<channel>
<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="http://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
<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
<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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