check if it was available in Debian.
-The python program was in Debian, but
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/creepy">the version in
-Debian</a> was completely broken and practically unmaintained. I
-uploaded a new version which did not work quite right, but did not
-have time to fix it then. This Christmas I decided to finally try to
-get Creepy operational in Debian. Now a fixed version is available in
-Debian unstable and testing, and almost all Debian specific patches
-are now included
-<a href="https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy">upstream</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The Creepy program visualises geolocation information fetched from
-Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Google+, and allow one to get a
-complete picture of every social media message posted recently in a
-given area, or track the movement of a given individual across all
-these services. Earlier it was possible to use the search API of at
-least some of these services without identifying oneself, but these
-days it is impossible. This mean that to use Creepy, you need to
-configure it to log in as yourself on these services, and provide
-information to them about your search interests. This should be taken
-into account when using Creepy, as it will also share information
-about yourself with the services.</p>
-
-<p>The picture above show the twitter messages sent from (or at least
-geotagged with a position from) the city centre of Oslo, the capital
-of Norway. One useful way to use Creepy is to first look at
-information tagged with an area of interest, and next look at all the
-information provided by one or more individuals who was in the area.
-I tested it by checking out which celebrity provide their location in
-twitter messages by checkout out who sent twitter messages near a
-Norwegian TV station, and next could track their position over time,
-making it possible to locate their home and work place, among other
-things. A similar technique have been
-<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/does-this-soldiers-instagram-account-prove-russia-is-covertl">used
-to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine</a>, and it is both a powerful
-tool to discover lying governments, and a useful tool to help people
-understand the value of the private information they provide to the
-public.</p>
-
-<p>The package is not trivial to backport to Debian Stable/Jessie, as
-it depend on several python modules currently missing in Jessie (at
-least python-instagram, python-flickrapi and
-python-requests-toolbelt).</p>
-
-<p>(I have uploaded
-<a href="https://screenshots.debian.net/package/creepy">the image to
-screenshots.debian.net</a> and licensed it under the same terms as the
-Creepy program in Debian.)</p>
+ <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>
</description>
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- <title>Always download Debian packages using Tor - the simple recipe</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>During his DebConf15 keynote, Jacob Appelbaum
-<a href="https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/331/what-is-to-be-done/">observed
-that those listening on the Internet lines would have good reason to
-believe a computer have a given security hole</a> if it download a
-security fix from a Debian mirror. This is a good reason to always
-use encrypted connections to the Debian mirror, to make sure those
-listening do not know which IP address to attack. In August, Richard
-Hartmann observed that encryption was not enough, when it was possible
-to interfere download size to security patches or the fact that
-download took place shortly after a security fix was released, and
-<a href="http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/08/24-Tor-enabled_Debian_mirror/">proposed
-to always use Tor to download packages from the Debian mirror</a>. He
-was not the first to propose this, as the
-<tt><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt-transport-tor">apt-transport-tor</a></tt>
-package by Tim Retout already existed to make it easy to convince apt
-to use <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a>, but I was not
-aware of that package when I read the blog post from Richard.</p>
-
-<p>Richard discussed the idea with Peter Palfrader, one of the Debian
-sysadmins, and he set up a Tor hidden service on one of the central
-Debian mirrors using the address vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion, thus making
-it possible to download packages directly between two tor nodes,
-making sure the network traffic always were encrypted.</p>
-
-<p>Here is a short recipe for enabling this on your machine, by
-installing <tt>apt-transport-tor</tt> and replacing http and https
-urls with tor+http and tor+https, and using the hidden service instead
-of the official Debian mirror site. I recommend installing
-<tt>etckeeper</tt> before you start to have a history of the changes
-done in /etc/.</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-apt install apt-transport-tor
-sed -i 's% http://ftp.debian.org/%tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/%' /etc/apt/sources.list
-sed -i 's% http% tor+http%' /etc/apt/sources.list
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>If you have more sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, run
-the sed commands for these too. The sed command is assuming your are
-using the ftp.debian.org Debian mirror. Adjust the command (or just
-edit the file manually) to match your mirror.</p>
-
-<p>This work in Debian Jessie and later. Note that tools like
-<tt>apt-file</tt> only recently started using the apt transport
-system, and do not work with these tor+http URLs. For
-<tt>apt-file</tt> you need the version currently in experimental,
-which need a recent apt version currently only in unstable. So if you
-need a working <tt>apt-file</tt>, this is not for you.</p>
-
-<p>Another advantage from this change is that your machine will start
-using Tor regularly and at fairly random intervals (every time you
-update the package lists or upgrade or install a new package), thus
-masking other Tor traffic done from the same machine. Using Tor will
-become normal for the machine in question.</p>
-
-<p>On <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox</a>, APT
-is set up by default to use <tt>apt-transport-tor</tt> when Tor is
-enabled. It would be great if it was the default on any Debian
-system.</p>
+ <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>
</description>
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- <title>Nedlasting fra NRK, som Matroska med undertekster</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Det kommer stadig nye løsninger for å ta lagre unna innslag fra NRK
-for å se på det senere. For en stund tilbake kom jeg over et script
-nrkopptak laget av Ingvar Hagelund. Han fjernet riktignok sitt script
-etter forespørsel fra Erik Bolstad i NRK, men noen tok heldigvis og
-gjorde det <a href="https://github.com/liangqi/nrkopptak">tilgjengelig
-via github</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Scriptet kan lagre som MPEG4 eller Matroska, og bake inn
-undertekster i fila på et vis som blant annet VLC forstår. For å
-bruke scriptet, kopier ned git-arkivet og kjør</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-nrkopptak/bin/nrk-opptak k <ahref="https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1">https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1</a>
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no. Argument 'k' ber
-scriptet laste ned og lagre som Matroska. Det finnes en rekke andre
-muligheter for valg av kvalitet og format.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg foretrekker dette scriptet fremfor youtube-dl, som
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">
-nevnt i 2014 støtter NRK</a> og en rekke andre videokilder, på grunn
-av at nrkopptak samler undertekster og video i en enkelt fil, hvilket
-gjør håndtering enklere på disk.</p>
+ <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>
</description>
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- <title>OpenALPR, find car license plates in video streams - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>When I was a kid, we used to collect "car numbers", as we used to
-call the car license plate numbers in those days. I would write the
-numbers down in my little book and compare notes with the other kids
-to see how many region codes we had seen and if we had seen some
-exotic or special region codes and numbers. It was a fun game to pass
-time, as we kids have plenty of it.</p>
-
-<p>A few days I came across
-<a href="https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr">the OpenALPR
-project</a>, a free software project to automatically discover and
-report license plates in images and video streams, and provide the
-"car numbers" in a machine readable format. I've been looking for
-such system for a while now, because I believe it is a bad idea that the
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition">automatic
-number plate recognition</a> tool only is available in the hands of
-the powerful, and want it to be available also for the powerless to
-even the score when it comes to surveillance and sousveillance. I
-discovered the developer
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/747509">wanted to get the tool into
-Debian</a>, and as I too wanted it to be in Debian, I volunteered to
-help him get it into shape to get the package uploaded into the Debian
-archive.</p>
-
-<p>Today we finally managed to get the package into shape and uploaded
-it into Debian, where it currently
-<a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org//new/openalpr_2.2.1-1.html">waits
-in the NEW queue</a> for review by the Debian ftpmasters.</p>
-
-<p>I guess you are wondering why on earth such tool would be useful
-for the common folks, ie those not running a large government
-surveillance system? Well, I plan to put it in a computer on my bike
-and in my car, tracking the cars nearby and allowing me to be notified
-when number plates on my watch list are discovered. Another use case
-was suggested by a friend of mine, who wanted to set it up at his home
-to open the car port automatically when it discovered the plate on his
-car. When I mentioned it perhaps was a bit foolhardy to allow anyone
-capable of placing his license plate number of a piece of cardboard to
-open his car port, men replied that it was always unlocked anyway. I
-guess for such use case it make sense. I am sure there are other use
-cases too, for those with imagination and a vision.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to build your own version of the Debian package, check
-out the upstream git source and symlink ./distros/debian to ./debian/
-before running "debuild" to build the source. Or wait a bit until the
-package show up in unstable.</p>
+ <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>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Using appstream with isenkram to install hardware related packages in Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Around three years ago, I created
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">the isenkram
-system</a> to get a more practical solution in Debian for handing
-hardware related packages. A GUI system in the isenkram package will
-present a pop-up dialog when some hardware dongle supported by
-relevant packages in Debian is inserted into the machine. The same
-lookup mechanism to detect packages is available as command line
-tools in the isenkram-cli package. In addition to mapping hardware,
-it will also map kernel firmware files to packages and make it easy to
-install needed firmware packages automatically. The key for this
-system to work is a good way to map hardware to packages, in other
-words, allow packages to announce what hardware they will work
-with.</p>
-
-<p>I started by providing data files in the isenkram source, and
-adding code to download the latest version of these data files at run
-time, to ensure every user had the most up to date mapping available.
-I also added support for storing the mapping in the Packages file in
-the apt repositories, but did not push this approach because while I
-was trying to figure out how to best store hardware/package mappings,
-<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/">the
-appstream system</a> was announced. I got in touch and suggested to
-add the hardware mapping into that data set to be able to use
-appstream as a data source, and this was accepted at least for the
-Debian version of appstream.</p>
-
-<p>A few days ago using appstream in Debian for this became possible,
-and today I uploaded a new version 0.20 of isenkram adding support for
-appstream as a data source for mapping hardware to packages. The only
-package so far using appstream to announce its hardware support is my
-pymissile package. I got help from Matthias Klumpp with figuring out
-how do add the required
-<a href="https://appstream.debian.org/html/sid/main/metainfo/pymissile.html">metadata
-in pymissile</a>. I added a file debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml with
-this content:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
-&lt;component&gt;
- &lt;id&gt;pymissile&lt;/id&gt;
- &lt;metadata_license&gt;MIT&lt;/metadata_license&gt;
- &lt;name&gt;pymissile&lt;/name&gt;
- &lt;summary&gt;Control original Striker USB Missile Launcher&lt;/summary&gt;
- &lt;description&gt;
- &lt;p&gt;
- Pymissile provides a curses interface to control an original
- Marks and Spencer / Striker USB Missile Launcher, as well as a
- motion control script to allow a webcamera to control the
- launcher.
- &lt;/p&gt;
- &lt;/description&gt;
- &lt;provides&gt;
- &lt;modalias&gt;usb:v1130p0202d*&lt;/modalias&gt;
- &lt;/provides&gt;
-&lt;/component&gt;
-</pre></blockquote>
+ <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>The key for isenkram is the component/provides/modalias value,
-which is a glob style match rule for hardware specific strings
-(modalias strings) provided by the Linux kernel. In this case, it
-will map to all USB devices with vendor code 1130 and product code
-0202.</p>
-
-<p>Note, it is important that the license of all the metadata files
-are compatible to have permissions to aggregate them into archive wide
-appstream files. Matthias suggested to use MIT or BSD licenses for
-these files. A challenge is figuring out a good id for the data, as
-it is supposed to be globally unique and shared across distributions
-(in other words, best to coordinate with upstream what to use). But
-it can be changed later or, so we went with the package name as
-upstream for this project is dormant.</p>
-
-<p>To get the metadata file installed in the correct location for the
-mirror update scripts to pick it up and include its content the
-appstream data source, the file must be installed in the binary
-package under /usr/share/appdata/. I did this by adding the following
-line to debian/pymissile.install:</p>
+<p><pre>
+adb reboot-bootloader
+fastboot oem rebootRUU
+fastboot flash zip rom.zip
+fastboot flash zip rom.zip
+fastboot reboot
+</pre></p>
-<blockquote><pre>
-debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml usr/share/appdata
-</pre></blockquote>
+<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 that in place, the command line tool isenkram-lookup will list
-all packages useful on the current computer automatically, and the GUI
-pop-up handler will propose to install the package not already
-installed if a hardware dongle is inserted into the machine in
-question.</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>Details of the modalias field in appstream is available from the
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">DEP-11</a> proposal.</p>
+<p><pre>
+fastboot oem get_identifier_token 2>&1 | sed 's/(bootloader) //'
+</pre>
-<p>To locate the modalias values of all hardware present in a machine,
-try running this command on the command line:</p>
+<p>And once I got the unlock code via email, I could use it like
+this:</p>
-<blockquote><pre>
-cat $(find /sys/devices/|grep modalias)
-</pre></blockquote>
+<p><pre>
+fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
+</pre></p>
-<p>To learn more about the isenkram system, please check out
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">my
-blog posts tagged isenkram</a>.</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>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Bokhandeldistribusjon av boken Fri kultur av Lawrence Lessig</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bokhandeldistribusjon_av_boken_Fri_kultur_av_Lawrence_Lessig.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bokhandeldistribusjon_av_boken_Fri_kultur_av_Lawrence_Lessig.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p><strong>Besøk
-<a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">lulu.com</a>
-eller
-<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/">Amazon</a>
-for å kjøpe boken på papir, eller last ned ebook som
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf">PDF</a>,
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub">ePub</a>
-eller
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi">MOBI</a>
-fra
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/">github</a>.</strong></p>
+ <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
-<p>Jeg ble gledelig overrasket i dag da jeg oppdaget at boken jeg har
-gitt ut
-<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/">hadde
-dukket opp i Amazon</a>. Jeg hadde trodd det skulle ta lenger tid, da
-jeg fikk beskjed om at det skulle ta seks til åtte uker.
-Amazonoppføringen er et resultat av at jeg for noen uker siden
-diskuterte prissetting og håndtering av profitt med forfatteren. Det
-måtte avklares da bruksvilkårene til boken har krav om
-ikke-kommersiell bruk. Vi ble enige om at overskuddet fra salg av
-boken skal sendes til
-<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons-stiftelsen</a>.
-Med det på plass kunne jeg be
-<a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">lulu.com</a>
-om å gi boken «utvidet» distribusjon. Årsaken til at
-bokhandeldistribusjon var litt utfordrende er at bokhandlere krever
-mulighet for profitt på bøkene de selger (selvfølgelig), og dermed
-måtte de få lov til å selge til høyere pris enn lulu.com. I tillegg
-er det krav om samme pris på lulu.com og i bokhandlene, dermed blir
-prisen økt også hos lulu.com. Hva skulle jeg gjøre med den profitten
-uten å bryte med klausulen om ikkekommersiell? Løsningen var å gi
-bort profitten til CC-stiftelsen. Prisen på boken ble nesten
-tredoblet, til $19.99 (ca. 160,-) pluss frakt, men synligheten øker
-betraktelig når den kan finnes i katalogene til store nettbokhandlere.
-Det betyr at hvis du allerede har kjøpt boken har du fått den veldig
-billig, og kjøper du den nå, får du den fortsatt billig samt donerer i
-tillegg noen tiere til fremme av Creative Commons.</p>
+<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>Mens jeg var i gang med å titte etter informasjon om boken
-oppdaget jeg at den også var dukket opp på
-<a href="https://books.google.no/books?id=uKUGCwAAQBAJ">Google
-Books</a>, der en kan lese den på web. PDF-utgaven har ennå ikke
-dukket opp hos <a href="https://www.nb.no/">Nasjonalbiblioteket</a>,
-men det regner jeg med kommer på plass i løpet av noen uker. Boken er
-heller ikke dukket opp hos
-<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/">Barnes & Noble</a> ennå, men
-jeg antar det bare er et tidsspørsmål før dette er på plass.</p>
+<p>Based on a tip and good help from the #nuug IRC channel, I wrote a
+script to launch Signal in Chromium.</p>
-<p>Boken er dessverre ikke tilgjengelig fra norske bokhandlere, og
-kommer neppe til å bli det med det første. Årsaken er at for å få det
-til måtte jeg personlig håndtere bestilling av bøker, hvilket jeg ikke
-er interessert i å bruke tid på. Jeg kunne betalt ca 2000,- til
-<a href="http://www.bokbasen.no/">den norske bokbasen</a>, en felles
-database over bøker tilgjengelig for norske bokhandlere, for å få en
-oppføring der, men da måtte jeg tatt imot bestillinger på epost og
-sendt ut bøker selv. Det ville krevd at jeg var klar til å
-sende ut bøker på kort varsel, dvs. holdt meg med ekstra bøker,
-konvolutter og frimerker. Bokbasen har visst ikke opplegg for å be
-bokhandlene bestille direkte via web, så jeg droppet oppføring der.
-Jeg har spurt Haugen bok og Tronsmo direkte på epost om de er
-interessert i å ta inn boken i sin bestillingskatalog, men ikke fått
-svar, så jeg antar de ikke er interessert. Derimot har jeg fått en
-hyggelig henvendelse fra Biblioteksentralen som fortalte at de har
-lagt den inn i sin database slik at deres bibliotekskunder enkelt kan
-bestille den via dem.</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>Boken er i følge
-<a href="http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&indx=1&recIds=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&tab=library_catalogue&dstmp=1448543801124&vl(freeText0)=fri%20kultur&vid=UBO&mode=Basic">Bibsys/Oria</a>
-og bokdatabasen til
-<a href="https://www.deich.folkebibl.no/cgi-bin/websok?tnr=1819617">Deichmanske</a>
-tilgjengelig fra flere biblioteker allerede, og alle eksemplarer er
-visst allerede utlånt med ventetid. Det synes jeg er veldig gledelig
-å se. Jeg håper mange kommer til å lese boken. Jeg tror den er
-spesielt egnet for foreldre og bekjente av oss nerder for å forklare
-hva slags problemer vi ser med dagens opphavsrettsregime.</p>
+<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>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>The GNU General Public License is not magic pixie dust</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_GNU_General_Public_License_is_not_magic_pixie_dust.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_GNU_General_Public_License_is_not_magic_pixie_dust.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>A blog post from my fellow Debian developer Paul Wise titled
-"<a href="http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2015/11/27/sfc-supporter/">The
-GPL is not magic pixie dust</a>" explain the importance of making sure
-the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a> is enforced.
-I quote the blog post from Paul in full here with his permission:<p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/"><img src="https://sfconservancy.org/img/supporter-badge.png" width="194" height="90" alt="Become a Software Freedom Conservancy Supporter!" align="right" border="0" /></a></p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The GPL is not magic pixie dust. It does not work by itself.<br/>
-
-The first step is to choose a
-<a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft</a> license for your
-code.<br/>
-
-The next step is, when someone fails to follow that copyleft license,
-<b>it must be enforced</b><br/>
-
-and its a simple fact of our modern society that such type of
-work<br/>
-
-is incredibly expensive to do and incredibly difficult to do.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><small>-- <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley Kuhn</a>, in
-<a href="http://faif.us/" title="Free as in Freedom">FaiF</a>
-<a href="http://faif.us/cast/2015/nov/24/0x57/">episode
-0x57</a></small></p>
-
-<p>As the Debian Website
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/794116">used</a>
-<a href="https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/intro/free.wml?r1=1.24&amp;r2=1.25">to</a>
-imply, public domain and permissively licensed software can lead to
-the production of more proprietary software as people discover useful
-software, extend it and or incorporate it into their hardware or
-software products. Copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL were created
-to close off this avenue to the production of proprietary software but
-such licenses are not enough. With the ongoing adoption of Free
-Software by individuals and groups, inevitably the community's
-expectations of license compliance are violated, usually out of
-ignorance of the way Free Software works, but not always. As Karen
-and Bradley explained in <a href="http://faif.us/" title="Free as in
-Freedom">FaiF</a>
-<a href="http://faif.us/cast/2015/nov/24/0x57/">episode 0x57</a>,
-copyleft is nothing if no-one is willing and able to stand up in court
-to protect it. The reality of today's world is that legal
-representation is expensive, difficult and time consuming. With
-<a href="http://gpl-violations.org/">gpl-violations.org</a> in hiatus
-<a href="http://gpl-violations.org/news/20151027-homepage-recovers/">until</a>
-some time in 2016, the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">Software
-Freedom Conservancy</a> (a tax-exempt charity) is the major defender
-of the Linux project, Debian and other groups against GPL violations.
-In March the SFC supported a
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">lawsuit
-by Christoph Hellwig</a> against VMware for refusing to
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq.html">comply
-with the GPL</a> in relation to their use of parts of the Linux
-kernel. Since then two of their sponsors pulled corporate funding and
-conferences
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/">blocked
-or cancelled their talks</a>. As a result they have decided to rely
-less on corporate funding and more on the broad community of
-individuals who support Free Software and copyleft. So the SFC has
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/nov/23/2015fundraiser/">launched</a>
-a <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">campaign</a> to create
-a community of folks who stand up for copyleft and the GPL by
-supporting their work on promoting and supporting copyleft and Free
-Software.</p>
-
-<p>If you support Free Software,
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/26/like-what-I-do/">like</a>
-what the SFC do, agree with their
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html">compliance
-principles</a>, are happy about their
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">successes</a> in 2015,
-work on a project that is an SFC
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member</a> and or
-just want to stand up for copyleft, please join
-<a href="https://identi.ca/cwebber/image/JQGPA4qbTyyp3-MY8QpvuA">Christopher
-Allan Webber</a>,
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/">Carol
-Smith</a>,
-<a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2015/11/25/supporting-software-freedom-conservancy/">Jono
-Bacon</a>, myself and
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/#supporters">others</a> in
-becoming a
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">supporter</a>. For the
-next week your donation will be
-<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/nov/27/black-friday/">matched</a>
-by an anonymous donor. Please also consider asking your employer to
-match your donation or become a sponsor of SFC. Don't forget to
-spread the word about your support for SFC via email, your blog and or
-social media accounts.</p>
-
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I agree with Paul on this topic and just signed up as a Supporter
-of Software Freedom Conservancy myself. Perhaps you should be a
-supporter too?</p>
+ <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>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>PGP key transition statement for key EE4E02F9</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/PGP_key_transition_statement_for_key_EE4E02F9.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/PGP_key_transition_statement_for_key_EE4E02F9.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I've needed a new OpenPGP key for a while, but have not had time to
-set it up properly. I wanted to generate it offline and have it
-available on <a href="http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/#openpgp">a OpenPGP
-smart card</a> for daily use, and learning how to do it and finding
-time to sit down with an offline machine almost took forever. But
-finally I've been able to complete the process, and have now moved
-from my old GPG key to a new GPG key. See
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-11-17-new-gpg-key-transition.txt">the
-full transition statement, signed with both my old and new key</a> for
-the details. This is my new key:</p>
-
-<pre>
-pub 3936R/<a href="http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/stats/111D6B29EE4E02F9.html">111D6B29EE4E02F9</a> 2015-11-03 [expires: 2019-11-14]
- Key fingerprint = 3AC7 B2E3 ACA5 DF87 78F1 D827 111D 6B29 EE4E 02F9
-uid Petter Reinholdtsen &lt;pere@hungry.com&gt;
-uid Petter Reinholdtsen &lt;pere@debian.org&gt;
-sub 4096R/87BAFB0E 2015-11-03 [expires: 2019-11-02]
-sub 4096R/F91E6DE9 2015-11-03 [expires: 2019-11-02]
-sub 4096R/A0439BAB 2015-11-03 [expires: 2019-11-02]
-</pre>
-
-<p>The key can be downloaded from the OpenPGP key servers, signed by
-my old key.</p>
-
-<p>If you signed my old key
-(<a href="http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/stats/DB4CCC4B2A30D729.html">DB4CCC4B2A30D729</a>),
-I'd very much appreciate a signature on my new key, details and
-instructions in the transition statement. I m happy to reciprocate if
-you have a similarly signed transition statement to present.</p>
+ <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>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Redegjørelse holdt i Pentagon om «Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal sikkerhet» - klagesak hos Sivilombudsmannen</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Redegj_relse_holdt_i_Pentagon_om__Internet_Governance_og_p_virkning_p__nasjonal_sikkerhet____klagesak_hos_Sivilombudsmannen.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Redegj_relse_holdt_i_Pentagon_om__Internet_Governance_og_p_virkning_p__nasjonal_sikkerhet____klagesak_hos_Sivilombudsmannen.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Jeg
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Pentagon_deciding_the_Norwegian_negotiating_position_on_Internet_governance_.html">blogget
-for noen dager siden</a> hva jeg har klart å finne ut så langt om en
-redegjørelse med tittelen «Internet Governance og påvirkning på
-nasjonal sikkerhet» fra et møte «holdt i Pentagon for et avgrenset
-utvalg av NATO-nasjoner, hvor arrangør ikke hadde til hensikt å gjøre
-innholdet offentlig kjent». Innsynssaken er påklaget til
-Sivilombudsmannen, og her er utvekslingen med Sivilombudsmannen så
-langt. Det startet med en innsynshenvendelse til Samferdselsdepartementet
-(sak
-<a href="https://oep.no/search/result.html?period=none&dateType=documentDate&descType=both&caseNumber=2012%2F914&senderType=both&documentType=all&list2=89&searchType=advanced&Search=S%C3%B8k+i+journaler">2012/914</a>
--
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/kopi_av_dokumenter_i_sak_2012914">kopi
-av noen av dokumenter på Mimes brønn</a>). Deretter gikk det slag i slag.
-Se den overnevnte bloggposten for detaljer.</p>
-
-<p>Da det virket rart at Utenriksdepartementet og
-Samferdselsdepartementet ikke er enige i hvorfor dokumentet skulle
-unndras offentlighet, og at et dokument relevant for en tre år gammel
-forhandling fortsatt skulle holdes hemmelig for å ikke avsløre Norges
-forhandlingsposisjon, klaget vi saken inn for Sivilombudsmannen.
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Foreningen NUUG</a> sa seg villig til å
-dekke advokatkostnader til å formulere klagen, og advokat Ola Tellesbø
-tok på seg oppgaven. Her er klagen vi sendte for noen uker siden:</>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p><strong>Klage til Sivilombudsmannen</strong></p>
-
-<p>Norsk Unix User Group, heretter NUUG, klager på vegne av sitt
-medlem Petter Reinholdtsen over manglende innsyn. Det klages også over
-manglende journalføring hos den norske FN-delegasjonen i Geneve.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Om NUUG og offentlighet</strong>
-
-<p>Herværende sak er av stor prinsipiell verdi for NUUG. NUUG er en
-ikke-kommersiell forening som arbeider for utbredelse av UNIX-lignende
-systemer, fri programvare og åpne standarder i Norge. Foreningen har
-306 medlemmer og driver tjenestene FiksGataMi og Mimes Brønn.</p>
-
-<p>Tjenesten Mimes Brønn er en innsynstjeneste hvor NUUGs medlemmer og
-allmennheten kan spørre om innsyn i statens og kommunens
-dokumenter. Mimes Brønn er basert på programvare fra MySociety i
-England og er tilpasset på dugnad av NUUGs medlemmer. Noen av
-medlemmene har benyttet tjenesten til selv å be om innsyn i
-dokumenter. Vi i NUUG holder på med dette først og fremst fordi vi
-syntes det er gøy å benytte fri programvare til samfunnsnyttige
-formål. Dessuten ønsker NUUG å støtte opp under allmennhetens
-innsynsrett etter Grunnlovens §100 og formålet til
-offentlighetsloven. NUUG ønsker å legge til rette for en mer åpen,
-tilgjengelig og vennlig forvaltning.</p>
-
-<p>Innsynshenvendelser flest imøtekommes tilfredsstillende. Enkelte
-andre henvendelser har avstedkommet mindre imøtekommende svar og en
-mer lukket forvaltning. En av sakene som har vist seg vanskelig og
-uoversiktlig, er NUUG-medlem Petter Reinholdtsens langvarige søk etter
-opplysninger om dokumenter i en sak som berører 'Interent
-Governance'. Siden NUUG mener behandlingen strider med formålet til
-offentlighetsloven, og svekker tilliten til forvaltningen, trer NUUG
-inn i sitt medlems krav om rett til innsyn i opplysninger i disse
-dokumentene. Saken er av stor prinsipiell verdi for NUUG fordi NUUG
-driver Mimes Brønn og medlemmene ønsker informasjon om hvordan Norge
-forsøker å påvirke reguleringen av Internettet.</p>
-
-<p>NUUG ønsker at flere borgere engasjerer seg i de tingene våre
-utøvende myndigheter foretar seg og er bekymret for at saksbehandling
-som dette kan svekke den demokratisk deltakelsen.</p>
-
-<p>Det legges til at NUUG sitter på betydelig kompetanse på 'Internett
-Governance' med gode forutsetninger til å bidra konstruktivt. Det er
-viktig at staten ikke begrenser innsyn i Internettets fellesanliggende
-utover det loven hjemler samt aktivt praktiserer meroffentlighet på
-feltet.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Sakens bakgrunn</strong></p>
-
-<p>I 2012 ba Petter Reinholdtsen om innsyn i et brev datert 22.5.2012
-med tittelen 'Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal
-sikkerhet'. Det ble gitt avslag med begrunnelse i pågående
-forhandlinger.</p>
-
-<p>Tre år etterpå begjærte Reinholdtsen på ny innsyn, henholdsvis av
-10.6.2015 til Utenriksdepartementet (UD) som avsender av brevet og av
-21.6.2015 til Samferdselsdepartementet (SD) som mottaker.</p>
-
-<p>UD avslo innsyn 'med henvisning til offentleglova § 20 1. ledd
-litra b'. Som bevis for det tilbys:</p>
-
-<p>Link 1: <a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p">https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p</a></p>
-
-<p>SD avslo innsyn 'med begrunnelse i offentleglova § 20, bokstav
-c'. Som bevis for det tilbys:</p>
-
-<p>Link 2: <a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/kopi_av_dokumenter_i_sak_2012914">https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/kopi_av_dokumenter_i_sak_2012914</a></p>
-
-<p>Begge departementene vurderte merinnsyn.</p>
-
-<p>Linkene viser at det er klaget. SD opprettholdt den 28.8.2015
-avslaget med begrunnelse at dokumentet 'tilkjennegir posisjoner i de
-internasjonale forhandlingene om regulering av Internett. Dette er
-forhandlinger som pågår fremdeles i ulike internasjonale fora der
-Norge deltar.'</p>
-
-<p>UD har ikke besvart klagen. Det ble purret 7.10.2015.</p>
-
-<p>Det klages herved på avslagene. Det klages også over manglende
-begrunnelse for hvorfor SD og UD hver for seg har kommet til at
-meroffentlighet ikke kommer til anvendelse.</p>
-
-<p>Klagen utvides til å omfatte at Norges FN-delegasjon i Geneve som
-stod som avsender til SD, ikke har journalført dokumentet i sin
-postjournal. Manglende journalføring forklarte UD 31.6.2015 med at
-'siden delegasjonen kun var kopimottaker for dokumentet og
-videresending til Samferdselsdepartementet ikke inngikk som en del av
-intern saksbehandling er dokumentet ikke blitt journalført ved
-delegasjonen'. Det anføres at dette ikke er et tilstrekkelig grunnlag
-for ikke å journalføre dokumentet.</p>
-
-<p>Dersom Sivilombudsmannen kommer fram til at innsyn ikke skal gis,
-ber vi om å få vurdert rett til innsyn i metainformasjon om når det
-aktuelle møtet i Pentagon var, saksnummer hos avsender, hvilke stater
-som deltok og navn på delegatene.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Rettslige anførsler</strong></p>
-
-<p>Avslagene er hjemlet i offentlighetslovens §20 som gjelder 'omsyn
-til Norges utanrikspolitiske interesser'. UD viser til bokstav b om
-rett til å avslå innsyn fordi opplysningene er gitt under forutsetning
-av hemmelighold. SD viser til bokstav c om rett til å avslå innsyn i
-opplysninger som gjelder norske forhandlingsposisjoner,
-forhandlingsstrategier eller liknende.</p>
-
-<p>Offentlighetslovens §1 gir klare føringer for hvordan loven skal praktiseres:
-</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-'Formålet med lova er å leggje til rette for at offentleg verksemd er
-open og gjennomsiktig, for slik å styrkje informasjons- og
-ytringsfridommen, den demokratiske deltakinga, rettstryggleiken for
-den enkelte, tilliten til det offentlege og kontrollen frå
-ålmenta. Lova skal òg leggje til rette for vidarebruk av offentleg
-informasjon.'
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Lovgiver har lagt til grunn at hensynene som er nevnt §1 skal
-tillegges vekt som tolkningsmoment og ved tolkningstvil,
-jf. Innst.O.nr.41 (2005-2006), punkt 2.2:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-'Komiteen viser til at en formålsbestemmelse først og fremst har
-betydning som en programerklæring og målsetning for loven. Men
-komiteen vil fremheve at den også har en viktig betydning når det er
-tolkningstvil i forhold til andre bestemmelser i loven. Ved tvil om
-tolkning skal en prinsipielt sett falle ned på det som er mest i tråd
-med formålsparagrafen. Komiteen vil påpeke at man i forslaget til
-formålsbestemmelse mangler det viktigste og mest åpenbare formålet med
-loven, nemlig å skape tillit til forvaltningen.'
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Unntaket i både bokstav b og c i §20 gjelder opplysninger, ikke for
-hele dokumenter. Med andre ord skal opplysningene det er grunnlag for
-å unnta, tas ut av dokumentet, mens resten av dokumentet skal
-frigis. Dette følger direkte av ordlyden, og er framhevet både i
-forarbeider og i Justis- og politidepartementets 'Rettleiar til
-offentleglova' (G-2009-419). Av veilederen framgår at unntak for
-opplysninger av hensyn til Norges utenrikspolitiske interesser, er
-'presisert og snevra inn i den nye lova' sammenlignet med
-offentlighetsloven av 1970 (s.126).</p>
-
-<p>Dette framgår også klart av Stortingets behandling av loven i
-Innst.O.nr.41 (2005-2006), jf. punkt 2.7 Unntak for å ivareta
-utanrikspolitiske interesser mv.:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>'Komiteen er klar over at det på områder som har med utenrikspolitikk
-og andre avtaler av særlig nasjonal betydning, eksempelvis avtaler med
-andre land om utveksling av etterretningsinformasjon, er nødvendig med
-unntak av innsyn. Komiteen vil likevel påpeke at det samtidig skal
-vurderes om deler av informasjonen skal kunne gjøres tilgjengelig
-dersom dette ikke skader forholdet til andre land eller bryter avtaler
-om gjensidig fortrolighet. Komiteen vil begrunne dette med at åpenhet
-ofte er en forutsetning for befolkningens aksept og at det således er
-grunnlaget for tiltaket.
-
-<p>Komiteen vil derfor presisere at de nødvendige unntaksbestemmelser
-skal nyttes med varsomhet.'</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>UD viser til at brevet omhandler et møte i Pentagon med et
-avgrenset utvalg NATO-nasjoner der arrangør ikke hadde til hensikt å
-gjøre innholdet offentlig kjent, samt at innsyn kan gi redusert
-tilgang til lignende informasjon og slik ha skadevirkninger for norske
-utenrikspolitiske interesser. Den nevnte veilederen uttrykker
-imidlertid:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-'Kravet om at unntak må vere påkravd, vil likevel i praksis føre til
-at det oftare ikkje vil vere høve til å gjere unntak der det ligg føre
-ein fast praksis enn der det gjeld ei folkerettsleg plikt til
-hemmeleghald (fyrste ledd bokstav a). Ei rekkje statar fører no ein
-meir open utanrikspolitikk. Dette påverkar internasjonal
-praksis. Jamvel om det framleis ligg føre ein internasjonal praksis på
-eit område, vil det dermed ikkje i alle tilfelle vere fare for
-skadeverknader dersom det blir gitt innsyn i opplysningar som er
-omfatta av ein slik praksis.' (s.132-133)
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>At unntaket må være påkrevd av hensyn til Norges utenrikspolitiske
-interesser setter et strengt vilkår for å unnta opplysninger
-innsyn. Ut fra ordlyden er det altså ikke nok at det er ønskelig eller
-mest hensiktsmessig. Justis- og politidepartementet forklarer det slik
-i veilederen:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-'At unntak må vere «påkravd» inneber at det må eksistere ei verkeleg
-fare for at innsyn kan gje skadeverknader av eit visst omfang for
-norske utanrikspolitiske interesser. Fjerntliggjande og små farar for
-skadeverknader er ikkje tilstrekkeleg.' (s.128)
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Det anføres at det ikke eksisterer en fare for skade dersom det gis
-innsyn.</p>
-
-<p>Avslag begrunnet i bokstav c forutsetter at opplysningene gjelder norske forhandlinger, forhandlingsstrategier og lignende der innsyn vil kunne svekke Norges forhandlingsposisjon. Det følger av veilederen at unntaket som hovedregel kun gjelder fram til forhandlingene er avsluttet:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-'Etter at forhandlingane er avslutta vil det vanlegvis ikkje lenger vere behov for å gjere unntak for opplysningar om forhandlingsposisjonar og liknande. Høvet til å gjere unntak etter fyrste ledd bokstav c gjeld difor i utgangspunktet berre inntil dei aktuelle forhandlingane er avslutta.' (s.133)
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>De aktuelle forhandlingene er avsluttet for tre år siden. Følgelig
-kan ikke dokumentet som det begjæres innsyn i, unntas offentlighet. SD
-viser imidlertid til at dokumentet 'tilkjennegir posisjoner' og til at
-forhandlinger om regulering av Internett fremdeles pågår 'i ulike
-internasjonale fora der Norge deltar'. Mot dette anføres at Norges
-posisjon ikke kan være ukjent for andre forhandlingspartnere og at den
-norske offentligheten har rett på å kjenne Norges posisjon. Dette får
-ekstra vekt ved at spesifikke posisjoner inntatt for tre år siden, vil
-være utdaterte og irrelevante for de forhandlingene som fortsatt
-pågår, mens de store linjene som fortsatt er relevante, er kjente
-posisjoner hos forhandlingspartnerne. Disse sistnevnte posisjonene er
-igjen av stor offentlig interesse. Dermed må SD falle tilbake på
-utgangspunktet om at unntaket ikke kommer til anvendelse fordi det er
-tre år siden de aktuelle forhandlingene ble avsluttet.</p>
-
-<p>Subsidiært anføres at sistnevnte uansett må tillegges avgjørende
-vekt i vurderingen av meroffentlighet. Dette gjelder både i
-vurderingen opp mot bokstav b og c i §20. Uten å praktisere
-meroffentlighet kan ikke det offentlige rommet bidra med viktige
-innsikter vedrørende regulering av Internettet. Det vitenskapelige
-miljøet og andre fagfolk avspises i stedet med å ta nye reguleringer
-til etterretning. Internettet angår oss alle, og ikke bare statens
-sikkerhet, men alles sikkerhet mot å bli overvåket og mot at
-personopplysninger kommer på avveie. Den enkelte borger trenger i et
-velfungerende demokrati å kunne gjøre seg kjent med hva som er Norges
-posisjoner i reguleringen av Internettet. Offentligheten har således
-en særskilt interesse i at det praktiseres meroffentlighet i saker som
-vedgår 'Internet Governance' og sikkerhet.</p>
-
-<p>Det er for øvrig påtakelig at UD og SD begrunner avslaget
-ulikt. Begrunnelsene framstår dermed som tilfeldige og
-vikarierende. Hvorfor vektlegger ikke SD at det er forutsatt at møtet
-ikke skulle være offentlig? Er det slik å forstå at SD mener at dette
-ikke er tilfellet? Hvorfor vektlegger ikke UD at Norges posisjoner med
-tanke på framtidige forhandlinger vil bli avdekket? Mener UD at dette
-ikke er tilfellet?</p>
-
-<p>Det anføres at de ulike begrunnelsene viser at begjæringen om
-innsyn ikke har vært grundig vurdert, og dermed enda mindre hvilke
-opplysninger som i tilfellet må unntas offentlighet. I stedet antyder
-de ulike begrunnelsene at UD eller SD, eller begge, summarisk avslår
-innsyn basert på overflatiske kriterier uten en konkret rettslig
-vurdering av hvilke opplysninger som det kan gjøres unntak for. Dette
-blir særlig framtredende tatt i betraktning at dokumentet er tre år
-gammelt og spesifikke posisjoner i det aktuelle møtet vil være
-utdaterte mens generelle posisjoner vil være av største allmenne
-interesse. SD kan ikke bli hørt med, jf. det endelige avslaget av
-28.8.2105, at i 'denne saken unntas hele dokumentet, fordi hele
-dokumentet inneholder informasjon som oppfyller unntaksvilkårene' i
-§20.</p>
-
-<p>Likeledes for unntak etter bokstav b, selv om arrangøren vil at
-møtet skulle unntas offentlighet, må UD vurdere hvilke opplysninger
-som er påkrevd unntatt ut fra om innsyn vil utgjøre en fare for
-skadevirkninger av et visst omfang for norske utenrikspolitiske
-interesser. Dersom UD ikke gjør det, vil enhver forutsetning om
-ikke-offentlighet innebære at alle dokumenter i sin helhet alltid
-unntas offentlighet. Dette vil være i direkte strid med bokstav b i
-§20 som ikke gir en generell adgang til å holde dokumenter unna
-offentligheten. Dette har lovgiver allerede vurdert og konkret tatt
-stilling til og, som påpekt, gir bokstav b kun unntak for
-opplysninger, ikke for dokumenter. Til dette anfører vi at det er
-direkte feil når det i den omtalte veilederen står at delvis 'innsyn
-vil truleg i praksis oftast vere aktuelt når det blir gjort unntak
-etter § 20 fyrste ledd bokstav c' (s. 134). Det er ikke holdepunkter
-for en slik tolkning i forarbeidene. Videre bemerker denne siden at
-verken UD eller SD har påberopt seg at 'det vil vere urimeleg
-arbeidskrevjande [...] å skilje' ut deler av dokumentet.</p>
-
-<p>Det anføres avslutningsvis at en lettvin vurdering og avslag av
-innsynsbegjæringen understreker at departementene ikke kan ha vurdert
-meroffentlighet slik §11 forutsetter.</p>
-
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Klagesaken fikk saksnummer 2015/2866 hos Sivilombudsmannen, og
-foreløpig svar fulgte noen dager etter at vi sendte inn klagen:
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>FORELØPIG SVAR - SAK OM INNSYN I BREV OM «INTERNET GOVERNANCE»</p>
-
-<p>Ombudsmannen har mottatt ditt brev 17. september 2015 med vedlegg på
-vegne av Norsk Unix User Group, som igjen representerer sitt medlem
-Petter Reinholdtsen. Brevet ble mottatt her 14. oktober 2015.</p>
-
-<p>Saken gjelder for det første spørsmål om rett til innsyn hos
-Utenriksdepartementet og Samferdselsdepartementet i et dokument med
-tittelen «Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal sikkerhet».
-Det klages på Utenriksdepartementets avslag på innsyn i dokumentet
-23. juli 2015 og Samferdselsdepartementets avslag på innsyn, som etter
-klage ble opprettholdt 28. august 2015. Klagen gjelder også manglende
-journalføring hos FN-delegasjonen i Genève.</p>
-
-<p>Samferdselsdepartementet er i brev herfra i dag bedt om å oversendte
-sakens dokumenter, se vedlagte kopi. Når dokumentene er mottatt, vil
-ombudsmannen vurdere om den delen av klagen som gjelder
-Samferdselsdepartementets behandling av innsynsbegjæringen gir grunn
-til videre behandling.</p>
-
-<p>Det fremgår av klagen at Reinholdtsen klaget til Utenriksdepartementet
-på departementets avslag, men at han ikke har fått svar, og at han
-purret departementet 7. oktober 2015. Det er herfra tatt kontakt med
-Utenriksdepartementet Birger Veum opplyste til seniorrådgiver
-Elisabeth Fougner, at svaret på grunn av en intern misforståelse ikke
-er blitt sendt ut, men at Reinholdtsen nå vil få svar i løpet av få
-dager.</p>
-
-<p>Ombudsmannens kontroll med forvaltningen skal være etterfølgende. Det
-vil si at en sak ikke kan behandles før den er endelig avgjort i
-forvaltningen. I første omgang må Norsk Unix User Group derfor
-avvente Utenriksdepartementet behandling av klagen. Når departementet
-har gitt et svar, kan det eventuelt rettes en ny klage hit om saken.
-Dersom Reinholdtsen ikke snarlig mottar svar fra departementet kan det
-også sendes en ny klage hit om dette.</p>
-
-<p>Prinsippet om at ombudsmannens kontroll skal være etterfølgende
-tilsier også at Riksarkivet, som har tilsynssvar for arkivarbeid i
-offentlige organer, bør ta stilling til klagen på manglende
-journalføring hos den norske FN-delegasjonen i Genève før spørsmålet
-behandles her. Norsk Unix User Group må derfor i første omgang ta
-denne delen av klagen opp med Riksarkivet. Når Riksarkivet har tatt
-endelig stilling til Journalføringsspørsmålet, kan det eventuelt
-rettes en ny klage hit om dette spørsmålet.</p>
-
-<p>Det vil bli gikk tilbakemelding i saken om Samferdselsdepartementets
-avslag på innsyn innen 2 - 4 uker.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Henvendelsen fra Sivilombudsmannen til Samferdselsdepartementet ble
-gitt samme saksnummer som opprinnelig avslag (sak
-<a href="https://oep.no/search/result.html?period=none&dateType=documentDate&descType=both&caseNumber=2015%2F3192&senderType=both&documentType=all&list2=89&searchType=advanced&Search=S%C3%B8k+i+journaler">2015/3192</a>),
-og jeg ser fra Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal (OEP) at
-Samferdselsdepartementet har svart Sivilombudsmannen 2015-10-29.
-Venter spent på hva de kommer frem til der.</p>
-
-<p>Vi ble bedt om å ta opp manglende journalføring først med
-Riksarkivet, så der sendte jeg inn et
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/journalforing_av_brevepost_for_k">spørsmål
-om innsyn i praksis og klage på manglende journalføring via Mimes
-brønn</a>, og har fått beskjed om at denne har fått
-<a href="https://oep.no/search/result.html?period=none&fromDate=&toDate=&dateType=documentDate&caseDescription=&descType=both&caseNumber=2015%2F29039&documentNumber=&sender=&senderType=both&documentType=all&legalAuthority=&archiveCode=&list2=159&searchType=advanced&Search=S%C3%B8k+i+journaler">saksnummer
-2015/29039</a>. Den saken har ikke dukket opp på OEP i skrivende
-stund, men jeg antar den kommer inn om noen dager.</p>
-
-<p>Samtidig som Sivilombudsmannen sendte oss det foreløpige svaret om
-avslaget fra Samferdselsdepartementet kom Utenriksdepartementets svar
-der de opprettholdt avslaget på innsyn. Dette sendte vi beskjed om
-til Sivilombudsmannen like etter:
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Vi viser til Sivilombudsmannens foreløpige svar av 22.10.2015.</p>
-
-<p>Utenriksdepartementet opprettholdt den 22.10.2015 sitt avslag, se
-siste postering i linken:</p>
-
-<p>&lt;<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p">https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p</a>&gt;</p>
-
-<p>Originaldokumentet fra Utenriksdepartementet kan lastes ned fra den
-samme posteringen.</p>
-
-<p>Saken er dermed endelig avgjort i forvaltningen. Vi ber
-Sivilombudsmannen om å ta opp igjen vår klage til fortsatt
-behandling.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Dette brevet ble tilordnet ny sak 2015/3077 hos Sivilombudsmannen,
-som så vidt jeg kan forstå gjelder klagen mot Utenriksdepartementet.
-Postjournalen hos Sivilombudsmannen har kun det ene dokumentet så
-langt, og jeg fant ingenting hos Utenriksdepartementet fra
-Sivilombudsmannen i OEP. Regner med at det dukker opp mer om noen
-dager, når Sivilombudsmannen har bedt om mer informasjon.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg venter spent på fortsettelsen.</p>
-
-<p>Oppdatering 2015-11-17: Innsynshenvendelsen og klagen har fått <a href="https://oep.no/search/result.html?period=none&dateType=documentDate&descType=both&caseNumber=2015%2F9816&senderType=both&documentType=all&list2=93&searchType=advanced&Search=S%C3%B8k+i+journaler">saksnummer 2015/9816</a> hos Utenriksdepartementet.</p>
+ <title>Tor - from its creators mouth 11 years ago</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tor___from_its_creators_mouth_11_years_ago.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tor___from_its_creators_mouth_11_years_ago.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2016 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A little more than 11 years ago, one of the creators of Tor, and
+the current President of <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">the Tor
+project</a>, Roger Dingledine, gave a talk for the members of the
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User group</a> (NUUG). A
+video of the talk was recorded, and today, thanks to the great help
+from David Noble, I finally was able to publish the video of the talk
+on Frikanalen, the Norwegian open channel TV station where NUUG
+currently publishes its talks. You can
+<a href="http://frikanalen.no/se">watch the live stream using a web
+browser</a> with WebM support, or check out the recording on the video
+on demand page for the talk
+"<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625599">Tor: Anonymous
+communication for the US Department of Defence...and you.</a>".</p>
+
+<p>Here is the video included for those of you using browsers with
+HTML video and Ogg Theora support:</p>
+
+<p><video width="70%" poster="http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/large_thumb/20050421-tor-frikanalen.jpg" controls>
+ <source src="http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/theora/20050421-tor-frikanalen.ogv" type="video/ogg"/>
+</video></p>
+
+<p>I guess the gist of the talk can be summarised quite simply: If you
+want to help the military in USA (and everyone else), use Tor. :)</p>
</description>
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