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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html">Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</a></div>
- <div class="date">21st March 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
-(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
-mostly in the USA. What I find a bit surprising, is how little
-criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
-Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place. And what about the
-people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
-And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
-handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
-No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
-that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
-lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_in_2018_.html">What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2018?</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 9th July 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Five years ago,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html">I
+measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was</a>, by
+analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive. Since
+then, the DEP-11 AppStream system has been put into production, making
+the task a lot easier. This made me want to repeat the measurement,
+to see how much things changed. Here are the new numbers, for
+unstable only this time:
+
+<p><strong>Debian Unstable:</strong></p>
+
+<pre>
+ count MIME type
+ ----- -----------------------
+ 56 image/jpeg
+ 55 image/png
+ 49 image/tiff
+ 48 image/gif
+ 39 image/bmp
+ 38 text/plain
+ 37 audio/mpeg
+ 34 application/ogg
+ 33 audio/x-flac
+ 32 audio/x-mp3
+ 30 audio/x-wav
+ 30 audio/x-vorbis+ogg
+ 29 image/x-portable-pixmap
+ 27 inode/directory
+ 27 image/x-portable-bitmap
+ 27 audio/x-mpeg
+ 26 application/x-ogg
+ 25 audio/x-mpegurl
+ 25 audio/ogg
+ 24 text/html
+</pre>
+
+<p>The list was created like this using a sid chroot: "cat
+/var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz| zcat | awk '/^
+- \S+\/\S+$/ {print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20"</p>
+
+<p>It is interesting to see how image formats have passed text/plain
+as the most announced supported MIME type. These days, thanks to the
+AppStream system, if you run into a file format you do not know, and
+want to figure out which packages support the format, you can find the
+MIME type of the file using "file --mime <filename>", and then
+look up all packages announcing support for this format in their
+AppStream metadata (XML or .desktop file) using "appstreamcli
+what-provides mimetype <mime-type>. For example if you, like
+me, want to know which packages support inode/directory, you can get a
+list like this:</p>
-<p>What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
-selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
-in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed. It is well known that
-Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
-nevertheless. Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
-would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
-information about the millions of Facebook users. Collected
-information will be misused sooner or later. The only way to avoid
-such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place. If
-you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
-the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
-information.</p>
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype inode/directory | grep Package: | sort
+Package: anjuta
+Package: audacious
+Package: baobab
+Package: cervisia
+Package: chirp
+Package: dolphin
+Package: doublecmd-common
+Package: easytag
+Package: enlightenment
+Package: ephoto
+Package: filelight
+Package: gwenview
+Package: k4dirstat
+Package: kaffeine
+Package: kdesvn
+Package: kid3
+Package: kid3-qt
+Package: nautilus
+Package: nemo
+Package: pcmanfm
+Package: pcmanfm-qt
+Package: qweborf
+Package: ranger
+Package: sirikali
+Package: spacefm
+Package: spacefm
+Package: vifm
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
-<p>Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
-account, and take back some control of your personal information.
-<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely">According
-to The Guardian</a>, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
-account removal (and not just 'disabling'). You need to
-<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content">visit
-a specific Facebook page</a> and click on 'let us know' on that page
-to get to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account">the
-real account deletion screen</a>. Perhaps something to consider? I
-would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
-perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
-exposure a bit.</p>
+<p>Using the same method, I can quickly discover that the Sketchup file
+format is not yet supported by any package in Debian:</p>
-<p>If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
-Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
-Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to <a href="">NUUG</a> last april about
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/">
-Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
-politics</a>.</p>
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype application/vnd.sketchup.skp
+Could not find component providing 'mimetype::application/vnd.sketchup.skp'.
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
-<p>And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
-use some end-to-end encrypted method like
-<a href="https://www.signal.org/">Signal</a> or
-<a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, and stop sharing your private
-messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.</p>
+<p>Yesterday I used it to figure out which packages support the STL 3D
+format:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype application/sla|grep Package
+Package: cura
+Package: meshlab
+Package: printrun
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>PS: A new version of Cura was uploaded to Debian yesterday.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html">H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</a></div>
- <div class="date">14th March 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
-helsevesenet. Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
-Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
-samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
-tid. Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
-Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
-dit vi havner gitt nok tid. I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
-oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
-bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
-medfødte sykdommer. Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
-<a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true">Stortingets
-flertallsinnstilling</a> er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
-at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
-undersøkelsen.</p>
-
-<p>Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_APT_upgrade_without_enough_free_space_on_the_disk___.html">Debian APT upgrade without enough free space on the disk...</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 8th July 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Quite regularly, I let my Debian Sid/Unstable chroot stay untouch
+for a while, and when I need to update it there is not enough free
+space on the disk for apt to do a normal 'apt upgrade'. I normally
+would resolve the issue by doing 'apt install <somepackages>' to
+upgrade only some of the packages in one batch, until the amount of
+packages to download fall below the amount of free space available.
+Today, I had about 500 packages to upgrade, and after a while I got
+tired of trying to install chunks of packages manually. I concluded
+that I did not have the spare hours required to complete the task, and
+decided to see if I could automate it. I came up with this small
+script which I call 'apt-in-chunks':</p>
-<p><blockquote>
-
- <p>«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
- synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
- diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
- hele befolkningen.»</p>
-
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
-blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
-<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info">folkehelseinstituttets
-lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
-og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven</a> viser at en ikke kan være
-trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
-misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.</p>
-
-<p>Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
-blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
-gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
-det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
-samtykke. Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
-<a href="https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/">folkehelseinstituttets
-websider</a>, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
-sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
-greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.</p>
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Upgrade packages when the disk is too full to upgrade every
+# upgradable package in one lump. Fetching packages to upgrade using
+# apt, and then installing using dpkg, to avoid changing the package
+# flag for manual/automatic.
+
+set -e
+
+ignore() {
+ if [ "$1" ]; then
+ grep -v "$1"
+ else
+ cat
+ fi
+}
+
+for p in $(apt list --upgradable | ignore "$@" |cut -d/ -f1 | grep -v '^Listing...'); do
+ echo "Upgrading $p"
+ apt clean
+ apt install --download-only -y $p
+ for f in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb; do
+ if [ -e "$f" ]; then
+ dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+done
+</pre></blockquote></p>
-<p>I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
-er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
-konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
-brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
-dette i dag.</p>
+<p>The script will extract the list of packages to upgrade, try to
+download the packages needed to upgrade one package, install the
+downloaded packages using dpkg. The idea is to upgrade packages
+without changing the APT mark for the package (ie the one recording of
+the package was manually requested or pulled in as a dependency). To
+use it, simply run it as root from the command line. If it fail, try
+'apt install -f' to clean up the mess and run the script again. This
+might happen if the new packages conflict with one of the old
+packages. dpkg is unable to remove, while apt can do this.</p>
+
+<p>It take one option, a package to ignore in the list of packages to
+upgrade. The option to ignore a package is there to be able to skip
+the packages that are simply too large to unpack. Today this was
+'ghc', but I have run into other large packages causing similar
+problems earlier (like TeX).</p>
+
+<p>Update 2018-07-08: Thanks to Paul Wise, I am aware of two
+alternative ways to handle this. The "unattended-upgrades
+--minimal-upgrade-steps" option will try to calculate upgrade sets for
+each package to upgrade, and then upgrade them in order, smallest set
+first. It might be a better option than my above mentioned script.
+Also, "aptutude upgrade" can upgrade single packages, thus avoiding
+the need for using "dpkg -i" in the script above.</p>
-<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html">First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th March 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
-Commons. This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
-from those around the globe making a living using Creative
-Commons.</p>
-
-<p>Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
-translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
-<a href="https://madewith.cc">Made with Creative Commons from 2017</a>
-was complete. The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
-Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work. Get in
-touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
-translate into your mother tongue.</p>
-
-<p>The whole book project started when
-<a href="http://gwolf.org/node/4102">Gunnar Wolf announced</a> that he
-was going to make a Spanish edition of the book. I noticed, and
-offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
-translating the
-<a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Free
-Culture</a> and
-<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian">The Debian
-Administrator's Handbook</a> books to Norwegian Bokmål. To make a
-long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
-first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
-Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself. The first
-proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
-reading remains. We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
-create a book cover. Once it is done we will publish the book on
-paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.</p>
-
-<p>The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
-downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
-The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
-using pandoc. The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
-is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators. The translated
-PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
-create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
-create the final PDF. The end result is a set of editions of the
-manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.</p>
-
-<p>The translation is conducted using
-<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/">the
-Weblate web based translation system</a>. Please have a look there
-and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
-reading. :)</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html">The worlds only stone power plant?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">30th June 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power,
+solar power, and wood power are well known. Until a few days ago, I
+had never heard of stone power. Then I learn about a quarry in a
+mountain in
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i
+Norway, where
+<a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the
+Bremanger Quarry</a> company is extracting stone and dumping the stone
+into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour. This downward movement
+in this shaft is used to produce electricity. In short, it is using
+falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and
+according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is
+using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power
+grid. I find the concept truly amazing. Is this the worlds only
+stone power plant?</p>
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- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html">Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 2nd March 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
-choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
-While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
-info screen booting with some text scrolling. I was not quick enough
-with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
-screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
-corrupt file system:
-
-<p align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img align="center" width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg" alt="[photo of subway info screen]"></a></p>
-
-<p>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
-content on the screen worries me.</p>
-
-<p>The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid',
-indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
-after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
-Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14. Since Lenny Debian
-has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
-(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history">a Debian
-version history on Wikpedia</a>. This mean the system is running
-around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
-many years.</p>
-
-<p>This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
-Ruter, running outdated software. In 2012,
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html">I
-discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000</a>,
-and this was
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html">still
-the case in 2016</a>. Given the response from the responsible people
-in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
-Windows 2000. Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.</p>
-
-<p>The photo is made available under the license terms
-<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons
-4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html">Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</a></div>
+ <div class="date">26th June 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>My movie playing setup involve <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a>,
+<a href="https://openelec.tv">OpenELEC</a> (probably soon to be
+replaced with <a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a>) and an
+Infocus IN76 video projector. My projector can be controlled via both
+a infrared remote controller, and a RS-232 serial line. The vendor of
+my projector, <a href="https://www.infocus.com/">InFocus</a>, had been
+sensible enough to document the serial protocol in its user manual, so
+it is easily available, and I used it some years ago to write
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control">a
+small script to control the projector</a>. For a while now, I longed
+for a setup where the projector was controlled by Kodi, for example in
+such a way that when the screen saver went on, the projector was
+turned off, and when the screen saver exited, the projector was turned
+on again.</p>
+
+<p>A few days ago, with very good help from parts of my family, I
+managed to find a Kodi Add-on for controlling a Epson projector, and
+got in touch with its author to see if we could join forces and make a
+Add-on with support for several projectors. To my pleasure, he was
+positive to the idea, and we set out to add InFocus support to his
+add-on, and make the add-on suitable for the official Kodi add-on
+repository.</p>
+
+<p>The Add-on is now working (for me, at least), with a few minor
+adjustments. The most important change I do relative to the master
+branch in the github repository is embedding the
+<a href="https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial">pyserial module</a> in
+the add-on. The long term solution is to make a "script" type
+pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
+Kodi. But until that in place, I embed it.</p>
+
+<p>The add-on can be configured to turn on the projector when Kodi
+starts, off when Kodi stops as well as turn the projector off when the
+screensaver start and on when the screesaver stops. It can also be
+told to set the projector source when turning on the projector.
+
+<p>If this sound interesting to you, check out
+<a href="https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol">the
+project github repository</a>. Perhaps you can send patches to
+support your projector too? As soon as we find time to wrap up the
+latest changes, it should be available for easy installation using any
+Kodi instance.</p>
+
+<p>For future improvements, I would like to add projector model
+detection and the ability to adjust the brightness level of the
+projector from within Kodi. We also need to figure out how to handle
+the cooling period of the projector. My projector refuses to turn on
+for 60 seconds after it was turned off. This is not handled well by
+the add-on at the moment.</p>
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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html">The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git</a></div>
- <div class="date">18th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>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.
-<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">The upstream
-project still exist</a>, though, and up until today, the upstream
-source was available from Savannah via subversion. I am happy to
-report that this just changed.</p>
-
-<p>The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three
-repositories:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git">sysvinit</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/insserv.git">insserv</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/startpar.git">startpar</a></li>
-
-</ul>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html">youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</a></div>
+ <div class="date">28th April 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I <a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS">VHS-kassettenes</a>
+tid var det rett frem å ta vare på et TV-program en ønsket å kunne se
+senere, uten å være avhengig av at programmet ble sendt på nytt.
+Kanskje ønsket en å se programmet på hytten der det ikke var
+TV-signal, eller av andre grunner ha det tilgjengelig for fremtidig
+fornøyelse. Dette er blitt vanskeligere med introduksjon av
+digital-TV og webstreaming, der opptak til harddisk er utenfor de
+flestes kontroll hvis de bruker ufri programvare og bokser kontrollert
+av andre. Men for NRK her i Norge, finnes det heldigvis flere fri
+programvare-alternativer, som jeg har
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">skrevet</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">om</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html">før</a>.
+Så lenge kilden for nedlastingen er lovlig lagt ut på nett (hvilket
+jeg antar NRK gjør), så er slik lagring til privat bruk også lovlig i
+Norge.</p>
+
+<p>Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
+<a href="https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a> ikke kunne
+bake undertekster fra NRK inn i videofilene, og at jeg derfor
+foretrakk andre alternativer. Nylig oppdaget jeg at dette har endret
+seg. Fordelen med youtube-dl er at den er tilgjengelig direkte fra
+Linux-distribusjoner som <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
+og <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, slik at en slipper å
+finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.</p>
+
+<p>For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
+underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
+brukes:</p>
-<p>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.</p>
+<p><pre>
+youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
+ --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
+ https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
+</pre></p>
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+<p>URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no. Resultatet er en
+MP4-fil med filmen og undertekster som kan spilles av med VLC. Merk
+at VLC ikke viser frem undertekster før du aktiverer dem. For å gjøre
+det, høyreklikk med musa i fremviservinduet, velg menyvalget for
+undertekst og så norsk språk. Jeg testet også '--write-auto-sub',
+men det kommandolinjeargumentet ser ikke ut til å fungere, så jeg
+endte opp med settet med argumentlisten over, som jeg fant i en
+feilrapport i youtube-dl-prosjektets samling over feilrapporter.</p>
+
+<p>Denne støtten i youtube-dl gjør det svært enkelt å lagre
+NRK-innslag, det være seg nyheter, filmer, serier eller dokumentater,
+for å ha dem tilgjengelig for fremtidig referanse og bruk, uavhengig
+av hvor lenge innslagene ligger tilgjengelig hos NRK. Så får det ikke
+hjelpe at NRKs jurister mener at det er
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">vesensforskjellig
+å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming</a>, når det rent
+teknisk er samme sak.</p>
+
+<p>Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
+prosjektoversikten for
+<a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html">en
+komplett liste</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nice free software">nice free software</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html">Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources</a></div>
- <div class="date">14th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, a new major version of
-<a href="https://www.videolan.org/">VLC</a> was announced, and I
-decided to check out if it now supported streaming over
-<a href="http://bittorrent.org/">bittorrent</a> and
-<a href="https://webtorrent.io">webtorrent</a>. Bittorrent is one of
-the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and
-Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using
-<a href="https://webrtc.org">WebRTC</a> 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
-<a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html">the release
-notes</a> 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
-("<a href=https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-giant-vlc-mulls-bittorrent-support-130211/">Open
-Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support</a>"), 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
-<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent">VLC plugin to add
-bittorrent support</a>, created by Johan Gunnarsson in 2016/2017.
-Again according to Jean-Babtiste, this is not the patch he was talking
-about.</p>
-
-<p>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
-<a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a> using VLC
-commands like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-vlc https://archive.org/download/LoveNest/LoveNest_archive.torrent
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p>I have created a <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/890360">request for
-a new package in Debian (RFP)</a> and
-<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/1">asked if
-the upstream author is willing to help make this happen</a>. 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.</p>
-
-<p>I have not found any traces of webtorrent support for VLC.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html">Stortingsflertallet går inn for ny IP-basert sensurinfrastruktur i Norge</a></div>
+ <div class="date">24th April 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p><a href="https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper">VG</a>,
+<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219">Dagbladet</a>
+og
+<a href="https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381">NRK</a>
+melder i dag at flertallet i Familie- og kulturkomiteen på Stortinget
+har bestemt seg for å introdusere en ny sensurinfrastruktur i Norge.
+Fra før har Norge en «frivillig» sensurinfrastruktur basert på
+DNS-navn, der de største ISP-ene basert på en liste med DNS-navn
+forgifter DNS-svar og omdirigerer til et annet IP-nummer enn det som
+ligger i DNS. Nå kommer altså IP-basert omdirigering i tillegg. Når
+infrastrukturen er på plass, er sensur av IP-adresser redusert et
+spørsmål om hvilke IP-nummer som skal blokkeres. Listen over
+IP-adresser vil naturligvis endre seg etter hvert som myndighetene
+endrer seg. Det er ingen betryggende tanke.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Version_3_1_of_Cura__the_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian.html">Version 3.1 of Cura, the 3D print slicer, is now in Debian</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A new version of the
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura">3D printer slicer
-software Cura</a>, 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
-<a href="https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura-software/release-notes">release
-notes</a> 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.</p>
-
-<p>More information related to 3D printing is available on the
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/3DPrinting">3D printing</a> and
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/3D-printer">3D printer</a> wiki pages
-in Debian.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html">En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 2nd April 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
+kriminelt å åpne andres brev. Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
+<a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205">§ 205
+(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)</a>, som sier at «Med
+bot eller fengsel inntil 2 år straffes den som uberettiget ... c)
+åpner brev eller annen lukket skriftlig meddelelse som er adressert
+til en annen, eller på annen måte skaffer seg uberettiget tilgang til
+innholdet.» Dette gjelder såvel postbud som alle andre som har
+befatning med brevet etter at avsender har befatning med et lukket
+brev. Tilsvarende står også tidligere utgaver av den norske
+straffeloven.</p>
+
+<p>Når en registrerer seg på usikre digitale postkasseløsningene, som
+f.eks. Digipost og e-Boks, og slik tar disse i bruk, så gir en de som
+står bak løsningene tillatelse til å åpne sine brev. Dette er
+nødvendig for at innholdet i digital post skal kunne vises frem til
+mottaker via tjenestens websider. Dermed gjelder ikke straffelovens
+paragraf om forbud mot å åpne brev, da tilgangen ikke lenger er
+uberettiget. En gir altså fremmede tilgang til å lese sin
+korrespondanse. I tillegg vil bruk av slike usikre digitale
+postbokser føre til at det blir registrert når du leser brevene, hvor
+du befinner deg (vha. tilkoblingens IP-adresse), hvilket utstyr du
+bruker og en rekke annen personlig informasjon som ikke er
+tilgjengelig når papirpost brukes. Jeg foretrekker at det er
+lovmessig beskyttelse av min korrespondanse, som jo inneholder privat
+og personlig informasjon. Det bidrar til litt bedre vern av personlig
+integritet i dagens norske samfunn.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Overv_kning_i_Kina_vs__Norge.html">Overvåkning i Kina vs. Norge</a></div>
- <div class="date">12th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg lar meg fascinere av en artikkel
-<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/terroristene-star-pa-dora/69436116">i
-Dagbladet om Kinas håndtering av Xinjiang</a>, spesielt følgende
-utsnitt:</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html">Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</a></div>
+ <div class="date">22nd March 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
+re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism. I
+am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
+<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people">sited
+by The Hill and others</a>:
<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>«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.</p>
-
-<p>Politimetodene griper så dypt inn i folks dagligliv at motstanden
-mot Beijing-regimet øker.»</p>
-
+<p>"An American president does not lead the Free World by
+congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."</p>
</blockquote></p>
-<p>Beskrivelsen avviker jo desverre ikke så veldig mye fra tilstanden
-her i Norge.</p>
-
-<table>
-<tr>
-<th>Dataregistrering</th>
-<th>Kina</th>
-<th>Norge</th>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Innsamling og lagring av DNA-prøver fra befolkningen</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Delvis, planlagt for alle nyfødte.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Ansiktsgjenkjenning</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Stemmegjenkjenning</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Nei</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Posisjons-sporing av mobiltelefoner</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Posisjons-sporing av biler</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-</tr>
-
-</table>
-
-<p>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
-<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/75E9/4-av-10-mener-staten-bor-lagre-DNA-profiler-pa-alle-nyfodte">evig
-lagring av DNA-materiale fra alle spebarn som fødes</a> (med mulighet
-for å be om sletting).</p>
-
-<p>I Norge er det system på plass for ansiktsgjenkjenning, som
-<a href="https://www.nrk.no/norge/kun-gardermoen-har-teknologi-for-ansiktsgjenkjenning-i-norge-1.12719461">en
-NRK-artikkel fra 2015</a> forteller er aktiv på Gardermoen, samt
-<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/inntil-27-000-bor-i-norge-under-falsk-id/60500781">brukes
-til å analysere bilder innsamlet av myndighetene</a>. Brukes det også
-flere plasser? Det er tett med overvåkningskamera kontrollert av
-politi og andre myndigheter i for eksempel Oslo sentrum.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg er ikke kjent med at Norge har noe system for identifisering av
-personer ved hjelp av stemmegjenkjenning.</p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p>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).</p>
-
-<p>Det er jammen godt vi lever i et liberalt demokrati, og ikke en
-overvåkningsstat, eller?</p>
+<p>While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
+phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
+have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">kidnapped a
+completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
+Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
+sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year</a>.</p>
-<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+<p>USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
+one taken by any Free World.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_hard_can______and___be_.html">How hard can æ, ø and å be?</a></div>
- <div class="date">11th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-02-11-peppes-unicode.jpeg" align="right"/>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html">Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</a></div>
+ <div class="date">21st March 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
+(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
+mostly in the USA. What I find a bit surprising, is how little
+criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
+Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place. And what about the
+people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
+And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
+handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
+No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
+that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
+lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.</p>
-<p>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 'ø' and 'å' are replaced with strange symbols in
-'Servitør', 'Å BETALE', 'Beløp pr. gjest', 'Takk for besøket.' and 'Vi
-gleder oss til å se deg igjen'.</p>
+<p>What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
+selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
+in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed. It is well known that
+Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
+nevertheless. Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
+would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
+information about the millions of Facebook users. Collected
+information will be misused sooner or later. The only way to avoid
+such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place. If
+you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
+the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
+information.</p>
-<p>I would say that this state is passed sad and over in embarrassing.</p>
+<p>Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
+account, and take back some control of your personal information.
+<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely">According
+to The Guardian</a>, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
+account removal (and not just 'disabling'). You need to
+<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content">visit
+a specific Facebook page</a> and click on 'let us know' on that page
+to get to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account">the
+real account deletion screen</a>. Perhaps something to consider? I
+would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
+perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
+exposure a bit.</p>
-<p>I removed personal and private information to be nice.</p>
+<p>If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
+Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
+Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to <a href="">NUUG</a> last april about
+<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/">
+Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
+politics</a>.</p>
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+<p>And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
+use some end-to-end encrypted method like
+<a href="https://www.signal.org/">Signal</a> or
+<a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, and stop sharing your private
+messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.</p>
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- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_11_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html">Legal to share more than 11,000 movies listed on IMDB?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 7th January 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I've continued to track down list of movies that are legal to
-distribute on the Internet, and identified more than 11,000 title IDs
-in The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) so far. Most of them (57%) are
-feature films from USA published before 1923. I've also tracked down
-more than 24,000 movies I have not yet been able to map to IMDB title
-ID, so the real number could be a lot higher. According to the front
-web page for <a href="https://retrofilmvault.com/">Retro Film
-Vault</A>, there are 44,000 public domain films, so I guess there are
-still some left to identify.</p>
-
-<p>The complete data set is available from
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">a
-public git repository</a>, including the scripts used to create it.
-Most of the data is collected using web scraping, for example from the
-"product catalog" of companies selling copies of public domain movies,
-but any source I find believable is used. I've so far had to throw
-out three sources because I did not trust the public domain status of
-the movies listed.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, this is the summary of the 28 collected data sources so
-far:</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html">H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</a></div>
+ <div class="date">14th March 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
+helsevesenet. Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
+Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
+samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
+tid. Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
+Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
+dit vi havner gitt nok tid. I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
+oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
+bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
+medfødte sykdommer. Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
+<a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true">Stortingets
+flertallsinnstilling</a> er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
+at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
+undersøkelsen.</p>
-<p><pre>
- 2352 entries ( 66 unique) with and 15983 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-search.json
- 2302 entries ( 120 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json
- 195 entries ( 63 unique) with and 200 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-cinemovies.json
- 89 entries ( 52 unique) with and 38 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-creative-commons.json
- 344 entries ( 28 unique) with and 655 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm.json
- 668 entries ( 209 unique) with and 1064 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-filmchest-com.json
- 830 entries ( 21 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json
- 19 entries ( 19 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-gb.json
- 6822 entries ( 6669 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-us.json
- 137 entries ( 0 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-externlist.json
- 1205 entries ( 57 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json
- 84 entries ( 20 unique) with and 167 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-infodigi-pd.json
- 158 entries ( 135 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-looney-tunes.json
- 113 entries ( 4 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json
- 182 entries ( 100 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-silent.json
- 229 entries ( 87 unique) with and 1 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json
- 44 entries ( 2 unique) with and 64 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-openflix.json
- 291 entries ( 33 unique) with and 474 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-profilms-pd.json
- 211 entries ( 7 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-info.json
- 1232 entries ( 57 unique) with and 1875 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-net.json
- 46 entries ( 13 unique) with and 81 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json
- 698 entries ( 64 unique) with and 118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json
- 1758 entries ( 882 unique) with and 3786 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-retrofilmvault.json
- 16 entries ( 0 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-thehillproductions.json
- 63 entries ( 16 unique) with and 141 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json
-11583 unique IMDB title IDs in total, 8724 only in one list, 24647 without IMDB title ID
-</pre></p>
+<p>Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:</p>
-<p> I keep finding more data sources. I found the cinemovies source
-just a few days ago, and as you can see from the summary, it extended
-my list with 63 movies. Check out the mklist-* scripts in the git
-repository if you are curious how the lists are created. Many of the
-titles are extracted using searches on IMDB, where I look for the
-title and year, and accept search results with only one movie listed
-if the year matches. This allow me to automatically use many lists of
-movies without IMDB title ID references at the cost of increasing the
-risk of wrongly identify a IMDB title ID as public domain. So far my
-random manual checks have indicated that the method is solid, but I
-really wish all lists of public domain movies would include unique
-movie identifier like the IMDB title ID. It would make the job of
-counting movies in the public domain a lot easier.</p>
+<p><blockquote>
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+ <p>«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
+ synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
+ diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
+ hele befolkningen.»</p>
+
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
+blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
+<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info">folkehelseinstituttets
+lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
+og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven</a> viser at en ikke kan være
+trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
+misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.</p>
+
+<p>Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
+blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
+gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
+det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
+samtykke. Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
+<a href="https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/">folkehelseinstituttets
+websider</a>, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
+sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
+greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.</p>
+
+<p>I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
+er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
+konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
+brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
+dette i dag.</p>
+
+<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
+det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
+til min adresse
<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
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+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/03/">March (5)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/04/">April (3)</a></li>
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