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-               <title>Streaming the Linux desktop to Kodi using VLC and RTSP</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_VLC_and_RTSP.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Streaming_the_Linux_desktop_to_Kodi_using_VLC_and_RTSP.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A while back, I was asked by a friend how to stream the desktop to
-my projector connected to Kodi.  I sadly had to admit that I had no
-idea, as it was a task I never had tried.  Since then, I have been
-looking for a way to do so, preferable without much extra software to
-install on either side.  Today I found a way that seem to kind of
-work.  Not great, but it is a start.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I had a look at several approaches, for example
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/mfoetsch/dlna_live_streaming&quot;&gt;using uPnP
-DLNA as described in 2011&lt;/a&gt;, but it required a uPnP server, fuse and
-local storage enough to store the stream locally.  This is not going
-to work well for me, lacking enough free space, and it would
-impossible for my friend to get working.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next, it occurred to me that perhaps I could use VLC to create a
-video stream that Kodi could play.  Preferably using
-broadcast/multicast, to avoid having to change any setup on the Kodi
-side when starting such stream.  Unfortunately, the only recipe I
-could find using multicast used the rtp protocol, and this protocol
-seem to not be supported by Kodi.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the rtsp protocol is working!  Unfortunately I
-have to specify the IP address of the streaming machine in both the
-sending command and the file on the Kodi server.  But it is showing my
-desktop, and thus allow us to have a shared look on the big screen at
-the programs I work on.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I did not spend much time investigating codeces.  I combined the
-rtp and rtsp recipes from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/&quot;&gt;the
-VLC Streaming HowTo/Command Line Examples&lt;/a&gt;, and was able to get
-this working on the desktop/streaming end.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-vlc screen:// --sout \
-  &#39;#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{dst=projector.local,port=1234,sdp=rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp}&#39;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I ssh-ed into my Kodi box and created a file like this with the
-same IP address:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp \
-  &gt; /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note the 192.168.11.4 IP address is my desktops IP address.  As far
-as I can tell the IP must be hardcoded for this to work.  In other
-words, if someone elses machine is going to do the steaming, you have
-to update screenstream.m3u on the Kodi machine and adjust the vlc
-recipe.  To get started, locate the file in Kodi and select the m3u
-file while the VLC stream is running.  The desktop then show up in my
-big screen. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;When using the same technique to stream a video file with audio,
-the audio quality is really bad.  No idea if the problem is package
-loss or bad parameters for the transcode.  I do not know VLC nor Kodi
-enough to tell.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2018-07-12&lt;/strong&gt;: Johannes Schauer send me a few
-succestions and reminded me about an important step.  The &quot;screen:&quot;
-input source is only available once the vlc-plugin-access-extra
-package is installed on Debian.  Without it, you will see this error
-message: &quot;VLC is unable to open the MRL &#39;screen://&#39;.  Check the log
-for details.&quot;  He further found that it is possible to drop some parts
-of the VLC command line to reduce the amount of hardcoded information.
-It is also useful to consider using cvlc to avoid having the VLC
-window in the desktop view.  In sum, this give us this command line on
-the source end
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-cvlc screen:// --sout \
-  &#39;#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/}&#39;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;and this on the Kodi end&lt;p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/ \
-  &gt; /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Still bad image quality, though.  But I did discover that streaming
-a DVD using dvdsimple:///dev/dvd as the source had excellent video and
-audio quality, so I guess the issue is in the input or transcoding
-parts, not the rtsp part.  I&#39;ve tried to change the vb and ab
-parameters to use more bandwidth, but it did not make a
-difference.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I further received a suggestion from Einar Haraldseid to try using
-gstreamer instead of VLC, and this proved to work great!  He also
-provided me with the trick to get Kodi to use a multicast stream as
-its source.  By using this monstrous oneliner, I can stream my desktop
-with good video quality in reasonable framerate to the 239.255.0.1
-multicast address on port 1234:
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-gst-launch-1.0 ximagesrc use-damage=0 ! video/x-raw,framerate=30/1 ! \
-  videoconvert ! queue2 ! \
-  x264enc bitrate=8000 speed-preset=superfast tune=zerolatency qp-min=30 \
-  key-int-max=15 bframes=2 ! video/x-h264,profile=high ! queue2 ! \
-  mpegtsmux alignment=7 name=mux ! rndbuffersize max=1316 min=1316 ! \
-  udpsink host=239.255.0.1 port=1234 ttl-mc=1 auto-multicast=1 sync=0 \
-  pulsesrc device=$(pactl list | grep -A2 &#39;Source #&#39; | \
-    grep &#39;Name: .*\.monitor$&#39; |  cut -d&quot; &quot; -f2|head -1) ! \
-  audioconvert ! queue2 ! avenc_aac ! queue2 ! mux.
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;and this on the Kodi end&lt;p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-echo udp://@239.255.0.1:1234 \
-  &gt; /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note the trick to pick a valid pulseaudio source.  It might not
-pick the one you need.  This approach will of course lead to trouble
-if more than one source uses the same multicast port and address.
-Note the ttl-mc=1 setting, which limit the multicast packages to the
-local network.  If the value is increased, your screen will be
-broadcasted further, one network &quot;hop&quot; for each increase (read up on
-multicast to learn more. :)!&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Having cracked how to get Kodi to receive multicast streams, I
-could use this VLC command to stream to the same multicast address.
-The image quality is way better than the rtsp approach, but gstreamer
-seem to be doing a better job.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-cvlc screen:// --sout &#39;#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.0.1,port=1234,sdp=sap}&#39;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+               <title>Web browser integration of VLC with Bittorrent support</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Bittorrent is as far as I know, currently the most efficient way to
+distribute content on the Internet.  It is used all by all sorts of
+content providers, from national TV stations like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;, Linux distributors like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and of course the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;Internet archive&lt;/A&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;Almost a month ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a new
+package adding Bittorrent support to VLC&lt;/a&gt; became available in
+Debian testing and unstable.  To test it, simply install it like
+this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since the plugin was made available for the first time in Debian,
+several improvements have been made to it.  In version 2.2-4, now
+available in both testing and unstable, a desktop file is provided to
+teach browsers to start VLC when the user click on torrent files or
+magnet links.  The last part is thanks to me finally understanding
+what the strange x-scheme-handler style MIME types in desktop files
+are used for.  By adding x-scheme-handler/magnet to the MimeType entry
+in the desktop file, at least the browsers Firefox and Chromium will
+suggest to start VLC when selecting a magnet URI on a web page.  The
+end result is that now, with the plugin installed in Buster and Sid,
+one can visit any
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p&quot;&gt;Internet
+Archive page with movies&lt;/a&gt; using a web browser and click on the
+torrent link to start streaming the movie.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin.  One is the
+fact that it will hang and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/13&quot;&gt;block VLC
+from exiting until the torrent streaming starts&lt;/a&gt;.  Another is the
+fact that it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/9&quot;&gt;will pick
+and play a random file in a multi file torrent&lt;/a&gt;.  This is not
+always the video file you want.  Combined with the first it can be a
+bit hard to get the video streaming going.  But when it work, it seem
+to do a good job.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For the Debian packaging, I would love to find a good way to test
+if the plugin work with VLC using autopkgtest.  I tried, but do not
+know enough of the inner workings of VLC to get it working.  For now
+the autopkgtest script is only checking if the .so file was
+successfully loaded by VLC.  If you have any suggestions, please
+submit a patch to the Debian bug tracking system.&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;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;This morning, the new release of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/&quot;&gt;Nikita
+Noark 5 core project&lt;/a&gt; was
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2018-October/000406.html&quot;&gt;announced
+on the project mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  The free software solution is an
+implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
+government offices in Norway.  These were the changes in version 0.2
+since version 0.1.1 (from NEWS.md):
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix typos in REL names&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Tidy up error message reporting&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger()&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Change some String handling to StringBuffer&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix error reporting&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Code tidy-up&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid 
+      race conditions&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update methods to make them null-safe&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix many issues reported by coverity&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fix CORS issues when downloading document&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Adding concept description of mail integration&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Better handling of required values during deserialisation &lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improve parse error reporting.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Started on OData search and filtering.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Added support for OAuth2 authentication.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected handling of date/datetime fields.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe,
+   ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Several fixes for korrespondansepart*.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated web GUI:
+     &lt;ul&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Now handle both file upload and download.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Forms now fetches default values from API using GET.&lt;/li&gt;
+       &lt;li&gt;Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats.&lt;/li&gt;
+     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The changes and improvements are extensive.  Running diffstat on
+the changes between git tab 0.1.1 and 0.2 show 1098 files changed,
+108666 insertions(+), 54066 deletions(-).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
+you, please contact us on IRC
+(&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita&quot;&gt;#nikita on
+irc.freenode.net&lt;/a&gt;) or email
+(&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark&quot;&gt;nikita-noark
+mailing list&lt;/a&gt;).&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
 
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-               <title>What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2018?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_in_2018_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_in_2018_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2018 08:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Five years ago,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html&quot;&gt;I
-measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was&lt;/a&gt;, by
-analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive.  Since
-then, the DEP-11 AppStream system has been put into production, making
-the task a lot easier.  This made me want to repeat the measurement,
-to see how much things changed.  Here are the new numbers, for
-unstable only this time:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debian Unstable:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Fetching trusted timestamps using the rfc3161ng python module</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fetching_trusted_timestamps_using_the_rfc3161ng_python_module.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fetching_trusted_timestamps_using_the_rfc3161ng_python_module.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2018 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I have  earlier covered the basics of trusted timestamping using the
+&#39;openssl ts&#39; client.  See blog post for
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html&quot;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/syslog_trusted_timestamp___chain_of_trusted_timestamps_for_your_syslog.html&quot;&gt;2016&lt;/a&gt;
+and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_trusted_timestamps_in_a_Noark_5_archive.html&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;
+for those stories.  But some times I want to integrate the timestamping
+in other code, and recently I needed to integrate it into Python.
+After searching a bit, I found
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://dev.entrouvert.org/projects/python-rfc3161&quot;&gt;the
+rfc3161 library&lt;/a&gt; which seemed like a good fit, but I soon
+discovered it only worked for python version 2, and I needed something
+that work with python version 3.  Luckily I next came across
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/trbs/rfc3161ng/&quot;&gt;the rfc3161ng library&lt;/a&gt;,
+a fork of the original rfc3161 library.  Not only is it working with
+python 3, it have fixed a few of the bugs in the original library, and
+it has an active maintainer.  I decided to wrap it up and make it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-rfc3161ng&quot;&gt;available in
+Debian&lt;/a&gt;, and a few days ago it entered Debian unstable and testing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Using the library is fairly straight forward.  The only slightly
+problematic step is to fetch the required certificates to verify the
+timestamp.  For some services it is straight forward, while for others
+I have not yet figured out how to do it.  Here is a small standalone
+code example based on of the integration tests in the library code:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;pre&gt;

-  count MIME type
-  ----- -----------------------
-     56 image/jpeg
-     55 image/png
-     49 image/tiff
-     48 image/gif
-     39 image/bmp
-     38 text/plain
-     37 audio/mpeg
-     34 application/ogg
-     33 audio/x-flac
-     32 audio/x-mp3
-     30 audio/x-wav
-     30 audio/x-vorbis+ogg
-     29 image/x-portable-pixmap
-     27 inode/directory
-     27 image/x-portable-bitmap
-     27 audio/x-mpeg
-     26 application/x-ogg
-     25 audio/x-mpegurl
-     25 audio/ogg
-     24 text/html
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+&quot;&quot;&quot;
+
+Python 3 script demonstrating how to use the rfc3161ng module to
+get trusted timestamps.
+
+The license of this code is the same as the license of the rfc3161ng
+library, ie MIT/BSD.
+
+&quot;&quot;&quot;
+
+import os
+import pyasn1.codec.der
+import rfc3161ng
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import urllib.request
+
+def store(f, data):
+    f.write(data)
+    f.flush()
+    f.seek(0)
+
+def fetch(url, f=None):
+    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
+    data = response.read()
+    if f:
+        store(f, data)
+    return data
+
+def main():
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as cert_f,\
+        tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as ca_f,\
+        tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as msg_f,\
+        tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tsr_f:
+
+        # First fetch certificates used by service
+        certificate_data = fetch(&#39;https://freetsa.org/files/tsa.crt&#39;, cert_f)
+        ca_data_data = fetch(&#39;https://freetsa.org/files/cacert.pem&#39;, ca_f)
+
+        # Then timestamp the message
+        timestamper = \
+            rfc3161ng.RemoteTimestamper(&#39;http://freetsa.org/tsr&#39;,
+                                        certificate=certificate_data)
+        data = b&quot;Python forever!\n&quot;
+        tsr = timestamper(data=data, return_tsr=True)
+
+        # Finally, convert message and response to something &#39;openssl ts&#39; can verify
+        store(msg_f, data)
+        store(tsr_f, pyasn1.codec.der.encoder.encode(tsr))
+        args = [&quot;openssl&quot;, &quot;ts&quot;, &quot;-verify&quot;,
+                &quot;-data&quot;, msg_f.name,
+               &quot;-in&quot;, tsr_f.name,
+               &quot;-CAfile&quot;, ca_f.name,
+                &quot;-untrusted&quot;, cert_f.name]
+        subprocess.check_call(args)
+
+if &#39;__main__&#39; == __name__:
+   main()

 &lt;/pre&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;The list was created like this using a sid chroot: &quot;cat
-/var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz| zcat | awk &#39;/^
-- \S+\/\S+$/ {print $2 }&#39; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It is interesting to see how image formats have passed text/plain
-as the most announced supported MIME type.  These days, thanks to the
-AppStream system, if you run into a file format you do not know, and
-want to figure out which packages support the format, you can find the
-MIME type of the file using &quot;file --mime &amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;&quot;, and then
-look up all packages announcing support for this format in their
-AppStream metadata (XML or .desktop file) using &quot;appstreamcli
-what-provides mimetype &amp;lt;mime-type&amp;gt;.  For example if you, like
-me, want to know which packages support inode/directory, you can get a
-list like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The code fetches the required certificates, store them as temporary
+files, timestamp a simple message, store the message and timestamp to
+disk and ask &#39;openssl ts&#39; to verify the timestamp.  A timestamp is
+around 1.5 kiB in size, and should be fairly easy to store for future
+use.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype inode/directory | grep Package: | sort
-Package: anjuta
-Package: audacious
-Package: baobab
-Package: cervisia
-Package: chirp
-Package: dolphin
-Package: doublecmd-common
-Package: easytag
-Package: enlightenment
-Package: ephoto
-Package: filelight
-Package: gwenview
-Package: k4dirstat
-Package: kaffeine
-Package: kdesvn
-Package: kid3
-Package: kid3-qt
-Package: nautilus
-Package: nemo
-Package: pcmanfm
-Package: pcmanfm-qt
-Package: qweborf
-Package: ranger
-Package: sirikali
-Package: spacefm
-Package: spacefm
-Package: vifm
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Using the same method, I can quickly discover that the Sketchup file
-format is not yet supported by any package in Debian:&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;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Automatic Google Drive sync using grive in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Google_Drive_sync_using_grive_in_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Google_Drive_sync_using_grive_in_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 4 Oct 2018 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days, I rescued a Windows victim over to Debian.  To try to
+rescue the remains, I helped set up automatic sync with Google Drive.
+I did not find any sensible Debian package handling this
+automatically, so I rebuild the grive2 source from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webupd8.org/&quot;&gt;the Ubuntu UPD8 PPA&lt;/a&gt; to do the
+task and added a autostart desktop entry and a small shell script to
+run in the background while the user is logged in to do the sync.
+Here is a sketch of the setup for future reference.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I first created &lt;tt&gt;~/googledrive&lt;/tt&gt;, entered the directory and
+ran &#39;&lt;tt&gt;grive -a&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to authenticate the machine/user.  Next, I
+created a autostart hook in &lt;tt&gt;~/.config/autostart/grive.desktop&lt;/tt&gt;
+to start the sync when the user log in:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype  application/vnd.sketchup.skp
-Could not find component providing &#39;mimetype::application/vnd.sketchup.skp&#39;.
-%
+[Desktop Entry]
+Name=Google drive autosync
+Type=Application
+Exec=/home/user/bin/grive-sync

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I used it to figure out which packages support the STL 3D
-format:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Finally, I wrote the &lt;tt&gt;~/bin/grive-sync&lt;/tt&gt; script to sync
+~/googledrive/ with the files in Google Drive.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype  application/sla|grep Package
-Package: cura
-Package: meshlab
-Package: printrun
-%
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+cd ~/
+cleanup() {
+    if [ &quot;$syncpid&quot; ] ; then
+        kill $syncpid
+    fi
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT QUIT
+/usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh listen googledrive 2&gt;&amp;1 | sed &quot;s%^%$0:%&quot; &amp;
+syncpdi=$!
+while true; do
+    if ! xhost &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 ; then
+        echo &quot;no DISPLAY, exiting as the user probably logged out&quot;
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if [ ! -e /run/user/1000/grive-sync.sh_googledrive ] ; then
+        /usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh sync googledrive
+    fi
+    sleep 300
+done 2&gt;&amp;1 | sed &quot;s%^%$0:%&quot;

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;PS: A new version of Cura was uploaded to Debian yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Feel free to use the setup if you want.  It can be assumed to be
+GNU GPL v2 licensed (or any later version, at your leisure), but I
+doubt this code is possible to claim copyright on.&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
 
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 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address


@@ -266,76 +313,154 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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-               <title>Debian APT upgrade without enough free space on the disk...</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_APT_upgrade_without_enough_free_space_on_the_disk___.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_APT_upgrade_without_enough_free_space_on_the_disk___.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2018 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Quite regularly, I let my Debian Sid/Unstable chroot stay untouch
-for a while, and when I need to update it there is not enough free
-space on the disk for apt to do a normal &#39;apt upgrade&#39;.  I normally
-would resolve the issue by doing &#39;apt install &amp;lt;somepackages&amp;gt;&#39; to
-upgrade only some of the packages in one batch, until the amount of
-packages to download fall below the amount of free space available.
-Today, I had about 500 packages to upgrade, and after a while I got
-tired of trying to install chunks of packages manually.  I concluded
-that I did not have the spare hours required to complete the task, and
-decided to see if I could automate it.  I came up with this small
-script which I call &#39;apt-in-chunks&#39;:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Valutakrambod - A python and bitcoin love story</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Valutakrambod___A_python_and_bitcoin_love_story.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Valutakrambod___A_python_and_bitcoin_love_story.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It would come as no surprise to anyone that I am interested in
+bitcoins and virtual currencies.  I&#39;ve been keeping an eye on virtual
+currencies for many years, and it is part of the reason a few months
+ago, I started writing a python library for collecting currency
+exchange rates and trade on virtual currency exchanges.  I decided to
+name the end result valutakrambod, which perhaps can be translated to
+small currency shop.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The library uses the tornado python library to handle HTTP and
+websocket connections, and provide a asynchronous system for
+connecting to and tracking several services.  The code is available
+from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/valutakrambod&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/p&gt;There are two example clients of the library.  One is very simple and
+list every updated buy/sell price received from the various services.
+This code is started by running bin/btc-rates and call the client code
+in valutakrambod/client.py.  The simple client look like this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Upgrade packages when the disk is too full to upgrade every
-# upgradable package in one lump.  Fetching packages to upgrade using
-# apt, and then installing using dpkg, to avoid changing the package
-# flag for manual/automatic.
+import functools
+import tornado.ioloop
+import valutakrambod
+class SimpleClient(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.services = []
+        self.streams = []
+        pass
+    def newdata(self, service, pair, changed):
+        print(&quot;%-15s %s-%s: %8.3f %8.3f&quot; % (
+            service.servicename(),
+            pair[0],
+            pair[1],
+            service.rates[pair][&#39;ask&#39;],
+            service.rates[pair][&#39;bid&#39;])
+        )
+    async def refresh(self, service):
+        await service.fetchRates(service.wantedpairs)
+    def run(self):
+        self.ioloop = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.current()
+        self.services = valutakrambod.service.knownServices()
+        for e in self.services:
+            service = e()
+            service.subscribe(self.newdata)
+            stream = service.websocket()
+            if stream:
+                self.streams.append(stream)
+            else:
+                # Fetch information from non-streaming services immediately
+                self.ioloop.call_later(len(self.services),
+                                       functools.partial(self.refresh, service))
+                # as well as regularly
+                service.periodicUpdate(60)
+        for stream in self.streams:
+            stream.connect()
+        try:
+            self.ioloop.start()
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            print(&quot;Interrupted by keyboard, closing all connections.&quot;)
+            pass
+        for stream in self.streams:
+            stream.close()
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-set -e
+&lt;p&gt;The library client loops over all known &quot;public&quot; services,
+initialises it, subscribes to any updates from the service, checks and
+activates websocket streaming if the service provide it, and if no
+streaming is supported, fetches information from the service and sets
+up a periodic update every 60 seconds.  The output from this client
+can look like this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-ignore() {
-    if [ &quot;$1&quot; ]; then
-       grep -v &quot;$1&quot;
-    else
-       cat
-    fi
-}
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.560 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.560 6593.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.570 6593.690
+Bitstamp        EUR-USD:    1.159    1.154
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.570 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Hitbtc          BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Bl3p            BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Paymium         BTC-EUR: 5680.000 5620.240
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The exchange order book is tracked in addition to the best buy/sell
+price, for those that need to know the details.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-for p in $(apt list --upgradable | ignore &quot;$@&quot; |cut -d/ -f1 | grep -v &#39;^Listing...&#39;); do
-    echo &quot;Upgrading $p&quot;
-    apt clean
-    apt install --download-only -y $p
-    for f in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb; do
-       if [ -e &quot;$f&quot; ]; then
-           dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
-           break
-       fi
-    done
-done
+&lt;p&gt;The other example client is focusing on providing a curses view
+with updated buy/sell prices as soon as they are received from the
+services.  This code is located in bin/btc-rates-curses and activated
+by using the &#39;-c&#39; argument.  Without the argument the &quot;curses&quot; output
+is printed without using curses, which is useful for debugging.  The
+curses view look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+           Name Pair   Bid         Ask         Spr    Ftcd    Age
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCEUR   5591.8400   5711.0800   2.1%   16    nan     60
+       Bitfinex BTCEUR   5671.0000   5671.2000   0.0%   16     22     59
+        Bitmynt BTCEUR   5580.8000   5807.5200   3.9%   16     41     60
+         Bitpay BTCEUR   5663.2700         nan   nan%   15    nan     60
+       Bitstamp BTCEUR   5664.8400   5676.5300   0.2%    0      1      1
+           Bl3p BTCEUR   5653.6900   5684.9400   0.5%    0    nan     19
+       Coinbase BTCEUR   5600.8200   5714.9000   2.0%   15    nan    nan
+         Kraken BTCEUR   5670.1000   5670.2000   0.0%   14     17     60
+        Paymium BTCEUR   5620.0600   5680.0000   1.1%    1   7515    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCNOK  52898.9700  54034.6100   2.1%   16    nan     60
+        Bitmynt BTCNOK  52960.3200  54031.1900   2.0%   16     41     60
+         Bitpay BTCNOK  53477.7833         nan   nan%   16    nan     60
+       Coinbase BTCNOK  52990.3500  54063.0600   2.0%   15    nan    nan
+        MiraiEx BTCNOK  52856.5300  54100.6000   2.3%   16    nan    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCUSD   6495.5300   6631.5400   2.1%   16    nan     60
+       Bitfinex BTCUSD   6590.6000   6590.7000   0.0%   16     23     57
+         Bitpay BTCUSD   6564.1300         nan   nan%   15    nan     60
+       Bitstamp BTCUSD   6561.1400   6565.6200   0.1%    0      2      1
+       Coinbase BTCUSD   6504.0600   6635.9700   2.0%   14    nan    117
+         Gemini BTCUSD   6567.1300   6573.0700   0.1%   16     89    nan
+         Hitbtc+BTCUSD   6592.6200   6594.2100   0.0%    0      0      0
+         Kraken BTCUSD   6565.2000   6570.9000   0.1%   15     17     58
+  Exchangerates EURNOK      9.4665      9.4665   0.0%   16 107789    nan
+     Norgesbank EURNOK      9.4665      9.4665   0.0%   16 107789    nan
+       Bitstamp EURUSD      1.1537      1.1593   0.5%    4      5      1
+  Exchangerates EURUSD      1.1576      1.1576   0.0%   16 107789    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCEUR      1.0000     49.0000  98.0%   16    nan    nan
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCNOK    492.4800    503.7500   2.2%   16    nan     60
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCUSD      1.0221     49.0000  97.9%   15    nan    nan
+     Norgesbank USDNOK      8.1777      8.1777   0.0%   16 107789    nan

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;The script will extract the list of packages to upgrade, try to
-download the packages needed to upgrade one package, install the
-downloaded packages using dpkg.  The idea is to upgrade packages
-without changing the APT mark for the package (ie the one recording of
-the package was manually requested or pulled in as a dependency).  To
-use it, simply run it as root from the command line.  If it fail, try
-&#39;apt install -f&#39; to clean up the mess and run the script again.  This
-might happen if the new packages conflict with one of the old
-packages.  dpkg is unable to remove, while apt can do this.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It take one option, a package to ignore in the list of packages to
-upgrade.  The option to ignore a package is there to be able to skip
-the packages that are simply too large to unpack.  Today this was
-&#39;ghc&#39;, but I have run into other large packages causing similar
-problems earlier (like TeX).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2018-07-08: Thanks to Paul Wise, I am aware of two
-alternative ways to handle this.  The &quot;unattended-upgrades
---minimal-upgrade-steps&quot; option will try to calculate upgrade sets for
-each package to upgrade, and then upgrade them in order, smallest set
-first.  It might be a better option than my above mentioned script.
-Also, &quot;aptutude upgrade&quot; can upgrade single packages, thus avoiding
-the need for using &quot;dpkg -i&quot; in the script above.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The code for this client is too complex for a simple blog post, so
+you will have to check out the git repository to figure out how it
+work.  What I can tell is how the three last numbers on each line
+should be interpreted.  The first is how many seconds ago information
+was received from the service.  The second is how long ago, according
+to the service, the provided information was updated.  The last is an
+estimate on how often the buy/sell values change.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you find this library useful, or would like to improve it, I
+would love to hear from you.  Note that for some of the services I&#39;ve
+implemented a trading API.  It might be the topic of a future blog
+post.&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>The worlds only stone power plant?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power,
-solar power, and wood power are well known.  Until a few days ago, I
-had never heard of stone power.  Then I learn about a quarry in a
-mountain in
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger&quot;&gt;Bremanger&lt;/a&gt; i
-Norway, where
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/&quot;&gt;the
-Bremanger Quarry&lt;/a&gt; company is extracting stone and dumping the stone
-into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour.  This downward movement
-in this shaft is used to produce electricity.  In short, it is using
-falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and
-according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is
-using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power
-grid.  I find the concept truly amazing.  Is this the worlds only
-stone power plant?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>VLC in Debian now can do bittorrent streaming</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_in_Debian_now_can_do_bittorrent_streaming.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_in_Debian_now_can_do_bittorrent_streaming.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in February, I got curious to see
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html&quot;&gt;if
+VLC now supported Bittorrent streaming&lt;/a&gt;.  It did not, despite the
+fact that the idea and code to handle such streaming had been floating
+around for years.  I did however find
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a standalone plugin
+for VLC&lt;/a&gt; to do it, and half a year later I decided to wrap up the
+plugin and get it into Debian.  I uploaded it to NEW a few days ago,
+and am very happy to report that it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;entered
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; a few hours ago, and should be available in Debian/Unstable
+tomorrow, and Debian/Testing in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With the vlc-plugin-bittorrent package installed you should be able
+to stream videos using a simple call to&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+vlc https://archive.org/download/TheGoat/TheGoat_archive.torrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/p&gt;It can handle magnet links too.  Now if only native vlc had
+bittorrent support.  Then a lot more would be helping each other to
+share public domain and creative commons movies.  The plugin need some
+stability work with seeking and picking the right file in a torrent
+with many files, but is already usable.  Please note that the plugin
+is not removing downloaded files when vlc is stopped, so it can fill
+up your disk if you are not careful.  Have fun. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would love to get help maintaining this package.  Get in touch if
+you are interested.&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;My movie playing setup involve &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://openelec.tv&quot;&gt;OpenELEC&lt;/a&gt; (probably soon to be
-replaced with &lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt;) and an
-Infocus IN76 video projector.  My projector can be controlled via both
-a infrared remote controller, and a RS-232 serial line.  The vendor of
-my projector, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.infocus.com/&quot;&gt;InFocus&lt;/a&gt;, had been
-sensible enough to document the serial protocol in its user manual, so
-it is easily available, and I used it some years ago to write
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control&quot;&gt;a
-small script to control the projector&lt;/a&gt;.  For a while now, I longed
-for a setup where the projector was controlled by Kodi, for example in
-such a way that when the screen saver went on, the projector was
-turned off, and when the screen saver exited, the projector was turned
-on again.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, with very good help from parts of my family, I
-managed to find a Kodi Add-on for controlling a Epson projector, and
-got in touch with its author to see if we could join forces and make a
-Add-on with support for several projectors.  To my pleasure, he was
-positive to the idea, and we set out to add InFocus support to his
-add-on, and make the add-on suitable for the official Kodi add-on
-repository.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The Add-on is now working (for me, at least), with a few minor
-adjustments.  The most important change I do relative to the master
-branch in the github repository is embedding the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial&quot;&gt;pyserial module&lt;/a&gt; in
-the add-on.  The long term solution is to make a &quot;script&quot; type
-pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
-Kodi.  But until that in place, I embed it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The add-on can be configured to turn on the projector when Kodi
-starts, off when Kodi stops as well as turn the projector off when the
-screensaver start and on when the screesaver stops.  It can also be
-told to set the projector source when turning on the projector.
-
-&lt;p&gt;If this sound interesting to you, check out
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol&quot;&gt;the
-project github repository&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps you can send patches to
-support your projector too?  As soon as we find time to wrap up the
-latest changes, it should be available for easy installation using any
-Kodi instance.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For future improvements, I would like to add projector model
-detection and the ability to adjust the brightness level of the
-projector from within Kodi.  We also need to figure out how to handle
-the cooling period of the projector.  My projector refuses to turn on
-for 60 seconds after it was turned off.  This is not handled well by
-the add-on at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Using the Kodi API to play Youtube videos</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_the_Kodi_API_to_play_Youtube_videos.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_the_Kodi_API_to_play_Youtube_videos.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I continue to explore my Kodi installation, and today I wanted to
+tell it to play a youtube URL I received in a chat, without having to
+insert search terms using the on-screen keyboard.  After searching the
+web for API access to the Youtube plugin and testing a bit, I managed
+to find a recipe that worked.  If you got a kodi instance with its API
+available from http://kodihost/jsonrpc, you can try the following to
+have check out a nice cover band.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;curl --silent --header &#39;Content-Type: application/json&#39; \
+  --data-binary &#39;{ &quot;id&quot;: 1, &quot;jsonrpc&quot;: &quot;2.0&quot;, &quot;method&quot;: &quot;Player.Open&quot;,
+  &quot;params&quot;: {&quot;item&quot;: { &quot;file&quot;:
+  &quot;plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=LuRGVM9O0qg&quot; } } }&#39; \
+  http://projector.local/jsonrpc&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve extended kodi-stream program to take a video source as its
+first argument.  It can now handle direct video links, youtube links
+and &#39;desktop&#39; to stream my desktop to Kodi.  It is almost like a
+Chromecast. :)&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
 
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-               <title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS&quot;&gt;VHS-kassettenes&lt;/a&gt;
-tid var det rett frem å ta vare på et TV-program en ønsket å kunne se
-senere, uten å være avhengig av at programmet ble sendt på nytt.
-Kanskje ønsket en å se programmet på hytten der det ikke var
-TV-signal, eller av andre grunner ha det tilgjengelig for fremtidig
-fornøyelse.  Dette er blitt vanskeligere med introduksjon av
-digital-TV og webstreaming, der opptak til harddisk er utenfor de
-flestes kontroll hvis de bruker ufri programvare og bokser kontrollert
-av andre.  Men for NRK her i Norge, finnes det heldigvis flere fri
-programvare-alternativer, som jeg har
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html&quot;&gt;skrevet&lt;/a&gt;
-&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;om&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html&quot;&gt;før&lt;/a&gt;.
-Så lenge kilden for nedlastingen er lovlig lagt ut på nett (hvilket
-jeg antar NRK gjør), så er slik lagring til privat bruk også lovlig i
-Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/&quot;&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/a&gt; ikke kunne
-bake undertekster fra NRK inn i videofilene, og at jeg derfor
-foretrakk andre alternativer.  Nylig oppdaget jeg at dette har endret
-seg.  Fordelen med youtube-dl er at den er tilgjengelig direkte fra
-Linux-distribusjoner som &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;
-og &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, slik at en slipper å
-finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
-underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
-brukes:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
-  --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
-  https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no.  Resultatet er en
-MP4-fil med filmen og undertekster som kan spilles av med VLC.  Merk
-at VLC ikke viser frem undertekster før du aktiverer dem.  For å gjøre
-det, høyreklikk med musa i fremviservinduet, velg menyvalget for
-undertekst og så norsk språk.  Jeg testet også &#39;--write-auto-sub&#39;,
-men det kommandolinjeargumentet ser ikke ut til å fungere, så jeg
-endte opp med settet med argumentlisten over, som jeg fant i en
-feilrapport i youtube-dl-prosjektets samling over feilrapporter.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Denne støtten i youtube-dl gjør det svært enkelt å lagre
-NRK-innslag, det være seg nyheter, filmer, serier eller dokumentater,
-for å ha dem tilgjengelig for fremtidig referanse og bruk, uavhengig
-av hvor lenge innslagene ligger tilgjengelig hos NRK.  Så får det ikke
-hjelpe at NRKs jurister mener at det er
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html&quot;&gt;vesensforskjellig
-å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming&lt;/a&gt;, når det rent
-teknisk er samme sak.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
-prosjektoversikten for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html&quot;&gt;en
-komplett liste&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
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-       <item>
-               <title>Stortingsflertallet går inn for ny IP-basert sensurinfrastruktur i Norge</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper&quot;&gt;VG&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219&quot;&gt;Dagbladet&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;
-melder i dag at flertallet i Familie- og kulturkomiteen på Stortinget
-har bestemt seg for å introdusere en ny sensurinfrastruktur i Norge.
-Fra før har Norge en «frivillig» sensurinfrastruktur basert på
-DNS-navn, der de største ISP-ene basert på en liste med DNS-navn
-forgifter DNS-svar og omdirigerer til et annet IP-nummer enn det som
-ligger i DNS.  Nå kommer altså IP-basert omdirigering i tillegg.  Når
-infrastrukturen er på plass, er sensur av IP-adresser redusert et
-spørsmål om hvilke IP-nummer som skal blokkeres.  Listen over
-IP-adresser vil naturligvis endre seg etter hvert som myndighetene
-endrer seg.  Det er ingen betryggende tanke.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
-kriminelt å åpne andres brev.  Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205&quot;&gt;§ 205
-(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)&lt;/a&gt;, som sier at «Med
-bot eller fengsel inntil 2 år straffes den som uberettiget ...  c)
-åpner brev eller annen lukket skriftlig meddelelse som er adressert
-til en annen, eller på annen måte skaffer seg uberettiget tilgang til
-innholdet.» Dette gjelder såvel postbud som alle andre som har
-befatning med brevet etter at avsender har befatning med et lukket
-brev. Tilsvarende står også tidligere utgaver av den norske
-straffeloven.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Når en registrerer seg på usikre digitale postkasseløsningene, som
-f.eks. Digipost og e-Boks, og slik tar disse i bruk, så gir en de som
-står bak løsningene tillatelse til å åpne sine brev.  Dette er
-nødvendig for at innholdet i digital post skal kunne vises frem til
-mottaker via tjenestens websider.  Dermed gjelder ikke straffelovens
-paragraf om forbud mot å åpne brev, da tilgangen ikke lenger er
-uberettiget.  En gir altså fremmede tilgang til å lese sin
-korrespondanse.  I tillegg vil bruk av slike usikre digitale
-postbokser føre til at det blir registrert når du leser brevene, hvor
-du befinner deg (vha. tilkoblingens IP-adresse), hvilket utstyr du
-bruker og en rekke annen personlig informasjon som ikke er
-tilgjengelig når papirpost brukes.  Jeg foretrekker at det er
-lovmessig beskyttelse av min korrespondanse, som jo inneholder privat
-og personlig informasjon.  Det bidrar til litt bedre vern av personlig
-integritet i dagens norske samfunn.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Software created using taxpayers’ money should be Free Software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_created_using_taxpayers__money_should_be_Free_Software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_created_using_taxpayers__money_should_be_Free_Software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It might seem obvious that software created using tax money should
+be available for everyone to use and improve.  Free Software
+Foundation Europe recentlystarted a campaign to help get more people
+to understand this, and I just signed the petition on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://publiccode.eu/&quot;&gt;Public Money, Public Code&lt;/a&gt; to help
+them. I hope you too will do the same.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
-re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.  I
-am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people&quot;&gt;sited
-by The Hill and others&lt;/a&gt;:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&quot;An American president does not lead the Free World by
-congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
-phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
-have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar&quot;&gt;kidnapped a
-completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
-Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
-sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
-one taken by any Free World.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>A bit more on privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_bit_more_on_privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_bit_more_on_privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I wondered if there are any privacy respecting
+health monitors and/or fitness trackers available for sale these days.
+I would like to buy one, but do not want to share my personal data
+with strangers, nor be forced to have a mobile phone to get data out
+of the unit.  I&#39;ve received some ideas, and would like to share them
+with you.
+
+One interesting data point was a pointer to a Free Software app for
+Android named
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/&quot;&gt;Gadgetbridge&lt;/a&gt;.
+It provide cloudless collection and storing of data from a variety of
+trackers.  Its
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/#supported-devices&quot;&gt;list
+of supported devices&lt;/a&gt; is a good indicator for units where the
+protocol is fairly open, as it is obviously being handled by Free
+Software.  Other units are reportedly encrypting the collected
+information with their own public key, making sure only the vendor
+cloud service is able to extract data from the unit.  The people
+contacting me about Gadgetbirde said they were using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://us.amazfit.com/shop/bip?variant=336750&quot;&gt;Amazfit
+Bip&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xiaomimi6phone.com/xiaomi-mi-band-3-features-release-date-rumors/&quot;&gt;Xiaomi
+Band 3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also got a suggestion to look at some of the units from Garmin.
+I was told their GPS watches can be connected via USB and show up as a
+USB storage device with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_garmin_fit.html&quot;&gt;Garmin
+FIT files&lt;/a&gt; containing the collected measurements.  While
+proprietary, FIT files apparently can be read at least by
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gpsbabel.org&quot;&gt;GPSBabel&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpxpod&quot;&gt;GpxPod&lt;/a&gt; Nextcloud
+app.  It is unclear to me if they can read step count and heart rate
+data.  The person I talked to was using a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/564291&quot;&gt;Garmin Forerunner
+935&lt;/a&gt;, which is a fairly expensive unit.  I doubt it is worth it for
+a unit where the vendor clearly is trying its best to move from open
+to closed systems.  I still remember when Garmin dropped NMEA support
+in its GPSes.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A final idea was to build ones own unit, perhaps by basing it on a
+wearable hardware platforms like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://learn.adafruit.com/flora-geo-watch&quot;&gt;the Flora Geo
+Watch&lt;/a&gt;.  Sound like fun, but I had more money than time to spend on
+the topic, so I suspect it will have to wait for another time.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While I was working on tracking down links, I came across an
+inspiring TED talk by Dave Debronkart about
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/DavedeBronkart_2010X&quot;&gt;being a
+e-patient&lt;/a&gt;, and discovered the web site
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/&quot;&gt;Participatory
+Medicine&lt;/a&gt;.  If you too want to track your own health and fitness
+without having information about your private life floating around on
+computers owned by others, I recommend checking it out.&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;

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-               <title>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
-(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
-mostly in the USA.  What I find a bit surprising, is how little
-criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
-Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place.  And what about the
-people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
-And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
-handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
-No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
-that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
-lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
-selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
-in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed.  It is well known that
-Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
-nevertheless.  Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
-would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
-information about the millions of Facebook users.  Collected
-information will be misused sooner or later.  The only way to avoid
-such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place.  If
-you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
-the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
-information.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
-account, and take back some control of your personal information.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely&quot;&gt;According
-to The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
-account removal (and not just &#39;disabling&#39;).  You need to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content&quot;&gt;visit
-a specific Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; and click on &#39;let us know&#39; on that page
-to get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account&quot;&gt;the
-real account deletion screen&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps something to consider?  I
-would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
-perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
-exposure a bit.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
-Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
-Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; last april about
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/&quot;&gt;
-Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
-politics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
-use some end-to-end encrypted method like
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.signal.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; or
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx/&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;, and stop sharing your private
-messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Privacy respecting health monitor / fitness tracker?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Privacy_respecting_health_monitor___fitness_tracker_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Aug 2018 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Dear lazyweb,&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I wonder, is there a fitness tracker / health monitor available for
+sale today that respect the users privacy?  With this I mean a
+watch/bracelet capable of measuring pulse rate and other
+fitness/health related values (and by all means, also the correct time
+and location if possible), which is &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; provided for
+me to extract/read from the unit with computer without a radio beacon
+and Internet connection.  In other words, it do not depend on a cell
+phone app, and do make the measurements available via other peoples
+computer (aka &quot;the cloud&quot;).  The collected data should be available
+using only free software.  I&#39;m not interested in depending on some
+non-free software that will leave me high and dry some time in the
+future.  I&#39;ve been unable to find any such unit.  I would like to buy
+it.  The ones I have seen for sale here in Norway are proud to report
+that they share my health data with strangers (aka &quot;cloud enabled&quot;).
+Is there an alternative?  I&#39;m not interested in giving money to people
+requiring me to accept &quot;privacy terms&quot; to allow myself to measure my
+own health.&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;

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