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- <title>Offentlig elektronisk postjournal blokkerer tilgang for utvalgte webklienter</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Offentlig_elektronisk_postjournal_blokkerer_tilgang_for_utvalgte_webklienter.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Jeg oppdaget i dag at <a href="https://www.oep.no/">nettstedet som
-publiserer offentlige postjournaler fra statlige etater</a>, OEP, har
-begynt å blokkerer enkelte typer webklienter fra å få tilgang. Vet
-ikke hvor mange det gjelder, men det gjelder i hvert fall libwww-perl
-og curl. For å teste selv, kjør følgende:</p>
+ <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><p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I had a look at several approaches, for example
+<a href="https://github.com/mfoetsch/dlna_live_streaming">using uPnP
+DLNA as described in 2011</a>, 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I did not spend much time investigating codeces. I combined the
+rtp and rtsp recipes from
+<a href="https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/">the
+VLC Streaming HowTo/Command Line Examples</a>, and was able to get
+this working on the desktop/streaming end.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
-% curl -v -s https://www.oep.no/pub/report.xhtml?reportId=3 2>&1 |grep '< HTTP'
-< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
-% curl -v -s --header 'User-Agent:Opera/12.0' https://www.oep.no/pub/report.xhtml?reportId=3 2>&1 |grep '< HTTP'
-< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
-%
+vlc screen:// --sout \
+ '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{dst=projector.local,port=1234,sdp=rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp}'
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>I ssh-ed into my Kodi box and created a file like this with the
+same IP address:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/test.sdp \
+ > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
</pre></blockquote>
-<p>Her kan en se at tjenesten gir «404 Not Found» for curl i
-standardoppsettet, mens den gir «200 OK» hvis curl hevder å være Opera
-versjon 12.0. Offentlig elektronisk postjournal startet blokkeringen
-2017-03-02.</p>
-
-<p>Blokkeringen vil gjøre det litt vanskeligere å maskinelt hente
-informasjon fra oep.no. Kan blokkeringen være gjort for å hindre
-automatisert innsamling av informasjon fra OEP, slik Pressens
-Offentlighetsutvalg gjorde for å dokumentere hvordan departementene
-hindrer innsyn i
-<a href="http://presse.no/dette-mener-np/undergraver-offentlighetsloven/">rapporten
-«Slik hindrer departementer innsyn» som ble publiserte i januar
-2017</a>. Det virker usannsynlig, da det jo er trivielt å bytte
-User-Agent til noe nytt.</p>
-
-<p>Finnes det juridisk grunnlag for det offentlige å diskriminere
-webklienter slik det gjøres her? Der tilgang gis eller ikke alt etter
-hva klienten sier at den heter? Da OEP eies av DIFI og driftes av
-Basefarm, finnes det kanskje noen dokumenter sendt mellom disse to
-aktørene man kan be om innsyn i for å forstå hva som har skjedd. Men
-<a href="https://www.oep.no/search/result.html?period=dateRange&fromDate=01.01.2016&toDate=01.04.2017&dateType=documentDate&caseDescription=&descType=both&caseNumber=&documentNumber=&sender=basefarm&senderType=both&documentType=all&legalAuthority=&archiveCode=&list2=196&searchType=advanced&Search=Search+in+records">postjournalen
-til DIFI viser kun to dokumenter</a> det siste året mellom DIFI og
-Basefarm.
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/blokkering_av_tilgang_til_oep_fo">Mimes brønn neste</a>,
-tenker jeg.</p>
+<p>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.m4u 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. :)</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2018-07-12</strong>: Johannes Schauer send me a few
+succestions and reminded me about an important step. The "screen:"
+input source is only available once the vlc-plugin-access-extra
+package is installed on Debian. Without it, you will see this error
+message: "VLC is unable to open the MRL 'screen://'. Check the log
+for details." 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
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+cvlc screen:// --sout \
+ '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/}'
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>and this on the Kodi end<p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/ \
+ > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>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've tried to change the vb and ab
+parameters to use more bandwidth, but it did not make a
+difference.</p>
+
+<p>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:
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+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=0 auto-multicast=1 sync=0 \
+ pulsesrc device=$(pactl list | grep -A2 'Source #' | \
+ grep 'Name: .*\.monitor$' | cut -d" " -f2|head -1) ! \
+ audioconvert ! queue2 ! avenc_aac ! queue2 ! mux.
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>and this on the Kodi end<p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+echo udp://@239.255.0.1:1234 \
+ > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>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=0 setting, which limit the multicast packages to the
+local network. If the value is increased, your screen will be
+broadcasted further, one network "hop" for each increase (read up on
+multicast to learn more. :)!</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+cvlc screen:// --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.0.1,port=1234,sdp=sap}'
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Free software archive system Nikita now able to store documents</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_archive_system_Nikita_now_able_to_store_documents.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_archive_system_Nikita_now_able_to_store_documents.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="https://github.com/hiOA-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">Nikita
-Noark 5 core project</a> is implementing the Norwegian standard for
-keeping an electronic archive of government documents.
-<a href="http://www.arkivverket.no/arkivverket/Offentlig-forvaltning/Noark/Noark-5/English-version">The
-Noark 5 standard</a> document the requirement for data systems used by
-the archives in the Norwegian government, and the Noark 5 web interface
-specification document a REST web service for storing, searching and
-retrieving documents and metadata in such archive. I've been involved
-in the project since a few weeks before Christmas, when the Norwegian
-Unix User Group
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/NOARK5_kjerne_som_fri_programvare_f_r_epostliste_hos_NUUG.shtml">announced
-it supported the project</a>. I believe this is an important project,
-and hope it can make it possible for the government archives in the
-future to use free software to keep the archives we citizens depend
-on. But as I do not hold such archive myself, personally my first use
-case is to store and analyse public mail journal metadata published
-from the government. I find it useful to have a clear use case in
-mind when developing, to make sure the system scratches one of my
-itches.</p>
-
-<p>If you would like to help make sure there is a free software
-alternatives for the archives, please join our IRC channel
-(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita"">#nikita on
-irc.freenode.net</a>) and
-<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">the
-project mailing list</a>.</p>
-
-<p>When I got involved, the web service could store metadata about
-documents. But a few weeks ago, a new milestone was reached when it
-became possible to store full text documents too. Yesterday, I
-completed an implementation of a command line tool
-<tt>archive-pdf</tt> to upload a PDF file to the archive using this
-API. The tool is very simple at the moment, and find existing
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds">fonds</a>, series and
-files while asking the user to select which one to use if more than
-one exist. Once a file is identified, the PDF is associated with the
-file and uploaded, using the title extracted from the PDF itself. The
-process is fairly similar to visiting the archive, opening a cabinet,
-locating a file and storing a piece of paper in the archive. Here is
-a test run directly after populating the database with test data using
-our API tester:</p>
+ <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><p>Five years ago,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html">I
+measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was</a>, 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:
+
+<p><strong>Debian Unstable:</strong></p>
+
+<pre>
+ 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
+</pre>
+
+<p>The list was created like this using a sid chroot: "cat
+/var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz| zcat | awk '/^
+- \S+\/\S+$/ {print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20"</p>
+
+<p>It is interesting to see how image formats have passed text/plain
+as the most announced supported MIME type. These days, thanks to the
+AppStream system, if you run into a file format you do not know, and
+want to figure out which packages support the format, you can find the
+MIME type of the file using "file --mime &lt;filename&gt;", and then
+look up all packages announcing support for this format in their
+AppStream metadata (XML or .desktop file) using "appstreamcli
+what-provides mimetype &lt;mime-type&gt;. For example if you, like
+me, want to know which packages support inode/directory, you can get a
+list like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype inode/directory | grep Package: | sort
+Package: anjuta
+Package: audacious
+Package: baobab
+Package: cervisia
+Package: chirp
+Package: dolphin
+Package: doublecmd-common
+Package: easytag
+Package: enlightenment
+Package: ephoto
+Package: filelight
+Package: gwenview
+Package: k4dirstat
+Package: kaffeine
+Package: kdesvn
+Package: kid3
+Package: kid3-qt
+Package: nautilus
+Package: nemo
+Package: pcmanfm
+Package: pcmanfm-qt
+Package: qweborf
+Package: ranger
+Package: sirikali
+Package: spacefm
+Package: spacefm
+Package: vifm
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Using the same method, I can quickly discover that the Sketchup file
+format is not yet supported by any package in Debian:</p>
<p><blockquote><pre>
-~/src//noark5-tester$ ./archive-pdf mangelmelding/mangler.pdf
-using arkiv: Title of the test fonds created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-using arkivdel: Title of the test series created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-
- 0 - Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
- 1 - Title of the test file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-Select which mappe you want (or search term): 0
-Uploading mangelmelding/mangler.pdf
- PDF title: Mangler i spesifikasjonsdokumentet for NOARK 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt
- File 2017/1: Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-~/src//noark5-tester$
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype application/vnd.sketchup.skp
+Could not find component providing 'mimetype::application/vnd.sketchup.skp'.
+%
</pre></blockquote></p>
-<p>You can see here how the fonds (arkiv) and serie (arkivdel) only had
-one option, while the user need to choose which file (mappe) to use
-among the two created by the API tester. The <tt>archive-pdf</tt>
-tool can be found in the git repository for the API tester.</p>
-
-<p>In the project, I have been mostly working on
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester">the API
-tester</a> so far, while getting to know the code base. The API
-tester currently use
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS">the HATEOAS links</a>
-to traverse the entire exposed service API and verify that the exposed
-operations and objects match the specification, as well as trying to
-create objects holding metadata and uploading a simple XML file to
-store. The tester has proved very useful for finding flaws in our
-implementation, as well as flaws in the reference site and the
-specification.</p>
-
-<p>The test document I uploaded is a summary of all the specification
-defects we have collected so far while implementing the web service.
-There are several unclear and conflicting parts of the specification,
-and we have
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/tree/master/mangelmelding">started
-writing down</a> the questions we get from implementing it. We use a
-format inspired by how <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/austin/">The
-Austin Group</a> collect defect reports for the POSIX standard with
-<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mantis.html">their
-instructions for the MANTIS defect tracker system</a>, in lack of an official way to structure defect reports for Noark 5 (our first submitted defect report was a <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/blob/master/mangelmelding/sendt/2017-03-15-mangel-prosess.md">request for a procedure for submitting defect reports</a> :).
-
-<p>The Nikita project is implemented using Java and Spring, and is
-fairly easy to get up and running using Docker containers for those
-that want to test the current code base. The API tester is
-implemented in Python.</p>
+<p>Yesterday I used it to figure out which packages support the STL 3D
+format:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype application/sla|grep Package
+Package: cura
+Package: meshlab
+Package: printrun
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>PS: A new version of Cura was uploaded to Debian yesterday.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Detecting NFS hangs on Linux without hanging yourself...</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detecting_NFS_hangs_on_Linux_without_hanging_yourself___.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detecting_NFS_hangs_on_Linux_without_hanging_yourself___.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Over the years, administrating thousand of NFS mounting linux
-computers at the time, I often needed a way to detect if the machine
-was experiencing NFS hang. If you try to use <tt>df</tt> or look at a
-file or directory affected by the hang, the process (and possibly the
-shell) will hang too. So you want to be able to detect this without
-risking the detection process getting stuck too. It has not been
-obvious how to do this. When the hang has lasted a while, it is
-possible to find messages like these in dmesg:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-nfs: server nfsserver not responding, still trying
-<br>nfs: server nfsserver OK
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>It is hard to know if the hang is still going on, and it is hard to
-be sure looking in dmesg is going to work. If there are lots of other
-messages in dmesg the lines might have rotated out of site before they
-are noticed.</p>
-
-<p>While reading through the nfs client implementation in linux kernel
-code, I came across some statistics that seem to give a way to detect
-it. The om_timeouts sunrpc value in the kernel will increase every
-time the above log entry is inserted into dmesg. And after digging a
-bit further, I discovered that this value show up in
-/proc/self/mountstats on Linux.</p>
-
-<p>The mountstats content seem to be shared between files using the
-same file system context, so it is enough to check one of the
-mountstats files to get the state of the mount point for the machine.
-I assume this will not show lazy umounted NFS points, nor NFS mount
-points in a different process context (ie with a different filesystem
-view), but that does not worry me.</p>
-
-<p>The content for a NFS mount point look similar to this:</p>
+ <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><p>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 'apt upgrade'. I normally
+would resolve the issue by doing 'apt install &lt;somepackages&gt;' 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 'apt-in-chunks':</p>
<p><blockquote><pre>
-[...]
-device /dev/mapper/Debian-var mounted on /var with fstype ext3
-device nfsserver:/mnt/nfsserver/home0 mounted on /mnt/nfsserver/home0 with fstype nfs statvers=1.1
- opts: rw,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60,soft,nolock,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=129.240.3.145,mountvers=3,mountport=4048,mountproto=udp,local_lock=all
- age: 7863311
- caps: caps=0x3fe7,wtmult=4096,dtsize=8192,bsize=0,namlen=255
- sec: flavor=1,pseudoflavor=1
- events: 61063112 732346265 1028140 35486205 16220064 8162542 761447191 71714012 37189 3891185 45561809 110486139 4850138 420353 15449177 296502 52736725 13523379 0 52182 9016896 1231 0 0 0 0 0
- bytes: 166253035039 219519120027 0 0 40783504807 185466229638 11677877 45561809
- RPC iostats version: 1.0 p/v: 100003/3 (nfs)
- xprt: tcp 925 1 6810 0 0 111505412 111480497 109 2672418560317 0 248 53869103 22481820
- per-op statistics
- NULL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- GETATTR: 61063106 61063108 0 9621383060 6839064400 453650 77291321 78926132
- SETATTR: 463469 463470 0 92005440 66739536 63787 603235 687943
- LOOKUP: 17021657 17021657 0 3354097764 4013442928 57216 35125459 35566511
- ACCESS: 14281703 14290009 5 2318400592 1713803640 1709282 4865144 7130140
- READLINK: 125 125 0 20472 18620 0 1112 1118
- READ: 4214236 4214237 0 715608524 41328653212 89884 22622768 22806693
- WRITE: 8479010 8494376 22 187695798568 1356087148 178264904 51506907 231671771
- CREATE: 171708 171708 0 38084748 46702272 873 1041833 1050398
- MKDIR: 3680 3680 0 773980 993920 26 23990 24245
- SYMLINK: 903 903 0 233428 245488 6 5865 5917
- MKNOD: 80 80 0 20148 21760 0 299 304
- REMOVE: 429921 429921 0 79796004 61908192 3313 2710416 2741636
- RMDIR: 3367 3367 0 645112 484848 22 5782 6002
- RENAME: 466201 466201 0 130026184 121212260 7075 5935207 5961288
- LINK: 289155 289155 0 72775556 67083960 2199 2565060 2585579
- READDIR: 2933237 2933237 0 516506204 13973833412 10385 3190199 3297917
- READDIRPLUS: 1652839 1652839 0 298640972 6895997744 84735 14307895 14448937
- FSSTAT: 6144 6144 0 1010516 1032192 51 9654 10022
- FSINFO: 2 2 0 232 328 0 1 1
- PATHCONF: 1 1 0 116 140 0 0 0
- COMMIT: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-
-device binfmt_misc mounted on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc with fstype binfmt_misc
-[...]
+#!/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.
+
+set -e
+
+ignore() {
+ if [ "$1" ]; then
+ grep -v "$1"
+ else
+ cat
+ fi
+}
+
+for p in $(apt list --upgradable | ignore "$@" |cut -d/ -f1 | grep -v '^Listing...'); do
+ echo "Upgrading $p"
+ apt clean
+ apt install --download-only -y $p
+ for f in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb; do
+ if [ -e "$f" ]; then
+ dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+done
</pre></blockquote></p>
-<p>The key number to look at is the third number in the per-op list.
-It is the number of NFS timeouts experiences per file system
-operation. Here 22 write timeouts and 5 access timeouts. If these
-numbers are increasing, I believe the machine is experiencing NFS
-hang. Unfortunately the timeout value do not start to increase right
-away. The NFS operations need to time out first, and this can take a
-while. The exact timeout value depend on the setup. For example the
-defaults for TCP and UDP mount points are quite different, and the
-timeout value is affected by the soft, hard, timeo and retrans NFS
-mount options.</p>
-
-<p>The only way I have been able to get working on Debian and RedHat
-Enterprise Linux for getting the timeout count is to peek in /proc/.
-But according to
-<ahref="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-4555/netmonitor-12/index.html">Solaris
-10 System Administration Guide: Network Services</a>, the 'nfsstat -c'
-command can be used to get these timeout values. But this do not work
-on Linux, as far as I can tell. I
-<ahref="http://bugs.debian.org/857043">asked Debian about this</a>,
-but have not seen any replies yet.</p>
-
-<p>Is there a better way to figure out if a Linux NFS client is
-experiencing NFS hangs? Is there a way to detect which processes are
-affected? Is there a way to get the NFS mount going quickly once the
-network problem causing the NFS hang has been cleared? I would very
-much welcome some clues, as we regularly run into NFS hangs.</p>
+<p>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
+'apt install -f' 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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+'ghc', but I have run into other large packages causing similar
+problems earlier (like TeX).</p>
+
+<p>Update 2018-07-08: Thanks to Paul Wise, I am aware of two
+alternative ways to handle this. The "unattended-upgrades
+--minimal-upgrade-steps" 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, "aptutude upgrade" can upgrade single packages, thus avoiding
+the need for using "dpkg -i" in the script above.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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<item>
- <title>How does it feel to be wiretapped, when you should be doing the wiretapping...</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_does_it_feel_to_be_wiretapped__when_you_should_be_doing_the_wiretapping___.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_does_it_feel_to_be_wiretapped__when_you_should_be_doing_the_wiretapping___.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>So the new president in the United States of America claim to be
-surprised to discover that he was wiretapped during the election
-before he was elected president. He even claim this must be illegal.
-Well, doh, if it is one thing the confirmations from Snowden
-documented, it is that the entire population in USA is wiretapped, one
-way or another. Of course the president candidates were wiretapped,
-alongside the senators, judges and the rest of the people in USA.</p>
-
-<p>Next, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ask the Department of
-Justice to go public rejecting the claims that Donald Trump was
-wiretapped illegally. I fail to see the relevance, given that I am
-sure the surveillance industry in USA believe they have all the legal
-backing they need to conduct mass surveillance on the entire
-world.</p>
-
-<p>There is even the director of the FBI stating that he never saw an
-order requesting wiretapping of Donald Trump. That is not very
-surprising, given how the FISA court work, with all its activity being
-secret. Perhaps he only heard about it?</p>
-
-<p>What I find most sad in this story is how Norwegian journalists
-present it. In a news reports the other day in the radio from the
-Norwegian National broadcasting Company (NRK), I heard the journalist
-claim that 'the FBI denies any wiretapping', while the reality is that
-'the FBI denies any illegal wiretapping'. There is a fundamental and
-important difference, and it make me sad that the journalists are
-unable to grasp it.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2017-03-13:</strong> Look like
-<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/13/rand-paul-is-right-nsa-routinely-monitors-americans-communications-without-warrants/">The
-Intercept report that US Senator Rand Paul confirm what I state above</a>.</p>
+ <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><p>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
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i
+Norway, where
+<a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the
+Bremanger Quarry</a> 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?</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Norwegian Bokmål translation of The Debian Administrator's Handbook complete, proofreading in progress</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>For almost a year now, we have been working on making a Norwegian
-Bokmål edition of <a href="https://debian-handbook.info/">The Debian
-Administrator's Handbook</a>. Now, thanks to the tireless effort of
-Ole-Erik, Ingrid and Andreas, the initial translation is complete, and
-we are working on the proof reading to ensure consistent language and
-use of correct computer science terms. The plan is to make the book
-available on paper, as well as in electronic form. For that to
-happen, the proof reading must be completed and all the figures need
-to be translated. If you want to help out, get in touch.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-handbook/debian-handbook-nb-NO.pdf">A
-
-fresh PDF edition</a> in A4 format (the final book will have smaller
-pages) of the book created every morning is available for
-proofreading. If you find any errors, please
-<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">visit
-Weblate and correct the error</a>. The
-<a href="http://l.github.io/debian-handbook/stat/nb-NO/index.html">state
-of the translation including figures</a> is a useful source for those
-provide Norwegian bokmål screen shots and figures.</p>
+ <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><p>My movie playing setup involve <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a>,
+<a href="https://openelec.tv">OpenELEC</a> (probably soon to be
+replaced with <a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a>) 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, <a href="https://www.infocus.com/">InFocus</a>, 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
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control">a
+small script to control the projector</a>. 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial">pyserial module</a> in
+the add-on. The long term solution is to make a "script" type
+pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
+Kodi. But until that in place, I embed it.</p>
+
+<p>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.
+
+<p>If this sound interesting to you, check out
+<a href="https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol">the
+project github repository</a>. 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Unlimited randomness with the ChaosKey?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few days ago I ordered a small batch of
-<a href="http://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/">the ChaosKey</a>, a small
-USB dongle for generating entropy created by Bdale Garbee and Keith
-Packard. Yesterday it arrived, and I am very happy to report that it
-work great! According to its designers, to get it to work out of the
-box, you need the Linux kernel version 4.1 or later. I tested on a
-Debian Stretch machine (kernel version 4.9), and there it worked just
-fine, increasing the available entropy very quickly. I wrote a small
-test oneliner to test. It first print the current entropy level,
-drain /dev/random, and then print the entropy level for five seconds.
-Here is the situation without the ChaosKey inserted:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
- for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
- cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- sleep 1; \
- done
-300
-0+1 oppføringer inn
-0+1 oppføringer ut
-28 byte kopiert, 0,000264565 s, 106 kB/s
-4
-8
-12
-17
-21
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>The entropy level increases by 3-4 every second. In such case any
-application requiring random bits (like a HTTPS enabled web server)
-will halt and wait for more entrpy. And here is the situation with
-the ChaosKey inserted:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
- for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
- cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- sleep 1; \
- done
-1079
-0+1 oppføringer inn
-0+1 oppføringer ut
-104 byte kopiert, 0,000487647 s, 213 kB/s
-433
-1028
-1031
-1035
-1038
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>Quite the difference. :) I bought a few more than I need, in case
-someone want to buy one here in Norway. :)</p>
-
-<p>Update: The dongle was presented at Debconf last year. You might
-find <a href="https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/94/">the talk
-recording illuminating</a>. It explains exactly what the source of
-randomness is, if you are unable to spot it from the schema drawing
-available from the ChaosKey web site linked at the start of this blog
-post.</p>
+ <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><p>I <a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS">VHS-kassettenes</a>
+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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">skrevet</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">om</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html">før</a>.
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
+<a href="https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a> 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 <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
+og <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, slik at en slipper å
+finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.</p>
+
+<p>For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
+underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
+brukes:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
+ --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
+ https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>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 '--write-auto-sub',
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">vesensforskjellig
+å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming</a>, når det rent
+teknisk er samme sak.</p>
+
+<p>Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
+prosjektoversikten for
+<a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html">en
+komplett liste</a>.</p>
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- <title>Detect OOXML files with undefined behaviour?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I just noticed
-<a href="http://www.arkivrad.no/aktuelt/riksarkivarens-forskrift-pa-horing">the
-new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment</a> list
-<a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm">ECMA-376</a>
-/ ISO/IEC 29500 (aka OOXML) as valid formats to put in long term
-storage. Luckily such files will only be accepted based on
-pre-approval from the National Archive. Allowing OOXML files to be
-used for long term storage might seem like a good idea as long as we
-forget that there are plenty of ways for a "valid" OOXML document to
-have content with no defined interpretation in the standard, which
-lead to a question and an idea.</p>
-
-<p>Is there any tool to detect if a OOXML document depend on such
-undefined behaviour? It would be useful for the National Archive (and
-anyone else interested in verifying that a document is well defined)
-to have such tool available when considering to approve the use of
-OOXML. I'm aware of the
-<a href="https://github.com/arlm/officeotron/">officeotron OOXML
-validator</a>, but do not know how complete it is nor if it will
-report use of undefined behaviour. Are there other similar tools
-available? Please send me an email if you know of any such tool.</p>
+ <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><p><a href="https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper">VG</a>,
+<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219">Dagbladet</a>
+og
+<a href="https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381">NRK</a>
+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.</p>
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- <title>Ruling ignored our objections to the seizure of popcorn-time.no (#domstolkontroll)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ruling_ignored_our_objections_to_the_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few days ago, we received the ruling from
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html">my
-day in court</a>. The case in question is a challenge of the seizure
-of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no. The ruling simply did not mention
-most of our arguments, and seemed to take everything ØKOKRIM said at
-face value, ignoring our demonstration and explanations. But it is
-hard to tell for sure, as we still have not seen most of the documents
-in the case and thus were unprepared and unable to contradict several
-of the claims made in court by the opposition. We are considering an
-appeal, but it is partly a question of funding, as it is costing us
-quite a bit to pay for our lawyer. If you want to help, please
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">donate to the
-NUUG defense fund</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The details of the case, as far as we know it, is available in
-Norwegian from
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the NUUG
-blog</a>. This also include
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/Avslag_etter_rettslig_h_ring_om_DNS_beslaget___vurderer_veien_videre.shtml">the
-ruling itself</a>.</p>
+ <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><p>Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
+kriminelt å åpne andres brev. Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
+<a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205">§ 205
+(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)</a>, 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
</description>
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- <title>A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2017 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>On Wednesday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
-representing <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">the member association
-NUUG</a>, alongside <a href="https://www.efn.no/">the member
-association EFN</a> and <a href="http://www.imc.no">the DNS registrar
-IMC</a>, challenging the seizure of the DNS name popcorn-time.no. It
-was interesting to sit in a court of law for the first time in my
-life. Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
-Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
-Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/follo-tingrett/Nar-gar-rettssaken/Beramming/?cid=AAAA1701301512081262234UJFBVEZZZZZEJBAvtale">The
-case at hand</a> is that the Norwegian National Authority for
-Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka
-Økokrim) decided on their own, to seize a DNS domain early last
-year, without following
-<a href="https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12">the
-official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority</a> which require a
-court decision. The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
-Time. And Popcorn Time is the name of a technology with both legal
-and illegal applications. Popcorn Time is a client combining
-searching a Bittorrent directory available on the Internet with
-downloading/distribute content via Bittorrent and playing the
-downloaded content on screen. It can be used illegally if it is used
-to distribute content against the will of the right holder, but it can
-also be used legally to play a lot of content, for example the
-millions of movies
-<a href="https://archive.org/details/movies">available from the
-Internet Archive</a> or the collection
-<a href="http://vodo.net/films/">available from Vodo</a>. We created
-<a href="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86c1802af5a667ca56d3918aecb7d3c0f7173084&dn=PresentasjonFolloTingrett.mov&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce">a
-video demonstrating legally use of Popcorn Time</a> and played it in
-Court. It can of course be downloaded using Bittorrent.</p>
-
-<p>I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court. The
-government held on to their version of the story and we held on to
-ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all. We will
-know in two weeks time. Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as
-the Government have the upper hand here with more knowledge about the
-case, better training in handling criminal law and in general higher
-standing in the courts than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member
-associations. It is expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the
-case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-. To help fund the case, NUUG
-and EFN have asked for donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25
-000,- so far. Given the presentation from the Government, I expect
-the government to appeal if the case go our way. And if the case do
-not go our way, I hope we have enough funding to appeal.</p>
-
-<p>From the other side came two people from Økokrim. On the benches,
-appearing to be part of the group from the government were two people
-from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer office, and three others I am not
-quite sure who was. Økokrim had proposed to present two witnesses
-from The Motion Picture Association, but this was rejected because
-they did not speak Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a
-translator, but perhaps the two from MPA were present anyway. All
-seven appeared to know each other. Good to see the case is take
-seriously.</p>
-
-<p>If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
-domain is hijacked by the government, or you believe the Popcorn Time
-technology have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
-too <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">donate to
-the NUUG defense fund</a>. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
-available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very
-unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open
-standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what
-happens the money will be put to good use.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the blog
-posts from NUUG covering the case</a>. They cover the legal arguments
-on both sides.</p>
+ <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><p>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,
+<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people">sited
+by The Hill and others</a>:
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>"An American president does not lead the Free World by
+congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">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</a>.</p>
+
+<p>USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
+one taken by any Free World.</p>
</description>
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- <title>Nasjonalbiblioteket avslutter sin ulovlige bruk av Google Skjemaer</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nasjonalbiblioteket_avslutter_sin_ulovlige_bruk_av_Google_Skjemaer.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nasjonalbiblioteket_avslutter_sin_ulovlige_bruk_av_Google_Skjemaer.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I dag fikk jeg en skikkelig gladmelding. Bakgrunnen er at før jul
-arrangerte Nasjonalbiblioteket
-<a href="http://www.nb.no/Bibliotekutvikling/Kunnskapsorganisering/Nasjonalt-verksregister/Seminar-om-verksregister">et
-seminar om sitt knakende gode tiltak «verksregister»</a>. Eneste
-måten å melde seg på dette seminaret var å sende personopplysninger
-til Google via Google Skjemaer. Dette syntes jeg var tvilsom praksis,
-da det bør være mulig å delta på seminarer arrangert av det offentlige
-uten å måtte dele sine interesser, posisjon og andre
-personopplysninger med Google. Jeg ba derfor om innsyn via
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/">Mimes brønn</a> i
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/personopplysninger_til_google_sk">avtaler
-og vurderinger Nasjonalbiblioteket hadde rundt dette</a>.
-Personopplysningsloven legger klare rammer for hva som må være på
-plass før en kan be tredjeparter, spesielt i utlandet, behandle
-personopplysninger på sine vegne, så det burde eksistere grundig
-dokumentasjon før noe slikt kan bli lovlig. To jurister hos
-Nasjonalbiblioteket mente først dette var helt i orden, og at Googles
-standardavtale kunne brukes som databehandlingsavtale. Det syntes jeg
-var merkelig, men har ikke hatt kapasitet til å følge opp saken før
-for to dager siden.</p>
-
-<p>Gladnyheten i dag, som kom etter at jeg tipset Nasjonalbiblioteket
-om at Datatilsynet underkjente Googles standardavtaler som
-databehandleravtaler i 2011, er at Nasjonalbiblioteket har bestemt seg
-for å avslutte bruken av Googles Skjemaer/Apps og gå i dialog med DIFI
-for å finne bedre måter å håndtere påmeldinger i tråd med
-personopplysningsloven. Det er fantastisk å se at av og til hjelper
-det å spørre hva i alle dager det offentlige holder på med.</p>
+ <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><p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
+account, and take back some control of your personal information.
+<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely">According
+to The Guardian</a>, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
+account removal (and not just 'disabling'). You need to
+<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content">visit
+a specific Facebook page</a> and click on 'let us know' on that page
+to get to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account">the
+real account deletion screen</a>. 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.</p>
+
+<p>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 <a href="">NUUG</a> last april about
+<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/">
+Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
+politics</a>.</p>
+
+<p>And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
+use some end-to-end encrypted method like
+<a href="https://www.signal.org/">Signal</a> or
+<a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, and stop sharing your private
+messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.</p>
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