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-               <title>New book, &quot;Fri kultur&quot; by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of &quot;Free Culture&quot; from 2004</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;People keep asking me where to get the various forms of the book I
-published last week, the Norwegian Bokmål edition of Lawrence Lessigs
-book Free Culture.  It was published on paper via lulu.com, and is
-also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI format.  I currently sell the
-paper edition for self cost from lulu.com, but might extend the
-distribution to book stores like Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble later.
-This will double the price and force me to make a profit from selling
-the book.  Anyway, here are links to get the book in different
-formats:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;Buy 
-    paper edition from lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf&quot;&gt;Download
-    PDF, size 7.9 MiB&lt;/a&gt; (gratis/free)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub&quot;&gt;Download
-    ePub, size 11 MiB&lt;/a&gt; (gratis/free)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi&quot;&gt;Download
-    MOBI, size 3.8 MiB&lt;/a&gt; (gratis/free)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note that the MOBI version have problems with the table of content,
-at least with the viewers I have been able to test.  And the ePub file
-have several problems according to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck&quot;&gt;epubcheck&lt;/a&gt;, but seem
-to display fine in the viewers I have tested.  All the files needed to
-create the book in various forms are available from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;the
-github project page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The project got press coverage from the Norwegian IT news site
-digi.no.  Check out the article
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/juss_og_samfunn/2015/10/29/vil-apne-politikernes-oyne-for-creative-commons&quot;&gt;Vil
-åpne politikernes øyne for Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture&quot;&gt;blogged
-about the project&lt;/a&gt; as it moved along.  The blogs document the translation
-progress and insights I had along the way.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Making battery measurements a little easier in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in September, I blogged about
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html&quot;&gt;the
+system I wrote to collect statistics about my laptop battery&lt;/a&gt;, and
+how it showed the decay and death of this battery (now replaced).  I
+created a simple deb package to handle the collection and graphing,
+but did not want to upload it to Debian as there were already
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;a battery-stats
+package in Debian&lt;/a&gt; that should do the same thing, and I did not see
+a point of uploading a competing package when battery-stats could be
+fixed instead.  I reported a few bugs about its non-function, and
+hoped someone would step in and fix it.  But no-one did.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I got tired of waiting a few days ago, and took matters in my own
+hands.  The end result is that I am now the new upstream developer of
+battery stats (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats&quot;&gt;available from github&lt;/a&gt;) and part of the team maintaining
+battery-stats in Debian, and the package in Debian unstable is finally
+able to collect battery status using the &lt;tt&gt;/sys/class/power_supply/&lt;/tt&gt;
+information provided by the Linux kernel.  If you install the
+battery-stats package from unstable now, you will be able to get a
+graph of the current battery fill level, to get some idea about the
+status of the battery.  The source package build and work just fine in
+Debian testing and stable (and probably oldstable too, but I have not
+tested).  The default graph you get for that system look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-03-15-battery-stats-graph-example.png&quot; width=&quot;70%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My plans for the future is to merge my old scripts into the
+battery-stats package, as my old scripts collected a lot more details
+about the battery.  The scripts are merged into the upstream
+battery-stats git repository already, but I am not convinced they work
+yet, as I changed a lot of paths along the way.  Will have to test a
+bit more before I make a new release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I will also consider changing the file format slightly, as I
+suspect the way I combine several values into one field might make it
+impossible to know the type of the value when using it for processing
+and graphing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you would like I would like to keep an close eye on your laptop
+battery, check out the battery-stats package in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.
+I would love some help to improve the system further.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Gavebok overlevert Stortinget i dag</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gavebok_overlevert_Stortinget_i_dag.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gavebok_overlevert_Stortinget_i_dag.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Like før kl. 11 i dag leverte jeg fem esker med gaveinnpakkede
-bøker til Stortinget, for utdeling til alle stortingsrepresentanter.
-Det ble etterfulgt av følgende pressemelding.  Stor takk til NUUG for
-lån av epostliste for å sende ut pressemeldingen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Er opphavsretten for streng, spør ny bok&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I dag kommer boken «&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Fri
-kultur&lt;/a&gt;» av Lawrence Lessig ut på norsk.  Boken handler om
-utviklingen og utvidelsene opphavsretten har hatt de siste 40 årene.
-Boken er i dag gitt i gave til alle stortingsrepresentantene.
-Oversetter og utgiver Petter Reinholdtsen håper Stortinget vil tenke
-seg om to ganger neste gang det er snakk om utvidelse av
-opphavsretten.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Boken forteller om hvordan store medieaktører ved hjelp av
-opphavsretten bruker teknologi til å begrense kulturen og kontrollere
-kreativiteten.  Den er skrevet av stifteren av
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt;, professor
-Lawrence Lessig, som for tiden er med i kampen om å bli Demokratenes
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lessig2016.us/&quot;&gt;presidentkandidat i USA sitt
-presidentvalg i 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  Lessig ble sist omtalt i norske medier da
-NRK i høst viste dokumentaren «Kampen for et demokratisk internett»
-som også er
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
-fra The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Boken beskriver hvordan opphavsrettens makt i USA har blitt
-betydelig utvidet etter 1974 langs fem kritiske akser: varighet (fra
-32 til 95 år), omfang (fra utgivere til alle), rekkevidde (gjelder nå
-enhver fremvisning via datamaskin), kontroll (avledede verk er
-definert så bredt at i praksis alle nye åndsverk risikerer søksmål fra
-en opphavsrettsinnehaver) og til sist maktkonsentrasjon og integrering
-av mediebransjen.  Den dokumenterer også hvordan medieindustrien har
-lyktes med å bruke rettsvesenet til å begrense konkurranse, og i
-praksis har skaffet seg vetorett over teknologiske nyvinninger.
-Nedlasting av fritt, lovlig og i utgangspunktet gratis materiale
-stoppes med tekniske sperrer og lobbyert lovvern av sperrene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Utvidelsene illustreres i boken med ulike eksempler.  For eksempel
-en demonstrasjon av at Walt Disney ville ha blitt ansett som en
-opphavsrettspirat dersom han gjorde i dag det han gjorde på
-1930-tallet.  Boken beskriver hvordan vern av åndsverk er bra, men at
-mer vern ikke nødvendigvis er bedre.&lt;?p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen, som sammen med flere frivillige har oversatt
-boken på fritiden de siste 3 årene, håper at boken vil gjøre en
-forskjell.  «Når en vet hvordan opphavsrettens varighet i Norge, uten
-opposisjon på Stortinget, ble utvidet nok en gang i mai i fjor, og
-hvordan Norges handelspartner USA gjennom de nye handelsavtalene
-Trans-Pacific Partnership og Transatlantic Trade and Investment
-Partnership
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared&quot;&gt;ønsker
-å utvide opphavsrettens makt også i andre land&lt;/a&gt;, håper jeg at flere
-vil spørre: Er det virkelig fornuftig å gjøre de samme utvidelsene i
-Norge?», spør han.  «Jeg håper boken kan bidra til kunnskap og
-forståelse, og kan gi Stortinget et bedre grunnlag til å ta riktige
-beslutninger som ivaretar befolkningens og samfunnets interesser i
-Norge.»&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen er en mangeårig fri programvareutvikler som har
-vært med på å lage systemer som operativsystemet Debian, IT-løsningen
-Skolelinux, borgerportalen FiksGataMi og innsynstjenesten Mimes brønn.
-Han forteller han selv har opplevd problemene utvidet varighet,
-omfang, rekkevidde og kontroll i opphavsretten medfører og at boken
-var en oppvekker.  «Jeg håper andre finner boken like interessant som
-jeg gjorde.  Boken kan
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;lastes
-gratis ned fra github&lt;/a&gt; eller
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;kjøpes
-på papir fra lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;,» avslutter Reinholdtsen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Så får vi se om det har noen positiv effekt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Creating, updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Making packages for Debian requires quite a lot of attention to
+details.  And one of the details is the content of the
+debian/copyright file, which should list all relevant licenses used by
+the code in the package in question, preferably in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/&quot;&gt;machine
+readable DEP5 format&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For large packages with lots of contributors it is hard to write
+and update this file manually, and if you get some detail wrong, the
+package is normally rejected by the ftpmasters.  So getting it right
+the first time around get the package into Debian faster, and save
+both you and the ftpmasters some work..  Today, while trying to figure
+out what was wrong with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686447&quot;&gt;the
+zfsonlinux copyright file&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to spend some time on
+figuring out the options for doing this job automatically, or at least
+semi-automatically.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Lucikly, there are at least two tools available for generating the
+file based on the code in the source package,
+&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debmake&quot;&gt;debmake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+and &lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cme&quot;&gt;cme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;.  I&#39;m
+not sure which one of them came first, but both seem to be able to
+create a sensible draft file.  As far as I can tell, none of them can
+be trusted to get the result just right, so the content need to be
+polished a bit before the file is OK to upload.  I found the debmake
+option in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://goofying-with-debian.blogspot.com/2014/07/debmake-checking-source-against-dep-5.html&quot;&gt;a
+blog posts from 2014&lt;/a&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;To generate using debmake, use the -cc option:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+debmake -cc &gt; debian/copyright
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note there are some problems with python and non-ASCII names, so
+this might not be the best option.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The cme option is based on a config parsing library, and I found
+this approach in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/improving-creation-of-debian-copyright-file/&quot;&gt;a
+blog post from 2015&lt;/a&gt;.  To generate using cme, use the &#39;update
+dpkg-copyright&#39; option:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+cme update dpkg-copyright
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This will create or update debian/copyright.  The cme tool seem to
+handle UTF-8 names better than debmake.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When the copyright file is created, I would also like some help to
+check if the file is correct.  For this I found two good options,
+&lt;tt&gt;debmake -k&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;license-reconcile&lt;/tt&gt;.  The former seem
+to focus on license types and file matching, and is able to detect
+ineffective blocks in the copyright file.  The latter reports missing
+copyright holders and years, but was confused by inconsistent license
+names (like CDDL vs. CDDL-1.0).  I suspect it is good to use both and
+fix all issues reported by them before uploading.  But I do not know
+if the tools and the ftpmasters agree on what is important to fix in a
+copyright file, so the package might still be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The devscripts tool &lt;tt&gt;licensecheck&lt;/tt&gt; deserve mentioning.  It
+will read through the source and try to find all copyright statements.
+It is not comparing the result to the content of debian/copyright, but
+can be useful when verifying the content of the copyright file.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Are you aware of better tools in Debian to create and update
+debian/copyright file.  Please let me know, or blog about it on
+planet.debian.org.&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&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2016-02-20&lt;/strong&gt;: I got a tip from Mike Gabriel
+on how to use licensecheck and cdbs to create a draft copyright file
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+licensecheck --copyright -r `find * -type f` | \
+  /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 &gt; debian/copyright.auto
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;He mentioned that he normally check the generated file into the
+version control system to make it easier to discover license and
+copyright changes in the upstream source.  I will try to do the same
+with my packages in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2016-02-21&lt;/strong&gt;: The cme author recommended
+against using -quiet for new users, so I removed it from the proposed
+command line.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>&quot;Fri kultur&quot; av @lessig - norsk utgave av &quot;Free Culture&quot; tilgjengelig på papir, PDF og ePub</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Fri_kultur__av__lessig___norsk_utgave_av__Free_Culture__tilgjengelig_p__papir__PDF_og_ePub.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;Klikk her for å kjøpe boken&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I 2004, mens &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
-Commons-bevegelsen&lt;/a&gt; vokste frem, skrev bevegelsens stifter Lawrence
-Lessig boken
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; for å forklare problemene med økene åndsverksregulering og
-for å foreslå noen løsninger.  Jeg leste boken den gangen, og den både
-inspirerte meg og endret på hvordan jeg så på opphavsrettslovigving.
-Jeg skulle ønske flere folk leste denne boken.  Den gir en god
-gjennomgang av hvordan økende åndsverksregulering skader både
-nyskapning og kulturlivet, og skisserer hvordan både lovgivere og oss
-vanlige borgere kan bidra for å få slutt på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Derfor bestemte jeg meg sommeren 2012 for å oversette den til norsk
-bokmål og gjøre den tilgjengelig for de blant mine venner og familie
-som foretrekker å lese bøker på norsk.  Jeg oversatte boken ved hjelp
-av docbook og en gettext PO-fil, og endte opp med to utgaver, en på
-norsk og en på engelsk.  Den engelske publiserte jeg i forrige uke, og
-den norske utgaven på papir
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;er
-nå klar for salg&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg fikk heldigvis hjelp med oversetting og
-korrekturlesing av den norske utgaven fra en rekke frivillige.  Se
-side 245 for en komplett liste.  Slik ser omslaget ut:
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-28-free-culture-norwegian-published-cover.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I tillegg til den norske og engelske utgaven holder vi på med en
-fransk utgave.  Den koordineres av dblatex-utvikleren Benoît Guillon,
-og oversettelsen var komplett denne uka men må korrekturleses før den
-kan gis ut.  Flere frivillige trengs her, så ta kontakt med Benoît
-hvis du vil bidra.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Boken er også tilgjengelig i PDF, ePub og MOBI-format fra
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;min
-github-prosjektside&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at ePub og MOBI-utgavene har noen
-formatteringsproblemer som jeg tror kommer av feil i docbook-verktøyet
-dbtoepub (Debian BTS-rapporter
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
-men jeg har ikke tatt meg tid til å undersøke problemene.  For de som
-vil ha elektronisk kopi anbefaler jeg å bruke PDF- og ePub-utgaven i
-denne omgang, da de ser ut til å hånderes bra av de fremviserne jeg
-har tilgjengelig.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Etter at oversettelsen til bokmål var ferdig klarte jeg å overtale
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; til å
-sponse trykking av boken.  Det er årsaken til at stiftelsens logo er
-på baksiden av omslaget.  Jeg er svært takknemlig for dette, og bruker
-bidraget til å gi en kopi av den norske utgaven til alle
-Stortingsrepresentanter og andre beslutningstakere her i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Using appstream in Debian to locate packages with firmware and mime type support</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11&quot;&gt;appstream system&lt;/a&gt;
+is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very
+convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given
+firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it.  This can
+be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog
+about. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware
+file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly
+picked from the set of firmware announced using appstream in Debian
+unstable.  In general you would be looking for the firmware requested
+by the kernel during kernel module loading.  To find the package
+providing the example file, do like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% apt install appstream
+[...]
+% apt update
+[...]
+% appstreamcli what-provides firmware:runtime ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin | \
+  awk &#39;/Package:/ {print $2}&#39;
+firmware-qlogic
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines&quot;&gt;the
+appstream wiki&lt;/a&gt; page to learn how to embed the package metadata in
+a way appstream can use.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This same approach can be used to find any package supporting a
+given MIME type.  This is very useful when you get a file you do not
+know how to handle.  First find the mime type using &lt;tt&gt;file
+--mime-type&lt;/tt&gt;, and next look up the package providing support for
+it.  Lets say you got an SVG file.  Its MIME type is image/svg+xml,
+and you can find all packages handling this type like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% apt install appstream
+[...]
+% apt update
+[...]
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype image/svg+xml | \
+  awk &#39;/Package:/ {print $2}&#39;
+bkchem
+phototonic
+inkscape
+shutter
+tetzle
+geeqie
+xia
+pinta
+gthumb
+karbon
+comix
+mirage
+viewnior
+postr
+ristretto
+kolourpaint4
+eog
+eom
+gimagereader
+midori
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I believe the MIME types are fetched from the desktop file for
+packages providing appstream metadata.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>&quot;Free Culture&quot; by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;Click
-here to buy the book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In 2004, as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
-movement&lt;/a&gt; gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
-book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; to explain the problems with increasing copyright
-regulation and suggest some solutions.  I read the book back then and
-was very moved by it.  Reading the book inspired me and changed the
-way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
-would read it too.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
-Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
-that prefer to read books in Norwegian.  I translated the book using
-docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
-new edition of the English original.  I&#39;ve been in touch with the
-author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
-published an English version.  So I decided to do so.  Today, I made
-this edition
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;available
-for sale on Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;, for those interested in a paper book.  This
-is the cover:
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
-few days.  I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
-months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
-join the translation project.  So far there is only one active
-person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
-need some proof reading.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
-github project page&lt;/a&gt;.  Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
-formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
-dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
-and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
-but I have not taken the time to investigate.  I recommend the PDF and
-ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
-have available.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
-to secure some sponsoring from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; to
-print the book.  This is the reason their logo is located on the back
-cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
-give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
-Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Creepy, visualise geotagged social media information - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Most people seem not to realise that every time they walk around
+with the computerised radio beacon known as a mobile phone their
+position is tracked by the phone company and often stored for a long
+time (like every time a SMS is received or sent).  And if their
+computerised radio beacon is capable of running programs (often called
+mobile apps) downloaded from the Internet, these programs are often
+also capable of tracking their location (if the app requested access
+during installation).  And when these programs send out information to
+central collection points, the location is often included, unless
+extra care is taken to not send the location.  The provided
+information is used by several entities, for good and bad (what is
+good and bad, depend on your point of view).  What is certain, is that
+the private sphere and the right to free movement is challenged and
+perhaps even eradicated for those announcing their location this way,
+when they share their whereabouts with private and public
+entities.&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/2016-01-24-nice-creepy-desktop-window.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The phone company logs provide a register of locations to check out
+when one want to figure out what the tracked person was doing.  It is
+unavailable for most of us, but provided to selected government
+officials, company staff, those illegally buying information from
+unfaithful servants and crackers stealing the information.  But the
+public information can be collected and analysed, and a free software
+tool to do so is called
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocreepy.com/&quot;&gt;Creepy or Cree.py&lt;/a&gt;.  I
+discovered it when I read
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Slik-kan-du-bli-overvaket-pa-Twitter-og-Instagram-uten-a-ane-det-7787884.html&quot;&gt;an
+article about Creepy&lt;/a&gt; in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten i
+November 2014, and decided to check if it was available in Debian.
+The python program was in Debian, but
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/creepy&quot;&gt;the version in
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; was completely broken and practically unmaintained.  I
+uploaded a new version which did not work quite right, but did not
+have time to fix it then.  This Christmas I decided to finally try to
+get Creepy operational in Debian.  Now a fixed version is available in
+Debian unstable and testing, and almost all Debian specific patches
+are now included
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy&quot;&gt;upstream&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Creepy program visualises geolocation information fetched from
+Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Google+, and allow one to get a
+complete picture of every social media message posted recently in a
+given area, or track the movement of a given individual across all
+these services.  Earlier it was possible to use the search API of at
+least some of these services without identifying oneself, but these
+days it is impossible.  This mean that to use Creepy, you need to
+configure it to log in as yourself on these services, and provide
+information to them about your search interests.  This should be taken
+into account when using Creepy, as it will also share information
+about yourself with the services.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The picture above show the twitter messages sent from (or at least
+geotagged with a position from) the city centre of Oslo, the capital
+of Norway.  One useful way to use Creepy is to first look at
+information tagged with an area of interest, and next look at all the
+information provided by one or more individuals who was in the area.
+I tested it by checking out which celebrity provide their location in
+twitter messages by checkout out who sent twitter messages near a
+Norwegian TV station, and next could track their position over time,
+making it possible to locate their home and work place, among other
+things.  A similar technique have been
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/does-this-soldiers-instagram-account-prove-russia-is-covertl&quot;&gt;used
+to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine&lt;/a&gt;, and it is both a powerful
+tool to discover lying governments, and a useful tool to help people
+understand the value of the private information they provide to the
+public.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The package is not trivial to backport to Debian Stable/Jessie, as
+it depend on several python modules currently missing in Jessie (at
+least python-instagram, python-flickrapi and
+python-requests-toolbelt).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;(I have uploaded
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://screenshots.debian.net/package/creepy&quot;&gt;the image to
+screenshots.debian.net&lt;/a&gt; and licensed it under the same terms as the
+Creepy program in Debian.)&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>EU-domstolen konkluderer motsatt av Skatteetaten når det gjelder Bitcoin</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Bitcoin er i litt vinden i Norge for tiden, med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/ytring/en-digital-robin-hood-1.12604681&quot;&gt;kronikk
-om bitcoin-overføringer på tvers av landegrensene&lt;/A&gt; hos NRK Ytring
-for to dager siden og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID25009815/kapital-bitcoin-en-digital-pengebinge&quot;&gt;dokumentar
-om bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; på NRK 2 i forgårs og i går.  I den sammenhengen er det
-spesielt hyggelig med en gladnyhet fra EU om Bitcoin.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I dag konkluderte EU-domstolen at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&amp;docid=170305&amp;pageIndex=0&amp;doclang=en&amp;mode=req&amp;dir=&amp;occ=first&amp;part=1&amp;cid=604079&quot;&gt;Bitcoin-kjøp
-fra Bitcoin-børser ikke er MVA-pliktig&lt;/a&gt; (sak  C‑264/14).  Fant
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-bitcoin-tax-eu-idUSKCN0SG0X920151022&quot;&gt;nyheten
-først hos Reuters&lt;/a&gt;, etter tips fra innehaveren av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitmynt.no/&quot;&gt;Bitmynt&lt;/a&gt;.  EU-domstolens avgjørelse
-er stikk i strid med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skatteetaten.no/no/Radgiver/Rettskilder/Uttalelser/Prinsipputtalelser/Bruk-av-bitcoins--skatte--og-avgiftsmessige-konsekvenser/&quot;&gt;annonseringen
-fra Skatteetaten i 2013&lt;/a&gt;, der de konkluderte med at bitcoin er et
-«formuesobjekter» som det skulle betales mva på ved kjøp og salg.
-Dermed la Skatteetaten opp til dobbel MVA-betaling hvis en kjøpte noe
-med Bitcoin fra Norge (først mva på kjøp av Bitcoin, deretter mva på
-det en kjøper med Bitcoin).  Jeg lurer på om denne avgjørelsen får
-Skatteetaten til å bytte mening.  Gleder meg til fortsettelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Always download Debian packages using Tor - the simple recipe</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;During his DebConf15 keynote, Jacob Appelbaum
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/331/what-is-to-be-done/&quot;&gt;observed
+that those listening on the Internet lines would have good reason to
+believe a computer have a given security hole&lt;/a&gt; if it download a
+security fix from a Debian mirror.  This is a good reason to always
+use encrypted connections to the Debian mirror, to make sure those
+listening do not know which IP address to attack.  In August, Richard
+Hartmann observed that encryption was not enough, when it was possible
+to interfere download size to security patches or the fact that
+download took place shortly after a security fix was released, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/08/24-Tor-enabled_Debian_mirror/&quot;&gt;proposed
+to always use Tor to download packages from the Debian mirror&lt;/a&gt;.  He
+was not the first to propose this, as the
+&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt-transport-tor&quot;&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+package by Tim Retout already existed to make it easy to convince apt
+to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt;, but I was not
+aware of that package when I read the blog post from Richard.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Richard discussed the idea with Peter Palfrader, one of the Debian
+sysadmins, and he set up a Tor hidden service on one of the central
+Debian mirrors using the address vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion, thus making
+it possible to download packages directly between two tor nodes,
+making sure the network traffic always were encrypted.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a short recipe for enabling this on your machine, by
+installing &lt;tt&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/tt&gt; and replacing http and https
+urls with tor+http and tor+https, and using the hidden service instead
+of the official Debian mirror site.  I recommend installing
+&lt;tt&gt;etckeeper&lt;/tt&gt; before you start to have a history of the changes
+done in /etc/.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install apt-transport-tor
+sed -i &#39;s% http://ftp.debian.org/% tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/%&#39; /etc/apt/sources.list
+sed -i &#39;s% http% tor+http%&#39; /etc/apt/sources.list
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you have more sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, run
+the sed commands for these too.  The sed command is assuming your are
+using the ftp.debian.org Debian mirror.  Adjust the command (or just
+edit the file manually) to match your mirror.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This work in Debian Jessie and later.  Note that tools like
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt; only recently started using the apt transport
+system, and do not work with these tor+http URLs.  For
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt; you need the version currently in experimental,
+which need a recent apt version currently only in unstable.  So if you
+need a working &lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt;, this is not for you.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another advantage from this change is that your machine will start
+using Tor regularly and at fairly random intervals (every time you
+update the package lists or upgrade or install a new package), thus
+masking other Tor traffic done from the same machine.  Using Tor will
+become normal for the machine in question.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;Freedombox&lt;/a&gt;, APT
+is set up by default to use &lt;tt&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/tt&gt; when Tor is
+enabled.  It would be great if it was the default on any Debian
+system.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden a year ago</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lawrence_Lessig_interviewed_Edward_Snowden_a_year_ago.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lawrence_Lessig_interviewed_Edward_Snowden_a_year_ago.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Last year, &lt;a href=&quot;https://lessig2016.us/&quot;&gt;US president candidate
-in the Democratic Party&lt;/a&gt; Lawrence interviewed Edward Snowden.  The
-one hour interview was
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE&quot;&gt;published by
-Harvard Law School 2014-10-23 on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;, and the meeting took
-place 2014-10-20.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The questions are very good, and there is lots of useful
-information to be learned and very interesting issues to think about
-being raised.  Please check it out.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_Sr96TFQQE&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I find it especially interesting to hear again that Snowden did try
-to bring up his reservations through the official channels without any
-luck.  It is in sharp contrast to the answers made 2013-11-06 by the
-Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg to the Norwegian Parliament,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tale.holderdeord.no/speeches/s131106/68&quot;&gt;claiming
-Snowden is no Whistle-Blower&lt;/a&gt; because he should have taken up his
-concerns internally and using official channels.  It make me sad
-that this is the political leadership we have here in Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Nedlasting fra NRK, som Matroska med undertekster</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Det kommer stadig nye løsninger for å ta lagre unna innslag fra NRK
+for å se på det senere.  For en stund tilbake kom jeg over et script
+nrkopptak laget av Ingvar Hagelund.  Han fjernet riktignok sitt script
+etter forespørsel fra Erik Bolstad i NRK, men noen tok heldigvis og
+gjorde det &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/liangqi/nrkopptak&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
+via github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Scriptet kan lagre som MPEG4 eller Matroska, og bake inn
+undertekster i fila på et vis som blant annet VLC forstår.  For å
+bruke scriptet, kopier ned git-arkivet og kjør&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+nrkopptak/bin/nrk-opptak k &lt;ahref=&quot;https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1&quot;&gt;https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no.  Argument &#39;k&#39; ber
+scriptet laste ned og lagre som Matroska.  Det finnes en rekke andre
+muligheter for valg av kvalitet og format.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg foretrekker dette scriptet fremfor youtube-dl, som
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html&quot;&gt;
+nevnt i 2014 støtter NRK&lt;/a&gt; og en rekke andre videokilder, på grunn
+av at nrkopptak samler undertekster og video i en enkelt fil, hvilket
+gjør håndtering enklere på disk.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>The Story of Aaron Swartz - Let us all weep!</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz___Let_us_all_weep_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz___Let_us_all_weep_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy&quot;&gt;The
-Internet&#39;s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is both inspiring
-and depressing at the same time.  The work of Aaron Swartz has
-inspired me in my work, and I am grateful of all the improvements he
-was able to initiate or complete.  I wish I am able to do as much good
-in my life as he did in his.  Every minute of this 1:45 long movie is
-inspiring in documenting how much impact a single person can have on
-improving the society and this world.  And it is depressing in
-documenting how the law enforcement of USA (and other countries) is
-corrupted to a point where they can push a bright kid to his death for
-downloading too many scientific articles.  Aaron is dead.  Let us all
-weep.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The movie is also available on
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.  I
-wish there were Norwegian subtitles available, so I could show it to
-my parents.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>OpenALPR, find car license plates in video streams - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When I was a kid, we used to collect &quot;car numbers&quot;, as we used to
+call the car license plate numbers in those days.  I would write the
+numbers down in my little book and compare notes with the other kids
+to see how many region codes we had seen and if we had seen some
+exotic or special region codes and numbers.  It was a fun game to pass
+time, as we kids have plenty of it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few days I came across
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr&quot;&gt;the OpenALPR
+project&lt;/a&gt;, a free software project to automatically discover and
+report license plates in images and video streams, and provide the
+&quot;car numbers&quot; in a machine readable format.  I&#39;ve been looking for
+such system for a while now, because I believe it is a bad idea that the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition&quot;&gt;automatic
+number plate recognition&lt;/a&gt; tool only is available in the hands of
+the powerful, and want it to be available also for the powerless to
+even the score when it comes to surveillance and sousveillance.  I
+discovered the developer
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/747509&quot;&gt;wanted to get the tool into
+Debian&lt;/a&gt;, and as I too wanted it to be in Debian, I volunteered to
+help him get it into shape to get the package uploaded into the Debian
+archive.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Today we finally managed to get the package into shape and uploaded
+it into Debian, where it currently
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ftp-master.debian.org//new/openalpr_2.2.1-1.html&quot;&gt;waits
+in the NEW queue&lt;/a&gt; for review by the Debian ftpmasters.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I guess you are wondering why on earth such tool would be useful
+for the common folks, ie those not running a large government
+surveillance system?  Well, I plan to put it in a computer on my bike
+and in my car, tracking the cars nearby and allowing me to be notified
+when number plates on my watch list are discovered.  Another use case
+was suggested by a friend of mine, who wanted to set it up at his home
+to open the car port automatically when it discovered the plate on his
+car.  When I mentioned it perhaps was a bit foolhardy to allow anyone
+capable of placing his license plate number of a piece of cardboard to
+open his car port, men replied that it was always unlocked anyway.  I
+guess for such use case it make sense.  I am sure there are other use
+cases too, for those with imagination and a vision.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to build your own version of the Debian package, check
+out the upstream git source and symlink ./distros/debian to ./debian/
+before running &quot;debuild&quot; to build the source.  Or wait a bit until the
+package show up in unstable.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Alle Stortingets mobiltelefoner kontrolleres fra USA...</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Alle_Stortingets_mobiltelefoner_kontrolleres_fra_USA___.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Alle_Stortingets_mobiltelefoner_kontrolleres_fra_USA___.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg lot meg fascinere av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/Stortinget-har-tilgang-til-a-fjernstyre-600-mobiler-8192692.html&quot;&gt;en
-artikkel i Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt; der det fortelles at «over 600 telefoner som
-benyttes av stortingsrepresentanter, rådgivere og ansatte på
-Stortinget, kan «fjernstyres» ved hjelp av
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airwatch.androidagent&quot;&gt;programvaren
-Airwatch&lt;/a&gt;, et såkalte MDM-program (Mobile Device Managment)».  Det
-hele bagatelliseres av Stortingets IT-stab, men det er i hovedsak på
-grunn av at journalisten ikke stiller de relevante spørsmålene.  For
-meg er det relevante spørsmålet hvem som har lovlig tilgang (i henhold
-til lokal lovgiving, dvs. i hvert fall i Norge, Sverige, UK og USA)
-til informasjon om og på telefonene, og hvor enkelt det er å skaffe
-seg tilgang til hvor mobilene befinner seg og informasjon som befinner
-seg på telefonene ved hjelp av utro tjenere, trusler, innbrudd og
-andre ulovlige metoder.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Bruken av AirWatch betyr i realiteten at USAs etteretning og
-politimyndigheter har full tilgang til stortingets mobiltelefoner,
-inkludert posisjon og innhold, takket være
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008&quot;&gt;FISAAA-loven&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter&quot;&gt;National
-Security Letters&lt;/a&gt;&quot; og det enkle faktum at selskapet
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airwatch.com/&quot;&gt;AirWatch&lt;/a&gt; er kontrollert av et
-selskap i USA.  I tillegg er det kjent at flere lands
-etterretningstjenester kan lytte på trafikken når den passerer
-landegrensene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg har bedt om mer informasjon
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/saksnummer_for_saker_anganede_br&quot;&gt;fra
-Stortinget om bruken av AirWatch&lt;/a&gt; via Mimes brønn så får vi se hva
-de har å fortelle om saken.  Fant ingenting om &#39;airwatch&#39; i
-postjournalen til Stortinget, så jeg trenger hjelp før jeg kan be om
-innsyn i konkrete dokumenter.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2015-10-07: Jeg er blitt spurt hvorfor jeg antar at
-AirWatch-agenten rapporterer til USA og ikke direkte til Stortingets
-egen infrastruktur.  Det stemmer at det er teknisk mulig å sette
-opp mobiltelefonene til å rapportere til datamaskiner som eies av
-Stortinget.  Jeg antar det rapporteres til AirWatch sine sentrale
-tjenester basert på det jeg leste fra beskrivelsen av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airwatch.com/solutions/mobile-device-management/&quot;&gt;Mobile
-Device Management&lt;/A&gt; på AirWatch sine egne nettsider, koblet med at
-det brukes en standard app som kan hentes fra &quot;app-butikkene&quot; for å få
-tilgang.  Enten må app-en settes opp individuelt hos Stortinget, eller
-så får den beskjed fra AirWatch i USA om hvor den skal koble seg opp.
-I det første tilfellet vil den ikke rapportere direkte til USA, men
-til programvare utviklet av AirWatch som kjører på en maskin under
-Stortingets kontroll.  Det er litt bedre, men fortsatt vil det være
-umulig for Stortinget å være sikker på hva programvaren som tar imot
-forbindelser gjør.  Jeg ser fra beskrivelsen av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airwatch.com/differentiators/enterprise-integration/&quot;&gt;Enterprice
-Integration&lt;/a&gt; hos AirWatch at det er mulig å ha lokal installasjon,
-og håper innsynsforespørsler mot Stortinget kan fortelle mer om
-hvordan ting konkret fungerer der.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Using appstream with isenkram to install hardware related packages in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Around three years ago, I created
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;the isenkram
+system&lt;/a&gt; to get a more practical solution in Debian for handing
+hardware related packages.  A GUI system in the isenkram package will
+present a pop-up dialog when some hardware dongle supported by
+relevant packages in Debian is inserted into the machine.  The same
+lookup mechanism to detect packages is available as command line
+tools in the isenkram-cli package.  In addition to mapping hardware,
+it will also map kernel firmware files to packages and make it easy to
+install needed firmware packages automatically.  The key for this
+system to work is a good way to map hardware to packages, in other
+words, allow packages to announce what hardware they will work
+with.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I started by providing data files in the isenkram source, and
+adding code to download the latest version of these data files at run
+time, to ensure every user had the most up to date mapping available.
+I also added support for storing the mapping in the Packages file in
+the apt repositories, but did not push this approach because while I
+was trying to figure out how to best store hardware/package mappings,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/&quot;&gt;the
+appstream system&lt;/a&gt; was announced.  I got in touch and suggested to
+add the hardware mapping into that data set to be able to use
+appstream as a data source, and this was accepted at least for the
+Debian version of appstream.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few days ago using appstream in Debian for this became possible,
+and today I uploaded a new version 0.20 of isenkram adding support for
+appstream as a data source for mapping hardware to packages.  The only
+package so far using appstream to announce its hardware support is my
+pymissile package.  I got help from Matthias Klumpp with figuring out
+how do add the required
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://appstream.debian.org/html/sid/main/metainfo/pymissile.html&quot;&gt;metadata
+in pymissile&lt;/a&gt;.  I added a file debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml with
+this content:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;
+&amp;lt;component&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;pymissile&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;metadata_license&amp;gt;MIT&amp;lt;/metadata_license&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;pymissile&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;summary&amp;gt;Control original Striker USB Missile Launcher&amp;lt;/summary&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;description&amp;gt;
+    &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;
+      Pymissile provides a curses interface to control an original
+      Marks and Spencer / Striker USB Missile Launcher, as well as a
+      motion control script to allow a webcamera to control the
+      launcher.
+    &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;/description&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;provides&amp;gt;
+    &amp;lt;modalias&amp;gt;usb:v1130p0202d*&amp;lt;/modalias&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;/provides&amp;gt;
+&amp;lt;/component&amp;gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The key for isenkram is the component/provides/modalias value,
+which is a glob style match rule for hardware specific strings
+(modalias strings) provided by the Linux kernel.  In this case, it
+will map to all USB devices with vendor code 1130 and product code
+0202.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, it is important that the license of all the metadata files
+are compatible to have permissions to aggregate them into archive wide
+appstream files.  Matthias suggested to use MIT or BSD licenses for
+these files.  A challenge is figuring out a good id for the data, as
+it is supposed to be globally unique and shared across distributions
+(in other words, best to coordinate with upstream what to use).  But
+it can be changed later or, so we went with the package name as
+upstream for this project is dormant.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To get the metadata file installed in the correct location for the
+mirror update scripts to pick it up and include its content the
+appstream data source, the file must be installed in the binary
+package under /usr/share/appdata/.  I did this by adding the following
+line to debian/pymissile.install:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml usr/share/appdata
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With that in place, the command line tool isenkram-lookup will list
+all packages useful on the current computer automatically, and the GUI
+pop-up handler will propose to install the package not already
+installed if a hardware dongle is inserted into the machine in
+question.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Details of the modalias field in appstream is available from the 
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11&quot;&gt;DEP-11&lt;/a&gt; proposal.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To locate the modalias values of all hardware present in a machine,
+try running this command on the command line:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+cat $(find /sys/devices/|grep modalias)
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&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;

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-               <title>French Docbook/PDF/EPUB/MOBI edition of the Free Culture book</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_Docbook_PDF_EPUB_MOBI_edition_of_the_Free_Culture_book.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_Docbook_PDF_EPUB_MOBI_edition_of_the_Free_Culture_book.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;As I wrap up the Norwegian version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence Lessig (still waiting for my final proof
-reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt; helper and
-developer of the dblatex docbook processor, Benoît Guillon, decided a
-to try to create a French version of the book.  He started with the
-French translation available from the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre&quot;&gt;Wikilivres wiki
-pages&lt;/a&gt;, and wrote a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing
-the translation to be integrated into the po4a based framework I use
-to create the Norwegian translation from the English edition.  We meet
-on the &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23dblatex&quot;&gt;#dblatex IRC
-channel&lt;/a&gt; to discuss the work.  If you want to help create a French
-edition, check out
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/marsgui/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;his git
-repository&lt;/a&gt; and join us on IRC.  If the French edition look good,
-we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com.  A French version of
-the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Bokhandeldistribusjon av boken Fri kultur av Lawrence Lessig</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bokhandeldistribusjon_av_boken_Fri_kultur_av_Lawrence_Lessig.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bokhandeldistribusjon_av_boken_Fri_kultur_av_Lawrence_Lessig.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Besøk
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
+eller
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
+for å kjøpe boken på papir, eller last ned ebook som
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub&quot;&gt;ePub&lt;/a&gt;
+eller
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi&quot;&gt;MOBI&lt;/a&gt;
+fra
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble gledelig overrasket i dag da jeg oppdaget at boken jeg har
+gitt ut
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/&quot;&gt;hadde
+dukket opp i Amazon&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg hadde trodd det skulle ta lenger tid, da
+jeg fikk beskjed om at det skulle ta seks til åtte uker.
+Amazonoppføringen er et resultat av at jeg for noen uker siden
+diskuterte prissetting og håndtering av profitt med forfatteren.  Det
+måtte avklares da bruksvilkårene til boken har krav om
+ikke-kommersiell bruk.  Vi ble enige om at overskuddet fra salg av
+boken skal sendes til
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons-stiftelsen&lt;/a&gt;.
+Med det på plass kunne jeg be
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
+om å gi boken «utvidet» distribusjon.  Årsaken til at
+bokhandeldistribusjon var litt utfordrende er at bokhandlere krever
+mulighet for profitt på bøkene de selger (selvfølgelig), og dermed
+måtte de få lov til å selge til høyere pris enn lulu.com.  I tillegg
+er det krav om samme pris på lulu.com og i bokhandlene, dermed blir
+prisen økt også hos lulu.com.  Hva skulle jeg gjøre med den profitten
+uten å bryte med klausulen om ikkekommersiell?  Løsningen var å gi
+bort profitten til CC-stiftelsen.  Prisen på boken ble nesten
+tredoblet, til $19.99 (ca. 160,-) pluss frakt, men synligheten øker
+betraktelig når den kan finnes i katalogene til store nettbokhandlere.
+Det betyr at hvis du allerede har kjøpt boken har du fått den veldig
+billig, og kjøper du den nå, får du den fortsatt billig samt donerer i
+tillegg noen tiere til fremme av Creative Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Mens jeg var i gang med å titte etter informasjon om boken 
+oppdaget jeg  at den også var dukket opp på
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.no/books?id=uKUGCwAAQBAJ&quot;&gt;Google
+Books&lt;/a&gt;, der en kan lese den på web.  PDF-utgaven har ennå ikke
+dukket opp hos &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nb.no/&quot;&gt;Nasjonalbiblioteket&lt;/a&gt;,
+men det regner jeg med kommer på plass i løpet av noen uker.  Boken er
+heller ikke dukket opp hos
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barnesandnoble.com/&quot;&gt;Barnes &amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ennå, men
+jeg antar det bare er et tidsspørsmål før dette er på plass.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Boken er dessverre ikke tilgjengelig fra norske bokhandlere, og
+kommer neppe til å bli det med det første.  Årsaken er at for å få det
+til måtte jeg personlig håndtere bestilling av bøker, hvilket jeg ikke
+er interessert i å bruke tid på.  Jeg kunne betalt ca 2000,- til
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bokbasen.no/&quot;&gt;den norske bokbasen&lt;/a&gt;, en felles
+database over bøker tilgjengelig for norske bokhandlere, for å få en
+oppføring der, men da måtte jeg tatt imot bestillinger på epost og
+sendt ut bøker selv.  Det ville krevd at jeg var klar til å
+sende ut bøker på kort varsel, dvs. holdt meg med ekstra bøker,
+konvolutter og frimerker.  Bokbasen har visst ikke opplegg for å be
+bokhandlene bestille direkte via web, så jeg droppet oppføring der.
+Jeg har spurt Haugen bok og Tronsmo direkte på epost om de er
+interessert i å ta inn boken i sin bestillingskatalog, men ikke fått
+svar, så jeg antar de ikke er interessert.  Derimot har jeg fått en
+hyggelig henvendelse fra Biblioteksentralen som fortalte at de har
+lagt den inn i sin database slik at deres bibliotekskunder enkelt kan
+bestille den via dem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Boken er i følge
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&amp;ct=display&amp;fn=search&amp;doc=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&amp;indx=1&amp;recIds=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&amp;recIdxs=0&amp;elementId=0&amp;renderMode=poppedOut&amp;displayMode=full&amp;frbrVersion=&amp;dscnt=0&amp;tab=library_catalogue&amp;dstmp=1448543801124&amp;vl(freeText0)=fri%20kultur&amp;vid=UBO&amp;mode=Basic&quot;&gt;Bibsys/Oria&lt;/a&gt;
+og bokdatabasen til
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.deich.folkebibl.no/cgi-bin/websok?tnr=1819617&quot;&gt;Deichmanske&lt;/a&gt;
+tilgjengelig fra flere biblioteker allerede, og alle eksemplarer er
+visst allerede utlånt med ventetid.  Det synes jeg er veldig gledelig
+å se.  Jeg håper mange kommer til å lese boken.  Jeg tror den er
+spesielt egnet for foreldre og bekjente av oss nerder for å forklare
+hva slags problemer vi ser med dagens opphavsrettsregime.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>The life and death of a laptop battery</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;When I get a new laptop, the battery life time at the start is OK.
-But this do not last.  The last few laptops gave me a feeling that
-within a year, the life time is just a fraction of what it used to be,
-and it slowly become painful to use the laptop without power connected
-all the time.  Because of this, when I got a new Thinkpad X230 laptop
-about two years ago, I decided to monitor its battery state to have
-more hard facts when the battery started to fail.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-24-laptop-battery-graph.png&quot;/&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First I tried to find a sensible Debian package to record the
-battery status, assuming that this must be a problem already handled
-by someone else.  I found
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;battery-stats&lt;/a&gt;,
-which collects statistics from the battery, but it was completely
-broken.  I sent a few suggestions to the maintainer, but decided to
-write my own collector as a shell script while I waited for feedback
-from him.  Via
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html&quot;&gt;a
-blog post about the battery development on a MacBook Air&lt;/a&gt; I also
-discovered
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jradavenport/batlog.git&quot;&gt;batlog&lt;/a&gt;, not
-available in Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I started my collector 2013-07-15, and it has been collecting
-battery stats ever since. Now my
-/var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log file contain around 115,000
-measurements, from the time the battery was working great until now,
-when it is unable to charge above 7% of original capacity.  My
-collector shell script is quite simple and look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-#!/bin/sh
-# Inspired by
-# http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html
-# See also
-# http://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2013/01/02/debian-how-to-monitor-battery-capacity/
-logfile=/var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log
-
-files=&quot;manufacturer model_name technology serial_number \
-    energy_full energy_full_design energy_now cycle_count status&quot;
-
-if [ ! -e &quot;$logfile&quot; ] ; then
-    (
-       printf &quot;timestamp,&quot;
-       for f in $files; do
-           printf &quot;%s,&quot; $f
-       done
-       echo
-    ) &gt; &quot;$logfile&quot;
-fi
-
-log_battery() {
-    # Print complete message in one echo call, to avoid race condition
-    # when several log processes run in parallel.
-    msg=$(printf &quot;%s,&quot; $(date +%s); \
-       for f in $files; do \
-           printf &quot;%s,&quot; $(cat $f); \
-       done)
-    echo &quot;$msg&quot;
-}
-
-cd /sys/class/power_supply
-
-for bat in BAT*; do
-    (cd $bat &amp;&amp; log_battery &gt;&gt; &quot;$logfile&quot;)
-done
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The script is called when the power management system detect a
-change in the power status (power plug in or out), and when going into
-and out of hibernation and suspend.  In addition, it collect a value
-every 10 minutes.  This make it possible for me know when the battery
-is discharging, charging and how the maximum charge change over time.
-The code for the Debian package
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-status&quot;&gt;is now
-available on github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The collected log file look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-timestamp,manufacturer,model_name,technology,serial_number,energy_full,energy_full_design,energy_now,cycle_count,status,
-1376591133,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,62800000,62160000,39050000,0,Discharging,
-[...]
-1443090528,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,4900000,62160000,4900000,0,Full,
-1443090601,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,4900000,62160000,4900000,0,Full,
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wrote a small script to create a graph of the charge development
-over time.  This graph depicted above show the slow death of my laptop
-battery.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But why is this happening?  Why are my laptop batteries always
-dying in a year or two, while the batteries of space probes and
-satellites keep working year after year.  If we are to believe
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries&quot;&gt;Battery
-University&lt;/a&gt;, the cause is me charging the battery whenever I have a
-chance, and the fix is to not charge the Lithium-ion batteries to 100%
-all the time, but to stay below 90% of full charge most of the time.
-I&#39;ve been told that the Tesla electric cars
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.teslamotors.com/de_CH/forum/forums/battery-charge-limit&quot;&gt;limit
-the charge of their batteries to 80%&lt;/a&gt;, with the option to charge to
-100% when preparing for a longer trip (not that I would want a car
-like Tesla where rights to privacy is abandoned, but that is another
-story), which I guess is the option we should have for laptops on
-Linux too.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Is there a good and generic way with Linux to tell the battery to
-stop charging at 80%, unless requested to charge to 100% once in
-preparation for a longer trip?  I found
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com/questions/34452/how-can-i-limit-battery-charging-to-80-capacity&quot;&gt;one
-recipe on askubuntu for Ubuntu to limit charging on Thinkpad to
-80%&lt;/a&gt;, but could not get it to work (kernel module refused to
-load).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wonder why the battery capacity was reported to be more than 100%
-at the start.  I also wonder why the &quot;full capacity&quot; increases some
-times, and if it is possible to repeat the process to get the battery
-back to design capacity.  And I wonder if the discharge and charge
-speed change over time, or if this stay the same.  I did not yet try
-to write a tool to calculate the derivative values of the battery
-level, but suspect some interesting insights might be learned from
-those.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-09-24: I got a tip to install the packages
-acpi-call-dkms and tlp (unfortunately missing in Debian stable)
-packages instead of the tp-smapi-dkms package I had tried to use
-initially, and use &#39;tlp setcharge 40 80&#39; to change when charging start
-and stop.  I&#39;ve done so now, but expect my existing battery is toast
-and need to be replaced.  The proposal is unfortunately Thinkpad
-specific.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>The GNU General Public License is not magic pixie dust</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_GNU_General_Public_License_is_not_magic_pixie_dust.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_GNU_General_Public_License_is_not_magic_pixie_dust.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A blog post from my fellow Debian developer Paul Wise titled
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2015/11/27/sfc-supporter/&quot;&gt;The
+GPL is not magic pixie dust&lt;/a&gt;&quot; explain the importance of making sure
+the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/a&gt; is enforced.
+I quote the blog post from Paul in full here with his permission:&lt;p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/img/supporter-badge.png&quot; width=&quot;194&quot; height=&quot;90&quot; alt=&quot;Become a Software Freedom Conservancy Supporter!&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+The GPL is not magic pixie dust. It does not work by itself.&lt;br/&gt;
+
+The first step is to choose a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://copyleft.org/&quot;&gt;copyleft&lt;/a&gt; license for your
+code.&lt;br/&gt;
+
+The next step is, when someone fails to follow that copyleft license,
+&lt;b&gt;it must be enforced&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
+
+and its a simple fact of our modern society that such type of
+work&lt;br/&gt;
+
+is incredibly expensive to do and incredibly difficult to do.
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://ebb.org/bkuhn/&quot;&gt;Bradley Kuhn&lt;/a&gt;, in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/&quot; title=&quot;Free as in Freedom&quot;&gt;FaiF&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/cast/2015/nov/24/0x57/&quot;&gt;episode
+0x57&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As the Debian Website
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/794116&quot;&gt;used&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/intro/free.wml?r1=1.24&amp;amp;r2=1.25&quot;&gt;to&lt;/a&gt;
+imply, public domain and permissively licensed software can lead to
+the production of more proprietary software as people discover useful
+software, extend it and or incorporate it into their hardware or
+software products.  Copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL were created
+to close off this avenue to the production of proprietary software but
+such licenses are not enough.  With the ongoing adoption of Free
+Software by individuals and groups, inevitably the community&#39;s
+expectations of license compliance are violated, usually out of
+ignorance of the way Free Software works, but not always.  As Karen
+and Bradley explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/&quot; title=&quot;Free as in
+Freedom&quot;&gt;FaiF&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/cast/2015/nov/24/0x57/&quot;&gt;episode 0x57&lt;/a&gt;,
+copyleft is nothing if no-one is willing and able to stand up in court
+to protect it.  The reality of today&#39;s world is that legal
+representation is expensive, difficult and time consuming.  With
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gpl-violations.org/&quot;&gt;gpl-violations.org&lt;/a&gt; in hiatus
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gpl-violations.org/news/20151027-homepage-recovers/&quot;&gt;until&lt;/a&gt;
+some time in 2016, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/&quot;&gt;Software
+Freedom Conservancy&lt;/a&gt; (a tax-exempt charity) is the major defender
+of the Linux project, Debian and other groups against GPL violations.
+In March the SFC supported a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/&quot;&gt;lawsuit
+by Christoph Hellwig&lt;/a&gt; against VMware for refusing to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq.html&quot;&gt;comply
+with the GPL&lt;/a&gt; in relation to their use of parts of the Linux
+kernel.  Since then two of their sponsors pulled corporate funding and
+conferences
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/&quot;&gt;blocked
+or cancelled their talks&lt;/a&gt;.  As a result they have decided to rely
+less on corporate funding and more on the broad community of
+individuals who support Free Software and copyleft.  So the SFC has
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/nov/23/2015fundraiser/&quot;&gt;launched&lt;/a&gt;
+a &lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;campaign&lt;/a&gt; to create
+a community of folks who stand up for copyleft and the GPL by
+supporting their work on promoting and supporting copyleft and Free
+Software.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you support Free Software,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/26/like-what-I-do/&quot;&gt;like&lt;/a&gt;
+what the SFC do, agree with their
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html&quot;&gt;compliance
+principles&lt;/a&gt;, are happy about their
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;successes&lt;/a&gt; in 2015,
+work on a project that is an SFC
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/&quot;&gt;member&lt;/a&gt; and or
+just want to stand up for copyleft, please join
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://identi.ca/cwebber/image/JQGPA4qbTyyp3-MY8QpvuA&quot;&gt;Christopher
+Allan Webber&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/&quot;&gt;Carol
+Smith&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonobacon.org/2015/11/25/supporting-software-freedom-conservancy/&quot;&gt;Jono
+Bacon&lt;/a&gt;, myself and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/#supporters&quot;&gt;others&lt;/a&gt; in
+becoming a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;supporter&lt;/a&gt;.  For the
+next week your donation will be
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/nov/27/black-friday/&quot;&gt;matched&lt;/a&gt;
+by an anonymous donor.  Please also consider asking your employer to
+match your donation or become a sponsor of SFC.  Don&#39;t forget to
+spread the word about your support for SFC via email, your blog and or
+social media accounts.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I agree with Paul on this topic and just signed up as a Supporter
+of Software Freedom Conservancy myself.  Perhaps you should be a
+supporter too?&lt;/p&gt;

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