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+               <title>When terms and policy turn users away</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/When_terms_and_policy_turn_users_away.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/When_terms_and_policy_turn_users_away.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 7 Dec 2019 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When asked to accept terms of use and privacy policies that state
+it will to remove rights I otherwise had or accept unreasonable terms
+undermining my privacy, I choose away the service.  I simply do not
+have the conscience to accept terms I have no indention of upholding.
+But how are the system and service providers to know how many people
+they scared away?  Normally I just quietly walk away.  But todya, I
+tried a new approach.  I sent the following email (removing the
+specifics, as I am not out to take the specific service in question)
+to the service provider I decided to drop, to at least give them one
+data point on how many users are unhappy with their terms:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+From: Petter Reinholdtsen
+&lt;br&gt;Subject: When terms of use turn users away
+&lt;br&gt;To: [contact@some.site]
+&lt;br&gt;Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:30:56 +0100
+
+&lt;p&gt;Dear [Site Owner],&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I was eager to test the system, as it seemed like a fun and
+interesting application of [some] technology, but after reading the
+terms of use and privacy policy on &amp;lt;URL:
+https://www.[some.site]/terms-of-use &amp;gt; and &amp;lt;URL:
+https://www.[some.site]/privacy-policy &amp;gt; I want you to know that I
+decided to turn away.  There were several provisions in the terms and
+policy turning me off, but the final term that convinced me was being
+asked to sign away my right to reverse engineer.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;-- 
+&lt;br&gt;Happy hacking
+&lt;br&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do not expect much to come out of it, but sharing it here in case
+others want to give something similar a try too.  If companies
+discover their terms scare away enough people, perhaps they will be
+improved...&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>What would it cost to store all 2018 phone calls in Norway?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_2018_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html</link>
@@ -743,77 +788,6 @@ they plan to release this summer around July.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard/&quot;&gt;the
 Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt&lt;/a&gt; implementations.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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-               <title>The space rover coquine, or how I ended up on the dark side of the moon</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_space_rover_coquine__or_how_I_ended_up_on_the_dark_side_of_the_moon.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_space_rover_coquine__or_how_I_ended_up_on_the_dark_side_of_the_moon.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 2 Jun 2019 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A while back a college and friend from Debian and the Skolelinux /
-Debian Edu project approached me, asking if I knew someone that might
-be interested in helping out with a technology project he was running
-as a teacher at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ecolefrancodanoise.dk/&quot;&gt;L&#39;école
-franco-danoise&lt;/a&gt; - the Danish-French school and kindergarden.  The
-kids were building robots, rovers.  The story behind it is to build a
-rover for use
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.ecolefrancodanoise.dk/first-week-on-the-dark-side&quot;&gt;on
-the dark side of the moon&lt;/a&gt;, and remote control it.  As travel cost
-was a bit high for the final destination, and they wanted to test the
-concept first, he was looking for volunteers to host a rover for the
-kids to control in a foreign country.  I ended up volunteering as a
-host, and last week the rover arrived.  It took a while to arrive
-after &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.ecolefrancodanoise.dk/model-moms&quot;&gt;it was
-built and shipped&lt;/a&gt;, because of customs confusion.  Luckily we were
-able fix it quickly with help from my colleges at work.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is what it looked like when the rover arrived.  Note the cute
-eyes looking up on me from the wrapping&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2019-06-02-robot-dark-side-of-moon-esken-med-det-rare-i.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;32%&quot; style=&quot;clear:left&quot;/&gt;
-&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2019-06-02-robot-dark-side-of-moon-den-ser-meg.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;32%&quot; style=&quot;clear:left&quot;/&gt;
-&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2019-06-02-robot-dark-side-of-moon-en-skrue-loes.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;32%&quot; style=&quot;clear:left&quot;/&gt;
-
-&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:left&quot;&gt;Once the robot arrived, we needed to track
-down batteries and figure out how to build custom firmware for it with
-the appropriate wifi settings.  I asked a friend if I could get two
-18650 batteries from his pile of Tesla batteries (he had them from the
-wrack of a crashed Tesla), so now the rover is running on Tesla
-batteries.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Building
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/ecolefrancodanoise/arduino-efd/&quot;&gt;the rover
-firmware&lt;/a&gt; proved a bit harder, as the code did not work out of the
-box with the Arduino IDE package in Debian Buster.  I suspect this is
-due to a unsolved
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/2703&quot;&gt; license problem
-with arduino&lt;/a&gt; blocking Debian from upgrading to the latest version.
-In the end we gave up debugging why the IDE failed to find the
-required libraries, and ended up using the Arduino Makefile from the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/arduino-mk&quot;&gt;arduino-mk Debian
-package&lt;/a&gt; instead.  Unfortunately the camera library is missing from
-the Arduino environment in Debian, so we disabled the camera support
-for the first firmware build, to get something up and running.  With
-this reduced firmware, the robot could be controlled via the
-controller server, driving around and measuring distance using its
-internal acoustic sensor.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next, With some help from my friend in Denmark, which checked in the
-camera library into the gitlab repository for me to use, we were able
-to build a new and more complete version of the firmware, and the
-robot is now up and running.  This is what the &quot;commander&quot; web page
-look like after taking a measurement and a snapshot:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2019-06-02-robot-dark-side-of-moon-commander.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;/&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more about this project, you can check out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://hackaday.io/project/164082-the-dark-side-challenge&quot;&gt;The
-Dark Side Challenge&lt;/a&gt; Hackaday web pages.&lt;/p&gt;
-
 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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