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-               <title>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
-re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.  I
-am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people&quot;&gt;sited
-by The Hill and others&lt;/a&gt;:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&quot;An American president does not lead the Free World by
-congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
-phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
-have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar&quot;&gt;kidnapped a
-completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
-Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
-sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
-one taken by any Free World.&lt;/p&gt;
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-               <title>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
-(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
-mostly in the USA.  What I find a bit surprising, is how little
-criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
-Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place.  And what about the
-people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
-And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
-handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
-No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
-that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
-lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
-selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
-in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed.  It is well known that
-Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
-nevertheless.  Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
-would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
-information about the millions of Facebook users.  Collected
-information will be misused sooner or later.  The only way to avoid
-such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place.  If
-you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
-the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
-information.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
-account, and take back some control of your personal information.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely&quot;&gt;According
-to The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
-account removal (and not just &#39;disabling&#39;).  You need to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content&quot;&gt;visit
-a specific Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; and click on &#39;let us know&#39; on that page
-to get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account&quot;&gt;the
-real account deletion screen&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps something to consider?  I
-would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
-perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
-exposure a bit.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
-Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
-Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; last april about
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/&quot;&gt;
-Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
-politics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
-use some end-to-end encrypted method like
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.signal.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; or
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx/&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;, and stop sharing your private
-messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Web browser integration of VLC with Bittorrent support</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Bittorrent is as far as I know, currently the most efficient way to
+distribute content on the Internet.  It is used all by all sorts of
+content providers, from national TV stations like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;, Linux distributors like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and of course the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;Internet archive&lt;/A&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;Almost a month ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a new
+package adding Bittorrent support to VLC&lt;/a&gt; became available in
+Debian testing and unstable.  To test it, simply install it like
+this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since the plugin was made available for the first time in Debian,
+several improvements have been made to it.  In version 2.2-4, now
+available in both testing and unstable, a desktop file is provided to
+teach browsers to start VLC when the user click on torrent files or
+magnet links.  The last part is thanks to me finally understanding
+what the strange x-scheme-handler style MIME types in desktop files
+are used for.  By adding x-scheme-handler/magnet to the MimeType entry
+in the desktop file, at least the browsers Firefox and Chromium will
+suggest to start VLC when selecting a magnet URI on a web page.  The
+end result is that now, with the plugin installed in Buster and Sid,
+one can visit any
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p&quot;&gt;Internet
+Archive page with movies&lt;/a&gt; using a web browser and click on the
+torrent link to start streaming the movie.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin.  One is the
+fact that it will hang and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/13&quot;&gt;block VLC
+from exiting until the torrent streaming starts&lt;/a&gt;.  Another is the
+fact that it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/9&quot;&gt;will pick
+and play a random file in a multi file torrent&lt;/a&gt;.  This is not
+always the video file you want.  Combined with the first it can be a
+bit hard to get the video streaming going.  But when it work, it seem
+to do a good job.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For the Debian packaging, I would love to find a good way to test
+if the plugin work with VLC using autopkgtest.  I tried, but do not
+know enough of the inner workings of VLC to get it working.  For now
+the autopkgtest script is only checking if the .so file was
+successfully loaded by VLC.  If you have any suggestions, please
+submit a patch to the Debian bug tracking system.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>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>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;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.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true&quot;&gt;Stortingets
-flertallsinnstilling&lt;/a&gt; er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
-at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
-undersøkelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-  &lt;p&gt;«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.»&lt;/p&gt;
-  
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
-blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
-lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
-og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
-websider&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
+               <title>Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;This morning, the new release of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/&quot;&gt;Nikita
+Noark 5 core project&lt;/a&gt; was
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2018-October/000406.html&quot;&gt;announced
+on the project mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  The free software solution is an
+implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
+government offices in Norway.  These were the changes in version 0.2
+since version 0.1.1 (from NEWS.md):
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix typos in REL names&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Tidy up error message reporting&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger()&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Change some String handling to StringBuffer&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix error reporting&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Code tidy-up&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid 
+      race conditions&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update methods to make them null-safe&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix many issues reported by coverity&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix CORS issues when downloading document&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Adding concept description of mail integration&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Better handling of required values during deserialisation &lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve parse error reporting.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Started on OData search and filtering.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Added support for OAuth2 authentication.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected handling of date/datetime fields.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe,
+   ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Several fixes for korrespondansepart*.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated web GUI:
+     &lt;ul&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Now handle both file upload and download.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Forms now fetches default values from API using GET.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats.&lt;/li&gt;
+     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The changes and improvements are extensive.  Running diffstat on
+the changes between git tab 0.1.1 and 0.2 show 1098 files changed,
+108666 insertions(+), 54066 deletions(-).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
+you, please contact us on IRC
+(&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita&quot;&gt;#nikita on
+irc.freenode.net&lt;/a&gt;) or email
+(&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark&quot;&gt;nikita-noark
+mailing list&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address

 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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-               <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>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
-translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc&quot;&gt;Made with Creative Commons from 2017&lt;/a&gt;
-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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The whole book project started when
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://gwolf.org/node/4102&quot;&gt;Gunnar Wolf announced&lt;/a&gt; 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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian&quot;&gt;The Debian
-Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The translation is conducted using
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/&quot;&gt;the
-Weblate web based translation system&lt;/a&gt;.  Please have a look there
-and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
-reading. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Fetching trusted timestamps using the rfc3161ng python module</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fetching_trusted_timestamps_using_the_rfc3161ng_python_module.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fetching_trusted_timestamps_using_the_rfc3161ng_python_module.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2018 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I have  earlier covered the basics of trusted timestamping using the
+&#39;openssl ts&#39; client.  See blog post for
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html&quot;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/syslog_trusted_timestamp___chain_of_trusted_timestamps_for_your_syslog.html&quot;&gt;2016&lt;/a&gt;
+and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_trusted_timestamps_in_a_Noark_5_archive.html&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;
+for those stories.  But some times I want to integrate the timestamping
+in other code, and recently I needed to integrate it into Python.
+After searching a bit, I found
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://dev.entrouvert.org/projects/python-rfc3161&quot;&gt;the
+rfc3161 library&lt;/a&gt; which seemed like a good fit, but I soon
+discovered it only worked for python version 2, and I needed something
+that work with python version 3.  Luckily I next came across
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/trbs/rfc3161ng/&quot;&gt;the rfc3161ng library&lt;/a&gt;,
+a fork of the original rfc3161 library.  Not only is it working with
+python 3, it have fixed a few of the bugs in the original library, and
+it has an active maintainer.  I decided to wrap it up and make it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-rfc3161ng&quot;&gt;available in
+Debian&lt;/a&gt;, and a few days ago it entered Debian unstable and testing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Using the library is fairly straight forward.  The only slightly
+problematic step is to fetch the required certificates to verify the
+timestamp.  For some services it is straight forward, while for others
+I have not yet figured out how to do it.  Here is a small standalone
+code example based on of the integration tests in the library code:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+&quot;&quot;&quot;
+
+Python 3 script demonstrating how to use the rfc3161ng module to
+get trusted timestamps.
+
+The license of this code is the same as the license of the rfc3161ng
+library, ie MIT/BSD.
+
+&quot;&quot;&quot;
+
+import os
+import pyasn1.codec.der
+import rfc3161ng
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import urllib.request
+
+def store(f, data):
+    f.write(data)
+    f.flush()
+    f.seek(0)
+
+def fetch(url, f=None):
+    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
+    data = response.read()
+    if f:
+        store(f, data)
+    return data
+
+def main():
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as cert_f,\
+        tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as ca_f,\
+        tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as msg_f,\
+        tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tsr_f:
+
+        # First fetch certificates used by service
+        certificate_data = fetch(&#39;https://freetsa.org/files/tsa.crt&#39;, cert_f)
+        ca_data_data = fetch(&#39;https://freetsa.org/files/cacert.pem&#39;, ca_f)
+
+        # Then timestamp the message
+        timestamper = \
+            rfc3161ng.RemoteTimestamper(&#39;http://freetsa.org/tsr&#39;,
+                                        certificate=certificate_data)
+        data = b&quot;Python forever!\n&quot;
+        tsr = timestamper(data=data, return_tsr=True)
+
+        # Finally, convert message and response to something &#39;openssl ts&#39; can verify
+        store(msg_f, data)
+        store(tsr_f, pyasn1.codec.der.encoder.encode(tsr))
+        args = [&quot;openssl&quot;, &quot;ts&quot;, &quot;-verify&quot;,
+                &quot;-data&quot;, msg_f.name,
+               &quot;-in&quot;, tsr_f.name,
+               &quot;-CAfile&quot;, ca_f.name,
+                &quot;-untrusted&quot;, cert_f.name]
+        subprocess.check_call(args)
+
+if &#39;__main__&#39; == __name__:
+   main()
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The code fetches the required certificates, store them as temporary
+files, timestamp a simple message, store the message and timestamp to
+disk and ask &#39;openssl ts&#39; to verify the timestamp.  A timestamp is
+around 1.5 kiB in size, and should be fairly easy to store for future
+use.&lt;/p&gt;

 
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 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 
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-               <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>&lt;p&gt;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:
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[photo of subway info screen]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
-content on the screen worries me.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The image show the version booting is &#39;Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid&#39;,
-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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history&quot;&gt;a Debian
-version history on Wikpedia&lt;/a&gt;.  This mean the system is running
-around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
-many years.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
-Ruter, running outdated software.  In 2012,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html&quot;&gt;I
-discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000&lt;/a&gt;,
-and this was
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html&quot;&gt;still
-the case in 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The photo is made available under the license terms
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
-4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Automatic Google Drive sync using grive in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Google_Drive_sync_using_grive_in_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Google_Drive_sync_using_grive_in_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 4 Oct 2018 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days, I rescued a Windows victim over to Debian.  To try to
+rescue the remains, I helped set up automatic sync with Google Drive.
+I did not find any sensible Debian package handling this
+automatically, so I rebuild the grive2 source from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webupd8.org/&quot;&gt;the Ubuntu UPD8 PPA&lt;/a&gt; to do the
+task and added a autostart desktop entry and a small shell script to
+run in the background while the user is logged in to do the sync.
+Here is a sketch of the setup for future reference.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I first created &lt;tt&gt;~/googledrive&lt;/tt&gt;, entered the directory and
+ran &#39;&lt;tt&gt;grive -a&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to authenticate the machine/user.  Next, I
+created a autostart hook in &lt;tt&gt;~/.config/autostart/grive.desktop&lt;/tt&gt;
+to start the sync when the user log in:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+[Desktop Entry]
+Name=Google drive autosync
+Type=Application
+Exec=/home/user/bin/grive-sync
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Finally, I wrote the &lt;tt&gt;~/bin/grive-sync&lt;/tt&gt; script to sync
+~/googledrive/ with the files in Google Drive.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+cd ~/
+cleanup() {
+    if [ &quot;$syncpid&quot; ] ; then
+        kill $syncpid
+    fi
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT QUIT
+/usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh listen googledrive 2&gt;&amp;1 | sed &quot;s%^%$0:%&quot; &amp;
+syncpdi=$!
+while true; do
+    if ! xhost &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 ; then
+        echo &quot;no DISPLAY, exiting as the user probably logged out&quot;
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if [ ! -e /run/user/1000/grive-sync.sh_googledrive ] ; then
+        /usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh sync googledrive
+    fi
+    sleep 300
+done 2&gt;&amp;1 | sed &quot;s%^%$0:%&quot;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Feel free to use the setup if you want.  It can be assumed to be
+GNU GPL v2 licensed (or any later version, at your leisure), but I
+doubt this code is possible to claim copyright on.&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the
-traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until
-systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit&quot;&gt;The upstream
-project still exist&lt;/a&gt;, though, and up until today, the upstream
-source was available from Savannah via subversion.  I am happy to
-report that this just changed.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three
-repositories:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Valutakrambod - A python and bitcoin love story</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Valutakrambod___A_python_and_bitcoin_love_story.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Valutakrambod___A_python_and_bitcoin_love_story.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It would come as no surprise to anyone that I am interested in
+bitcoins and virtual currencies.  I&#39;ve been keeping an eye on virtual
+currencies for many years, and it is part of the reason a few months
+ago, I started writing a python library for collecting currency
+exchange rates and trade on virtual currency exchanges.  I decided to
+name the end result valutakrambod, which perhaps can be translated to
+small currency shop.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The library uses the tornado python library to handle HTTP and
+websocket connections, and provide a asynchronous system for
+connecting to and tracking several services.  The code is available
+from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/valutakrambod&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/p&gt;There are two example clients of the library.  One is very simple and
+list every updated buy/sell price received from the various services.
+This code is started by running bin/btc-rates and call the client code
+in valutakrambod/client.py.  The simple client look like this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+import functools
+import tornado.ioloop
+import valutakrambod
+class SimpleClient(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.services = []
+        self.streams = []
+        pass
+    def newdata(self, service, pair, changed):
+        print(&quot;%-15s %s-%s: %8.3f %8.3f&quot; % (
+            service.servicename(),
+            pair[0],
+            pair[1],
+            service.rates[pair][&#39;ask&#39;],
+            service.rates[pair][&#39;bid&#39;])
+        )
+    async def refresh(self, service):
+        await service.fetchRates(service.wantedpairs)
+    def run(self):
+        self.ioloop = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.current()
+        self.services = valutakrambod.service.knownServices()
+        for e in self.services:
+            service = e()
+            service.subscribe(self.newdata)
+            stream = service.websocket()
+            if stream:
+                self.streams.append(stream)
+            else:
+                # Fetch information from non-streaming services immediately
+                self.ioloop.call_later(len(self.services),
+                                       functools.partial(self.refresh, service))
+                # as well as regularly
+                service.periodicUpdate(60)
+        for stream in self.streams:
+            stream.connect()
+        try:
+            self.ioloop.start()
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            print(&quot;Interrupted by keyboard, closing all connections.&quot;)
+            pass
+        for stream in self.streams:
+            stream.close()
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git&quot;&gt;sysvinit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/insserv.git&quot;&gt;insserv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/startpar.git&quot;&gt;startpar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The library client loops over all known &quot;public&quot; services,
+initialises it, subscribes to any updates from the service, checks and
+activates websocket streaming if the service provide it, and if no
+streaming is supported, fetches information from the service and sets
+up a periodic update every 60 seconds.  The output from this client
+can look like this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.560 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.560 6593.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.570 6593.690
+Bitstamp        EUR-USD:    1.159    1.154
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.570 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Paymium         BTC-EUR: 5680.000 5620.240
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The exchange order book is tracked in addition to the best buy/sell
+price, for those that need to know the details.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The other example client is focusing on providing a curses view
+with updated buy/sell prices as soon as they are received from the
+services.  This code is located in bin/btc-rates-curses and activated
+by using the &#39;-c&#39; argument.  Without the argument the &quot;curses&quot; output
+is printed without using curses, which is useful for debugging.  The
+curses view look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+           Name Pair   Bid         Ask         Spr    Ftcd    Age
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCEUR   5591.8400   5711.0800   2.1%   16    nan     60
+       Bitfinex BTCEUR   5671.0000   5671.2000   0.0%   16     22     59
+        Bitmynt BTCEUR   5580.8000   5807.5200   3.9%   16     41     60
+         Bitpay BTCEUR   5663.2700         nan   nan%   15    nan     60
+       Bitstamp BTCEUR   5664.8400   5676.5300   0.2%    0      1      1
+           Bl3p BTCEUR   5653.6900   5684.9400   0.5%    0    nan     19
+       Coinbase BTCEUR   5600.8200   5714.9000   2.0%   15    nan    nan
+         Kraken BTCEUR   5670.1000   5670.2000   0.0%   14     17     60
+        Paymium BTCEUR   5620.0600   5680.0000   1.1%    1   7515    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCNOK  52898.9700  54034.6100   2.1%   16    nan     60
+        Bitmynt BTCNOK  52960.3200  54031.1900   2.0%   16     41     60
+         Bitpay BTCNOK  53477.7833         nan   nan%   16    nan     60
+       Coinbase BTCNOK  52990.3500  54063.0600   2.0%   15    nan    nan
+        MiraiEx BTCNOK  52856.5300  54100.6000   2.3%   16    nan    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCUSD   6495.5300   6631.5400   2.1%   16    nan     60
+       Bitfinex BTCUSD   6590.6000   6590.7000   0.0%   16     23     57
+         Bitpay BTCUSD   6564.1300         nan   nan%   15    nan     60
+       Bitstamp BTCUSD   6561.1400   6565.6200   0.1%    0      2      1
+       Coinbase BTCUSD   6504.0600   6635.9700   2.0%   14    nan    117
+         Gemini BTCUSD   6567.1300   6573.0700   0.1%   16     89    nan
+         Hitbtc+BTCUSD   6592.6200   6594.2100   0.0%    0      0      0
+         Kraken BTCUSD   6565.2000   6570.9000   0.1%   15     17     58
+  Exchangerates EURNOK      9.4665      9.4665   0.0%   16 107789    nan
+     Norgesbank EURNOK      9.4665      9.4665   0.0%   16 107789    nan
+       Bitstamp EURUSD      1.1537      1.1593   0.5%    4      5      1
+  Exchangerates EURUSD      1.1576      1.1576   0.0%   16 107789    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCEUR      1.0000     49.0000  98.0%   16    nan    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCNOK    492.4800    503.7500   2.2%   16    nan     60
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCUSD      1.0221     49.0000  97.9%   15    nan    nan
+     Norgesbank USDNOK      8.1777      8.1777   0.0%   16 107789    nan
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The code for this client is too complex for a simple blog post, so
+you will have to check out the git repository to figure out how it
+work.  What I can tell is how the three last numbers on each line
+should be interpreted.  The first is how many seconds ago information
+was received from the service.  The second is how long ago, according
+to the service, the provided information was updated.  The last is an
+estimate on how often the buy/sell values change.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;I do not really spend much time on the project these days, and I
-has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good
-version control system to help those willing to move it forward.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you find this library useful, or would like to improve it, I
+would love to hear from you.  Note that for some of the services I&#39;ve
+implemented a trading API.  It might be the topic of a future blog
+post.&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, a new major version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.videolan.org/&quot;&gt;VLC&lt;/a&gt; was announced, and I
-decided to check out if it now supported streaming over
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bittorrent.org/&quot;&gt;bittorrent&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://webtorrent.io&quot;&gt;webtorrent&lt;/a&gt;.  Bittorrent is one of
-the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and
-Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://webrtc.org&quot;&gt;WebRTC&lt;/a&gt; as its transport channel,
-allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique.
-The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client
-supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other.
-I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look.
-Looking at
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html&quot;&gt;the release
-notes&lt;/a&gt; did not help answering this question, so I started searching
-the web.  I found several news articles from 2013, most of them
-tracing the news from Torrentfreak
-(&quot;&lt;a href=https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-giant-vlc-mulls-bittorrent-support-130211/&quot;&gt;Open
-Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support&lt;/a&gt;&quot;), about a
-initiative to pay someone to create a VLC patch for bittorrent
-support.  To figure out what happend with this initiative, I headed
-over to the #videolan IRC channel and asked if there were some bug or
-feature request tickets tracking such feature.  I got an answer from
-lead developer Jean-Babtiste Kempf, telling me that there was a patch
-but neither he nor anyone else knew where it was.  So I searched a bit
-more, and came across an independent
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent&quot;&gt;VLC plugin to add
-bittorrent support&lt;/a&gt;, created by Johan Gunnarsson in 2016/2017.
-Again according to Jean-Babtiste, this is not the patch he was talking
-about.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Anyway, to test the plugin, I made a working Debian package from
-the git repository, with some modifications.  After installing this
-package, I could stream videos from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; using VLC
-commands like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>VLC in Debian now can do bittorrent streaming</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_in_Debian_now_can_do_bittorrent_streaming.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_in_Debian_now_can_do_bittorrent_streaming.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in February, I got curious to see
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html&quot;&gt;if
+VLC now supported Bittorrent streaming&lt;/a&gt;.  It did not, despite the
+fact that the idea and code to handle such streaming had been floating
+around for years.  I did however find
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a standalone plugin
+for VLC&lt;/a&gt; to do it, and half a year later I decided to wrap up the
+plugin and get it into Debian.  I uploaded it to NEW a few days ago,
+and am very happy to report that it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;entered
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; a few hours ago, and should be available in Debian/Unstable
+tomorrow, and Debian/Testing in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With the vlc-plugin-bittorrent package installed you should be able
+to stream videos using a simple call to&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-vlc https://archive.org/download/LoveNest/LoveNest_archive.torrent
+vlc https://archive.org/download/TheGoat/TheGoat_archive.torrent

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;The plugin is supposed to handle magnet links too, but since The
-Internet Archive do not have magnet links and I did not want to spend
-time tracking down another source, I have not tested it.  It can take
-quite a while before the video start playing without any indication of
-what is going on from VLC.  It took 10-20 seconds when I measured it.
-Some times the plugin seem unable to find the correct video file to
-play, and show the metadata XML file name in the VLC status line.  I
-have no idea why.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/890360&quot;&gt;request for
-a new package in Debian (RFP)&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/1&quot;&gt;asked if
-the upstream author is willing to help make this happen&lt;/a&gt;.  Now we
-wait to see what come out of this.  I do not want to maintain a
-package that is not maintained upstream, nor do I really have time to
-maintain more packages myself, so I might leave it at this.  But I
-really hope someone step up to do the packaging, and hope upstream is
-still maintaining the source.  If you want to help, please update the
-RFP request or the upstream issue.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have not found any traces of webtorrent support for VLC.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;It can handle magnet links too.  Now if only native vlc had
+bittorrent support.  Then a lot more would be helping each other to
+share public domain and creative commons movies.  The plugin need some
+stability work with seeking and picking the right file in a torrent
+with many files, but is already usable.  Please note that the plugin
+is not removing downloaded files when vlc is stopped, so it can fill
+up your disk if you are not careful.  Have fun. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would love to get help maintaining this package.  Get in touch if
+you are interested.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 
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-               <title>Version 3.1 of Cura, the 3D print slicer, is now in Debian</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Version_3_1_of_Cura__the_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Version_3_1_of_Cura__the_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A new version of the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura&quot;&gt;3D printer slicer
-software Cura&lt;/a&gt;, version 3.1.0, is now available in Debian Testing
-(aka Buster) and Debian Unstable (aka Sid).  I hope you find it
-useful.  It was uploaded the last few days, and the last update will
-enter testing tomorrow.  See the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura-software/release-notes&quot;&gt;release
-notes&lt;/a&gt; for the list of bug fixes and new features.  Version 3.2
-was announced 6 days ago.  We will try to get it into Debian as
-well.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;More information related to 3D printing is available on the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/3DPrinting&quot;&gt;3D printing&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/3D-printer&quot;&gt;3D printer&lt;/a&gt; wiki pages
-in Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Using the Kodi API to play Youtube videos</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_the_Kodi_API_to_play_Youtube_videos.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_the_Kodi_API_to_play_Youtube_videos.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I continue to explore my Kodi installation, and today I wanted to
+tell it to play a youtube URL I received in a chat, without having to
+insert search terms using the on-screen keyboard.  After searching the
+web for API access to the Youtube plugin and testing a bit, I managed
+to find a recipe that worked.  If you got a kodi instance with its API
+available from http://kodihost/jsonrpc, you can try the following to
+have check out a nice cover band.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;curl --silent --header &#39;Content-Type: application/json&#39; \
+  --data-binary &#39;{ &quot;id&quot;: 1, &quot;jsonrpc&quot;: &quot;2.0&quot;, &quot;method&quot;: &quot;Player.Open&quot;,
+  &quot;params&quot;: {&quot;item&quot;: { &quot;file&quot;:
+  &quot;plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=LuRGVM9O0qg&quot; } } }&#39; \
+  http://projector.local/jsonrpc&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve extended kodi-stream program to take a video source as its
+first argument.  It can now handle direct video links, youtube links
+and &#39;desktop&#39; to stream my desktop to Kodi.  It is almost like a
+Chromecast. :)&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>Overvåkning i Kina vs. Norge</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Overv_kning_i_Kina_vs__Norge.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Overv_kning_i_Kina_vs__Norge.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg lar meg fascinere av en artikkel
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/terroristene-star-pa-dora/69436116&quot;&gt;i
-Dagbladet om Kinas håndtering av Xinjiang&lt;/a&gt;, spesielt følgende
-utsnitt:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;«I den sørvestlige byen Kashgar nærmere grensa til
-Sentral-Asia meldes det nå at 120.000 uigurer er internert i såkalte
-omskoleringsleirer. Samtidig er det innført et omfattende
-helsesjekk-program med innsamling og lagring av DNA-prøver fra
-absolutt alle innbyggerne. De mest avanserte overvåkingsmetodene
-testes ut her. Programmer for å gjenkjenne ansikter og stemmer er på
-plass i regionen. Der har de lokale myndighetene begynt å installere
-GPS-systemer i alle kjøretøy og egne sporingsapper i
-mobiltelefoner.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Politimetodene griper så dypt inn i folks dagligliv at motstanden
-mot Beijing-regimet øker.»&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Beskrivelsen avviker jo desverre ikke så veldig mye fra tilstanden
-her i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;table&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;
-&lt;th&gt;Dataregistrering&lt;/th&gt;
-&lt;th&gt;Kina&lt;/th&gt;
-&lt;th&gt;Norge&lt;/th&gt;
-
-&lt;tr&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Innsamling og lagring av DNA-prøver fra befolkningen&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Delvis, planlagt for alle nyfødte.&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;/tr&gt;
-
-&lt;tr&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ansiktsgjenkjenning&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;/tr&gt;
-
-&lt;tr&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Stemmegjenkjenning&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Nei&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;/tr&gt;
-
-&lt;tr&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Posisjons-sporing av mobiltelefoner&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;/tr&gt;
-
-&lt;tr&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Posisjons-sporing av biler&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;td&gt;Ja&lt;/td&gt;
-&lt;/tr&gt;
-
-&lt;/table&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I Norge har jo situasjonen rundt Folkehelseinstituttets lagring av
-DNA-informasjon på vegne av politiet, der de nektet å slette
-informasjon politiet ikke hadde lov til å ta vare på, gjort det klart
-at DNA tar vare på ganske lenge.  I tillegg finnes det utallige
-biobanker som lagres til evig tid, og det er planer om å innføre
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/75E9/4-av-10-mener-staten-bor-lagre-DNA-profiler-pa-alle-nyfodte&quot;&gt;evig
-lagring av DNA-materiale fra alle spebarn som fødes&lt;/a&gt; (med mulighet
-for å be om sletting).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I Norge er det system på plass for ansiktsgjenkjenning, som
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/norge/kun-gardermoen-har-teknologi-for-ansiktsgjenkjenning-i-norge-1.12719461&quot;&gt;en
-NRK-artikkel fra 2015&lt;/a&gt; forteller er aktiv på Gardermoen, samt
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/inntil-27-000-bor-i-norge-under-falsk-id/60500781&quot;&gt;brukes
-til å analysere bilder innsamlet av myndighetene&lt;/a&gt;.  Brukes det også
-flere plasser?  Det er tett med overvåkningskamera kontrollert av
-politi og andre myndigheter i for eksempel Oslo sentrum.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg er ikke kjent med at Norge har noe system for identifisering av
-personer ved hjelp av stemmegjenkjenning.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Posisjons-sporing av mobiltelefoner er ruinemessig tilgjengelig for
-blant annet politi, NAV og Finanstilsynet, i tråd med krav i
-telefonselskapenes konsesjon.  I tillegg rapporterer smarttelefoner
-sin posisjon til utviklerne av utallige mobil-apper, der myndigheter
-og andre kan hente ut informasjon ved behov.  Det er intet behov for
-noen egen app for dette.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Posisjons-sporing av biler er rutinemessig tilgjengelig via et tett
-nett av målepunkter på veiene (automatiske bomstasjoner,
-køfribrikke-registrering, automatiske fartsmålere og andre veikamera).
-Det er i tillegg vedtatt at alle nye biler skal selges med utstyr for
-GPS-sporing (eCall).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er jammen godt vi lever i et liberalt demokrati, og ikke en
-overvåkningsstat, eller?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
+               <title>Software created using taxpayers’ money should be Free Software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_created_using_taxpayers__money_should_be_Free_Software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_created_using_taxpayers__money_should_be_Free_Software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It might seem obvious that software created using tax money should
+be available for everyone to use and improve.  Free Software
+Foundation Europe recentlystarted a campaign to help get more people
+to understand this, and I just signed the petition on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://publiccode.eu/&quot;&gt;Public Money, Public Code&lt;/a&gt; to help
+them. I hope you too will do the same.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+       <item>
+               <title>A bit more on privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_bit_more_on_privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_bit_more_on_privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I wondered if there are any privacy respecting
+health monitors and/or fitness trackers available for sale these days.
+I would like to buy one, but do not want to share my personal data
+with strangers, nor be forced to have a mobile phone to get data out
+of the unit.  I&#39;ve received some ideas, and would like to share them
+with you.
+
+One interesting data point was a pointer to a Free Software app for
+Android named
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/&quot;&gt;Gadgetbridge&lt;/a&gt;.
+It provide cloudless collection and storing of data from a variety of
+trackers.  Its
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/#supported-devices&quot;&gt;list
+of supported devices&lt;/a&gt; is a good indicator for units where the
+protocol is fairly open, as it is obviously being handled by Free
+Software.  Other units are reportedly encrypting the collected
+information with their own public key, making sure only the vendor
+cloud service is able to extract data from the unit.  The people
+contacting me about Gadgetbirde said they were using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://us.amazfit.com/shop/bip?variant=336750&quot;&gt;Amazfit
+Bip&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xiaomimi6phone.com/xiaomi-mi-band-3-features-release-date-rumors/&quot;&gt;Xiaomi
+Band 3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also got a suggestion to look at some of the units from Garmin.
+I was told their GPS watches can be connected via USB and show up as a
+USB storage device with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_garmin_fit.html&quot;&gt;Garmin
+FIT files&lt;/a&gt; containing the collected measurements.  While
+proprietary, FIT files apparently can be read at least by
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gpsbabel.org&quot;&gt;GPSBabel&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpxpod&quot;&gt;GpxPod&lt;/a&gt; Nextcloud
+app.  It is unclear to me if they can read step count and heart rate
+data.  The person I talked to was using a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/564291&quot;&gt;Garmin Forerunner
+935&lt;/a&gt;, which is a fairly expensive unit.  I doubt it is worth it for
+a unit where the vendor clearly is trying its best to move from open
+to closed systems.  I still remember when Garmin dropped NMEA support
+in its GPSes.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A final idea was to build ones own unit, perhaps by basing it on a
+wearable hardware platforms like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://learn.adafruit.com/flora-geo-watch&quot;&gt;the Flora Geo
+Watch&lt;/a&gt;.  Sound like fun, but I had more money than time to spend on
+the topic, so I suspect it will have to wait for another time.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While I was working on tracking down links, I came across an
+inspiring TED talk by Dave Debronkart about
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/DavedeBronkart_2010X&quot;&gt;being a
+e-patient&lt;/a&gt;, and discovered the web site
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/&quot;&gt;Participatory
+Medicine&lt;/a&gt;.  If you too want to track your own health and fitness
+without having information about your private life floating around on
+computers owned by others, I recommend checking it out.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address

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-               <title>How hard can æ, ø and å be?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_hard_can______and___be_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_hard_can______and___be_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-02-11-peppes-unicode.jpeg&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;/&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We write 2018, and it is 30 years since Unicode was introduced.
-Most of us in Norway have come to expect the use of our alphabet to
-just work with any computer system.  But it is apparently beyond reach
-of the computers printing recites at a restaurant.  Recently I visited
-a Peppes pizza resturant, and noticed a few details on the recite.
-Notice how &#39;ø&#39; and &#39;å&#39; are replaced with strange symbols in
-&#39;Servitør&#39;, &#39;Å BETALE&#39;, &#39;Beløp pr. gjest&#39;, &#39;Takk for besøket.&#39; and &#39;Vi
-gleder oss til å se deg igjen&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I would say that this state is passed sad and over in embarrassing.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I removed personal and private information to be nice.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Aug 2018 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Dear lazyweb,&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I wonder, is there a fitness tracker / health monitor available for
+sale today that respect the users privacy?  With this I mean a
+watch/bracelet capable of measuring pulse rate and other
+fitness/health related values (and by all means, also the correct time
+and location if possible), which is &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; provided for
+me to extract/read from the unit with computer without a radio beacon
+and Internet connection.  In other words, it do not depend on a cell
+phone app, and do make the measurements available via other peoples
+computer (aka &quot;the cloud&quot;).  The collected data should be available
+using only free software.  I&#39;m not interested in depending on some
+non-free software that will leave me high and dry some time in the
+future.  I&#39;ve been unable to find any such unit.  I would like to buy
+it.  The ones I have seen for sale here in Norway are proud to report
+that they share my health data with strangers (aka &quot;cloud enabled&quot;).
+Is there an alternative?  I&#39;m not interested in giving money to people
+requiring me to accept &quot;privacy terms&quot; to allow myself to measure my
+own health.&lt;/p&gt;

 
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