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-               <title>First draft Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook now public</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_draft_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_now_public.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;In April we
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook&quot;&gt;started
-to work&lt;/a&gt; on a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the &quot;open access&quot; book on
-how to set up and administrate a Debian system.  Today I am happy to
-report that the first draft is now publicly available.  You can find
-it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/&quot;&gt;get the Debian
-Administrator&#39;s Handbook page&lt;/a&gt; (under Other languages).  The first
-eight chapters have a first draft translation, and we are working on
-proofreading the content.  If you want to help out, please start
-contributing using
-&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;.  A good way to contribute is to proofread the text
-and update weblate if you find errors.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Our goal is still to make the Norwegian book available in paper as well as
-electronic form.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>The worlds only stone power plant?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</link>
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+                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger&quot;&gt;Bremanger&lt;/a&gt; i
+Norway, where
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/&quot;&gt;the
+Bremanger Quarry&lt;/a&gt; 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?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Coz can help you find bottlenecks in multi-threaded software - nice free software</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Coz_can_help_you_find_bottlenecks_in_multi_threaded_software___nice_free_software.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;This summer, I read a great article
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2016/curtsinger&quot;&gt;coz:
-This Is the Profiler You&#39;re Looking For&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in USENIX ;login: about
-how to profile multi-threaded programs.  It presented a system for
-profiling software by running experiences in the running program,
-testing how run time performance is affected by &quot;speeding up&quot; parts of
-the code to various degrees compared to a normal run.  It does this by
-slowing down parallel threads while the &quot;faster up&quot; code is running
-and measure how this affect processing time.  The processing time is
-measured using probes inserted into the code, either using progress
-counters (COZ_PROGRESS) or as latency meters (COZ_BEGIN/COZ_END).  It
-can also measure unmodified code by measuring complete the program
-runtime and running the program several times instead.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The project and presentation was so inspiring that I would like to
-get the system into Debian.  I
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830708&quot;&gt;created
-a WNPP request for it&lt;/a&gt; and contacted upstream to try to make the
-system ready for Debian by sending patches.  The build process need to
-be changed a bit to avoid running &#39;git clone&#39; to get dependencies, and
-to include the JavaScript web page used to visualize the collected
-profiling information included in the source package.
-But I expect that should work out fairly soon.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The way the system work is fairly simple.  To run an coz experiment
-on a binary with debug symbols available, start the program like this:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-coz run --- program-to-run
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This will create a text file profile.coz with the instrumentation
-information.  To show what part of the code affect the performance
-most, use a web browser and either point it to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://plasma-umass.github.io/coz/&quot;&gt;http://plasma-umass.github.io/coz/&lt;/a&gt;
-or use the copy from git (in the gh-pages branch).  Check out this web
-site to have a look at several example profiling runs and get an idea what the end result from the profile runs look like.  To make the
-profiling more useful you include &amp;lt;coz.h&amp;gt; and insert the
-COZ_PROGRESS or COZ_BEGIN and COZ_END at appropriate places in the
-code, rebuild and run the profiler.  This allow coz to do more
-targeted experiments.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A video published by ACM
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0V-p1odPg&quot;&gt;presenting the
-Coz profiler&lt;/a&gt; is available from Youtube.  There is also a paper
-from the 25th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles available
-titled
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/curtsinger&quot;&gt;Coz:
-finding code that counts with causal profiling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz&quot;&gt;The source code&lt;/a&gt;
-for Coz is available from github.  It will only build with clang
-because it uses a
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55606&quot;&gt;C++
-feature missing in GCC&lt;/a&gt;, but I&#39;ve submitted
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz/pull/67&quot;&gt;a patch to solve
-it&lt;/a&gt; and hope it will be included in the upstream source soon.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Please get in touch if you, like me, would like to see this piece
-of software in Debian.  I would very much like some help with the
-packaging effort, as I lack the in depth knowledge on how to package
-C++ libraries.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;My movie playing setup involve &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://openelec.tv&quot;&gt;OpenELEC&lt;/a&gt; (probably soon to be
+replaced with &lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt;) 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, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.infocus.com/&quot;&gt;InFocus&lt;/a&gt;, 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
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control&quot;&gt;a
+small script to control the projector&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial&quot;&gt;pyserial module&lt;/a&gt; in
+the add-on.  The long term solution is to make a &quot;script&quot; type
+pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
+Kodi.  But until that in place, I embed it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.
+
+&lt;p&gt;If this sound interesting to you, check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol&quot;&gt;the
+project github repository&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sales_number_for_the_Free_Culture_translation__first_half_of_2016.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;As my regular readers probably remember, the last year I published
-a French and Norwegian translation of the classic
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture book&lt;/a&gt; by the
-founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig.  A bit less
-known is the fact that due to the way I created the translations,
-using docbook and po4a, I also recreated the English original.  And
-because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I published it
-too.  The revenue from the books are sent to the Creative Commons
-Corporation.  In other words, I do not earn any money from this
-project, I just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available
-for a wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative
-Commons is needed.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at
-Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping.  Much to
-my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the
-French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been
-available in English since it was first published.  In total, 24 paper
-books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Title / language&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Quantity&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Culture Libre / French&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Fri kultur / Norwegian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;Free Culture / English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;/table&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book
-stores like Amazon and Barnes&amp;Noble.  Most revenue, around $10 per
-book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold
-directly by Lulu.com.  The other channels give less revenue.  The
-summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold via the Amazon channel, 10
-via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly by Lulu.  And Lulu.com tells
-me that the revenue sent so far this year is USD $101.42.  No idea
-what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do not know if that is a
-good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or not.  But it make me
-happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope they enjoy reading it
-as much as I did.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The ebook edition is available for free from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS&quot;&gt;VHS-kassettenes&lt;/a&gt;
+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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html&quot;&gt;skrevet&lt;/a&gt;
+&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;om&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html&quot;&gt;før&lt;/a&gt;.
+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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/&quot;&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;
+og &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, slik at en slipper å
+finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
+underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
+brukes:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
+  --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
+  https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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 &#39;--write-auto-sub&#39;,
+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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html&quot;&gt;vesensforskjellig
+å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming&lt;/a&gt;, når det rent
+teknisk er samme sak.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
+prosjektoversikten for
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html&quot;&gt;en
+komplett liste&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Vitenskapen tar som vanlig feil igjen - relativt feil</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskapen_tar_som_vanlig_feil_igjen___relativt_feil.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2016 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For mange år siden leste jeg en klassisk tekst som gjorde såpass
-inntrykk på meg at jeg husker den fortsatt, flere år senere, og bruker
-argumentene fra den stadig vekk.  Teksten var «The Relativity of
-Wrong» som Isaac Asimov publiserte i Skeptical Inquirer i 1989.  Den
-gir litt perspektiv rundt formidlingen av vitenskapelige resultater.
-Jeg har hatt lyst til å kunne dele den også med folk som ikke
-behersker engelsk så godt, som barn og noen av mine eldre slektninger,
-og har savnet å ha den tilgjengelig på norsk.  For to uker siden tok
-jeg meg sammen og kontaktet Asbjørn Dyrendal i foreningen Skepsis om
-de var interessert i å publisere en norsk utgave på bloggen sin, og da
-han var positiv tok jeg kontakt med Skeptical Inquirer og spurte om
-det var greit for dem.  I løpet av noen dager fikk vi tilbakemelding
-fra Barry Karr hos The Skeptical Inquirer som hadde sjekket og fått OK
-fra Robyn Asimov som representerte arvingene i Asmiov-familien og gikk
-igang med oversettingen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Resultatet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skepsis.no/?p=1617&quot;&gt;«Relativt
-feil»&lt;/a&gt;, ble publisert på skepsis-bloggen for noen minutter siden.
-Jeg anbefaler deg på det varmeste å lese denne teksten og dele den med
-dine venner.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For å håndtere oversettelsen og sikre at original og oversettelse
-var i sync brukte vi git, po4a, GNU make og Transifex.  Det hele
-fungerte utmerket og gjorde det enkelt å dele tekstene og jobbe sammen
-om finpuss på formuleringene.  Hadde hosted.weblate.org latt meg
-opprette nye prosjekter selv i stedet for å måtte kontakte
-administratoren der, så hadde jeg brukt weblate i stedet.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Stortingsflertallet går inn for ny IP-basert sensurinfrastruktur i Norge</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper&quot;&gt;VG&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219&quot;&gt;Dagbladet&lt;/a&gt;
+og
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;
+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.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Techno TV broadcasting live across Norway and the Internet (#debconf16, #nuug) on @frikanalen</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Techno_TV_broadcasting_live_across_Norway_and_the_Internet___debconf16___nuug__on__frikanalen.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Techno_TV_broadcasting_live_across_Norway_and_the_Internet___debconf16___nuug__on__frikanalen.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Did you know there is a TV channel broadcasting talks from DebConf
-16 across an entire country?  Or that there is a TV channel
-broadcasting talks by or about
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625529/&quot;&gt;Linus Torvalds&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625599/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/624019/&quot;&gt;OpenID&lt;/A&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625624/&quot;&gt;Common Lisp&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625446/&quot;&gt;Civic Tech&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625090/&quot;&gt;EFF founder John Barlow&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625432/&quot;&gt;how to make 3D
-printer electronics&lt;/a&gt; and many more fascinating topics?  It works
-using only free software (all of it
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/Frikanalen&quot;&gt;available from Github&lt;/a&gt;), and
-is administrated using a web browser and a web API.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The TV channel is the Norwegian open channel
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, and I am involved
-via &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG member association&lt;/a&gt; in
-running and developing the software for the channel.  The channel is
-organised as a member organisation where its members can upload and
-broadcast what they want (think of it as Youtube for national
-broadcasting television).  Individuals can broadcast too.  The time
-slots are handled on a first come, first serve basis.  Because the
-channel have almost no viewers and very few active members, we can
-experiment with TV technology without too much flack when we make
-mistakes.  And thanks to the few active members, most of the slots on
-the schedule are free.  I see this as an opportunity to spread
-knowledge about technology and free software, and have a script I run
-regularly to fill up all the open slots the next few days with
-technology related video.  The end result is a channel I like to
-describe as Techno TV - filled with interesting talks and
-presentations.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It is available on channel 50 on the Norwegian national digital TV
-network (RiksTV).  It is also available as a multicast stream on
-Uninett.  And finally, it is available as
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;a WebM unicast stream&lt;/a&gt; from
-Frikanalen and NUUG.  Check it out. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
+kriminelt å åpne andres brev.  Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205&quot;&gt;§ 205
+(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Unlocking HTC Desire HD on Linux using unruu and fastboot</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlocking_HTC_Desire_HD_on_Linux_using_unruu_and_fastboot.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlocking_HTC_Desire_HD_on_Linux_using_unruu_and_fastboot.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I tried to unlock a HTC Desire HD phone, and it proved
-to be a slight challenge.  Here is the recipe if I ever need to do it
-again.  It all started by me wanting to try the recipe to set up
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy&quot;&gt;an
-hardened Android installation&lt;/a&gt; from the Tor project blog on a
-device I had access to.  It is a old mobile phone with a broken
-microphone The initial idea had been to just
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_ace&quot;&gt;install
-CyanogenMod on it&lt;/a&gt;, but did not quite find time to start on it
-until a few days ago.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The unlock process is supposed to be simple: (1) Boot into the boot
-loader (press volume down and power at the same time), (2) select
-&#39;fastboot&#39; before (3) connecting the device via USB to a Linux
-machine, (4) request the device identifier token by running &#39;fastboot
-oem get_identifier_token&#39;, (5) request the device unlocking key using
-the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/&quot;&gt;HTC developer web
-site&lt;/a&gt; and unlock the phone using the key file emailed to you.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this only work fi you have hboot version 2.00.0029
-or newer, and the device I was working on had 2.00.0027.  This
-apparently can be easily fixed by downloading a Windows program and
-running it on your Windows machine, if you accept the terms Microsoft
-require you to accept to use Windows - which I do not.  So I had to
-come up with a different approach.  I got a lot of help from AndyCap
-on #nuug, and would not have been able to get this working without
-him.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First I needed to extract the hboot firmware from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.htcdev.com/ruu/PD9810000_Ace_Sense30_S_hboot_2.00.0029.exe&quot;&gt;the
-windows binary for HTC Desire HD&lt;/a&gt; downloaded as &#39;the RUU&#39; from HTC.
-For this there is is &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/kmdm/unruu/&quot;&gt;a github
-project named unruu&lt;/a&gt; using libunshield.  The unshield tool did not
-recognise the file format, but unruu worked and extracted rom.zip,
-containing the new hboot firmware and a text file describing which
-devices it would work for.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next, I needed to get the new firmware into the device.  For this I
-followed some instructions
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.htc1guru.com/2013/09/new-ruu-zips-posted/&quot;&gt;available
-from HTC1Guru.com&lt;/a&gt;, and ran these commands as root on a Linux
-machine with Debian testing:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-adb reboot-bootloader
-fastboot oem rebootRUU
-fastboot flash zip rom.zip
-fastboot flash zip rom.zip
-fastboot reboot
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The flash command apparently need to be done twice to take effect,
-as the first is just preparations and the second one do the flashing.
-The adb command is just to get to the boot loader menu, so turning the
-device on while holding volume down and the power button should work
-too.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;With the new hboot version in place I could start following the
-instructions on the HTC developer web site.  I got the device token
-like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-fastboot oem get_identifier_token 2&gt;&amp;1 | sed &#39;s/(bootloader) //&#39;
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And once I got the unlock code via email, I could use it like
-this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And with that final step in place, the phone was unlocked and I
-could start stuffing the software of my own choosing into the device.
-So far I only inserted a replacement recovery image to wipe the phone
-before I start.  We will see what happen next.  Perhaps I should
-install &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; on it. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
+re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.  I
+am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people&quot;&gt;sited
+by The Hill and others&lt;/a&gt;:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&quot;An American president does not lead the Free World by
+congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
+phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
+have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar&quot;&gt;kidnapped a
+completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
+Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
+sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
+one taken by any Free World.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>How to use the Signal app if you only have a land line (ie no mobile phone)</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_use_the_Signal_app_if_you_only_have_a_land_line__ie_no_mobile_phone_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_use_the_Signal_app_if_you_only_have_a_land_line__ie_no_mobile_phone_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2016 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For a while now, I have wanted to test
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://whispersystems.org/&quot;&gt;the Signal app&lt;/a&gt;, as it is
-said to provide end to end encrypted communication and several of my
-friends and family are already using it.  As I by choice do not own a
-mobile phone, this proved to be harder than expected.  And I wanted to
-have the source of the client and know that it was the code used on my
-machine.  But yesterday I managed to get it working.  I used the
-Github source, compared it to the source in
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/signal-private-messenger/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk?hl=en-US&quot;&gt;the
-Signal Chrome app&lt;/a&gt; available from the Chrome web store, applied
-patches to use the production Signal servers, started the app and
-asked for the hidden &quot;register without a smart phone&quot; form.  Here is
-the recipe how I did it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First, I fetched the Signal desktop source from Github, using
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-git clone https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop.git
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next, I patched the source to use the production servers, to be
-able to talk to other Signal users:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-cat &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF | patch -p0
-diff -ur ./js/background.js userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/background.js
---- ./js/background.js  2016-06-29 13:43:15.630344628 +0200
-+++ userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/background.js    2016-06-29 14:06:29.530300934 +0200
-@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
-         });
-     });
- 
--    var SERVER_URL = &#39;https://textsecure-service-staging.whispersystems.org&#39;;
--    var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = &#39;https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments-staging.s3.amazonaws.com&#39;;
-+    var SERVER_URL = &#39;https://textsecure-service-ca.whispersystems.org:4433&#39;;
-+    var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = &#39;https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com&#39;;
-     var messageReceiver;
-     window.getSocketStatus = function() {
-         if (messageReceiver) {
-diff -ur ./js/expire.js userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/expire.js
---- ./js/expire.js      2016-06-29 13:43:15.630344628 +0200
-+++ userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/expire.js2016-06-29 14:06:29.530300934 +0200
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- ;(function() {
-     &#39;use strict&#39;;
--    var BUILD_EXPIRATION = 0;
-+    var BUILD_EXPIRATION = 1474492690000;
- 
-     window.extension = window.extension || {};
- 
-EOF
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The first part is changing the servers, and the second is updating
-an expiration timestamp.  This timestamp need to be updated regularly.
-It is set 90 days in the future by the build process (Gruntfile.js).
-The value is seconds since 1970 times 1000, as far as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Based on a tip and good help from the #nuug IRC channel, I wrote a
-script to launch Signal in Chromium.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-#!/bin/sh
-cd $(dirname $0)
-mkdir -p userdata
-exec chromium \
-  --proxy-server=&quot;socks://localhost:9050&quot; \
-  --user-data-dir=`pwd`/userdata --load-and-launch-app=`pwd`
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt; The script start the app and configure Chromium to use the Tor
-SOCKS5 proxy to make sure those controlling the Signal servers (today
-Amazon and Whisper Systems) as well as those listening on the lines
-will have a harder time location my laptop based on the Signal
-connections if they use source IP address.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;When the script starts, one need to follow the instructions under
-&quot;Standalone Registration&quot; in the CONTRIBUTING.md file in the git
-repository.  I right clicked on the Signal window to get up the
-Chromium debugging tool, visited the &#39;Console&#39; tab and wrote
-&#39;extension.install(&quot;standalone&quot;)&#39; on the console prompt to get the
-registration form.  Then I entered by land line phone number and
-pressed &#39;Call&#39;.  5 seconds later the phone rang and a robot voice
-repeated the verification code three times.  After entering the number
-into the verification code field in the form, I could start using
-Signal from my laptop.
-
-&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, The Signal app will leak who is talking to
-whom and thus who know who to those controlling the central server,
-but such leakage is hard to avoid with a centrally controlled server
-setup.  It is something to keep in mind when using Signal - the
-content of your chats are harder to intercept, but the meta data
-exposing your contact network is available to people you do not know.
-So better than many options, but not great.  And sadly the usage is
-connected to my land line, thus allowing those controlling the server
-to associate it to my home and person.  I would prefer it if only
-those I knew could tell who I was on Signal.  There are options
-avoiding such information leakage, but most of my friends are not
-using them, so I am stuck with Signal for now.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
+(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
+mostly in the USA.  What I find a bit surprising, is how little
+criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
+Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place.  And what about the
+people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
+And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
+handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
+No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
+that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
+lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
+selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
+in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed.  It is well known that
+Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
+nevertheless.  Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
+would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
+information about the millions of Facebook users.  Collected
+information will be misused sooner or later.  The only way to avoid
+such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place.  If
+you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
+the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
+information.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
+account, and take back some control of your personal information.
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely&quot;&gt;According
+to The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
+account removal (and not just &#39;disabling&#39;).  You need to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content&quot;&gt;visit
+a specific Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; and click on &#39;let us know&#39; on that page
+to get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account&quot;&gt;the
+real account deletion screen&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps something to consider?  I
+would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
+perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
+exposure a bit.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
+Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
+Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; last april about
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/&quot;&gt;
+Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
+politics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
+use some end-to-end encrypted method like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.signal.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; or
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx/&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;, and stop sharing your private
+messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>The new &quot;best&quot; multimedia player in Debian?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html&quot;&gt;which
-multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats /
-MIME types&lt;/a&gt;, I was a bit surprised how varied the sets of MIME types
-the various players claimed support for.  The range was from 55 to 130
-MIME types.  I suspect most media formats are supported by all
-players, but this is not really reflected in the MimeTypes values in
-their desktop files.  There are probably also some bogus MIME types
-listed, but it is hard to identify which one this is.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Anyway, in the mean time I got in touch with upstream for some of
-the players suggesting to add more MIME types to their desktop files,
-and decided to spend some time myself improving the situation for my
-favorite media player VLC.  The fixes for VLC entered Debian unstable
-yesterday. The complete list of MIME types can be seen on the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;Multimedia
-player MIME type support status&lt;/a&gt; Debian wiki page.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The new &quot;best&quot; multimedia player in Debian?  It is VLC, followed by
-totem, parole, kplayer, gnome-mpv, mpv, smplayer, mplayer-gui and
-kmplayer.  I am sure some of the other players desktop files support
-several of the formats currently listed as working only with vlc,
-toten and parole.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A sad observation is that only 14 MIME types are listed as
-supported by all the tested multimedia players in Debian in their
-desktop files: audio/mpeg, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, audio/x-mpegurl,
-audio/x-ms-wma, audio/x-scpls, audio/x-wav, video/mp4, video/mpeg,
-video/quicktime, video/vnd.rn-realvideo, video/x-matroska,
-video/x-ms-asf, video/x-ms-wmv and video/x-msvideo.  Personally I find
-it sad that video/ogg and video/webm is not supported by all the media
-players in Debian.  As far as I can tell, all of them can handle both
-formats.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
+helsevesenet.  Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
+Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
+samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
+tid.  Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
+Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
+dit vi havner gitt nok tid.  I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
+oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
+bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
+medfødte sykdommer.  Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true&quot;&gt;Stortingets
+flertallsinnstilling&lt;/a&gt; er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
+at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
+undersøkelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+  &lt;p&gt;«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
+  synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
+  diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
+  hele befolkningen.»&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
+blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
+lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
+og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven&lt;/a&gt; viser at en ikke kan være
+trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
+misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
+blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
+gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
+det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
+samtykke.  Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
+websider&lt;/a&gt;, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
+sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
+greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
+er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
+konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
+brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
+dette i dag.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
+det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
+til min adresse
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>A program should be able to open its own files on Linux</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_program_should_be_able_to_open_its_own_files_on_Linux.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_program_should_be_able_to_open_its_own_files_on_Linux.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 5 Jun 2016 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, when koffice was fresh and with few users, I
-decided to test its presentation tool when making the slides for a
-talk I was giving for NUUG on Japhar, a free Java virtual machine.  I
-wrote the first draft of the slides, saved the result and went to bed
-the day before I would give the talk.  The next day I took a plane to
-the location where the meeting should take place, and on the plane I
-started up koffice again to polish the talk a bit, only to discover
-that kpresenter refused to load its own data file.  I cursed a bit and
-started making the slides again from memory, to have something to
-present when I arrived.  I tested that the saved files could be
-loaded, and the day seemed to be rescued.  I continued to polish the
-slides until I suddenly discovered that the saved file could no longer
-be loaded into kpresenter.  In the end I had to rewrite the slides
-three times, condensing the content until the talk became shorter and
-shorter.  After the talk I was able to pinpoint the problem &amp;ndash;
-kpresenter wrote inline images in a way itself could not understand.
-Eventually that bug was fixed and kpresenter ended up being a great
-program to make slides.  The point I&#39;m trying to make is that we
-expect a program to be able to load its own data files, and it is
-embarrassing to its developers if it can&#39;t.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Did you ever experience a program failing to load its own data
-files from the desktop file browser?  It is not a uncommon problem.  A
-while back I discovered that the screencast recorder
-gtk-recordmydesktop would save an Ogg Theora video file the KDE file
-browser would refuse to open.  No video player claimed to understand
-such file.  I tracked down the cause being &lt;tt&gt;file --mime-type&lt;/tt&gt;
-returning the application/ogg MIME type, which no video player I had
-installed listed as a MIME type they would understand.  I asked for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=382&quot;&gt;file to change its
-behavour&lt;/a&gt; and use the MIME type video/ogg instead.  I also asked
-several video players to add video/ogg to their desktop files, to give
-the file browser an idea what to do about Ogg Theora files.  After a
-while, the desktop file browsers in Debian started to handle the
-output from gtk-recordmydesktop properly.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But history repeats itself.  A few days ago I tested the music
-system Rosegarden again, and I discovered that the KDE and xfce file
-browsers did not know what to do with the Rosegarden project files
-(*.rg).  I&#39;ve reported &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/825993&quot;&gt;the
-rosegarden problem to BTS&lt;/a&gt; and a fix is commited to git and will be
-included in the next upload.  To increase the chance of me remembering
-how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files
-from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types.
-There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file.  The output from
-&lt;tt&gt;file --mime-type&lt;/tt&gt; mentioned above, and the content of the
-shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/).  The file MIME
-type is mapped to programs supporting the MIME type, and this
-information is collected from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec/&quot;&gt;the
-desktop files&lt;/a&gt; available in /usr/share/applications/.  If there is
-one desktop file claiming support for the MIME type of the file, it is
-activated when asking to open a given file.  If there are more, one
-can normally select which one to use by right-clicking on the file and
-selecting the wanted one using &#39;Open with&#39; or similar.  In general
-this work well.  But it depend on each program picking a good MIME
-type (preferably
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml&quot;&gt;a
-MIME type registered with IANA&lt;/a&gt;), file and/or the shared MIME
-registry recognizing the file and the desktop file to list the MIME
-type in its list of supported MIME types.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/mime/packages/rosegarden.xml&lt;/tt&gt; entry for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec&quot;&gt;the
-Shared MIME database&lt;/a&gt; look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&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;mime-info xmlns=&quot;http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info&quot;&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;mime-type type=&quot;audio/x-rosegarden&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;sub-class-of type=&quot;application/x-gzip&quot;/&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;comment&amp;gt;Rosegarden project file&amp;lt;/comment&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;glob pattern=&quot;*.rg&quot;/&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/mime-type&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/mime-info&amp;gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This states that audio/x-rosegarden is a kind of application/x-gzip
-(it is a gzipped XML file).  Note, it is much better to use an
-official MIME type registered with IANA than it is to make up ones own
-unofficial ones like the x-rosegarden type used by rosegarden.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The desktop file of the rosegarden program failed to list
-audio/x-rosegarden in its list of supported MIME types, causing the
-file browsers to have no idea what to do with *.rg files:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% grep Mime /usr/share/applications/rosegarden.desktop
-MimeType=audio/x-rosegarden-composition;audio/x-rosegarden-device;audio/x-rosegarden-project;audio/x-rosegarden-template;audio/midi;
-X-KDE-NativeMimeType=audio/x-rosegarden-composition
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The fix was to add &quot;audio/x-rosegarden;&quot; at the end of the
-MimeType= line.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you run into a file which fail to open the correct program when
-selected from the file browser, please check out the output from
-&lt;tt&gt;file --mime-type&lt;/tt&gt; for the file, ensure the file ending and
-MIME type is registered somewhere under /usr/share/mime/ and check
-that some desktop file under /usr/share/applications/ is claiming
-support for this MIME type.  If not, please report a bug to have it
-fixed. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
+Commons.  This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
+from those around the globe making a living using Creative
+Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
+translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc&quot;&gt;Made with Creative Commons from 2017&lt;/a&gt;
+was complete.  The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
+Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work.  Get in
+touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
+translate into your mother tongue.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The whole book project started when
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gwolf.org/node/4102&quot;&gt;Gunnar Wolf announced&lt;/a&gt; that he
+was going to make a Spanish edition of the book.  I noticed, and
+offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
+translating the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Free
+Culture&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian&quot;&gt;The Debian
+Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt; books to Norwegian Bokmål.  To make a
+long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
+first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
+Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself.  The first
+proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
+reading remains.  We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
+create a book cover.  Once it is done we will publish the book on
+paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
+downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
+The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
+using pandoc.  The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
+is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators.  The translated
+PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
+create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
+create the final PDF.  The end result is a set of editions of the
+manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The translation is conducted using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/&quot;&gt;the
+Weblate web based translation system&lt;/a&gt;.  Please have a look there
+and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
+reading. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Tor - from its creators mouth 11 years ago</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tor___from_its_creators_mouth_11_years_ago.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tor___from_its_creators_mouth_11_years_ago.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2016 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A little more than 11 years ago, one of the creators of Tor, and
-the current President of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;the Tor
-project&lt;/a&gt;, Roger Dingledine, gave a talk for the members of the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User group&lt;/a&gt; (NUUG).  A
-video of the talk was recorded, and today, thanks to the great help
-from David Noble, I finally was able to publish the video of the talk
-on Frikanalen, the Norwegian open channel TV station where NUUG
-currently publishes its talks.  You can
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://frikanalen.no/se&quot;&gt;watch the live stream using a web
-browser&lt;/a&gt; with WebM support, or check out the recording on the video
-on demand page for the talk
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625599&quot;&gt;Tor: Anonymous
-communication for the US Department of Defence...and you.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Here is the video included for those of you using browsers with
-HTML video and Ogg Theora support:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;video width=&quot;70%&quot; poster=&quot;http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/large_thumb/20050421-tor-frikanalen.jpg&quot; controls&gt;
-  &lt;source src=&quot;http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/theora/20050421-tor-frikanalen.ogv&quot; type=&quot;video/ogg&quot;/&gt;
-&lt;/video&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I guess the gist of the talk can be summarised quite simply: If you
-want to help the military in USA (and everyone else), use Tor. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
+choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
+While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
+info screen booting with some text scrolling.  I was not quick enough
+with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
+screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
+corrupt file system:
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[photo of subway info screen]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
+content on the screen worries me.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The image show the version booting is &#39;Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid&#39;,
+indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
+after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
+Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14.  Since Lenny Debian
+has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
+(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history&quot;&gt;a Debian
+version history on Wikpedia&lt;/a&gt;.  This mean the system is running
+around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
+many years.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
+Ruter, running outdated software.  In 2012,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html&quot;&gt;I
+discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000&lt;/a&gt;,
+and this was
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html&quot;&gt;still
+the case in 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  Given the response from the responsible people
+in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
+Windows 2000.  Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The photo is made available under the license terms
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
+4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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