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-               <title>UsingQR - &quot;Electronic&quot; paper invoices using JSON and QR codes</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/UsingQR____Electronic__paper_invoices_using_JSON_and_QR_codes.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/UsingQR____Electronic__paper_invoices_using_JSON_and_QR_codes.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2013 I proposed
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Electronic__paper_invoices___using_vCard_in_a_QR_code.html&quot;&gt;a
-way to make paper and PDF invoices easier to process electronically by
-adding a QR code with the key information about the invoice&lt;/a&gt;.  I
-suggested using vCard field definition, to get some standard format
-for name and address, but any format would work.  I did not do
-anything about the proposal, but hoped someone one day would make
-something like it.  It would make it possible to efficiently send
-machine readable invoices directly between seller and buyer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This was the background when I came across a proposal and
-specification from the web based accounting and invoicing supplier
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.visma.com/&quot;&gt;Visma&lt;/a&gt; in Sweden called
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://usingqr.com/&quot;&gt;UsingQR&lt;/a&gt;.  Their PDF invoices contain
-a QR code with the key information of the invoice in JSON format.
-This is the typical content of a QR code following the UsingQR
-specification (based on a real world example, some numbers replaced to
-get a more bogus entry).  I&#39;ve reformatted the JSON to make it easier
-to read.  Normally this is all on one long line:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-03-19-qr-invoice.png&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-{
- &quot;vh&quot;:500.00,
- &quot;vm&quot;:0,
- &quot;vl&quot;:0,
- &quot;uqr&quot;:1,
- &quot;tp&quot;:1,
- &quot;nme&quot;:&quot;Din Leverandør&quot;,
- &quot;cc&quot;:&quot;NO&quot;,
- &quot;cid&quot;:&quot;997912345 MVA&quot;,
- &quot;iref&quot;:&quot;12300001&quot;,
- &quot;idt&quot;:&quot;20151022&quot;,
- &quot;ddt&quot;:&quot;20151105&quot;,
- &quot;due&quot;:2500.0000,
- &quot;cur&quot;:&quot;NOK&quot;,
- &quot;pt&quot;:&quot;BBAN&quot;,
- &quot;acc&quot;:&quot;17202612345&quot;,
- &quot;bc&quot;:&quot;BIENNOK1&quot;,
- &quot;adr&quot;:&quot;0313 OSLO&quot;
-}
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;/p&gt;The interpretation of the fields can be found in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://usingqr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/UsingQR_specification1.pdf&quot;&gt;format
-specification&lt;/a&gt; (revision 2 from june 2014).  The format seem to
-have most of the information needed to handle accounting and payment
-of invoices, at least the fields I have needed so far here in
-Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the site and document do not mention anything about
-the patent, trademark and copyright status of the format and the
-specification.  Because of this, I asked the people behind it back in
-November to clarify.  Ann-Christine Savlid (ann-christine.savlid (at)
-visma.com) replied that Visma had not applied for patent or trademark
-protection for this format, and that there were no copyright based
-usage limitations for the format.  I urged her to make sure this was
-explicitly written on the web pages and in the specification, but
-unfortunately this has not happened yet.  So I guess if there is
-submarine patents, hidden trademarks or a will to sue for copyright
-infringements, those starting to use the UsingQR format might be at
-risk, but if this happen there is some legal defense in the fact that
-the people behind the format claimed it was safe to do so.  At least
-with patents, there is always
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paperspecs.com/paper-news/beware-the-qr-code-patent-trap/&quot;&gt;a
-chance of getting sued...&lt;/a&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I also asked if they planned to maintain the format in an
-independent standard organization to give others more confidence that
-they would participate in the standardization process on equal terms
-with Visma, but they had no immediate plans for this.  Their plan was
-to work with banks to try to get more users of the format, and
-evaluate the way forward if the format proved to be popular.  I hope
-they conclude that using an open standard organisation like
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ietf.org/&quot;&gt;IETF&lt;/a&gt; is the correct place to
-maintain such specification.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
+2004 book Cultura Libre was published.  Today I noticed that the book
+is now available from book stores.  You can now buy it from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
+($19.99),
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705&quot;&gt;Barnes
+&amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ($?) and as always from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
+($19.99).  The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project.  If
+you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
+from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
+and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
+less).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
+sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon.  Not quite sure how
+that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
+edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
+the paperback edition, they are
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;available
+from github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Making battery measurements a little easier in Debian</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in September, I blogged about
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html&quot;&gt;the
-system I wrote to collect statistics about my laptop battery&lt;/a&gt;, and
-how it showed the decay and death of this battery (now replaced).  I
-created a simple deb package to handle the collection and graphing,
-but did not want to upload it to Debian as there were already
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;a battery-stats
-package in Debian&lt;/a&gt; that should do the same thing, and I did not see
-a point of uploading a competing package when battery-stats could be
-fixed instead.  I reported a few bugs about its non-function, and
-hoped someone would step in and fix it.  But no-one did.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I got tired of waiting a few days ago, and took matters in my own
-hands.  The end result is that I am now the new upstream developer of
-battery stats (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats&quot;&gt;available from github&lt;/a&gt;) and part of the team maintaining
-battery-stats in Debian, and the package in Debian unstable is finally
-able to collect battery status using the &lt;tt&gt;/sys/class/power_supply/&lt;/tt&gt;
-information provided by the Linux kernel.  If you install the
-battery-stats package from unstable now, you will be able to get a
-graph of the current battery fill level, to get some idea about the
-status of the battery.  The source package build and work just fine in
-Debian testing and stable (and probably oldstable too, but I have not
-tested).  The default graph you get for that system look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-03-15-battery-stats-graph-example.png&quot; width=&quot;70%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My plans for the future is to merge my old scripts into the
-battery-stats package, as my old scripts collected a lot more details
-about the battery.  The scripts are merged into the upstream
-battery-stats git repository already, but I am not convinced they work
-yet, as I changed a lot of paths along the way.  Will have to test a
-bit more before I make a new release.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I will also consider changing the file format slightly, as I
-suspect the way I combine several values into one field might make it
-impossible to know the type of the value when using it for processing
-and graphing.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you would like I would like to keep an close eye on your laptop
-battery, check out the battery-stats package in
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+               <title>I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I just donated to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;NUUG defence
+&quot;fond&quot;&lt;/a&gt; to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
+site popcorn-time.no tested in court.  I hope everyone that agree with
+me will do the same.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
+hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
+talking to a judge first?  I am.  What if the free software system
+combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
+and was called Popcorn Time?  Would that affect your view?  It still
+make me worried.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
+change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
+police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
+the courts.  I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
+the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
+that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
+permission first.  I was even more surprised when I had a look at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no&quot;&gt;the web
+site content on the Internet Archive&lt;/A&gt;, and only found news coverage
+about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
+holders permissions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
+example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim&quot;&gt;Hegnar Online&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/&quot;&gt;ITavisen&lt;a/&gt;
+and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;),
+at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based

 on
 on

-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.
-I would love some help to improve the system further.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/&quot;&gt;protests
+from the law professor Olav Torvund&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995&quot;&gt;lawyer
+Jon Wessel-Aas&lt;/a&gt;.  It even got some
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/&quot;&gt;coverage
+on TorrentFreak&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html&quot;&gt;
+wrote about the case a month ago&lt;/a&gt;, when the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt; (NUUG),
+where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
+The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
+given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
+legally challenged.  They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
+those that want to support the request.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
+censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
+applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
+suggest you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;show
+your support by donating to NUUG&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;

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-               <title>Creating, updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Making packages for Debian requires quite a lot of attention to
-details.  And one of the details is the content of the
-debian/copyright file, which should list all relevant licenses used by
-the code in the package in question, preferably in
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/&quot;&gt;machine
-readable DEP5 format&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For large packages with lots of contributors it is hard to write
-and update this file manually, and if you get some detail wrong, the
-package is normally rejected by the ftpmasters.  So getting it right
-the first time around get the package into Debian faster, and save
-both you and the ftpmasters some work..  Today, while trying to figure
-out what was wrong with
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686447&quot;&gt;the
-zfsonlinux copyright file&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to spend some time on
-figuring out the options for doing this job automatically, or at least
-semi-automatically.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Lucikly, there are at least two tools available for generating the
-file based on the code in the source package,
-&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debmake&quot;&gt;debmake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
-and &lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cme&quot;&gt;cme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;.  I&#39;m
-not sure which one of them came first, but both seem to be able to
-create a sensible draft file.  As far as I can tell, none of them can
-be trusted to get the result just right, so the content need to be
-polished a bit before the file is OK to upload.  I found the debmake
-option in
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://goofying-with-debian.blogspot.com/2014/07/debmake-checking-source-against-dep-5.html&quot;&gt;a
-blog posts from 2014&lt;/a&gt;.
-
-&lt;p&gt;To generate using debmake, use the -cc option:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-debmake -cc &gt; debian/copyright
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note there are some problems with python and non-ASCII names, so
-this might not be the best option.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The cme option is based on a config parsing library, and I found
-this approach in
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/improving-creation-of-debian-copyright-file/&quot;&gt;a
-blog post from 2015&lt;/a&gt;.  To generate using cme, use the &#39;update
-dpkg-copyright&#39; option:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-cme update dpkg-copyright
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This will create or update debian/copyright.  The cme tool seem to
-handle UTF-8 names better than debmake.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;When the copyright file is created, I would also like some help to
-check if the file is correct.  For this I found two good options,
-&lt;tt&gt;debmake -k&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;license-reconcile&lt;/tt&gt;.  The former seem
-to focus on license types and file matching, and is able to detect
-ineffective blocks in the copyright file.  The latter reports missing
-copyright holders and years, but was confused by inconsistent license
-names (like CDDL vs. CDDL-1.0).  I suspect it is good to use both and
-fix all issues reported by them before uploading.  But I do not know
-if the tools and the ftpmasters agree on what is important to fix in a
-copyright file, so the package might still be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The devscripts tool &lt;tt&gt;licensecheck&lt;/tt&gt; deserve mentioning.  It
-will read through the source and try to find all copyright statements.
-It is not comparing the result to the content of debian/copyright, but
-can be useful when verifying the content of the copyright file.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Are you aware of better tools in Debian to create and update
-debian/copyright file.  Please let me know, or blog about it on
-planet.debian.org.&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;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2016-02-20&lt;/strong&gt;: I got a tip from Mike Gabriel
-on how to use licensecheck and cdbs to create a draft copyright file
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-licensecheck --copyright -r `find * -type f` | \
-  /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 &gt; debian/copyright.auto
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;He mentioned that he normally check the generated file into the
-version control system to make it easier to discover license and
-copyright changes in the upstream source.  I will try to do the same
-with my packages in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2016-02-21&lt;/strong&gt;: The cme author recommended
-against using -quiet for new users, so I removed it from the proposed
-command line.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://zfsonlinux.org/&quot;&gt;ZFS for Linux&lt;/a&gt; finally entered
+Debian.  The package status can be seen on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux&quot;&gt;the package tracker
+for zfs-linux&lt;/a&gt;.  and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
+team status page&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to help out, please join us.
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git&quot;&gt;The
+source code&lt;/a&gt; is available via git on Alioth.  It would also be
+great if you could help out with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms&quot;&gt;the dkms package&lt;/a&gt;, as
+it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.&lt;/p&gt;

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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>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11&quot;&gt;appstream system&lt;/a&gt;
-is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very
-convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given
-firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it.  This can
-be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog
-about. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides firmware:runtime ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin | \
-  awk &#39;/Package:/ {print $2}&#39;
-firmware-qlogic
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines&quot;&gt;the
-appstream wiki&lt;/a&gt; page to learn how to embed the package metadata in
-a way appstream can use.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;tt&gt;file
---mime-type&lt;/tt&gt;, 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:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype image/svg+xml | \
-  awk &#39;/Package:/ {print $2}&#39;
-bkchem
-phototonic
-inkscape
-shutter
-tetzle
-geeqie
-xia
-pinta
-gthumb
-karbon
-comix
-mirage
-viewnior
-postr
-ristretto
-kolourpaint4
-eog
-eom
-gimagereader
-midori
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I believe the MIME types are fetched from the desktop file for
-packages providing appstream metadata.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
+Debian claim support for most file formats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
+plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
+Edu.  I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
+for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
+plugin supported most file formats / media types.
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;The
+result&lt;/a&gt; can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
+not been updated for a while.  But browser plugins are less relevant
+these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
+players.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
+player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
+Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why.  The cause is a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/822245&quot;&gt;missing MIME type in the VLC
+desktop file&lt;/a&gt;.  In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
+of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
+only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
+two for VLC.  This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
+compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
+instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
+support most file formats.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;a
+table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
+in the table&lt;/a&gt;, with the package supporting most MIME types being
+listed first in the table.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/p&gt;The best multimedia player in Debian?  It is totem, followed by
+parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
+kmplayer.  Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
+support?&lt;/p&gt;

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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>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-01-24-nice-creepy-desktop-window.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocreepy.com/&quot;&gt;Creepy or Cree.py&lt;/a&gt;.  I
-discovered it when I read
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Slik-kan-du-bli-overvaket-pa-Twitter-og-Instagram-uten-a-ane-det-7787884.html&quot;&gt;an
-article about Creepy&lt;/a&gt; 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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/creepy&quot;&gt;the version in
-Debian&lt;/a&gt; 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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy&quot;&gt;upstream&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/does-this-soldiers-instagram-account-prove-russia-is-covertl&quot;&gt;used
-to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;(I have uploaded
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://screenshots.debian.net/package/creepy&quot;&gt;the image to
-screenshots.debian.net&lt;/a&gt; and licensed it under the same terms as the
-Creepy program in Debian.)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/&quot;&gt;The Pyra&lt;/a&gt;, a
+handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled.  I
+would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
+plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5&quot;
+LCD touch screen.  The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
+day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
+confirming this.  The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
+last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
+production started.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
+Debian.  Please let me know if you know of any others.  Is it the
+first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?&lt;/p&gt;

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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>&lt;p&gt;During his DebConf15 keynote, Jacob Appelbaum
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/331/what-is-to-be-done/&quot;&gt;observed
-that those listening on the Internet lines would have good reason to
-believe a computer have a given security hole&lt;/a&gt; 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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/08/24-Tor-enabled_Debian_mirror/&quot;&gt;proposed
-to always use Tor to download packages from the Debian mirror&lt;/a&gt;.  He
-was not the first to propose this, as the
-&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt-transport-tor&quot;&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
-package by Tim Retout already existed to make it easy to convince apt
-to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt;, but I was not
-aware of that package when I read the blog post from Richard.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Here is a short recipe for enabling this on your machine, by
-installing &lt;tt&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/tt&gt; 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
-&lt;tt&gt;etckeeper&lt;/tt&gt; before you start to have a history of the changes
-done in /etc/.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-apt install apt-transport-tor
-sed -i &#39;s% http://ftp.debian.org/% tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/%&#39; /etc/apt/sources.list
-sed -i &#39;s% http% tor+http%&#39; /etc/apt/sources.list
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This work in Debian Jessie and later.  Note that tools like
-&lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt; only recently started using the apt transport
-system, and do not work with these tor+http URLs.  For
-&lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt; you need the version currently in experimental,
-which need a recent apt version currently only in unstable.  So if you
-need a working &lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt;, this is not for you.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;Freedombox&lt;/a&gt;, APT
-is set up by default to use &lt;tt&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/tt&gt; when Tor is
-enabled.  It would be great if it was the default on any Debian
-system.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the Norwegian Unix User group&lt;/a&gt;, a
+member association for those of us believing in free software, open
+standards and unix-like operating systems.  NUUG announced today it
+will
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Pressemelding__NUUG_og_EFN_begj_rer_rettslig_pr_ving_for_DNS_domenebeslag_av_popcorn_time_no.shtml&quot;&gt;try
+to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as
+unlawful&lt;/a&gt;, to stand up for the principle that writing about a
+controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web
+pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the
+police.  The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority
+for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
+a month ago.  I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give
+the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far
+as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.&lt;/p&gt;

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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>&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/liangqi/nrkopptak&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
-via github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-nrkopptak/bin/nrk-opptak k &lt;ahref=&quot;https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1&quot;&gt;https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no.  Argument &#39;k&#39; ber
-scriptet laste ned og lagre som Matroska.  Det finnes en rekke andre
-muligheter for valg av kvalitet og format.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg foretrekker dette scriptet fremfor youtube-dl, som
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html&quot;&gt;
-nevnt i 2014 støtter NRK&lt;/a&gt; og en rekke andre videokilder, på grunn
-av at nrkopptak samler undertekster og video i en enkelt fil, hvilket
-gjør håndtering enklere på disk.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Ny utgave (v2.2) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag tok jeg mot til meg og pakket sammen en ny versjon av den
+frie norske stavekontrollen, ca. tre og et halvt år etter forrige
+gang.  Resultatet kan lastes ned fra
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/&quot;&gt;no.speling.org-prosjeksiden&lt;/a&gt;, både
+som kildekodepakke og som &quot;pack&quot;-fil som kanskje fortsatt kan brukes
+av OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.  Byggesystemet trenger oppussing, men i
+denne omgang hadde jeg bare tid til å fikse byggefeil forårsaket av
+endringer i GNU grep.  De øvrige endringene var gjort tidligere i
+påvente av en ny utgave.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her er det som er nytt (fra NEWS-fila i
+kildekodepakken):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Release 2.2 (2016-04-15)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+ &lt;li&gt;Rewrite how scripts/speling2words handle tripple consonants, to
+   avoid importing duplicate words from no.speling.org, and getting
+   rid of the existing duplicates in norsk.words.&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Remove duplicate entries with tripple consonants from norsk.words.&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Update frequency for entries in norsk.words based on
+   &lt;URL:http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/ordlistf.zip&gt; (ran &#39;make
+   freq-update&#39;).&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Correct nn ispell build, avoid crash in munchlist causing lots of
+   words to fall out of the database.&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Use grep -a to convince grep it is working on text files, to work
+   with newer grep versions.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+ &lt;li&gt;Remove some words disputed in the no.speling.org review process:
+   &lt;ul&gt;
+    &lt;li&gt;apparent (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
+    &lt;li&gt;likke (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
+    &lt;li&gt;ugjest, ugjesten, ugjestens (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;

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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>&lt;p&gt;When I was a kid, we used to collect &quot;car numbers&quot;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A few days I came across
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr&quot;&gt;the OpenALPR
-project&lt;/a&gt;, a free software project to automatically discover and
-report license plates in images and video streams, and provide the
-&quot;car numbers&quot; in a machine readable format.  I&#39;ve been looking for
-such system for a while now, because I believe it is a bad idea that the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition&quot;&gt;automatic
-number plate recognition&lt;/a&gt; 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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/747509&quot;&gt;wanted to get the tool into
-Debian&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Today we finally managed to get the package into shape and uploaded
-it into Debian, where it currently
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://ftp-master.debian.org//new/openalpr_2.2.1-1.html&quot;&gt;waits
-in the NEW queue&lt;/a&gt; for review by the Debian ftpmasters.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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 &quot;debuild&quot; to build the source.  Or wait a bit until the
-package show up in unstable.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>I.F. Stone - an inspiration for us all</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I first got to know I.F. Stone when I came across an article by Jon
+Schwarz on The Intercept
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/new-documentary-legacy-f-stone/&quot;&gt;about
+his extraordinary contribution to investigative journalism in
+USA&lt;/a&gt;. The article is about a new documentary in two parts
+(&lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/123974841&quot;&gt;part one is 12 minutes&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/123974842&quot;&gt;part two is 30 minutes&lt;/a&gt;), and
+I found both truly fascinating.  It is amazing what he was able to
+find by digging up public sources and government papers.  He
+documented lots of government abuse and cover ups, and I find
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php&quot;&gt;his weekly news letters&lt;/a&gt;
+inspiring to read even today.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. 
+&lt;br&gt;- I. F. Stone
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;His starting point was that reporters should not assume governments
+and corporations are telling the truth, but verify all their claims as
+much as possible.  I wonder how many Norwegian reporters can be said
+to follow the principles of I. F. Stone.  They are definitely in short
+supply.  If you, like me half a year ago, have never heard of him,
+check him out.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <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>&lt;p&gt;Around three years ago, I created
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;the isenkram
-system&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/&quot;&gt;the
-appstream system&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://appstream.debian.org/html/sid/main/metainfo/pymissile.html&quot;&gt;metadata
-in pymissile&lt;/a&gt;.  I added a file debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml with
-this content:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;component&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;pymissile&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;metadata_license&amp;gt;MIT&amp;lt;/metadata_license&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;pymissile&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;summary&amp;gt;Control original Striker USB Missile Launcher&amp;lt;/summary&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;description&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;p&amp;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.
-    &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/description&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;provides&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;modalias&amp;gt;usb:v1130p0202d*&amp;lt;/modalias&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/provides&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/component&amp;gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml usr/share/appdata
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Details of the modalias field in appstream is available from the 
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11&quot;&gt;DEP-11&lt;/a&gt; proposal.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To locate the modalias values of all hardware present in a machine,
-try running this command on the command line:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-cat $(find /sys/devices/|grep modalias)
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To learn more about the isenkram system, please check out
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/&quot;&gt;my
-blog posts tagged isenkram&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m happy to report that
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;the
+French paperback edition&lt;/a&gt; of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
+project to translate&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free
+Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on
+Lulu.com.  Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which
+should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in
+book stores like Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble too.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt; developer Benoît
+Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation
+available from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre&quot;&gt;the Wikilivres
+wiki pages&lt;/a&gt; and completed and corrected the translation to match
+the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as
+coordinated the proof reading of the final result.  I believe the end
+result look great, but I am biased and do not read French.  In
+addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB
+and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly
+triple the price to allow the book stores some profit.  I also had to
+accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com.
+But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license
+(CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem.  To bypass the problem I
+discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed
+that the revenue for these editions go to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons non-profit
+Corporation&lt;/a&gt; who handle donations to the Creative Commons project.
+So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;
+and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Norwegian
+Bokmål&lt;/a&gt; editions, according to Lulu.com.  They will get the revenue
+for the French edition too.  Their revenue is higher if you buy the
+book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I
+recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language?
+The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the
+technical bar to enter is fairly low.  Get in touch if you would like
+to make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <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>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Besøk
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
-eller
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
-for å kjøpe boken på papir, eller last ned ebook som
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub&quot;&gt;ePub&lt;/a&gt;
-eller
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi&quot;&gt;MOBI&lt;/a&gt;
-fra
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble gledelig overrasket i dag da jeg oppdaget at boken jeg har
-gitt ut
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/&quot;&gt;hadde
-dukket opp i Amazon&lt;/a&gt;.  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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons-stiftelsen&lt;/a&gt;.
-Med det på plass kunne jeg be
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
-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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Mens jeg var i gang med å titte etter informasjon om boken 
-oppdaget jeg  at den også var dukket opp på
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.no/books?id=uKUGCwAAQBAJ&quot;&gt;Google
-Books&lt;/a&gt;, der en kan lese den på web.  PDF-utgaven har ennå ikke
-dukket opp hos &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nb.no/&quot;&gt;Nasjonalbiblioteket&lt;/a&gt;,
-men det regner jeg med kommer på plass i løpet av noen uker.  Boken er
-heller ikke dukket opp hos
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barnesandnoble.com/&quot;&gt;Barnes &amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ennå, men
-jeg antar det bare er et tidsspørsmål før dette er på plass.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bokbasen.no/&quot;&gt;den norske bokbasen&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Boken er i følge
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&amp;ct=display&amp;fn=search&amp;doc=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&amp;indx=1&amp;recIds=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&amp;recIdxs=0&amp;elementId=0&amp;renderMode=poppedOut&amp;displayMode=full&amp;frbrVersion=&amp;dscnt=0&amp;tab=library_catalogue&amp;dstmp=1448543801124&amp;vl(freeText0)=fri%20kultur&amp;vid=UBO&amp;mode=Basic&quot;&gt;Bibsys/Oria&lt;/a&gt;
-og bokdatabasen til
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.deich.folkebibl.no/cgi-bin/websok?tnr=1819617&quot;&gt;Deichmanske&lt;/a&gt;
-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.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Lets make a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;During this weekends
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Oslo__Takk_for_feilfiksingsfesten.shtml&quot;&gt;bug
+squashing party and developer gathering&lt;/a&gt;, we decided to do our part
+to make sure there are good books about Debian available in Norwegian
+Bokmål, and got in touch with the people behind the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://debian-handbook.info/&quot;&gt;Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook
+project&lt;/a&gt; to get started.  If you want to help out, please start
+contributing using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/&quot;&gt;the
+hosted weblate project page&lt;/a&gt;, and get in touch using
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators&quot;&gt;the
+translators mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  Please also check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/&quot;&gt;the instructions for
+contributors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The book is already available on paper in English, French and
+Japanese, and our goal is to get it available on paper in Norwegian
+Bokmål too.  In addition to the paper edition, there are also EPUB and
+Mobi versions available.  And there are incomplete translations
+available for many more languages.&lt;/p&gt;

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