+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_and_improved_Frikanalen_Kodi_addon_version_0_0_3.html">New and improved Frikanalen Kodi addon version 0.0.3</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 8th November 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>If you read my blog regularly, you probably know I am involved in
+running and developing the <a href="https://frikanalen.no/">Norwegian
+TV channel Frikanalen</a>. It is an open channel, allowing everyone
+in Norway to publish videos on a TV channel with national coverage.
+You can think of it as Youtube for national television.
+In addition to distribution on RiksTV and Uninett, Frikanalen is also
+available as a Kodi addon. The last few days I have updated the code
+to add more features. A
+<a href="https://kodi.tv/addon/plugins-video-add-ons/frikanalen-nett-tv">new
+and improved version 0.0.3 Frikanalen addon</a> was just made
+available via the Kodi repositories. This new version include a
+option to browse videos by category, as well as free text search
+in the video archive. It will now also show the video duration in the
+video lists, which were missing earlier. A new and experimental
+link to the HD video stream currently being worked on is provided, for
+those that want to see what the <a href="https://casparcg.com/">CasparCG</a>
+output look like. The alternative is the SD video stream, generated
+using MLT. CasparCG is controlled by our
+<a href="https://github.com/Frikanalen/mltplayout/">mltplayout
+server</a> which instead of talking to mlt is giving PLAY instructions
+to the CasparCG server when it is time to start a new program.</p>
+
+<p>By now, you are probably wondering what kind of content is being
+played on the channel. These days, it is filled with technical
+presentations like those from <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>,
+<a href="https://www.debconf.org/">Debconf</a>, Makercon, and TED,
+but there are also some periods with
+<a href="https://www.empo.no/">EMPT TV</a> and
+<a href="https://www.p7.no/">P7</a>.
+
+<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/frikanalen">frikanalen</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kodi">kodi</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_an_official_MIME_type_for_patches_.html">Time for an official MIME type for patches?</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 1st November 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>As part of my involvement in
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">the Nikita
+archive API project</a>, I've been importing a fairly large lump of
+emails into a test instance of the archive to see how well this would
+go. I picked a subset of <a href="https://notmuchmail.org/">my
+notmuch email database</a>, all public emails sent to me via
+@lists.debian.org, giving me a set of around 216 000 emails to import.
+In the process, I had a look at the various attachments included in
+these emails, to figure out what to do with attachments, and noticed
+that one of the most common attachment formats do not have
+<a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml">an
+official MIME type</a> registered with IANA/IETF. The output from
+diff, ie the input for patch, is on the top 10 list of formats
+included in these emails. At the moment people seem to use either
+text/x-patch or text/x-diff, but neither is officially registered. It
+would be better if one official MIME type were registered and used
+everywhere.</p>
+
+<p>To try to get one official MIME type for these files, I've brought
+up the topic on
+<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/media-types">the
+media-types mailing list</a>. If you are interested in discussion
+which MIME type to use as the official for patch files, or involved in
+making software using a MIME type for patches, perhaps you would like
+to join the discussion?</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/standard">standard</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_the_speaker_frequency_response_using_the_AUDMES_free_software_GUI___nice_free_software.html">Measuring the speaker frequency response using the AUDMES free software GUI - nice free software</a></div>
<div class="date">22nd October 2018</div>
set of speakers at a flee marked, and these work a lot better than the
old speakers, so I guess the microphone and amplifier is OK. If you
need to measure your own speakers, check out AUDMES. If more people
-get involved, perhaps the project could become good enough to include
-in Debian? And if you know of some other free software to measure
-speakers and amplifier performance, please let me know. I am aware of
-the freeware option <a href="https://www.roomeqwizard.com/">REW</a>,
-but I want something that can be developed also when the vendor
-looses interest.</p>
+get involved, perhaps the project could become good enough to
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/910876">include in Debian</a>? And if
+you know of some other free software to measure speakers and amplifier
+performance, please let me know. I am aware of the freeware option
+<a href="https://www.roomeqwizard.com/">REW</a>, but I want something
+that can be developed also when the vendor looses interest.</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_created_using_taxpayers__money_should_be_Free_Software.html">Software created using taxpayers’ money should be Free Software</a></div>
- <div class="date">30th August 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>It might seem obvious that software created using tax money should
-be available for everyone to use and improve. Free Software
-Foundation Europe recentlystarted a campaign to help get more people
-to understand this, and I just signed the petition on
-<a href="https://publiccode.eu/">Public Money, Public Code</a> to help
-them. I hope you too will do the same.</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/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_bit_more_on_privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker.html">A bit more on privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th August 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, I wondered if there are any privacy respecting
-health monitors and/or fitness trackers available for sale these days.
-I would like to buy one, but do not want to share my personal data
-with strangers, nor be forced to have a mobile phone to get data out
-of the unit. I've received some ideas, and would like to share them
-with you.
-
-One interesting data point was a pointer to a Free Software app for
-Android named
-<a href="https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/">Gadgetbridge</a>.
-It provide cloudless collection and storing of data from a variety of
-trackers. Its
-<a href="https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/#supported-devices">list
-of supported devices</a> is a good indicator for units where the
-protocol is fairly open, as it is obviously being handled by Free
-Software. Other units are reportedly encrypting the collected
-information with their own public key, making sure only the vendor
-cloud service is able to extract data from the unit. The people
-contacting me about Gadgetbirde said they were using
-<a href="https://us.amazfit.com/shop/bip?variant=336750">Amazfit
-Bip</a> and
-<a href="http://www.xiaomimi6phone.com/xiaomi-mi-band-3-features-release-date-rumors/">Xiaomi
-Band 3</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I also got a suggestion to look at some of the units from Garmin.
-I was told their GPS watches can be connected via USB and show up as a
-USB storage device with
-<a href="https://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_garmin_fit.html">Garmin
-FIT files</a> containing the collected measurements. While
-proprietary, FIT files apparently can be read at least by
-<a href="https://www.gpsbabel.org">GPSBabel</a> and the
-<a href="https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpxpod">GpxPod</a> Nextcloud
-app. It is unclear to me if they can read step count and heart rate
-data. The person I talked to was using a
-<a href="https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/564291">Garmin Forerunner
-935</a>, which is a fairly expensive unit. I doubt it is worth it for
-a unit where the vendor clearly is trying its best to move from open
-to closed systems. I still remember when Garmin dropped NMEA support
-in its GPSes.</p>
-
-<p>A final idea was to build ones own unit, perhaps by basing it on a
-wearable hardware platforms like
-<a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/flora-geo-watch">the Flora Geo
-Watch</a>. Sound like fun, but I had more money than time to spend on
-the topic, so I suspect it will have to wait for another time.</p>
-
-<p>While I was working on tracking down links, I came across an
-inspiring TED talk by Dave Debronkart about
-<a href="https://archive.org/details/DavedeBronkart_2010X">being a
-e-patient</a>, and discovered the web site
-<a href="https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/">Participatory
-Medicine</a>. If you too want to track your own health and fitness
-without having information about your private life floating around on
-computers owned by others, I recommend checking it out.</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>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
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