+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jami_Ring__finally_functioning_peer_to_peer_communication_client.html">Jami/Ring, finally functioning peer to peer communication client</a></div>
+ <div class="date">19th June 2019</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Some years ago, in 2016, I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experience_and_updated_recipe_for_using_the_Signal_app_without_a_mobile_phone.html">wrote
+for the first time about</a> the Ring peer to peer messaging system.
+It would provide messaging without any central server coordinating the
+system and without requiring all users to register a phone number or
+own a mobile phone. Back then, I could not get it to work, and put it
+aside until it had seen more development. A few days ago I decided to
+give it another try, and am happy to report that this time I am able
+to not only send and receive messages, but also place audio and video
+calls. But only if UDP is not blocked into your network.</p>
+
+<p>The Ring system changed name earlier this year to
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software)">Jami</a>. I
+tried doing web search for 'ring' when I discovered it for the first
+time, and can only applaud this change as it is impossible to find
+something called Ring among the noise of other uses of that word. Now
+you can search for 'jami' and this client and
+<a href="https://jami.net/">the Jami system</a> is the first hit at
+least on duckduckgo.</p>
+
+<p>Jami will by default encrypt messages as well as audio and video
+calls, and try to send them directly between the communicating parties
+if possible. If this proves impossible (for example if both ends are
+behind NAT), it will use a central SIP TURN server maintained by the
+Jami project. Jami can also be a normal SIP client. If the SIP
+server is unencrypted, the audio and video calls will also be
+unencrypted. This is as far as I know the only case where Jami will
+do anything without encryption.</p>
+
+<p>Jami is available for several platforms: Linux, Windows, MacOSX,
+Android, iOS, and Android TV. It is included in Debian already. Jami
+also work for those using F-Droid without any Google connections,
+while Signal do not.
+<a href="https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-project/wikis/technical/Protocol">The
+protocol</a> is described in the Ring project wiki. The system uses a
+distributed hash table (DHT) system (similar to BitTorrent) running
+over UDP. On one of the networks I use, I discovered Jami failed to
+work. I tracked this down to the fact that incoming UDP packages
+going to ports 1-49999 were blocked, and the DHT would pick a random
+port and end up in the low range most of the time. After talking to
+the developers, I solved this by enabling the dhtproxy in the
+settings, thus using TCP to talk to a central DHT proxy instead of
+
+peering directly with others. I've been told the developers are
+working on allowing DHT to use TCP to avoid this problem. I also ran
+into a problem when trying to talk to the version of Ring included in
+Debian Stable (Stretch). Apparently the protocol changed between
+beta2 and the current version, making these clients incompatible.
+Hopefully the protocol will not be made incompatible in the
+future.</p>
+
+<p>It is worth noting that while looking at Jami and its features, I
+came across another communication platform I have not tested yet. The
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(protocol)">Tox protocol</a>
+and <a href="https://tox.chat/">family of Tox clients</a>. It might
+become the topic of a future blog post.</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>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_sales_number_for_my_Free_Culture_paper_editions__2019_edition_.html">More sales number for my Free Culture paper editions (2019-edition)</a></div>
+ <div class="date">11th June 2019</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The first book I published,
+<a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">Free Culture by Lawrence
+Lessig</a>, is still selling a few copies. Not a lot, but enough to
+have contributed slightly over $500 to the <a
+href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons Corporation</a>
+so far. All the profit is sent there. Most books are still sold via
+Amazon (83 copies), with Ingram second (49) and Lulu (12) and Machette (7) as
+minor channels. Bying directly from Lulu bring the largest cut to
+Creative Commons. The English Edition sold 80 copies so far, the
+French 59 copies, and Norwegian only 8 copies. Nothing impressive,
+but nice to see the work we put down is still being appreciated. The
+ebook edition is available for free from
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Github</a>.</p>
+
+<table border="0">
+<tr><th rowspan="2" valign="bottom">Title / language</th>
+<th colspan="7">Quantity</th></tr>
+<tr>
+<th>2016 jan-jun</th>
+<th>2016 jul-dec</th>
+<th>2017 jan-jun</th>
+<th>2017 jul-dec</th>
+<th>2018 jan-jun</th>
+<th>2018 jul-dec</th>
+<th>2019 jan-may</th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+ <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Culture Libre / French</a></td>
+ <td align="right">3</td>
+ <td align="right">6</td>
+ <td align="right">19</td>
+ <td align="right">11</td>
+ <td align="right">7</td>
+ <td align="right">6</td>
+ <td align="right">7</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+ <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Fri kultur / Norwegian</a></td>
+ <td align="right">7</td>
+ <td align="right">1</td>
+ <td align="right">0</td>
+ <td align="right">0</td>
+ <td align="right">0</td>
+ <td align="right">0</td>
+ <td align="right">0</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+ <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">Free Culture / English</a></td>
+ <td align="right">14</td>
+ <td align="right">27</td>
+ <td align="right">16</td>
+ <td align="right">9</td>
+ <td align="right">3</td>
+ <td align="right">7</td>
+ <td align="right">3</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+ <td>Total</td>
+ <td align="right">24</td>
+ <td align="right">34</td>
+ <td align="right">35</td>
+ <td align="right">20</td>
+ <td align="right">10</td>
+ <td align="right">13</td>
+ <td align="right">10</td>
+</tr>
+
+</table>
+
+<p>It is fun to see the French edition being more popular than the
+English one.</p>
+
+<p>If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native
+language, I would be happy to help make it happen. Please get in
+touch.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Official_MIME_type__text_vnd_sosi__for_SOSI_map_data.html">Official MIME type "text/vnd.sosi" for SOSI map data</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 4th June 2019</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Just 15 days ago,
+<ahref="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MIME_type__text_vnd_sosi__for_SOSI_map_data.html">I
+mentioned</a> my submission to IANA to register an official MIME type
+for the SOSI vector map format. This morning, just an hour ago, I was
+notified that
+<a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/vnd.sosi">the
+MIME type "text/vnd.sosi"</a> is registered for this format. In
+addition to this registration, my
+<a href="https://github.com/file/file/blob/master/magic/Magdir/sosi">file(1)
+patch for a pattern matching rule for SOSI files</a> has been accepted
+into the official source of that program (pending a new release), and
+I've been told by the team behind
+<a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/">PRONOM</a> that
+the SOSI format will be included in the next release of PRONOM, which
+they plan to release this summer around July.</p>
+
+<p>I am very happy to see all of this fall into place, for use by
+<a href="https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard/">the
+Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt</a> implementations.</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>
+ <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/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/noark5">noark5</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
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