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<title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from May 2016</title>
<description>Entries from May 2016</description>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
+ <item>
+ <title>Tor - from its creators mouth 11 years ago</title>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tor___from_its_creators_mouth_11_years_ago.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://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><p>A little more than 11 years ago, one of the creators of Tor, and
+the current President of <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">the Tor
+project</a>, Roger Dingledine, gave a talk for the members of the
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User group</a> (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
+<a href="http://frikanalen.no/se">watch the live stream using a web
+browser</a> with WebM support, or check out the recording on the video
+on demand page for the talk
+"<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625599">Tor: Anonymous
+communication for the US Department of Defence...and you.</a>".</p>
+
+<p>Here is the video included for those of you using browsers with
+HTML video and Ogg Theora support:</p>
+
+<p><video width="70%" poster="http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/large_thumb/20050421-tor-frikanalen.jpg" controls>
+ <source src="http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/theora/20050421-tor-frikanalen.ogv" type="video/ogg"/>
+</video></p>
+
+<p>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. :)</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Isenkram with PackageKit support - new version 0.23 available in Debian unstable</title>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_with_PackageKit_support___new_version_0_23_available_in_Debian_unstable.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_with_PackageKit_support___new_version_0_23_available_in_Debian_unstable.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram">The isenkram
+system</a> is a user-focused solution in Debian for handling hardware
+related packages. The idea is to have a database of mappings between
+hardware and packages, and pop up a dialog suggesting for the user to
+install the packages to use a given hardware dongle. Some use cases
+are when you insert a Yubikey, it proposes to install the software
+needed to control it; when you insert a braille reader list it
+proposes to install the packages needed to send text to the reader;
+and when you insert a ColorHug screen calibrator it suggests to
+install the driver for it. The system work well, and even have a few
+command line tools to install firmware packages and packages for the
+hardware already in the machine (as opposed to hotpluggable hardware).</p>
+
+<p>The system was initially written using aptdaemon, because I found
+good documentation and example code on how to use it. But aptdaemon
+is going away and is generally being replaced by
+<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/">PackageKit</a>,
+so Isenkram needed a rewrite. And today, thanks to the great patch
+from my college Sunil Mohan Adapa in the FreedomBox project, the
+rewrite finally took place. I've just uploaded a new version of
+Isenkram into Debian Unstable with the patch included, and the default
+for the background daemon is now to use PackageKit. To check it out,
+install the <tt>isenkram</tt> package and insert some hardware dongle
+and see if it is recognised.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to know what kind of packages isenkram would propose for
+the machine it is running on, you can check out the isenkram-lookup
+program. This is what it look like on a Thinkpad X230:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% isenkram-lookup
+bluez
+cheese
+fprintd
+fprintd-demo
+gkrellm-thinkbat
+hdapsd
+libpam-fprintd
+pidgin-blinklight
+thinkfan
+tleds
+tp-smapi-dkms
+tp-smapi-source
+tpb
+%p
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>The hardware mappings come from several places. The preferred way
+is for packages to announce their hardware support using
+<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/">the
+cross distribution appstream system</a>.
+See
+<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">previous
+blog posts about isenkram</a> to learn how to do that.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
<item>
<title>Discharge rate estimate in new battery statistics collector for Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html</guid>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 09:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>Yesterday I updated the
<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats
of this graph is relative to last full charge, not battery design
capacity.</p>
-<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-rate.png"/></p>
+<p align="center"><img src="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-rate.png"/></p>
<p>The other graph show the entire history of the collected battery
statistics, comparing it to the design capacity of the battery to
visualise how the battery life time get shorter over time. The red
line in this graph is what the previous graph considers 100 percent:
-<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-history.png"/></p>
+<p align="center"><img src="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-history.png"/></p>
<p>In this graph you can see that I only charge the battery to 80
percent of last full capacity, and how the capacity of the battery is
<item>
<title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes & Noble</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</guid>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
2004 book Cultura Libre was published. Today I noticed that the book
<item>
<title>I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>I just donated to the
<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">NUUG defence
on TorrentFreak</a>.</p>
<p>I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
+<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
wrote about the case a month ago</a>, when the
<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> (NUUG),
where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
<item>
<title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</guid>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
<a href="http://zfsonlinux.org/">ZFS for Linux</a> finally entered
<item>
<title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p><strong>Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
Debian claim support for most file formats.</strong></p>
<item>
<title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</guid>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description>A friend of mine made me aware of
<a href="https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/">The Pyra</a>, a
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