Generated.

[homepage.git] / blog / index.rss

diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss
index cdd9459e13a187927e8bb8f55e1666df5807fb60..1f70ff4d7112d382f6111c5f74898ad42d95892b 100644 (file)
--- a/blog/index.rss
+++ b/blog/index.rss
@@ -7,775 +7,901 @@
                 <atom:link href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/index.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
        
        <item>
                 <atom:link href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/index.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
        
        <item>

-               <title>Blir det virkelig krav om fingeravtrykk i nasjonale ID-kort?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blir_det_virkelig_krav_om_fingeravtrykk_i_nasjonale_ID_kort_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blir_det_virkelig_krav_om_fingeravtrykk_i_nasjonale_ID_kort_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Noen finner det vanskelig å tro at Stortinget faktisk har vedtatt å
-kreve at alle norske borgerne må avgi fingeravtrykk til politiet for å
-fungere i samfunnet.  Jeg er blitt spurt hva som er grunnlaget for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html&quot;&gt;min
-påstand i forrige bloggpost&lt;/a&gt; om at det nå blir krav om å avgi
-fingeravtrykk til politiet for å fungere som borger i Norge.  De som
-spør klarer ikke lese det ut fra det som er vedtatt.  Her er en liten
-oppsummering om hva jeg baserer det på.  Det sies ikke direkte i
-hverken proposisjon, innstilling eller vedtak, men fremgår når en ser
-på indirekte formuleringer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dokumenter/prop.-66-l-2014-2015/id2399703/&quot;&gt;stortingsproposisjon
-66&lt;/a&gt;, avsnitt 6.3.5 (Avgivelse av biometriske personopplysninger)
-står det&lt;p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-  &lt;p&gt;Departementet foreslår at både ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk skal
-  kunne opptas og lagres som identifikasjonsdata i de nasjonale
-  ID-kortene, på samme måte som i passene. Lovforslaget er derfor
-  utformet i tråd med passloven § 6 annet ledd, som fastslår at det
-  til bruk for senere verifisering eller kontroll av passinnehaverens
-  identitet kan innhentes og lagres i passet biometrisk
-  personinformasjon i form av ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk (to
-  fingre). Dagens ordning med lagring av ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk
-  i et kontaktløst smartkort i passet er basert på internasjonale
-  standarder. Fingeravtrykkene i nasjonalt ID-kort vil bli beskyttet
-  på samme måte som fingeravtrykkene i passene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;
-
-  &lt;p&gt;For norske forhold understreker departementet at innføring av
-  nasjonale ID-kort sammen med innføring av nye systemer for sikrere
-  utstedelse og kontroll av pass og relaterte dokumenter gir mulighet
-  til å utforme ordningen slik at den best mulig møter utfordringene
-  forbundet med identitetskriminalitet. Det tilsier at fingeravtrykk
-  opptas og lagres i alle nasjonale ID-kort.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Departementet sier altså at sin anbefaling er at fingeravtrykk skal
-opptas og lagres i alle nasjonale ID-kort.  Det skrives som om det
-blir valgfritt, på samme måten som det skrives passloven, der det i
-loven sier at det kan
-«&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1997-06-19-82#§6&quot;&gt;innhentes
-og lagres i passet biometrisk personinformasjon i form av ansiktsfoto
-og fingeravtrykk (to fingre)&lt;/a&gt;».  Men på tross av en slik
-formulering i passloven er innført krav om å avgi fingeravtrykk for å
-få et pass i Norge.  Proposisjonen sier i tillegg i del 1
-(Proposisjonens hovedinnhold) at ID-kortene skal være like pålitelig
-som pass og ha samme sikkerhetsnivå som pass.  Departementet foreslår
-altså i realiteten at ID-kortene skal ha gis etter samme regler som
-for pass.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Formuleringene fra hovedinnholdet i proposisjonen er videreført i
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2014-2015/inns-201415-243/?lvl=0&quot;&gt;innstillingen
-fra stortingskomiteen&lt;/a&gt;, der det konkret står «De foreslåtte reglene
-vil gi befolkningen tilbud om et offentlig utstedt identitetsbevis som
-vil være like pålitelig som passet, og mer praktisk å bruke som
-legitimasjon» og «Det nasjonale ID-kortet skal også holde samme
-sikkerhetsnivå som passet».  Komiteen har altså ingen kommentarer
-eller innsigelser til dette forslaget, og gjorde i debatten da saken
-ble vedtatt det klart at dette var en god sak og at en enstemmig
-komité var glad for resultatet.  Stortinget har dermed stilt seg helt
-og fullt bak departementets forslag.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For meg er det åpenbart når en leser proposisjonen at &quot;like
-pålitelig&quot; og &quot;samme sikkerhetsnivå&quot; vil bli tolket av departementet
-som &quot;med samme biometrisk informasjon som i passene, og departementet
-forklarer i tillegg i proposisjonen at de har tenkt at
-fingeravtrykkene &quot;vil bli beskyttet på samme måte som fingeravtrykkene
-i passene&quot;.  Jeg ser det dermed som åpenbart at den samme
-tvangsinnhentingen av fingeravtrykk som gjelder for pass vil bli
-viderført til de nasjonale ID-kortene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det eneste som kan endre dette er massive protester fra
-befolkningen på at folk som ikke er mistenkt for noe kriminelt skal
-tvinges til å gi fingeravtrykket til politiet for å f.eks. kunne få
-bankkonto eller stemme ved valg.  Det kunne få departementet til å
-snu.  Desverre tror jeg ikke det vil skje.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>My own self balancing Lego Segway</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_own_self_balancing_Lego_Segway.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_own_self_balancing_Lego_Segway.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 4 Nov 2016 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A while back I received a Gyro sensor for the NXT
+&lt;a href=&quot;mindstorms.lego.com&quot;&gt;Mindstorms&lt;/a&gt; controller as a birthday
+present.  It had been on my wishlist for a while, because I wanted to
+build a Segway like balancing lego robot.  I had already built
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/segway/&quot;&gt;a simple balancing
+robot&lt;/a&gt; with the kids, using the light/color sensor included in the
+NXT kit as the balance sensor, but it was not working very well.  It
+could balance for a while, but was very sensitive to the light
+condition in the room and the reflective properties of the surface and
+would fall over after a short while.  I wanted something more robust,
+and had
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hitechnic.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&amp;key=NGY1044&quot;&gt;the
+gyro sensor from HiTechnic&lt;/a&gt; I believed would solve it on my
+wishlist for some years before it suddenly showed up as a gift from my
+loved ones. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I have not had time to sit down and play with it
+since then.  But that changed some days ago, when I was searching for
+lego segway information and came across a recipe from HiTechnic for
+building
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitechnic.com/blog/gyro-sensor/htway/&quot;&gt;the
+HTWay&lt;/a&gt;, a segway like balancing robot.  Build instructions and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hitechnic.com/upload/786-HTWayC.nxc&quot;&gt;source
+code&lt;/a&gt; was included, so it was just a question of putting it all
+together.  And thanks to the great work of many Debian developers, the
+compiler needed to build the source for the NXT is already included in
+Debian, so I was read to go in less than an hour.  The resulting robot
+do not look very impressive in its simplicity:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-04-lego-htway-robot.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because I lack the infrared sensor used to control the robot in the
+design from HiTechnic, I had to comment out the last task
+(taskControl).  I simply placed /* and */ around it get the program
+working without that sensor present.  Now it balances just fine until
+the battery status run low:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;video width=&quot;70%&quot; controls=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
+   &lt;source src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-04-lego-htway-balancing.ogv&quot; type=&quot;video/ogg&quot;&gt;
+&lt;/video&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Now we would like to teach it how to follow a line and take remote
+control instructions using the included Bluetooth receiver in the NXT.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you, like me, love LEGO and want to make sure we find the tools
+they need to work with LEGO in Debian and all our derivative
+distributions like Ubuntu, check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners&quot;&gt;the LEGO designers
+project page&lt;/a&gt; and join the Debian LEGO team.  Personally I own a
+RCX and NXT controller (no EV3), and would like to make sure the
+Debian tools needed to program the systems I own work as they
+should.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;5 days ago, the Norwegian Parliament decided, unanimously, that all
-citizens of Norway, no matter if they are suspected of something
-criminal or not, are
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.holderdeord.no/votes/1430838871e&quot;&gt;required to
-give fingerprints to the police&lt;/a&gt; (vote details from Holder de
-ord).  The law make it sound like it will be optional, but in a few
-years there will be no option any more.  The ID will be required to
-vote, to get a bank account, a bank card, to change address on the
-post office, to receive an electronic ID or to get a drivers license
-and many other tasks required to function in Norway.  The banks plan
-to stop providing their own ID on the bank cards when this new
-national ID is introduced, and the national road authorities plan to
-change the drivers license to no longer be usable as identity cards.
-In effect, to function as a citizen in Norway a national ID card will
-be required, and to get it one need to provide the fingerprints to
-the police.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In addition to handing the fingerprint to the police (which
-promised to not make a copy of the fingerprint image at that point in
-time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the
-fingerprint will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of
-the face and other information about the person.  Some of the
-information will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same
-system as currently used in the passports.  The codes to decrypt will
-be available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around
-the globe, but for those that do now know anyone in those circles it
-is good to know that
-
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffairs&quot;&gt;the
-encryption is already broken&lt;/a&gt;.  And they
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/article/2215057/wireless/bad-guys-could-read-rfid-passports-at-217-feet--maybe-a-lot-more.html&quot;&gt;can
-be read from 70 meters away&lt;/a&gt;.  This can be mitigated a bit by
-keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but
-one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose
-ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no
-business getting access to that information.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft,
-and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion
-of privacy without any objections.  So are the Norwegian passports,
-but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far.
-That option is going away with the passing of the new law.  In this, I
-envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric
-information is stored in their national ID.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the
-information collected in the national ID card register can be handed
-over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, &quot;when
-extradition is not considered disproportionate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Aktivitetsbånd som beskytter privatsfæren</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Aktivitetsb_nd_som_beskytter_privatsf_ren.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Aktivitetsb_nd_som_beskytter_privatsf_ren.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble så imponert over
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/norge/forbrukerradet-mener-aktivitetsarmband-strider-mot-norsk-lov-1.13209079&quot;&gt;dagens
+gladnyhet på NRK&lt;/a&gt;, om at Forbrukerrådet klager inn vilkårene for
+bruk av aktivitetsbånd fra Fitbit, Garmin, Jawbone og Mio til
+Datatilsynet og forbrukerombudet, at jeg sendte følgende brev til
+forbrukerrådet for å uttrykke min støtte:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble veldig glad over å lese at Forbrukerrådet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/klager-inn-aktivitetsarmband-for-brudd-pa-norsk-lov/&quot;&gt;klager
+inn flere aktivitetsbånd til Datatilsynet for dårlige vilkår&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg
+har ønsket meg et aktivitetsbånd som kan måle puls, bevegelse og
+gjerne også andre helserelaterte indikatorer en stund nå.  De eneste
+jeg har funnet i salg gjør, som dere også har oppdaget, graverende
+inngrep i privatsfæren og sender informasjonen ut av huset til folk og
+organisasjoner jeg ikke ønsker å dele aktivitets- og helseinformasjon
+med.  Jeg ønsker et alternativ som &lt;em&gt;ikke&lt;/em&gt; sender informasjon til
+skyen, men derimot bruker
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_og__pen_standard__slik_Digistan_ser_det.html&quot;&gt;en
+fritt og åpent standardisert&lt;/a&gt; protokoll (eller i det minste en
+dokumentert protokoll uten patent- og opphavsrettslige
+bruksbegrensinger) til å kommunisere med datautstyr jeg kontrollerer.
+Er jo ikke interessert i å betale noen for å tilrøve seg
+personopplysninger fra meg.  Desverre har jeg ikke funnet noe
+alternativ så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det holder ikke å endre på bruksvilkårene for enhetene, slik
+Datatilsynet ofte legger opp til i sin behandling, når de gjør slik
+f.eks. Fitbit (den jeg har sett mest på).  Fitbit krypterer
+informasjonen på enheten og sender den kryptert til leverandøren.  Det
+gjør det i praksis umulig både å sjekke hva slags informasjon som
+sendes over, og umulig å ta imot informasjonen selv i stedet for
+Fitbit.  Uansett hva slags historie som forteller i bruksvilkårene er
+en jo både prisgitt leverandørens godvilje og at de ikke tvinges av
+sitt lands myndigheter til å lyve til sine kunder om hvorvidt
+personopplysninger spres ut over det bruksvilkårene sier.  Det er
+veldokumentert hvordan f.eks. USA tvinger selskaper vha. såkalte
+National security letters til å utlevere personopplysninger samtidig
+som de ikke får lov til å fortelle dette til kundene sine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Stå på, jeg er veldig glade for at dere har sett på saken.  Vet
+dere om aktivitetsbånd i salg i dag som ikke tvinger en til å utlevere
+aktivitets- og helseopplysninger med leverandøren?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg håper en konkurrent som respekterer kundenes privatliv klarer å
+nå opp i markedet, slik at det finnes et reelt alternativ for oss som
+har full tillit til at skyleverandører vil prioritere egen inntjening
+og myndighetspålegg langt foran kundenes rett til privatliv.  Jeg har
+ingen tiltro til at Datatilsynet vil kreve noe mer enn at vilkårene
+endres slik at de forklarer eksplisitt i hvor stor grad bruk av
+produktene utraderer privatsfæren til kundene.  Det vil nok gjøre de
+innklagede armbåndene «lovlige», men fortsatt tvinge kundene til å
+dele sine personopplysninger med leverandøren.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 1 May 2015 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost
-to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the
-cost of around 20 million NOK (2.4 mill EUR) for all the calls in a
-year.  I got curious and wondered what the same calculation would look
-like today.  To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is
-needed for each minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in
-Norway sums up to, and the cost of data storage.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The 2005 numbers are from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;,
-the 2012 numbers are from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nkom.no/aktuelt/nyheter/fortsatt-vekst-i-det-norske-ekommarkedet&quot;&gt;a
-NKOM report&lt;/a&gt;, and I got the 2013 numbers after asking NKOM via
-email.  I was told the numbers for 2014 will be presented May 20th,
-and decided not to wait for those, as I doubt they will be very
-different from the numbers from 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The amount of data storage per minute sound depend on the wanted
-quality, and for phone calls it is generally believed that 8 Kbit/s is
-enough.  See for example a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html#topic1&quot;&gt;summary
-on voice quality from Cisco&lt;/a&gt; for some alternatives.  8 Kbit/s is 60
-Kbytes/min, and this can be multiplied with the number of call minutes
-to get the storage requirements.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies,
-availability requirements etc.  But a simple way to calculate can be
-to use the price of a TiB-disk (around 1000 NOK / 120 EUR) and double
-it to take space, power and redundancy into account.  It could be much
-higher with high speed and good redundancy requirements.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But back to the question, What would it cost to store all phone
-calls in Norway?  Not much.  Here is a small table showing the
-estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium
-and large organisations:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Year&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Call minutes&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Size&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Price in NOK / EUR&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2005&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;24 000 000 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;1.3 PiB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;3 mill / 358 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;18 000 000 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;1.0 PiB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;2.2 mill / 262 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;17 000 000 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;950 TiB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;2.1 mill / 250 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;/table&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is the cost of buying the storage.  Maintenance need to be
-taken into account too, but calculating that is left as an exercise
-for the reader.  But it is obvious to me from those numbers that
-recording the sound of all phone calls in Norway is not going to be
-stopped because it is too expensive.  I wonder if someone already is
-collecting the data?&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>First Jessie based Debian Edu beta release</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_beta_release.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_beta_release.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that the Debian Edu team sent out
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2015/04/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;this
-announcement today&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is pleased to announce the first
-*beta* release of Debian Edu &quot;Jessie&quot; 8.0+edu0~b1, which for the first
-time is composed entirely of packages from the current Debian stable
-release, Debian 8 &quot;Jessie&quot;.
-
-(As most reading this will know, Debian &quot;Jessie&quot; hasn&#39;t actually been
-released by now. The release is still in progress but should finish
-later today ;)
-
-We expect to make a final release of Debian Edu &quot;Jessie&quot; in the coming
-weeks, timed with the first point release of Debian Jessie. Upgrades
-from this beta release of Debian Edu Jessie to the final release will
-be possible and encouraged!
-
-Please report feedback to debian-edu@lists.debian.org and/or submit
-bugs: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
-
-Debian Edu - sometimes also known as &quot;Skolelinux&quot; - is a complete
-operating system for schools, universities and other
-organisations. Through its pre- prepared installation profiles
-administrators can install servers, workstations and laptops which
-will work in harmony on the school network.  With Debian Edu, the
-teachers themselves or their technical support staff can roll out a
-complete multi-user, multi-machine study environment within hours or
-days.
-
-Debian Edu is already in use at several hundred schools all over the
-world, particularly in Germany, Spain and Norway. Installations come
-with hundreds of applications pre-installed, plus the whole Debian
-archive of thousands of compatible packages within easy reach.
-
-For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
-installation instructions are available, including detailed
-instructions in the manual explaining the first steps, such as setting
-up a network or adding users.  Please note that the password for the
-user your prompted for during installation must have a length of at
-least 5 characters!
-
-== Where to download ==
-
-A multi-architecture CD / usbstick image (649 MiB) for network booting
-can be downloaded at the following locations:
-
-    http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso
-    rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso . 
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: 54a524d16246cddd8d2cfd6ea52f2dd78c47ee0a
-
-Alternatively an extended DVD / usbstick image (4.9 GiB) is also
-available, with more software included (saving additional download
-time):
-
-    http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso
-    rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso 
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: fb1f1504a490c077a48653898f9d6a461cb3c636
-
-Sources are available from the Debian archive, see
-http://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/source/ for some download
-options.
-
-== Debian Edu Jessie manual in seven languages ==
-
-Please see https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/ for
-the English version of the Debian Edu jessie manual.
-
-This manual has been fully translated to German, French, Italian,
-Danish, Dutch and Norwegian Bokmål. A partly translated version exists
-for Spanish.  See http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/ for
-online version of the translated manual.
-
-More information about Debian 8 &quot;Jessie&quot; itself is provided in the
-release notes and the installation manual:
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual
-
-
-== Errata / known problems ==
-
-    It takes up to 15 minutes for a changed hostname to be updated via
-    DHCP (#780461).
+               <title>Experience and updated recipe for using the Signal app without a mobile phone</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experience_and_updated_recipe_for_using_the_Signal_app_without_a_mobile_phone.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experience_and_updated_recipe_for_using_the_Signal_app_without_a_mobile_phone.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In July
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_use_the_Signal_app_if_you_only_have_a_land_line__ie_no_mobile_phone_.html&quot;&gt;I
+wrote how to get the Signal Chrome/Chromium app working&lt;/a&gt; without
+the ability to receive SMS messages (aka without a cell phone).  It is
+time to share some experiences and provide an updated setup.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Signal app have worked fine for several months now, and I use
+it regularly to chat with my loved ones.  I had a major snag at the
+end of my summer vacation, when the the app completely forgot my
+setup, identity and keys.  The reason behind this major mess was
+running out of disk space.  To avoid that ever happening again I have
+started storing everything in &lt;tt&gt;userdata/&lt;/tt&gt; in git, to be able to
+roll back to an earlier version if the files are wiped by mistake.  I
+had to use it once after introducing the git backup.  When rolling
+back to an earlier version, one need to use the &#39;reset session&#39; option
+in Signal to get going, and notify the people you talk with about the
+problem.  I assume there is some sequence number tracking in the
+protocol to detect rollback attacks.  The git repository is rather big
+(674 MiB so far), but I have not tried to figure out if some of the
+content can be added to a .gitignore file due to lack of spare
+time.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve also hit the 90 days timeout blocking, and noticed that this
+make it impossible to send messages using Signal.  I could still
+receive them, but had to patch the code with a new timestamp to send.
+I believe the timeout is added by the developers to force people to
+upgrade to the latest version of the app, even when there is no
+protocol changes, to reduce the version skew among the user base and
+thus try to keep the number of support requests down.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since my original recipe, the Signal source code changed slightly,
+making the old patch fail to apply cleanly.  Below is an updated
+patch, including the shell wrapper I use to start Signal.  The
+original version required a new user to locate the JavaScript console
+and call a function from there.  I got help from a friend with more
+JavaScript knowledge than me to modify the code to provide a GUI
+button instead.  This mean that to get started you just need to run
+the wrapper and click the &#39;Register without mobile phone&#39; to get going
+now.  I&#39;ve also modified the timeout code to always set it to 90 days
+in the future, to avoid having to patch the code regularly.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;So, the updated recipe for Debian Jessie:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-    The hostname script fails to update LTSP server hostname (#783087). 
-
-Workaround: run update-hostname-from-ip on the client to update the
-hostname immediately.
-
-Check https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie for a possibly
-more current and complete list.
-
-== Some more details about Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~b1 Codename Jessie released 2015-04-25 ==
-
-=== Software updates ===
-
-Everything which is new in Debian 8 Jessie, e.g.:
-
- * Linux kernel 3.16.7-ctk9; for the i386 architecture, support for
-   i486 processors has been dropped; oldest supported ones: i586 (like
-   Intel Pentium and AMD K5).
-
- * Desktop environments KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11.13, GNOME 3.14,
-   Xfce 4.12, LXDE 0.5.6
-   * new optional desktop environment: MATE 1.8
-   * KDE Plasma Workspaces is installed by default; to choose one of
-     the others see the manual.
- * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 41
- * LibreOffice 4.3.3
- * GOsa 2.7.4
- * LTSP 5.5.4
- * CUPS print system 1.7.5
- * new boot framework: systemd
- * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.12
- * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
- * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
- * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.1
- * golearn 0.9
- * tuxpaint 0.9.22
- * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
- * Debian Jessie includes about 43000 packages available for installation.
- * More information about Debian 8 Jessie is provided in its release
-   notes and the installation manual, see the link above.
-
-=== Installation changes ===
-
-    Installations done via PXE now also install firmware automatically
-    for the hardware present.
-
-=== Fixed bugs ===
-
-A number of bugs have been fixed in this release; the most noticeable
-from a user perspective:
-
- * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
-   DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
-   information is corrected (710362)
-
- * shutdown-at-night now shuts the system down if gdm3 is used (775608). 
+&lt;ol&gt;

 
 

-=== Sugar desktop removed ===
+&lt;li&gt;First, install required packages to get the source code and the
+browser you need.  Signal only work with Chrome/Chromium, as far as I
+know, so you need to install it.

 
 

-As the Sugar desktop was removed from Debian Jessie, it is also not
-available in Debian Edu jessie.
+&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install git tor chromium
+git clone https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop.git
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

+&lt;li&gt;Modify the source code using command listed in the the patch
+block below.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-== About Debian Edu / Skolelinux ==
+&lt;li&gt;Start Signal using the run-signal-app wrapper (for example using
+&lt;tt&gt;`pwd`/run-signal-app&lt;/tt&gt;).

 
 

-Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on
-Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
-configured school network. Directly after installation a school server
-running all services needed for a school network is set up just
-waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
-Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
-initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
-machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
-provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
-centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
-services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
-packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
-can choose between KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
-environment.
+&lt;li&gt;Click on the &#39;Register without mobile phone&#39;, will in a phone
+number you can receive calls to the next minute, receive the
+verification code and enter it into the form field and press
+&#39;Register&#39;.  Note, the phone number you use will be user Signal
+username, ie the way others can find you on Signal.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-== About Debian ==
+&lt;li&gt;You can now use Signal to contact others.  Note, new contacts do
+not show up in the contact list until you restart Signal, and there is
+no way to assign names to Contacts.  There is also no way to create or
+update chat groups.  I suspect this is because the web app do not have
+a associated contact database.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
-free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
-the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
-volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
-maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
-huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
-operating system.
+&lt;/ol&gt;

 
 

-== Thanks ==
+&lt;p&gt;I am still a bit uneasy about using Signal, because of the way its
+main author moxie0 reject federation and accept dependencies to major
+corporations like Google (part of the code is fetched from Google) and
+Amazon (the central coordination point is owned by Amazon).  See for
+example
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37&quot;&gt;the
+LibreSignal issue tracker&lt;/a&gt; for a thread documenting the authors
+view on these issues.  But the network effect is strong in this case,
+and several of the people I want to communicate with already use
+Signal.  Perhaps we can all move to &lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx/&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;
+once it &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/830265&quot;&gt;work on my
+laptop&lt;/a&gt;?  It already work on Windows and Android, and is included
+in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ring&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ring&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, but not
+working on Debian Stable.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is the patch I apply to the Signal code to get it
+working.  It switch to the production servers, disable to timeout,
+make registration easier and add the shell wrapper:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-Thanks to everyone making Debian and Debian Edu / Skolelinux happen!
-You rock.
+&lt;pre&gt;
+cd Signal-Desktop; cat &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF | patch -p1
+diff --git a/js/background.js b/js/background.js
+index 24b4c1d..579345f 100644
+--- a/js/background.js
++++ b/js/background.js
+@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
+         });
+     });
+ 
+-    var SERVER_URL = &#39;https://textsecure-service-staging.whispersystems.org&#39;;
++    var SERVER_URL = &#39;https://textsecure-service-ca.whispersystems.org&#39;;
+     var SERVER_PORTS = [80, 4433, 8443];
+-    var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = &#39;https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments-staging.s3.amazonaws.com&#39;;
++    var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = &#39;https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com&#39;;
+     var messageReceiver;
+     window.getSocketStatus = function() {
+         if (messageReceiver) {
+diff --git a/js/expire.js b/js/expire.js
+index 639aeae..beb91c3 100644
+--- a/js/expire.js
++++ b/js/expire.js
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ ;(function() {
+     &#39;use strict&#39;;
+-    var BUILD_EXPIRATION = 0;
++    var BUILD_EXPIRATION = Date.now() + (90 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
+ 
+     window.extension = window.extension || {};
+ 
+diff --git a/js/views/install_view.js b/js/views/install_view.js
+index 7816f4f..1d6233b 100644
+--- a/js/views/install_view.js
++++ b/js/views/install_view.js
+@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
+             return {
+                 &#39;click .step1&#39;: this.selectStep.bind(this, 1),
+                 &#39;click .step2&#39;: this.selectStep.bind(this, 2),
+-                &#39;click .step3&#39;: this.selectStep.bind(this, 3)
++                &#39;click .step3&#39;: this.selectStep.bind(this, 3),
++                &#39;click .callreg&#39;: function() { extension.install(&#39;standalone&#39;) },
+             };
+         },
+         clearQR: function() {
+diff --git a/options.html b/options.html
+index dc0f28e..8d709f6 100644
+--- a/options.html
++++ b/options.html
+@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
+         &amp;lt;div class=&#39;nav&#39;&gt;
+           &amp;lt;h1&gt;{{ installWelcome }}&amp;lt;/h1&gt;
+           &amp;lt;p&gt;{{ installTagline }}&amp;lt;/p&gt;
+-          &amp;lt;div&gt; &amp;lt;a class=&#39;button step2&#39;&gt;{{ installGetStartedButton }}&amp;lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;/div&gt;
++          &amp;lt;div&gt; &amp;lt;a class=&#39;button step2&#39;&gt;{{ installGetStartedButton }}&amp;lt;/a&gt;
++          &amp;lt;br&gt; &amp;lt;a class=&quot;button callreg&quot;&gt;Register without mobile phone&amp;lt;/a&gt;
++
++        &amp;lt;/div&gt;
+           &amp;lt;span class=&#39;dot step1 selected&#39;&gt;&amp;lt;/span&gt;
+           &amp;lt;span class=&#39;dot step2&#39;&gt;&amp;lt;/span&gt;
+           &amp;lt;span class=&#39;dot step3&#39;&gt;&amp;lt;/span&gt;
+--- /dev/null   2016-10-07 09:55:13.730181472 +0200
++++ b/run-signal-app   2016-10-10 08:54:09.434172391 +0200
+@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
++#!/bin/sh
++set -e
++cd $(dirname $0)
++mkdir -p userdata
++userdata=&quot;`pwd`/userdata&quot;
++if [ -d &quot;$userdata&quot; ] &amp;&amp; [ ! -d &quot;$userdata/.git&quot; ] ; then
++    (cd $userdata &amp;&amp; git init)
++fi
++(cd $userdata &amp;&amp; git add . &amp;&amp; git commit -m &quot;Current status.&quot; || true)
++exec chromium \
++  --proxy-server=&quot;socks://localhost:9050&quot; \
++  --user-data-dir=$userdata --load-and-launch-app=`pwd`
+EOF
+chmod a+rx run-signal-app

 &lt;/pre&gt;
 &lt;/pre&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&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Shirish Agarwal</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Shirish_Agarwal.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Shirish_Agarwal.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It was a surprise to me to learn that project to create a complete
-computer system for schools I&#39;ve involved in,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, was
-being used in India.  But apparently it is, and I managed to get an
-interview with one of the friends of the project there, Shirish
-Agarwal.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My name is Shirish Agarwal. Based out of the educational and
-historical city of Pune, from the western state of Maharashtra, India.
-My bread comes from giving training, giving policy tips,
-installations on free software to mom and pop shops in different
-fields from Desktop publishing to retail shops as well as work with
-few software start-ups as well.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
-project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It started innocently enough. I have been using Debian for a few
-years and in one local minidebconf / debutsav I was asked if there was
-anything for schools or education. I had worked / played with free
-educational softwares such as Gcompris and Stellarium for my many
-nieces and nephews so researched and found Debian Edu or Skolelinux as
-it was known then.  Since then I have started using the various
-education meta-packages provided by the project.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s closest I have seen where a package full of educational
-software are packed, which are free and open (both literally and
-figuratively).  Even if I take the simplest software which is
-gcompris, the number of activities therein are amazing. Another one of
-the softwares that I have liked for a long time is stellarium. Even
-pysycache is cool except for couple of issues I encountered
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/781841&quot;&gt;#781841&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/781842&quot;&gt;#781842&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I prefer software installed on the system over web based solutions,
-as a web site can disappear any time but the software on disk has the
-possibility of a larger life span.  Of course with both it&#39;s more a
-question if it has enough users who make it fun or sustainable or both
-for the developer per-se.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I do see that the Debian Edu team seems to be short-handed and I
-think more efforts should be made to make it popular and ask and take
-help from people and the larger community wherever possible.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t see any disadvantage to use Skolelinux apart from the fact
-that most apps. are generic which is good or bad how you see it.
-However, saying that I do acknowledge the fact that the canvas is
-pretty big and there are lot of interesting ideas that could be done
-but for reasons not known not done or if done I don&#39;t know about them.
-Let me share some of the ideas (these are more upstream based but
-still) I have had for a long time :&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;1. Classical maths question of two trains in opposing directions
-each running @x kmph/mph at y distance, when they will meet and how
-far would each travel and similar questions like these.
-
-&lt;p&gt;The computer is a fantastic system where questions like these can
-be drawn, animated and the methodology and answers teased out in
-interactive manner. While sites such as the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.two.trains.html&quot;&gt;Ask
-Dr. Math FAQ on The Two Trains problem&lt;/a&gt; (as an example or point of
-inspiration) can be used there is lot more that can be done.  I dunno
-if there is a free software which does something like this.  The idea
-being a blend of objects + animation + interaction which does
-this. The whole interaction could be gamified with points or sounds or
-colourful celebration whenever the user gets even part of the question
-or/and methodology right. That would help reinforce good behaviour.
-This understanding could be used to share/showcase everything from how
-the first wheel came to be, to evolution to how astronomy started,
-psychics and everything in-between.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One specific idea in the train part was having the Linux mascot on
-one train and the BSD or GNU mascot on the other train and they
-meeting somewhere in-between. Characters from blender movies could
-also be used.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects: We have
-enormous data sets in Wikipedia and Wikitionary.  I don&#39;t think it
-should be a big job to design crossword puzzles. Using categories and
-sub-categories it should be doable to have Q&amp;A single word answers
-from the existing data-sets. What would make it easy or hard could be
-the length of the word + existence of many or few vowels depending on
-the user&#39;s input.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;3. Jigsaw puzzles - We already have a great software called
-palapeli with number of slicers making it pretty interesting. What
-needs to be done is to download large number of public domain and
-copyleft images, tease and use IPTC tags to categorise them into
-nature, history etc.  and let it loose. This could turn to be really
-huge collection of images. One source could be taken from
-commons.wikimedia.org, others could be huge collection of royalty-free
-stock photos. Potential is immense.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Apart from this, free software suffers in two directions, we lag
-both in development (of using new features per-se) and maintenance a
-lot.  This is more so in educational software as these applications
-need to be timely and the opportunity cost of missing deadlines is
-immense. If we are able to solve issues of funding for development and
-maintenance of such software I don&#39;t see any big difficulties. I know
-of few start-ups in and around India who would love to develop and
-maintain such software if funding issues could be solved.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;That would be huge list. Some of the softwares are obviously apt,
-aptitude, debdelta, leafpad, the shell of course (zsh nowadays),
-quassel for IRC. In games I use shisen-sho while card-games are evenly
-between kpat and Aiselriot.  In desktops it&#39;s a tie between
-gnome-flashback and mate.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I think it should first start with using specific FOSS apps. in
-whatever environment they are. If it&#39;s MS-Windows or Mac so be it.
-Once they are habitual with the apps. and there is buy-in from the
-school management then it could be installed anywhere. Most of the
-people now understand the concept of a repository because of the
-various online stores so it isn&#39;t hard to convince on that front.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;What is harder is having enough people with technical skills and
-passion to service them. If you get buy-in from one or two teachers
-then ideas like above could also be asked to be done as a project as
-well.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I think where we fall short more than anything is in marketing. For
-instance, Debian has this whole range of fonts in its archive but
-there isn&#39;t even a page where all those different fonts in the La
-Ipsum format could be tried out for newcomers.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One of the issues faced constantly in installations is with updates
-and upgrades.  People have this myth that each update and upgrade
-means the user interface will / has to change. I have seen this
-innumerable times.  That perhaps is one of the reasons which browsers
-like Iceweasel / Firefox change user interfaces so much, not because
-it might be needed or be functional but because people believe that
-changed user interfaces are better. This, can easily be pointed with
-the user interfaces changed with almost every MS-Windows and Mac OS
-releases.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The problems with Debian Edu for deployment are many. The biggest
-is the huge gap between what is taught in schools and what Debian Edu
-is aimed at.
-
-&lt;p&gt;Me and my friends did teach on week-ends in a government school for
-around 2 years, and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/sharings/&quot;&gt;gathered
-some experience&lt;/a&gt; there.  Some of the things we learnt/discovered
-there was :&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ol&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Most of the teachers are very territorial about their subjects
-   and they do not want you to teach anything out of the
-   portion/syllabus given.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;They want any activity on the system in accordance to whatever
-   is in the syllabus.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;There are huge barriers both with the English language and at
-   times with objects or whatever. An example, let&#39;s say in gcompris
-   you have objects falling down and you have to name them and let&#39;s
-   say the falling object is a hat or a fedora hat, this would not be
-   as recognizable as say a
-   &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneri_Pagadi&quot;&gt;Puneri
-   Pagdi&lt;/a&gt; so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever
-   possible. Especially for word-games there are so many hindi words
-   which have become part of english vocabulary (for instance in
-   parley), those could be made into a hinglish collection or
-   something but that is something for upstream to do.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ol&gt;
+               <title>NRKs kildevern når NRK-epost deles med utenlands etterretning?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NRKs_kildevern_n_r_NRK_epost_deles_med_utenlands_etterretning_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NRKs_kildevern_n_r_NRK_epost_deles_med_utenlands_etterretning_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 8 Oct 2016 08:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;NRK
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://nrkbeta.no/2016/09/02/securing-whistleblowers/&quot;&gt;lanserte
+for noen uker siden&lt;/a&gt; en ny
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/varsle/&quot;&gt;varslerportal som bruker
+SecureDrop til å ta imot tips&lt;/a&gt; der det er vesentlig at ingen
+utenforstående får vite at NRK er tipset.  Det er et langt steg
+fremover for NRK, og når en leser bloggposten om hva de har tenkt på
+og hvordan løsningen er satt opp virker det som om de har gjort en
+grundig jobb der.  Men det er ganske mye ekstra jobb å motta tips via
+SecureDrop, så varslersiden skriver &quot;Nyhetstips som ikke krever denne
+typen ekstra vern vil vi gjerne ha på nrk.no/03030&quot;, og 03030-siden
+foreslår i tillegg til et webskjema å bruke epost, SMS, telefon,
+personlig oppmøte og brevpost.  Denne artikkelen handler disse andre
+metodene.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Når en sender epost til en @nrk.no-adresse så vil eposten sendes ut
+av landet til datamaskiner kontrollert av Microsoft.  En kan sjekke
+dette selv ved å slå opp epostleveringsadresse (MX) i DNS.  For NRK er
+dette i dag &quot;nrk-no.mail.protection.outlook.com&quot;.  NRK har som en ser
+valgt å sette bort epostmottaket sitt til de som står bak outlook.com,
+dvs. Microsoft.  En kan sjekke hvor nettverkstrafikken tar veien
+gjennom Internett til epostmottaket vha. programmet
+&lt;tt&gt;traceroute&lt;/tt&gt;, og finne ut hvem som eier en Internett-adresse
+vha. whois-systemet.  Når en gjør dette for epost-trafikk til @nrk.no
+ser en at trafikken fra Norge mot nrk-no.mail.protection.outlook.com
+går via Sverige mot enten Irland eller Tyskland (det varierer fra gang
+til gang og kan endre seg over tid).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Vi vet fra
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA-loven&quot;&gt;introduksjonen av
+FRA-loven&lt;/a&gt; at IP-trafikk som passerer grensen til Sverige avlyttes
+av Försvarets radioanstalt (FRA).  Vi vet videre takket være
+Snowden-bekreftelsene at trafikk som passerer grensen til
+Storbritannia avlyttes av Government Communications Headquarters
+(GCHQ).  I tillegg er er det nettopp lansert et forslag i Norge om at
+forsvarets E-tjeneste skal få avlytte trafikk som krysser grensen til
+Norge. Jeg er ikke kjent med dokumentasjon på at Irland og Tyskland
+gjør det samme.  Poenget er uansett at utenlandsk etterretning har
+mulighet til å snappe opp trafikken når en sender epost til @nrk.no.
+I tillegg er det selvsagt tilgjengelig for Microsoft som er underlagt USAs
+jurisdiksjon og
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data&quot;&gt;samarbeider
+med USAs etterretning på flere områder&lt;/a&gt;.  De som tipser NRK om
+nyheter via epost kan dermed gå ut fra at det blir kjent for mange
+andre enn NRK at det er gjort.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Bruk av SMS og telefon registreres av blant annet telefonselskapene
+og er tilgjengelig i følge lov og forskrift for blant annet Politi,
+NAV og Finanstilsynet, i tillegg til IT-folkene hos telefonselskapene
+og deres overordnede.  Hvis innringer eller mottaker bruker
+smarttelefon vil slik kontakt også gjøres tilgjengelig for ulike
+app-leverandører og de som lytter på trafikken mellom telefon og
+app-leverandør, alt etter hva som er installert på telefonene som
+brukes.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Brevpost kan virke trygt, og jeg vet ikke hvor mye som registreres
+og lagres av postens datastyrte postsorteringssentraler.  Det vil ikke
+overraske meg om det lagres hvor i landet hver konvolutt kommer fra og
+hvor den er adressert, i hvert fall for en kortere periode.  Jeg vet
+heller ikke hvem slik informasjon gjøres tilgjengelig for.  Det kan
+være nok til å ringe inn potensielle kilder når det krysses med hvem
+som kjente til aktuell informasjon og hvor de befant seg (tilgjengelig
+f.eks.  hvis de bærer mobiltelefon eller bor i nærheten).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Personlig oppmøte hos en NRK-journalist er antagelig det tryggeste,
+men en bør passe seg for å bruke NRK-kantina.  Der bryter de nemlig
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lovdata.no/all/hl-19850524-028.html#14&quot;&gt;Sentralbanklovens
+paragraf 14&lt;/a&gt; og nekter folk å betale med kontanter.  I stedet
+krever de at en varsle sin bankkortutsteder om hvor en befinner seg
+ved å bruke bankkort.  Banktransaksjoner er tilgjengelig for
+bankkortutsteder (det være seg VISA, Mastercard, Nets og/eller en
+bank) i tillegg til politiet og i hvert fall tidligere med Se &amp; Hør
+(via utro tjenere, slik det ble avslørt etter utgivelsen av boken
+«Livet, det forbannede» av Ken B. Rasmussen).  Men hvor mange kjenner
+en NRK-journalist personlig?  Besøk på NRK på Marienlyst krever at en
+registrerer sin ankost elektronisk i besøkssystemet.  Jeg vet ikke hva
+som skjer med det datasettet, men har grunn til å tro at det sendes ut
+SMS til den en skal besøke med navnet som er oppgitt.  Kanskje greit å
+oppgi falskt navn.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Når så tipset er kommet frem til NRK skal det behandles
+redaksjonelt i NRK.  Der vet jeg via ulike kilder at de fleste
+journalistene bruker lokalt installert programvare, men noen bruker
+Google Docs og andre skytjenester i strid med interne retningslinjer
+når de skriver.  Hvordan vet en hvem det gjelder?  Ikke vet jeg, men
+det kan være greit å spørre for å sjekke at journalisten har tenkt på
+problemstillingen, før en gir et tips.  Og hvis tipset omtales internt
+på epost, er det jo grunn til å tro at også intern eposten vil deles
+med Microsoft og utenlands etterretning, slik tidligere nevnt, men det
+kan hende at det holdes internt i NRKs interne MS Exchange-løsning.
+Men Microsoft ønsker å få alle Exchange-kunder over &quot;i skyen&quot; (eller
+andre folks datamaskiner, som det jo innebærer), så jeg vet ikke hvor
+lenge det i så fall vil vare.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I tillegg vet en jo at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/ytring/elektronisk-kildevern-i-nrk-1.11941196&quot;&gt;NRK
+har valgt å gi nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet (NSM) tilgang til å se på
+intern og ekstern Internett-trafikk&lt;/a&gt; hos NRK ved oppsett av såkalte
+VDI-noder, på tross av
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/ytring/bekymring-for-nrks-kildevern-1.11941584&quot;&gt;protester
+fra NRKs journalistlag&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg vet ikke om den vil kunne snappe opp
+dokumenter som lagres på interne filtjenere eller dokumenter som lages
+i de interne webbaserte publiseringssystemene, men vet at hva noden
+ser etter på nettet kontrolleres av NSM og oppdateres automatisk, slik
+at det ikke gir så mye mening å sjekke hva noden ser etter i dag når
+det kan endres automatisk i morgen.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Personlig vet jeg ikke om jeg hadde turt tipse NRK hvis jeg satt på
+noe som kunne være en trussel mot den bestående makten i Norge eller
+verden.  Til det virker det å være for mange åpninger for
+utenforstående med andre prioriteter enn NRKs journalistiske fokus.
+Og den største truslen for en varsler er jo om metainformasjon kommer
+på avveie, dvs. informasjon om at en har vært i kontakt med en
+journalist.  Det kan være nok til at en kommer i myndighetenes
+søkelys, og de færreste har nok operasjonell sikkerhet til at vil tåle
+slik flombelysning på sitt privatliv.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>I&#39;m going to the Open Source Developers&#39; Conference Nordic 2015!</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_m_going_to_the_Open_Source_Developers__Conference_Nordic_2015_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_m_going_to_the_Open_Source_Developers__Conference_Nordic_2015_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to let you all know that I&#39;m going to the &lt;a
-href=&quot;http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/&quot;&gt;Open Source Developers&#39;
-Conference Nordic 2015&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It take place Friday 8th to Sunday 10th of May in Oslo next to
-where I work, and I finally got around to submitting
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/talk/6192&quot;&gt;a talk proposal for
-it&lt;/a&gt; (dead link for most people until the talk is accepted).  As
-part of my involvement with the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group member
-association&lt;/a&gt; I have been slightly involved in the planning of this
-conference for a while now, with a focus on organising a Civic Hacking
-Hackathon with our friends
-over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;mySociety&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holderdeord.no/&quot;&gt;Holder de ord&lt;/a&gt;.  This part is
-named the &#39;My Society&#39; track in the program.  There is still space for
-more talks and participants.  I hope to see you there.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/talks&quot;&gt;the talks
-submitted and accepted so far&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Isenkram, Appstream and udev make life as a LEGO builder easier</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram__Appstream_and_udev_make_life_as_a_LEGO_builder_easier.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram__Appstream_and_udev_make_life_as_a_LEGO_builder_easier.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 7 Oct 2016 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;The Isenkram
+system&lt;/a&gt; provide a practical and easy way to figure out which
+packages support the hardware in a given machine.  The command line
+tool &lt;tt&gt;isenkram-lookup&lt;/tt&gt; and the tasksel options provide a
+convenient way to list and install packages relevant for the current
+hardware during system installation, both user space packages and
+firmware packages. The GUI background daemon on the other hand provide
+a pop-up proposing to install packages when a new dongle is inserted
+while using the computer.  For example, if you plug in a smart card
+reader, the system will ask if you want to install &lt;tt&gt;pcscd&lt;/tt&gt; if
+that package isn&#39;t already installed, and if you plug in a USB video
+camera the system will ask if you want to install &lt;tt&gt;cheese&lt;/tt&gt; if
+cheese is currently missing.  This already work just fine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But Isenkram depend on a database mapping from hardware IDs to
+package names.  When I started no such database existed in Debian, so
+I made my own data set and included it with the isenkram package and
+made isenkram fetch the latest version of this database from git using
+http.  This way the isenkram users would get updated package proposals
+as soon as I learned more about hardware related packages.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The hardware is identified using modalias strings.  The modalias
+design is from the Linux kernel where most hardware descriptors are
+made available as a strings that can be matched using filename style
+globbing.  It handle USB, PCI, DMI and a lot of other hardware related
+identifiers.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The downside to the Isenkram specific database is that there is no
+information about relevant distribution / Debian version, making
+isenkram propose obsolete packages too.  But along came AppStream, a
+cross distribution mechanism to store and collect metadata about
+software packages.  When I heard about the proposal, I contacted the
+people involved and suggested to add a hardware matching rule using
+modalias strings in the specification, to be able to use AppStream for
+mapping hardware to packages.  This idea was accepted and AppStream is
+now a great way for a package to announce the hardware it support in a
+distribution neutral way.  I wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html&quot;&gt;a
+recipe on how to add such meta-information&lt;/a&gt; in a blog post last
+December.  If you have a hardware related package in Debian, please
+announce the relevant hardware IDs using AppStream.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In Debian, almost all packages that can talk to a LEGO Mindestorms
+RCX or NXT unit, announce this support using AppStream.  The effect is
+that when you insert such LEGO robot controller into your Debian
+machine, Isenkram will propose to install the packages needed to get
+it working.  The intention is that this should allow the local user to
+start programming his robot controller right away without having to
+guess what packages to use or which permissions to fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But when I sat down with my son the other day to program our NXT
+unit using his Debian Stretch computer, I discovered something
+annoying.  The local console user (ie my son) did not get access to
+the USB device for programming the unit.  This used to work, but no
+longer in Jessie and Stretch.  After some investigation and asking
+around on #debian-devel, I discovered that this was because udev had
+changed the mechanism used to grant access to local devices.  The
+ConsoleKit mechanism from &lt;tt&gt;/lib/udev/rules.d/70-udev-acl.rules&lt;/tt&gt;
+no longer applied, because LDAP users no longer was added to the
+plugdev group during login.  Michael Biebl told me that this method
+was obsolete and the new method used ACLs instead.  This was good
+news, as the plugdev mechanism is a mess when using a remote user
+directory like LDAP.  Using ACLs would make sure a user lost device
+access when she logged out, even if the user left behind a background
+process which would retain the plugdev membership with the ConsoleKit
+setup.  Armed with this knowledge I moved on to fix the access problem
+for the LEGO Mindstorms related packages.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The new system uses a udev tag, &#39;uaccess&#39;.  It can either be
+applied directly for a device, or is applied in
+/lib/udev/rules.d/70-uaccess.rules for classes of devices.  As the
+LEGO Mindstorms udev rules did not have a class, I decided to add the
+tag directly in the udev rules files included in the packages.  Here
+is one example.  For the nqc C compiler for the RCX, the
+&lt;tt&gt;/lib/udev/rules.d/60-nqc.rules&lt;/tt&gt; file now look like this:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+SUBSYSTEM==&quot;usb&quot;, ACTION==&quot;add&quot;, ATTR{idVendor}==&quot;0694&quot;, ATTR{idProduct}==&quot;0001&quot;, \
+    SYMLINK+=&quot;rcx-%k&quot;, TAG+=&quot;uaccess&quot;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The key part is the &#39;TAG+=&quot;uaccess&quot;&#39; at the end.  I suspect all
+packages using plugdev in their /lib/udev/rules.d/ files should be
+changed to use this tag (either directly or indirectly via
+&lt;tt&gt;70-uaccess.rules&lt;/tt&gt;).  Perhaps a lintian check should be created
+to detect this?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been unable to find good documentation on the uaccess feature.
+It is unclear to me if the uaccess tag is an internal implementation
+detail like the udev-acl tag used by
+&lt;tt&gt;/lib/udev/rules.d/70-udev-acl.rules&lt;/tt&gt;.  If it is, I guess the
+indirect method is the preferred way.  Michael
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4288&quot;&gt;asked for more
+documentation from the systemd project&lt;/a&gt; and I hope it will make
+this clearer.  For now I use the generic classes when they exist and
+is already handled by &lt;tt&gt;70-uaccess.rules&lt;/tt&gt;, and add the tag
+directly if no such class exist.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To learn more about the isenkram system, please check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/&quot;&gt;my
+blog posts tagged isenkram&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To help out making life for LEGO constructors in Debian easier,
+please join us on our IRC channel
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego&quot;&gt;#debian-lego&lt;/a&gt; and join
+the &lt;a href=&quot;https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-lego/&quot;&gt;Debian
+LEGO team&lt;/a&gt; in the Alioth project we created yesterday.  A mailing
+list is not yet created, but we are working on it. :)&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&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>Proof reading the Norwegian translation of Free Culture by Lessig</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;During eastern I had some time to continue working on the Norwegian
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
-At the moment I am proof reading the finished text, looking for typos,
-inconsistent wordings and sentences that do not flow as they should.
-I&#39;m more than two thirds done with the text, and welcome others to
-check the text up to chapter 13.  The current status is available on the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
-project pages.  You can also check out the 
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
-and HTML version available in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive&quot;&gt;archive
-directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
-you find any.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Aftenposten-redaktøren med lua i hånda</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Aftenposten_redakt_ren_med_lua_i_h_nda.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Aftenposten_redakt_ren_med_lua_i_h_nda.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;En av dagens nyheter er at Aftenpostens redaktør Espen Egil Hansen
+bruker
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/kultur/aftenposten-brukar-heile-forsida-pa-facebook-kritikk-1.13126918&quot;&gt;forsiden
+av papiravisen på et åpent brev til Facebooks sjef Mark Zuckerberg om
+Facebooks fjerning av bilder, tekster og sider de ikke liker&lt;/a&gt;.  Det
+må være uvant for redaktøren i avisen Aftenposten å stå med lua i
+handa og håpe på å bli hørt.  Spesielt siden Aftenposten har vært med
+på å gi Facebook makten de nå demonstrerer at de har.  Ved å melde seg
+inn i Facebook-samfunnet har de sagt ja til bruksvilkårene og inngått
+en antagelig bindende avtale.  Kanskje de skulle lest og vurdert
+vilkårene litt nærmere før de sa ja, i stedet for å klage over at
+reglende de har valgt å akseptere blir fulgt?  Personlig synes jeg
+vilkårene er uakseptable og det ville ikke falle meg inn å gå inn på
+en avtale med slike vilkår.  I tillegg til uakseptable vilkår er det
+mange andre grunner til å unngå Facebook.  Du kan finne en solid
+gjennomgang av flere slike argumenter hos
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://stallman.org/facebook.html&quot;&gt;Richard Stallmans side om
+Facebook&lt;/a&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg håper flere norske redaktører på samme vis må stå med lua i
+hånden inntil de forstår at de selv er med på å føre samfunnet på
+ville veier ved å omfavne Facebook slik de gjør når de omtaler og
+løfter frem saker fra Facebook, og tar i bruk Facebook som
+distribusjonskanal for sine nyheter.  De bidrar til
+overvåkningssamfunnet og raderer ut lesernes privatsfære når de lenker
+til Facebook på sine sider, og låser seg selv inne i en omgivelse der
+det er Facebook, og ikke redaktøren, som sitter med makta.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Men det vil nok ta tid, i et Norge der de fleste nettredaktører
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Snurpenot_overv_kning_av_sensitiv_personinformasjon.html&quot;&gt;deler
+sine leseres personopplysinger med utenlands etterretning&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For øvrig burde varsleren Edward Snowden få politisk asyl i
+Norge.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>Frikanalen, Norwegian TV channel for technical topics</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen__Norwegian_TV_channel_for_technical_topics.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen__Norwegian_TV_channel_for_technical_topics.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt;,
-where I am a member, and where people interested in free software,
-open standards and UNIX like operating systems like Linux and the BSDs
-come together, record our monthly technical presentations on video.
-The purpose is to document the talks and spread them to a wider
-audience.  For this, the the Norwegian nationwide open channel
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; is a useful venue.
-Since a few days ago, when I figured out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/api/&quot;&gt;REST API&lt;/a&gt; to program the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/&quot;&gt;channel time schedule&lt;/a&gt;,
-the channel has been filled with NUUG talks, related recordings and
-some Creative Commons licensed TED talks (from archive.org).  I fill
-all &quot;leftover bits&quot; on the channel with content from NUUG, which at
-the moment is almost 17 of 24 hours every day.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The list of NUUG videos
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/organization/82&quot;&gt;uploaded so far&lt;/a&gt;
-include things like a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/625090&quot;&gt;one hour talk by John
-Perry Barlow when he visited Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, a presentation of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624275&quot;&gt;Haiku, the BeOS
-re-implementation&lt;/a&gt;, the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624493&quot;&gt;history of FiksGataMi,
-the Norwegian version of FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt;, the good old
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/623566&quot;&gt;Warriors of the net
-video&lt;/A&gt; and many others.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We have a large backlog of NUUG talks not yet uploaded to
-Frikanalen, and plan to upload every useful bit to the channel to
-spread the word there.  I also hope to find useful recordings from the
-Chaos Computer Club and Debian conferences and spread them on the
-channel as well.  But this require locating the videos and their meta
-information (title, description, license, etc), and preparing the
-recordings for broadcast, and I have not yet had the spare time to
-focus on this.  Perhaps you want to help.  Please join us on IRC,
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug&quot;&gt;#nuug on irc.freenode.net&lt;/a&gt;
-if you want to help make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But as I said, already the channel is already almost exclusively
-filled with technical topics, and if you want to learn something new
-today, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.tv/se&quot;&gt;Ogg Theora
-web stream&lt;/a&gt; or use one of the other ways to get access to the
-channel.  Unfortunately the Ogg Theora recoding for distribution still
-do not properly sync the video and sound.  It is generated by recoding
-a internal MPEG transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to
-Ogg Theora / Vorbis, and we have not been able to find a way that
-produces acceptable quality.  Help needed, please get in touch if you
-know how to fix it using free software.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>E-tjenesten ber om innsyn i eposten til partiene på Stortinget</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/E_tjenesten_ber_om_innsyn_i_eposten_til_partiene_p__Stortinget.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/E_tjenesten_ber_om_innsyn_i_eposten_til_partiene_p__Stortinget.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 6 Sep 2016 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I helga kom det et hårreisende forslag fra Lysne II-utvalget satt
+ned av Forsvarsdepartementet.  Lysne II-utvalget var bedt om å vurdere
+ønskelista til Forsvarets etterretningstjeneste (e-tjenesten), og har
+kommet med
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/norge/Utvalg-sier-ja-til-at-E-tjenesten-far-overvake-innholdet-i-all-internett--og-telefontrafikk-som-krysser-riksgrensen-603232b.html&quot;&gt;forslag
+om at e-tjenesten skal få lov til a avlytte all Internett-trafikk&lt;/a&gt;
+som passerer Norges grenser.  Få er klar over at dette innebærer at
+e-tjenesten får tilgang til epost sendt til de fleste politiske
+partiene på Stortinget.  Regjeringspartiet Høyre (@hoyre.no),
+støttepartiene Venstre (@venstre.no) og Kristelig Folkeparti (@krf.no)
+samt Sosialistisk Ventreparti (@sv.no) og Miljøpartiet de grønne
+(@mdg.no) har nemlig alle valgt å ta imot eposten sin via utenlandske
+tjenester.  Det betyr at hvis noen sender epost til noen med en slik
+adresse vil innholdet i eposten, om dette forslaget blir vedtatt, gjøres
+tilgjengelig for e-tjenesten.  Venstre, Sosialistisk Ventreparti og
+Miljøpartiet De Grønne har valgt å motta sin epost hos Google,
+Kristelig Folkeparti har valgt å motta sin epost hos Microsoft, og
+Høyre har valgt å motta sin epost hos Comendo med mottak i Danmark og
+Irland.  Kun Arbeiderpartiet og Fremskrittspartiet har valgt å motta
+eposten sin i Norge, hos henholdsvis Intility AS og Telecomputing
+AS.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Konsekvensen er at epost inn og ut av de politiske organisasjonene,
+til og fra partimedlemmer og partiets tillitsvalgte vil gjøres
+tilgjengelig for e-tjenesten for analyse og sortering.  Jeg mistenker
+at kunnskapen som slik blir tilgjengelig vil være nyttig hvis en
+ønsker å vite hvilke argumenter som treffer publikum når en ønsker å
+påvirke Stortingets representanter.&lt;/p
+
+&lt;p&gt;Ved hjelp av MX-oppslag i DNS for epost-domene, tilhørende
+whois-oppslag av IP-adressene og traceroute for å se hvorvidt
+trafikken går via utlandet kan enhver få bekreftet at epost sendt til
+de omtalte partiene vil gjøres tilgjengelig for forsvarets
+etterretningstjeneste hvis forslaget blir vedtatt.  En kan også bruke
+den kjekke nett-tjenesten &lt;a href=&quot;http://ipinfo.io/&quot;&gt;ipinfo.io&lt;/a&gt;
+for å få en ide om hvor i verden en IP-adresse hører til.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;På den positive siden vil forslaget gjøre at enda flere blir
+motivert til å ta grep for å bruke
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; og krypterte
+kommunikasjonsløsninger for å kommunisere med sine kjære, for å sikre
+at privatsfæren vernes.  Selv bruker jeg blant annet
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/&quot;&gt;FreedomBox&lt;/a&gt; og
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://whispersystems.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; til slikt.  Ingen av
+dem er optimale, men de fungerer ganske bra allerede og øker kostnaden
+for dem som ønsker å invadere mitt privatliv.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For øvrig burde varsleren Edward Snowden få politisk asyl i
+Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;!--
+
+venstre.no
+  venstre.no mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
+  venstre.no mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
+  venstre.no mail is handled by 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
+  venstre.no mail is handled by 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
+  venstre.no mail is handled by 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
+
+traceroute to aspmx.l.google.com (173.194.222.27), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
+ 1  uio-gw10.uio.no (129.240.6.1)  0.411 ms  0.438 ms  0.536 ms
+ 2  uio-gw8.uio.no (129.240.24.229)  0.375 ms  0.452 ms  0.548 ms
+ 3  oslo-gw1.uninett.no (128.39.65.17)  1.940 ms  1.950 ms  1.942 ms
+ 4  se-tug.nordu.net (109.105.102.108)  6.910 ms  6.949 ms  7.283 ms
+ 5  google-gw.nordu.net (109.105.98.6)  6.975 ms  6.967 ms  6.958 ms
+ 6  209.85.250.192 (209.85.250.192)  7.337 ms  7.286 ms  10.890 ms
+ 7  209.85.254.13 (209.85.254.13)  7.394 ms 209.85.254.31 (209.85.254.31)  7.586 ms 209.85.254.33 (209.85.254.33)  7.570 ms
+ 8  209.85.251.255 (209.85.251.255)  15.686 ms 209.85.249.229 (209.85.249.229)  16.118 ms 209.85.251.255 (209.85.251.255)  16.073 ms
+ 9  74.125.37.255 (74.125.37.255)  16.794 ms 216.239.40.248 (216.239.40.248)  16.113 ms 74.125.37.44 (74.125.37.44)  16.764 ms
+10  * * *
+
+mdg.no
+  mdg.no mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
+  mdg.no mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
+  mdg.no mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
+  mdg.no mail is handled by 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
+  mdg.no mail is handled by 10 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
+sv.no
+  sv.no mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
+  sv.no mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
+  sv.no mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
+  sv.no mail is handled by 10 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
+  sv.no mail is handled by 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
+hoyre.no
+  hoyre.no mail is handled by 10 hoyre-no.mx1.comendosystems.com.
+  hoyre.no mail is handled by 20 hoyre-no.mx2.comendosystems.net.
+
+traceroute to hoyre-no.mx1.comendosystems.com (89.104.206.4), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
+ 1  uio-gw10.uio.no (129.240.6.1)  0.450 ms  0.510 ms  0.591 ms
+ 2  uio-gw8.uio.no (129.240.24.229)  0.383 ms  0.508 ms  0.596 ms
+ 3  oslo-gw1.uninett.no (128.39.65.17)  0.311 ms  0.315 ms  0.300 ms
+ 4  se-tug.nordu.net (109.105.102.108)  6.837 ms  6.842 ms  6.834 ms
+ 5  dk-uni.nordu.net (109.105.97.10)  26.073 ms  26.085 ms  26.076 ms
+ 6  dix.1000m.soeborg.ip.comendo.dk (192.38.7.22)  15.372 ms  15.046 ms  15.123 ms
+ 7  89.104.192.65 (89.104.192.65)  15.875 ms  15.990 ms  16.239 ms
+ 8  89.104.192.179 (89.104.192.179)  15.676 ms  15.674 ms  15.664 ms
+ 9  03dm-com.mx1.staysecuregroup.com (89.104.206.4)  15.637 ms * *
+
+krf.no
+  krf.no mail is handled by 10 krf-no.mail.protection.outlook.com.
+
+traceroute to krf-no.mail.protection.outlook.com (213.199.154.42), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
+ 1  uio-gw10.uio.no (129.240.6.1)  0.401 ms  0.438 ms  0.536 ms
+ 2  uio-gw8.uio.no (129.240.24.229)  11.076 ms  11.120 ms  11.204 ms
+ 3  oslo-gw1.uninett.no (128.39.65.17)  0.232 ms  0.234 ms  0.271 ms
+ 4  se-tug.nordu.net (109.105.102.108)  6.811 ms  6.820 ms  6.815 ms
+ 5  netnod-ix-ge-a-sth-4470.microsoft.com (195.245.240.181)  7.074 ms  7.013 ms  7.061 ms
+ 6  ae1-0.sto-96cbe-1b.ntwk.msn.net (104.44.225.161)  7.227 ms  7.362 ms  7.293 ms
+ 7  be-8-0.ibr01.ams.ntwk.msn.net (104.44.5.7)  41.993 ms  43.334 ms  41.939 ms
+ 8  be-1-0.ibr02.ams.ntwk.msn.net (104.44.4.214)  43.153 ms  43.507 ms  43.404 ms
+ 9  ae3-0.fra-96cbe-1b.ntwk.msn.net (104.44.5.17)  29.897 ms  29.831 ms  29.794 ms
+10  ae10-0.vie-96cbe-1a.ntwk.msn.net (198.206.164.1)  42.309 ms  42.130 ms  41.808 ms
+11  * ae8-0.vie-96cbe-1b.ntwk.msn.net (104.44.227.29)  41.425 ms *
+12  * * *
+
+arbeiderpartiet.no
+  arbeiderpartiet.no mail is handled by 10 mail.intility.com.
+  arbeiderpartiet.no mail is handled by 20 mail2.intility.com.
+
+traceroute to mail.intility.com (188.95.245.87), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
+ 1  uio-gw10.uio.no (129.240.6.1)  0.486 ms  0.508 ms  0.649 ms
+ 2  uio-gw8.uio.no (129.240.24.229)  0.416 ms  0.508 ms  0.620 ms
+ 3  oslo-gw1.uninett.no (128.39.65.17)  0.276 ms  0.278 ms  0.275 ms
+ 4  te3-1-2.br1.fn3.as2116.net (193.156.90.3)  0.374 ms  0.371 ms  0.416 ms
+ 5  he16-1-1.cr1.san110.as2116.net (195.0.244.234)  3.132 ms he16-1-1.cr2.oslosda310.as2116.net (195.0.244.48)  10.079 ms he16-1-1.cr1.san110.as2116.net (195.0.244.234)  3.353 ms
+ 6  te1-2-0.ar2.ulv89.as2116.net (195.0.243.194)  0.569 ms te5-0-0.ar2.ulv89.as2116.net (195.0.243.192)  0.661 ms  0.653 ms
+ 7  cD2EC45C1.static.as2116.net (193.69.236.210)  0.654 ms  0.615 ms  0.590 ms
+ 8  185.7.132.38 (185.7.132.38)  1.661 ms  1.808 ms  1.695 ms
+ 9  185.7.132.100 (185.7.132.100)  1.793 ms  1.943 ms  1.546 ms
+10  * * *
+
+frp.no
+  frp.no mail is handled by 10 mx03.telecomputing.no.
+  frp.no mail is handled by 20 mx01.telecomputing.no.
+
+traceroute to mx03.telecomputing.no (95.128.105.102), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
+ 1  uio-gw10.uio.no (129.240.6.1)  0.378 ms  0.402 ms  0.479 ms
+ 2  uio-gw8.uio.no (129.240.24.229)  0.361 ms  0.458 ms  0.548 ms
+ 3  oslo-gw1.uninett.no (128.39.65.17)  0.361 ms  0.352 ms  0.336 ms
+ 4  xe-2-2-0-0.san-peer2.osl.no.ip.tdc.net (193.156.90.16)  0.375 ms  0.366 ms  0.346 ms
+ 5  xe-2-0-2-0.ost-pe1.osl.no.ip.tdc.net (85.19.121.97)  0.780 ms xe-2-0-0-0.ost-pe1.osl.no.ip.tdc.net (85.19.121.101)  0.713 ms xe-2-0-2-0.ost-pe1.osl.no.ip.tdc.net (85.19.121.97)  0.759 ms
+ 6  cpe.xe-0-2-0-100.ost-pe1.osl.no.customer.tdc.net (85.19.26.46)  0.837 ms  0.755 ms  0.759 ms
+ 7  95.128.105.3 (95.128.105.3)  1.050 ms  1.288 ms  1.182 ms
+ 8  mx03.telecomputing.no (95.128.105.102)  0.717 ms  0.703 ms  0.692 ms
+
+--&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>The Citizenfour documentary on the Snowden confirmations to Norway</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Citizenfour_documentary_on_the_Snowden_confirmations_to_Norway.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Citizenfour_documentary_on_the_Snowden_confirmations_to_Norway.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I was happy to learn that the documentary
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://citizenfourfilm.com/&quot;&gt;Citizenfour&lt;/a&gt; by
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras&quot;&gt;Laura Poitras&lt;/a&gt;
-finally will show up in Norway.  According to the magazine
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://montages.no/&quot;&gt;Montages&lt;/a&gt;, a deal has finally been
-made for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://montages.no/nyheter/snowden-dokumentaren-citizenfour-far-norsk-kinodistribusjon/&quot;&gt;Cinema
-distribution in Norway&lt;/a&gt; and the movie will have its premiere soon.
-This is great news.  As part of my involvement with
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt;, me and
-a friend have
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Dokumentar_om_Snowdenbekreftelsene_til_Norge_.shtml&quot;&gt;tried
-to get the movie to Norway&lt;/a&gt; ourselves, but obviously
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Dokumentar_om_Snowdenbekreftelsene_endelig_til_Norge_.shtml&quot;&gt;we
-were too late&lt;/a&gt; and Tor Fosse beat us to it.  I am happy he did, as
-the movie will make its way to the public and we do not have to make
-it happen ourselves.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwAvd5mvM&quot;&gt;The trailer&lt;/a&gt;
-can be seen on youtube, if you are curious what kind of film this
-is.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The whistle blower Edward Snowden really deserve political asylum
-here in Norway, but I am afraid he would not be safe.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <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>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_draft_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_now_public.html</guid>
+                <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.html&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 on paper as well as
+electronic form.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>The Norwegian open channel Frikanalen - 24x7 on the Internet</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Norwegian_open_channel_Frikanalen___24x7_on_the_Internet.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Norwegian_open_channel_Frikanalen___24x7_on_the_Internet.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian nationwide open channel
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; is still going
-strong.  It allow everyone to send the video they want on national
-television.  It is a TV station administrated completely using a web
-browser, running only &lt;ahref=&quot;https://github.com/Frikanalen&quot;&gt;Free
-Software&lt;/a&gt;, providing &lt;ahref=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/api&quot;&gt;a REST
-api&lt;/a&gt; for administrators and members, and with distribution on the
-national DVB-T distribution network RiksTV.  But only between 12:00
-and 17:30 Norwegian time.  This has finally changed, after many years
-with limited distribution.  A few weeks ago, we set up a Ogg Theora
-stream via icecast to allow everyone with Internet access to check out
-the channel the rest of the day.  This is presented on
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.tv/se&quot;&gt;the Frikanalen web site now&lt;/a&gt;.  And
-since a few days ago, the channel is also available
-via &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.uninett.no/iptv-tilgang&quot;&gt;multicast on
-UNINETT&lt;/a&gt;, available for those using IPTV TVs and set-top boxes in
-the Norwegian National Research and Education network.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to see what is on the channel, point your media player
-to one of these sources.  The first should work with most players and
-browsers, while as far as I know, the multicast UDP stream only work
-with VLC.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://video.nuug.no/frikanalen.ogv&quot;&gt;http://video.nuug.no/frikanalen.ogv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;udp://@224.17.43.129:1234&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The Ogg Theora / icecast stream is not working well, as the video
-and audio is slightly out of sync.  We have not been able to figure
-out how to fix it.  It is generated by recoding a internal MPEG
-transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to Ogg Theora /
-Vorbis, and the result is less then stellar.  If you have ideas how to
-fix it, please let us know on frikanalen (at) nuug.no.  We currently
-use this with ffmpeg2theora 0.29:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-./ffmpeg2theora.linux &amp;lt;OBE_gemini_URL.ts&amp;gt; -F 25 -x 720 -y 405 \
- --deinterlace --inputfps 25 -c 1 -H 48000 --keyint 8 --buf-delay 100 \
- --nosync -V 700 -o - | oggfwd video.nuug.no 8000 &amp;lt;pw&amp;gt; /frikanalen.ogv
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you get the multicast UDP stream working, please let me know, as
-I am curious how far the multicast stream reach.  It do not make it to
-my home network, nor any other commercially available network in
-Norway that I am aware of.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <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>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Coz_can_help_you_find_bottlenecks_in_multi_threaded_software___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <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;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <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>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sales_number_for_the_Free_Culture_translation__first_half_of_2016.html</guid>
+                <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;

 </description>
        </item>
        
 </description>
        </item>