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-               <title>geteltorito make CD firmware upgrades a breeze</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/geteltorito_make_CD_firmware_upgrades_a_breeze.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I wanted to upgrade the firmware of my thinkpad, and
-located the firmware download page from Lenovo (which annoyingly do
-not allow access via Tor, forcing me to hand them more personal
-information that I would like).  The
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://support.lenovo.com/no/en/search?query=thinkpad firmware bios upgrade iso&amp;SearchType=Customer search&amp;searchLocation=Masthead&quot;&gt;download
-from Lenovo&lt;/a&gt; is a bootable ISO image, which is a bit of a problem
-when all I got available is a USB memory stick.  I tried booting the
-ISO as a USB stick, but this did not work.  But genisoimage came to
-the rescue.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;P&gt;The geteltorito program in
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://tracker.debian.org/cdrkit&quot;&gt;the genisoimage binary
-package&lt;/a&gt; is able to convert the bootable ISO image to a bootable
-USB stick using a simple command line recipe, which I then can write
-to the most recently inserted USB stick:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-geteltorito -o usbstick.img lenovo-firmware.iso
-sudo dd bs=10M if=usbstick.img of=$(ls -tr /dev/sd?|tail -1)
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This USB stick booted the firmware upgrader just fine, and in a few
-minutes my machine had the latest and greatest BIOS firmware in place.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>«Virkninger av angrefristloven», hovedfagsoppgaven som fikk endret en lov</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Virkninger_av_angrefristloven___hovedfagsoppgaven_som_fikk_endret_en_lov.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Virkninger_av_angrefristloven___hovedfagsoppgaven_som_fikk_endret_en_lov.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2023-10-29-bok-angrefrist.svg&quot; width=&quot;20%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I 1979 leverte Ole-Erik Yrvin en hovedfagsoppgave for Cand. Scient.
+  ved Institutt for sosiologi på Universitetet i Oslo på oppdrag fra
+  Forbruker- og administrasjonsdepartementet. Oppgaven evaluerte
+  Angrefristloven fra 1972, og det han oppdaget førte til at loven ble
+  endret fire år senere.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg har kjent Ole-Erik en stund, og synes det var trist at hans
+  oppgave ikke lenger er tilgjengelig, hverken fra oppdragsgiver
+  eller fra universitetet.  Hans forsøk på å få den avbildet og lagt
+  ut på Internett har vist seg fånyttes, så derfor tilbød jeg meg for
+  en stund tilbake å publisere den og gjøre den tilgjengelig med
+  fribruksvilkår på Internett.  Det er nå klart, og hovedfagsoppgaven
+  er tilgjengelig blant annet via &lt;a
+  href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;min liste over
+  publiserte bøker&lt;/a&gt;, både som nettside,
+  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Ole-Erik+Yrvin&quot;&gt;digital
+  bok i ePub-format og på papir fra lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg regner med at
+  den også vil dukke opp på nettbokhandlere i løpet av en måned eller
+  to.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Alle tabeller og figurer er gjenskapt for bedre lesbarhet, noen
+  skrivefeil rettet opp og mange referanser har fått flere detaljer
+  som ISBN-nummer og DOI-referanse.  Selv om jeg ikke regner med at
+  dette blir en kioskvelter, så håper jeg denne nye utgaven kan komme
+  fremtiden til glede.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
+det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
+til min adresse
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Merk,
+betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+               <title>«underordnet tjenestemann blir inhabil fordi en overordnet er inhabil».</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_underordnet_tjenestemann_blir_inhabil_fordi_en_overordnet_er_inhabil__.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_underordnet_tjenestemann_blir_inhabil_fordi_en_overordnet_er_inhabil__.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 7 Sep 2023 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Medlemmene av Norges regjering har demonstert de siste månedene at
+habilitetsvureringer ikke er deres sterke side og det gjelder både
+Arbeiderpartiets og Senterpartiers representater. Det er heldigvis
+enklere i det private, da inhabilitetsreglene kun gjelder de som
+jobber for folket, ikke seg selv.  Sist ut er utenriksminister
+Huitfeldt.  I går kom nyheten om at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/riksadvokaten_-okokrim-nestsjef-kan-behandle-huitfeldt-saken-1.16545162&quot;&gt;Riksadvokaten
+har konkludert med at nestsjefen i Økokrim kan behandle sak om
+habilitet og innsidekunnskap&lt;/a&gt; for Huitfeldt, på tross av at hans
+overordnede, sjefen for Økokrim, har meldt seg inhabil i saken.  Dette
+er litt rart.  I veilednigen
+«&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/krd/vedlegg/komm/veiledere/habilitet_i_kommuner_og_fylkeskommuner.pdf&quot;&gt;Habilitet
+i kommuner og fylkeskommuner&lt;/a&gt;» av Kommunal- og regionaldepartementet
+forteller de hva som gjelder, riktig nok gjelder veiledningen ikke for
+Økokrim som jo ikke er kommune eller fylkeskommune, men jeg får ikke
+inntrykk av at dette er regler som kun gjelder for kommune og
+fylkeskommune:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;«&lt;strong&gt;2.1 Oversikt over inhabilitetsgrunnlagene&lt;/strong&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;De alminnelige reglene om inhabilitet for den offentlige
+forvaltningen er gitt i
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1967-02-10/KAPITTEL_2#KAPITTEL_2&quot;&gt;forvaltningsloven
+§§ 6 til 10&lt;/a&gt;. Forvaltningslovens hovedregel om inhabilitet framgår
+av § 6. Her er det gitt tre ulike grunnlag som kan føre til at en
+tjenestemann eller folkevalgt blir inhabil. I § 6 første ledd
+bokstavene a til e er det oppstilt konkrete tilknytningsforhold mellom
+tjenestemannen og saken eller sakens parter som automatisk fører til
+inhabilitet. Annet ledd oppstiller en skjønnsmessig regel om at
+tjenestemannen også kan bli inhabil etter en konkret vurdering av
+inhabilitetsspørsmålet, der en lang rekke momenter kan være
+relevante. I tredje ledd er det regler om såkalt avledet
+inhabilitet. Det vil si at en underordnet tjenestemann blir inhabil
+fordi en overordnet er inhabil.»&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Loven sier ganske enkelt «Er den overordnede tjenestemann ugild,
+kan avgjørelse i saken heller ikke treffes av en direkte underordnet
+tjenestemann i samme forvaltningsorgan.»  Jeg antar tanken er at en
+underordnet vil stå i fare for å tilpasse sine konklusjoner til det
+overordnet vil ha fordel av, for å fortsatt ha et godt forhold til sin
+overordnede.  Men jeg er ikke jurist og forstår nok ikke kompliserte
+juridiske vurderinger.  For å sitere «Kamerat Napoleon» av George
+Orwell: «Alle dyr er like, men noen dyr er likere enn andre».

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-               <title>Playing and encoding AV1 in Debian Bullseye</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Playing_and_encoding_AV1_in_Debian_Bullseye.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Playing_and_encoding_AV1_in_Debian_Bullseye.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the recent news of
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://slashdot.org/story/22/04/03/2039219/intel-beats-amd-and-nvidia-with-arc-gpus-full-av1-support&quot;&gt;AV1
-hardware encoding support from Intel&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to look into
-the state of AV1 on Linux today.  AV1 is a
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20160618103850/http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition&quot;&gt;free
-and open standard&lt;/a&gt; as defined by Digistan without any royalty
-payment requirement, unlike its much used competitor encoding
-H.264.  While looking, I came across an 5 year
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/1061908/how-to-encode-and-playback-video-with-the-av1-codec-on-bionic-beaver-18-04&quot;&gt;old
-question on askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt; which in turn inspired me to check out
-how things are in Debian Stable regarding AV1.  The test file listed
-in the question (askubuntu_test_aom.mp4) did not exist any more, so I
-tracked down a different set of test files on
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://av1.webmfiles.org/&quot;&gt;av1.webmfiles.org&lt;/a&gt; to test them
-with the various video tools I had installed on my machine.  I was
-happy to discover that AV1 decoding and playback worked with almost
-every tool I tested:
-
-&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;mediainfo&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;dragonplayer&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;ffmpeg / ffplay&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;gnome-mplayer&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;fail&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;mplayer&lt;/td&gt;              &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;mpv&lt;/td&gt;          &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;parole&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;vlc&lt;/td&gt;          &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;firefox&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;chromium&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td&gt;ok&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;/table&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;AV1 encoding is available in Debian Stable from the aom-tools
-version 1.0.0.errata1-3 package, using the aomenc tool.  The encoding
-using the package in Debian Stable is quite slow, with the frame rate
-for my 10 second test video at around 0.25 fps.  My 10 second video
-test took 16 minutes and 11 seconds on my test machine.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I tested by first running ffmpeg and then aomenc using the recipe
-provided by the askubuntu recipe above.  I had to remove the
-&#39;--row-mt=1&#39; option, as it was not supported in my 1.0.0 version.  The
-encoding only used a single thread, according to &lt;tt&gt;top&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-ffmpeg -i some-old-video.ogv -t 10 -pix_fmt yuv420p video.y4m
-aomenc --fps=24/1 -u 0 --codec=av1 --target-bitrate=1000 \
-  --lag-in-frames=25 --auto-alt-ref=1 -t 24 --cpu-used=8 \
-  --tile-columns=2 --tile-rows=2 -o output.webm video.y4m
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As version 1.0.0 currently have several
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/aom&quot;&gt;unsolved
-security issues in Debian Stable&lt;/a&gt;, and to see if the recent
-backport &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/aom&quot;&gt;provided in
-Debian&lt;/a&gt; is any quicker, I ran &lt;tt&gt;apt -t bullseye-backports install
-aom-tools&lt;/tt&gt; to fetch the backported version and re-encoded the
-video using the latest version.  This time the &#39;--row-mt=1&#39; option
-worked, and the encoding was done in 46 seconds with a frame rate of
-around 5.22 fps.  This time it seem to be using all my four cores to
-encode.  Encoding speed is still too low for streaming and real time,
-which would require frame rates above 25 fps, but might be good enough
-for offline encoding.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to see AV1 playback working so well with the
-default tools in Debian Stable.  I hope the encoding situation improve
-too, allowing even a slow old computer like my 10 year old laptop to
-be used for encoding.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Invidious add-on for Kodi 20</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Invidious_add_on_for_Kodi_20.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Invidious_add_on_for_Kodi_20.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I still enjoy &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt; as my multimedia center
+at home.  Sadly two of the services I really would like to use from
+within Kodi are not easily available.  The most wanted add-on would be
+one making &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;
+available, and it has
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Internet_Archive&quot;&gt;not been
+working&lt;/a&gt; for many years.  The second most wanted add-on is one
+using &lt;a href=&quot;https://invidious.io/&quot;&gt;the Invidious privacy enhanced
+Youtube frontent&lt;/a&gt;.  A plugin for this has been partly working, but
+not been kept up to date in the Kodi add-on repository, and its
+upstream seem to have given it up in April this year, when the git
+repository was closed.  A few days ago I got tired of this sad state
+of affairs and decided to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/kodi-invidious-plugin&quot;&gt;have
+a go at improving the Invidious add-on&lt;/a&gt;.  As
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872&quot;&gt;Google has
+already attacked&lt;/a&gt; the Invidious concept, so it need all the support
+if can get.  My small contribution here is to improve the service
+status on Kodi.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I added support to the Invidious add-on for automatically picking a
+working Invidious instance, instead of requiring the user to specify
+the URL to a specific instance after installation.  I also had a look
+at the set of patches floating around in the various forks on github,
+and decided to clean up at least some of the features I liked and
+integrate them into my new release branch.  Now the plugin can handle
+channel and short video items in search results.  Earlier it could
+only handle single video instances in the search response.  I also
+brushed up the set of metadata displayed a bit, but hope I can figure
+out how to get more relevant metadata displayed.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because I only use Kodi 20 myself, I only test on version 20 and am
+only motivated to ensure version 20 is working.  Because of API changes
+between version 19 and 20, I suspect it will fail with earlier Kodi
+versions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I already
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/xbmc/repo-plugins/pull/4363&quot;&gt;asked to have
+the add-on added&lt;/a&gt; to the official Kodi 20 repository, and is
+waiting to heard back from the repo maintainers.&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;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>Få en slutt på Digitale utslipp</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/F__en_slutt_p__Digitale_utslipp.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/F__en_slutt_p__Digitale_utslipp.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;På onsdag sendte jeg følgende epost til Utdanningsetaten i Oslo
-kommune (UDE).  Fikk beskjed om at min henvendelse har saksnummer
-22/7559-1 i den
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oslo.kommune.no/etater-foretak-og-ombud/utdanningsetaten/postjournal-utdanningsetaten/&quot;&gt;offentlige
-postjournalen til UDE&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg er spent på hva slags respons jeg får.
-Mistenker jo de fleste som sprer sine nettsideleseres
-personopplysninger til utlandet ikke har tenkt så nøye igjennom hva de
-gjør, og at det er håp om at de tenker seg litt nøyere om hvis de blir
-klar over problemstillingen.  Vet du noen som burde få tilsvarede
-beskjed og spørsmål?  Kanskje du kan sende dem en epost.  Hvis alle
-bidrar blir det kanskje litt bedre.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;To: postmottak (at) osloskolen.no
-&lt;br&gt;Subject: Digitale utslipp fra osloskolens nettsider&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hei.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg ser at osloskolens nettsider har digitale utslipp av
-personopplysninger til Google, Facebook og andre, blant annet omtalt
-på &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://aktuelt.osloskolen.no/personvernerklaring-for-osloskolen/informasjonskapsler/&quot;&gt;https://aktuelt.osloskolen.no/personvernerklaring-for-osloskolen/informasjonskapsler/&lt;/a&gt;
-&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/&quot;&gt;https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/&lt;/a&gt; &gt; kan være et nyttig verktøy for å holde øye med utslippsomfanget på ulike sider.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Kanskje det er en ide å gjøre noe med det, jamfør &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.digi.no/artikler/debatt-det-enkleste-tiltaket-er-a-skru-av-google-analytics/517378&quot;&gt;https://www.digi.no/artikler/debatt-det-enkleste-tiltaket-er-a-skru-av-google-analytics/517378&lt;/a&gt; &gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>What did I learn from OpenSnitch this summer?</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_did_I_learn_from_OpenSnitch_this_summer_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_did_I_learn_from_OpenSnitch_this_summer_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;With yesterdays
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610&quot;&gt;release of Debian
+12 Bookworm&lt;/a&gt;, I am happy to know the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
+application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; is available for a wider audience.
+I have been running it for a few weeks now, and have been surprised
+about some of the programs connecting to the Internet.  Some programs
+are obviously calling out from my machine, like the NTP network based
+clock adjusting system and Tor to reach other Tor clients, but others
+were more dubious.  For example, the KDE Window manager try to look up
+the host name in DNS, for no apparent reason, but if this lookup is
+blocked the KDE desktop get periodically stuck when I use it.  Another
+surprise was how much Firefox call home directly to mozilla.com,
+mozilla.net and googleapis.com, to mention a few, when I visit other
+web pages.  This direct connection happen even if I told Firefox to
+always use a proxy, and the proxy setting is ignored for this traffic.
+Other surprising connections come from audacity and dirmngr (I do not
+use Gnome).  It took some trial and error to get a good default set of
+permissions.  Without it, I would get popups asking for permissions at
+any time, also the most inconvenient ones where I am in the middle of
+a time sensitive gaming session.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I suspect some application developers should rethink when then need
+to use network connections or DNS lookups, and recommend testing
+OpenSnitch (only &lt;tt&gt;apt install opensnitch&lt;/tt&gt; away in Debian
+Bookworm) to locate and report any surprising Internet connections on
+your desktop machine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the moment the upstream developer and Debian package maintainer
+is working on making the system more reliable in Debian, by enabling
+the eBPF kernel module to track processes and connections instead of
+depending in content in /proc/.  This should enter unstable fairly
+soon.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Et alternativ til Google Analytics kan være en lokalt installert
-utgave av &amp;lt;URL:
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://matomo.org/&quot;&gt;https://matomo.org/&lt;/a&gt; &gt;.  Den og flere
-andre alternativer kan finnes via
-&amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.digi.no/artikler/sverige-vil-skrote-amerikansk-skytjeneste-her-er-alternativene/516223?key=5QsV0wRG&quot;&gt;https://www.digi.no/artikler/sverige-vil-skrote-amerikansk-skytjeneste-her-er-alternativene/516223?key=5QsV0wRG&lt;/a&gt; &gt;
-på bakgrunn av at svenske myndigheter har innsett at dagens praksis
-nok er både lite lur og ulovlig.  Der henger Norge litt etter, men
-osloskolen har her mulighet til å være litt i forkant. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Fint om dere kan gi beskjed hvilket saksnummer denne henvendelsen får i
-offentlig postjournal når den er mottatt.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;/p&gt;Flere og flere innser at slik spredning av personopplysninger er
-ugreit.  Det har pågått i mange år.  Ser jeg blogget
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Det_er_jo_makta_som_er_mest_s_rbar_ved_massiv_overv_kning_av_Internett.html&quot;&gt;første
-gang om Google Analytics i 2013&lt;/a&gt; og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Snurpenot_overv_kning_av_sensitiv_personinformasjon.html&quot;&gt;analyserte
-omfanget i 2015&lt;/a&gt;, men det er et langt lerret å bleke.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2023-06-12&lt;/strong&gt;: I got a tip about
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues&quot;&gt;a list of privacy
+issues in Free Software&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-privacy&quot;&gt;#debian-privacy IRC
+channel&lt;/a&gt; discussing these topics.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
-Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Publish Hargassner wood chip boiler state to MQTT</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Publish_Hargassner_wood_chip_boiler_state_to_MQTT.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Publish_Hargassner_wood_chip_boiler_state_to_MQTT.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I had a look at a
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hargassner.at/&quot;&gt;Hargassner&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hargassner.at/en/products/wood-chip-boiler.html&quot;&gt;wood
-chip boiler&lt;/a&gt;, and what kind of free software can be used to monitor
-and control it.  The boiler can be connected to some cloud service via
-what the producer call an Internet Gateway, which seem to be a
-computer connecting to the boiler and passing the information gathered
-to the cloud.  I discovered the boiler controller got an IP address on
-the local network and listen on TCP port 23 to provide status
-information as a text line of numbers.  It also provide a HTTP server
-listening on port 80, but I have not yet figured out what it can do
-beside return an error code.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If I am to believe various free software implementations talking to
-such boiler, the interpretation of the line of numbers differ between
-type of boiler and software version on the boiler.  By comparing the
-list of numbers on the front panel of the boiler with the numbers
-returned via TCP, I have been able to figure out several of the
-numbers, but there are a lot left to understand.  I&#39;ve located several
-temperature measurements and hours running values, as well as oxygen
-measurements and counters.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-I decided to write a simple parser in Python for the values I figured
-out so far, and a simple MQTT injector publishing both the interpreted
-and the unknown values on a MQTT bus to make collecting and graphing
-simpler.  The end result is available from the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/petterreinholdtsen/hargassner2mqtt&quot;&gt;hargassner2mqtt
-project page&lt;/a&gt; on gitlab.  I very much welcome patches extending the
-parser to understand more values, boiler types and software versions.
-I do not really expect very few free software developers got their
-hands on such unit to experiment, but it would be fun if others too find
-this project useful.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>wmbusmeters, parse data from your utility meter - nice free software</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a European standard for reading utility meters like water,
+gas, electricity or heat distribution meters.  The
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter-Bus&quot;&gt;Meter-Bus standard
+(EN 13757-2, EN 13757-3 and EN 13757–4)&lt;/a&gt; provide a cross vendor way
+to talk to and collect meter data.  I ran into this standard when I
+wanted to monitor some heat distribution meters, and managed to find
+free software that could do the job.  The meters in question broadcast
+encrypted messages with meter information via radio, and the hardest
+part was to track down the encryption keys from the vendor.  With this
+in place I could set up a MQTT gateway to submit the meter data for
+graphing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The free software systems in question,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rtl-wmbus&quot;&gt;rtl-wmbus&lt;/a&gt; to
+read the messages from a software defined radio, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wmbusmeters&quot;&gt;wmbusmeters&lt;/a&gt; to
+decrypt and decode the content of the messages, is working very well
+and allowe me to get frequent updates from my meters.  I got in touch
+with upstream last year to see if there was any interest in publishing
+the packages via Debian.  I was very happy to learn that Fredrik
+Öhrström volunteered to maintain the packages, and I have since
+assisted him in getting Debian package build rules in place as well as
+sponsoring the packages into the Debian archive.  Sadly we completed
+it too late for them to become part of the next stable Debian release
+(Bookworm).  The wmbusmeters package just cleared the NEW queue.  It
+will need some work to fix a built problem, but I expect Fredrik will
+find a solution soon.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you got a infrastructure meter supporting the Meter Bus
+standard, I strongly recommend having a look at these nice
+packages.&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>Run your industrial metal working machine using Debian?</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Run_your_industrial_metal_working_machine_using_Debian_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Run_your_industrial_metal_working_machine_using_Debian_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 2 Mar 2022 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;After many months of hard work by the good people involved in
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCNC&quot;&gt;LinuxCNC&lt;/a&gt;, the
-system was accepted Sunday
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linuxcnc&quot;&gt;into Debian&lt;/a&gt;.
-Once it was available from Debian, I was surprised to discover from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=linuxcnc&quot;&gt;its
-popularity-contest numbers&lt;/a&gt; that people have been reporting its use
-since 2012.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxcnc.org/&quot;&gt;Its project site&lt;/a&gt; might
-be a good place to check out, but sadly is not working when visiting
-via Tor.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But what is LinuxCNC, you are probably wondering?  Perhaps a
-Wikipedia quote is in place?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>The 2023 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_2023_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_2023_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The LinuxCNC project is making headway these days.  A lot of
+patches and issues have seen activity on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/&quot;&gt;the project github
+pages&lt;/a&gt; recently.  A few weeks ago there was a developer gathering
+over at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tormach.com/&quot;&gt;Tormach&lt;/a&gt; headquarter in
+Wisconsin, and now we are planning a new gathering in Norway.  If you
+wonder what LinuxCNC is, lets quote Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 &quot;LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
 
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 &quot;LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of


@@ -248,17 +270,20 @@ several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen,
 interactive development).&quot;
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 interactive development).&quot;
 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;It can even control 3D printers.  And even though the Wikipedia
-page indicate that it can only work with hard real time kernel
-features, it can also work with the user space soft real time features
-provided by the Debian kernel.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/linuxcnc/linuxcnc&quot;&gt;The source code&lt;/a&gt; is
-available from Github.  The last few months I&#39;ve been involved in the
-translation setup for the program and documentation.  Translators are
-most welcome to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/linuxcnc/&quot;&gt;join the
-effort&lt;/a&gt; using Weblate.&lt;/p&gt;
-
+&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian developer gathering take place the weekend June 16th
+to 18th this year, and is open for everyone interested in contributing
+to LinuxCNC.  Up to date information about the gathering can be found
+in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/emc-developers/thread/sa64jp06nob.fsf%40hjemme.reinholdtsen.name/#msg37837251&quot;&gt;the
+developer mailing list thread&lt;/a&gt; where the gathering was announced.
+Thanks to the good people at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.redpill-linpro.com/&quot;&gt;Redpill-Linpro&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuugfoundation.no/no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, we
+have enough sponsor funds to pay for food, and shelter for the people
+traveling from afar to join us.  If you would like to join the
+gathering, get in touch.&lt;/p&gt;
+ 

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 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;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>Updated vlc bittorrent plugin in Debian (version 2.14)</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_vlc_bittorrent_plugin_in_Debian__version_2_14_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_vlc_bittorrent_plugin_in_Debian__version_2_14_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report that a new version of the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;VLC
-bittorrent plugin&lt;/a&gt; was just uploaded into debian.  The changes
-since last time is mostly code clean in the download code. The package
-is currently in Debian unstable, but should be available in Debian
-testing son.  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;After it is installed, you can try to use it to play a file
-downloaded live via bittorrent like this:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-vlc https://archive.org/download/Glass_201703/Glass_201703_archive.torrent
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It can also use magnet links and local .torrent files like the ones
-provided by the Internet Archive.  Another example is the &lt;a
-href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/LoveNest&quot;&gt;Love Nest&lt;/a&gt; Buster
-Keaton movie, where one can click on the &#39;Torrent&#39; link to get going.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_in_Debian_ready_for_prime_time.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_in_Debian_ready_for_prime_time.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A bit delayed,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
+application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; package in Debian now got the
+latest fixes ready for Debian Bookworm.  Because it depend on a
+package missing on some architectures, the autopkgtest check of the
+testing migration script did not understand that the tests were
+actually working, so the migration was delayed.  A bug in the package
+dependencies is also fixed, so those installing the firewall package
+(opensnitch) now also get the GUI admin tool (python3-opensnitch-ui)
+installed by default.  I am very grateful to Gustavo Iñiguez Goya for
+his work on getting the package ready for Debian Bookworm.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Armed with this package I have discovered some surprising
+connections from programs I believed were able to work completly
+offline, and it has already proven its worth, at least to me.  If you
+too want to get more familiar with the kind of programs using
+Internett connections on your machine, I recommend testing &lt;tt&gt;apt
+install opensnitch&lt;/tt&gt; in Bookworm and see what you think.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The package is still not able to build its eBPF module within
+Debian.  Not sure how much work it would be to get it working, but
+suspect some kernel related packages need to be extended with more
+header files to get it working.&lt;/p&gt;

 
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-               <title>A Brazilian Portuguese translation of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Brazilian_Portuguese_translation_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Brazilian_Portuguese_translation_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 3 Dec 2021 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, a productive translator started working on a new
-translation of &lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc&quot;&gt;the Made with Creative
-Commons book&lt;/a&gt; for Brazilian Portuguese.  The translation take place on
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/&quot;&gt;the
-Weblate web based translation system&lt;/a&gt;.  Once the translation is
-complete and proof read, we can publish it on paper as well as in PDF,
-ePub and HTML format.  The translation is already 16% complete, and if
-more people get involved I am conviced it can very quickly reach 100%.
-If you are interested in helping out with this or other translations
-of the Made with Creative Commons book, start translating on
-Weblate.  There are partial translations available in Azerbaijani,
-Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Polish,
-Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai and Ukrainian.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/gunnarwolf/madewithcc-es.git&quot;&gt;git
-repository for the book&lt;/a&gt; contain all source files needed to build
-the book for yourself.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://gunnarwolf.gitlab.io/madewithcc-es/&quot;&gt;HTML editions&lt;/a&gt;
-to help with proof reading is also available.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Speech to text, she APTly whispered, how hard can it be?</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speech_to_text__she_APTly_whispered__how_hard_can_it_be_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speech_to_text__she_APTly_whispered__how_hard_can_it_be_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;While visiting a convention during Easter, it occurred to me that
+it would be great if I could have a digital Dictaphone with
+transcribing capabilities, providing me with texts to cut-n-paste into
+stuff I need to write.  The background is that long drives often bring
+up the urge to write on texts I am working on, which of course is out
+of the question while driving.  With the release of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openai/whisper/&quot;&gt;OpenAI Whisper&lt;/a&gt;, this
+seem to be within reach with Free Software, so I decided to give it a
+go.  OpenAI Whisper is a Linux based neural network system to read in
+audio files and provide text representation of the speech in that
+audio recording.  It handle multiple languages and according to its
+creators even can translate into a different language than the spoken
+one.  I have not tested the latter feature.  It can either use the CPU
+or a GPU with CUDA support.  As far as I can tell, CUDA in practice
+limit that feature to NVidia graphics cards.  I have few of those, as
+they do not work great with free software drivers, and have not tested
+the GPU option.  While looking into the matter, I did discover some
+work to provide CUDA support on non-NVidia GPUs, and some work with
+the library used by Whisper to port it to other GPUs, but have not
+spent much time looking into GPU support yet.  I&#39;ve so far used an old
+X220 laptop as my test machine, and only transcribed using its
+CPU.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As it from a privacy standpoint is unthinkable to use computers
+under control of someone else (aka a &quot;cloud&quot; service) to transcribe
+ones thoughts and personal notes, I want to run the transcribing
+system locally on my own computers.  The only sensible approach to me
+is to make the effort I put into this available for any Linux user and
+to upload the needed packages into Debian.  Looking at Debian Bookworm, I
+discovered that only three packages were missing,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034307&quot;&gt;tiktoken&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034144&quot;&gt;triton&lt;/a&gt;, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034091&quot;&gt;openai-whisper&lt;/a&gt;.  For a while
+I also believed
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034286&quot;&gt;ffmpeg-python&lt;/a&gt; was
+needed, but as its
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/issues/760&quot;&gt;upstream
+seem to have vanished&lt;/a&gt; I found it safer
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openai/whisper/pull/1242&quot;&gt;to rewrite
+whisper&lt;/a&gt; to stop depending on in than to introduce ffmpeg-python
+into Debian.  I decided to place these packages under the umbrella of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team&quot;&gt;the Debian Deep
+Learning Team&lt;/a&gt;, which seem like the best team to look after such
+packages.  Discussing the topic within the group also made me aware
+that the triton package was already a future dependency of newer
+versions of the torch package being planned, and would be needed after
+Bookworm is released.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;All required code packages have been now waiting in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html&quot;&gt;the Debian NEW
+queue&lt;/a&gt; since Wednesday, heading for Debian Experimental until
+Bookworm is released.  An unsolved issue is how to handle the neural
+network models used by Whisper.  The default behaviour of Whisper is
+to require Internet connectivity and download the model requested to
+&lt;tt&gt;~/.cache/whisper/&lt;/tt&gt; on first invocation.  This obviously would
+fail &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html&quot;&gt;the
+deserted island test of free software&lt;/a&gt; as the Debian packages would
+be unusable for someone stranded with only the Debian archive and solar
+powered computer on a deserted island.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because of this, I would love to include the models in the Debian
+mirror system.  This is problematic, as the models are very large
+files, which would put a heavy strain on the Debian mirror
+infrastructure around the globe.  The strain would be even higher if
+the models change often, which luckily as far as I can tell they do
+not.  The small model, which according to its creator is most useful
+for English and in my experience is not doing a great job there
+either, is 462 MiB (deb is 414 MiB).  The medium model, which to me
+seem to handle English speech fairly well is 1.5 GiB (deb is 1.3 GiB)
+and the large model is 2.9 GiB (deb is 2.6 GiB).  I would assume
+everyone with enough resources would prefer to use the large model for
+highest quality.  I believe the models themselves would have to go
+into the non-free part of the Debian archive, as they are not really
+including any useful source code for updating the models.  The
+&quot;source&quot;, aka the model training set, according to the creators
+consist of &quot;680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised
+data collected from the web&quot;, which to me reads material with both
+unknown copyright terms, unavailable to the general public.  In other
+words, the source is not available according to the Debian Free
+Software Guidelines and the model should be considered non-free.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I asked the Debian FTP masters for advice regarding uploading a
+model package on their IRC channel, and based on the feedback there it
+is still unclear to me if such package would be accepted into the
+archive.  In any case I wrote build rules for a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/openai-whisper-model&quot;&gt;OpenAI
+Whisper model package&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openai/whisper/pull/1257&quot;&gt;modified the
+Whisper code base&lt;/a&gt; to prefer shared files under &lt;tt&gt;/usr/&lt;/tt&gt; and
+&lt;tt&gt;/var/&lt;/tt&gt; over user specific files in &lt;tt&gt;~/.cache/whisper/&lt;/tt&gt;
+to be able to use these model packages, to prepare for such
+possibility.  One solution might be to include only one of the models
+(small or medium, I guess) in the Debian archive, and ask people to
+download the others from the Internet.  Not quite sure what to do
+here, and advice is most welcome (use the debian-ai mailing list).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To make it easier to test the new packages while I wait for them to
+clear the NEW queue, I created an APT source targeting bookworm.  I
+selected Bookworm instead of Bullseye, even though I know the latter
+would reach more users, is that some of the required dependencies are
+missing from Bullseye and I during this phase of testing did not want
+to backport a lot of packages just to get up and running.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a recipe to run as user root if you want to test OpenAI
+Whisper using Debian packages on your Debian Bookworm installation,
+first adding the APT repository GPG key to the list of trusted keys,
+then setting up the APT repository and finally installing the packages
+and one of the models:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+curl https://geekbay.nuug.no/~pere/openai-whisper/D78F5C4796F353D211B119E28200D9B589641240.asc \
+  -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pere-whisper.asc
+mkdir -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d
+cat &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pere-whisper.list &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
+deb https://geekbay.nuug.no/~pere/openai-whisper/ bookworm main
+deb-src https://geekbay.nuug.no/~pere/openai-whisper/ bookworm main
+EOF
+apt update
+apt install openai-whisper
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The package work for me, but have not yet been tested on any other
+computer than my own.  With it, I have been able to (badly) transcribe
+a 2 minute 40 second Norwegian audio clip to test using the small
+model.  This took 11 minutes and around 2.2 GiB of RAM.  Transcribing
+the same file with the medium model gave a accurate text in 77 minutes
+using around 5.2 GiB of RAM.  My test machine had too little memory to
+test the large model, which I believe require 11 GiB of RAM.  In
+short, this now work for me using Debian packages, and I hope it will
+for you and everyone else once the packages enter Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Now I can start on the audio recording part of this project.&lt;/p&gt;
+ 

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-               <title>Debian still an excellent choice for Lego builders</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_still_an_excellent_choice_for_Lego_builders.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_still_an_excellent_choice_for_Lego_builders.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The Debian Lego team saw a lot of activity the last few weeks.  All
-the packages under the team umbrella has been updated to fix
-packaging, lintian issues and BTS reports.  In addition, a new and
-inspiring team member appeared on both the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-lego-team&quot;&gt;debian-lego-team
-Team mailing list&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego&quot;&gt;IRC channel
-#debian-lego&lt;/a&gt;.  If you are interested in Lego CAD design and LEGO
-Mindstorms programming, check out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners&quot;&gt;team wiki page&lt;/a&gt; to
-see what Debian can offer the Lego enthusiast.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Patches has been sent upstream, causing new upstream releases, one
-even the first one in more than ten years, and old upstreams was
-released with new ones.  There are still a lot of work left, and the
-team welcome more members to help us make sure Debian is the Linux
-distribution of choice for Lego builders.  If you want to contribute,
-join us in the IRC channel and become part of
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://salsa.debian.org/debian-lego-team/&quot;&gt;the team on
-Salsa&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
+               <title>rtlsdr-scanner, software defined radio frequency scanner for Linux  - nice free software</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/rtlsdr_scanner__software_defined_radio_frequency_scanner_for_Linux____nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/rtlsdr_scanner__software_defined_radio_frequency_scanner_for_Linux____nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 7 Apr 2023 23:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I finally found time to track down a useful radio frequency
+scanner for my software defined radio.  Just for fun I tried to locate
+the radios used in the areas, and a good start would be to scan all
+the frequencies to see what is in use.  I&#39;ve tried to find a useful
+program earlier, but ran out of time before I managed to find a useful
+tool.  This time I was more successful, and after a few false leads I
+found a description of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kali.org/tools/rtlsdr-scanner/&quot;&gt;rtlsdr-scanner
+over at the Kali site&lt;/a&gt;, and was able to track down
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/rtlsdr-scanner.git&quot;&gt;the
+Kali package git repository&lt;/a&gt; to build a deb package for the
+scanner.  Sadly the package is missing from the Debian project itself,
+at least in Debian Bullseye.  Two runtime dependencies,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/python-visvis.git&quot;&gt;python-visvis&lt;/a&gt;
+and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/python-rtlsdr.git&quot;&gt;python-rtlsdr&lt;/a&gt;
+had to be built and installed separately.  Luckily &#39;&lt;tt&gt;gbp
+buildpackage&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; handled them just fine and no further packages had
+to be manually built.  The end result worked out of the box after
+installation.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My initial scans for FM channels worked just fine, so I knew the
+scanner was functioning.  But when I tried to scan every frequency
+from 100 to 1000 MHz, the program stopped unexpectedly near the
+completion.  After some debugging I discovered USB software radio I
+used rejected frequencies above 948 MHz, triggering a unreported
+exception breaking the scan.  Changing the scan to end at 957 worked
+better.  I similarly found the lower limit to be around 15, and ended
+up with the following full scan:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2023-04-07-radio-freq-scanning.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2023-04-07-radio-freq-scanning.png&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Saving the scan did not work, but exporting it as a CSV file worked
+just fine.  I ended up with around 477k CVS lines with dB level for
+the given frequency.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The save failure seem to be a missing UTF-8 encoding issue in the
+python code.  Will see if I can find time to send a patch
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/CdeMills/RTLSDR-Scanner/&quot;&gt;upstream&lt;/a&gt;
+later to fix this exception:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/main_window.py&quot;, line 485, in __on_save
+    save_plot(fullName, self.scanInfo, self.spectrum, self.locations)
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/file.py&quot;, line 408, in save_plot
+    handle.write(json.dumps(data, indent=4))
+TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not &#39;str&#39;
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/main_window.py&quot;, line 485, in __on_save
+    save_plot(fullName, self.scanInfo, self.spectrum, self.locations)
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/file.py&quot;, line 408, in save_plot
+    handle.write(json.dumps(data, indent=4))
+TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not &#39;str&#39;
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+ 

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-               <title>Hvilke partier støttet datalagringsdirektivet 2 og 3?</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvilke_partier_st_ttet_datalagringsdirektivet_2_og_3_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvilke_partier_st_ttet_datalagringsdirektivet_2_og_3_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Relativt stille har Stortinget den siste perioden vedtatt
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet&quot;&gt;datalagringsdirektivet&lt;/a&gt; versjon to og tre, og slik økt
-overvåkningstrykket på Internett i Norge betraktelig.  Det blir mer og
-mer viktig å &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;bruke Tor&lt;/a&gt; og
-god kryptering for å sikre sin privatsfære på Internett.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Først ut var
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=79451&quot;&gt;ny
-etterretningstjenestelov&lt;/a&gt; vedtatt 2020-06-11, der samtlige partier
-på stortinget (Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet, Høyre, Kristelig
-Folkeparti, Miljøpartiet De Grønne, Senterpartiet, Sosialistisk
-Venstreparti, Venstre og et forhenværende Fremskrittspartimedlem)
-unntatt Rødt støttet loven i sin helhet da den ble vedtatt.
-
-&lt;p&gt;Dernest kom
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=84446&quot;&gt;ny
-ekomlov&lt;/a&gt; vedtatt 2021-06-08 med støtte fra Arbeiderpartiet,
-Fremskrittspartiet, Høyre, Kristelig Folkeparti, Senterpartiet,
-Venstre og et forhenværende Fremskrittspartimedlem mot stemmene fra
-Sosialistisk Venstreparti, Miljøpartiet De Grønne og Rødt.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Intet parti som støtter slike inngrep i privatsfæren får min støtte
-i valg.  Heldigvis er det mange parter også utenfor Stortinget som kan
-ha nytte av den økonomiske støtten som følger av hver stemme de får i
-stortingsvalget i år, selv om de ikke kommer inn på Stortinget i denne
-omgang.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som et annet målepunkt på hvor mye vern av privatsfæren betyr for
-stortingspartiene kan jeg fortelle at ikke et eneste av partiene på
-Stortinget har besvart
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_mener_partiene_om_vern_av_privatsf_ren_og_sporing_av_befolkningen_.html&quot;&gt;brevet
-med spørsmål rundt vern av privatsfæren&lt;/a&gt; som de fikk i sommer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
-anbefaler jeg å lese &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84&quot;&gt;artiklene
-fra Jon Wessel-Aas&lt;/a&gt; om temaet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
-Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Mechanic&#39;s words in five languages, English, Norwegian and Northern Sámi editions</title>
-               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mechanic_s_words_in_five_languages__English__Norwegian_and_Northern_S_mi_editions.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mechanic_s_words_in_five_languages__English__Norwegian_and_Northern_S_mi_editions.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 4 Aug 2021 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Almost thirty years ago, some forward looking teachers at Samisk
-videregående skole og reindriftsskole teaching metal work and Northern
-Sámi, decided to create a list of words used in Northern Sámi metal
-work.  After almost ten years this resulted in a dictionary database,
-published as the book
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ovttas.no/nb/girji_mekanikerord&quot;&gt;Mekanihkkársánit :
-Mekanikerord = Mekaanisen alan sanasto = Mechanic&#39;s words&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in
-1999.  The
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skuvla.info/skolehist/sveinl-n.htm&quot;&gt;story of this
-work&lt;/a&gt; is available from the pen of Svein Lund, one of the leading
-actors behind this effort.  They even got the dictionary approved by
-the Sámi Language Council as the recommended metal work words to use.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Fast forward twenty years, I came across this work when I recently
-became interested in metal work, and started watching educational and
-funny videos on the topic, like the ones from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://yewtu.be/channel/UCKLIIdKEpjAnn8E76KP7sQg&quot;&gt;mrpete222&lt;/a&gt;
-and &lt;a href=&quot;https://yewtu.be/channel/UC5NO8MgTQKHAWXp6z8Xl7yQ&quot;&gt;This
-Old Tony&lt;/a&gt;.  But they all talk English, but I wanted to know what
-the tools and techniques they used were called in Norwegian.  Trying
-to track down a good dictionary from English to Norwegian, after much
-searching, I came across the database of words created
-almost thirty years ago, with translations into English, Norwegian,
-Northern Sámi, Swedish and Finnish.  This gave me a lot of the
-Norwegian phrases I had been looking for.  To make it easier for the
-next person trying to track down a good Norwegian dictionary for the
-metal worker, and because I knew the person behind the database from
-my Skolelinux / Debian Edu days, I decided to ask if the database
-could be released to the public without any usage limitations, in
-other words as a Creative Commons licensed data set.  And happily,
-after consulting with the Sámi Parliament of Norway, the database is
-now available with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
-license from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/petterreinholdtsen/mekanikerord&quot;&gt;my gitlab
-repository&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The dictionary entries look slightly different, depending on the
-language in focus.  This is the same entry in the different editions.
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;English&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;dl&gt;
-    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lathe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
-
-    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;dreiebenk (nb) várve, várvenbea&amp;#331;ka, jorahanbea&amp;#331;ka, vátnanbea&amp;#331;ka (se) svarv (sv) sorvi (fi) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
-
-&lt;/dl&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-    
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Norwegian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;dl&gt;
-    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dreiebenk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
-
-    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;lathe (en) várve, várvenbea&amp;#331;ka, jorahanbea&amp;#331;ka,
-    vátnanbea&amp;#331;ka (se) svarv (sv) sorvi (fi) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
-
-    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;(nb): sponskjærande bearbeidingsmaskin der ein med
-    skjæreverktøy lausgjør spon frå eit roterande
-    arbetsstykke&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
-
-&lt;/dl&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Northern Sámi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;dl&gt;
-    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;várve, várvenbea&amp;#331;ka, jorahanbea&amp;#331;ka, vátnanbea&amp;#331;ka&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
-
-    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;dreiebenk (nb) lathe (en) svarv (sv) sorvi (fi) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
-
-    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;(se): ma&amp;#353;iidna mainna &amp;#269;uohppá vuolahasaid jorri
-      bargoávdnasis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
-
-    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;(nb): sponskjærande bearbeidingsmaskin der ein med
-    skjæreverktøy lausgjør spon frå eit roterande
-    arbetsstykke&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
-
-&lt;dl&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The database included term description in both Norwegian and
-Northern Sámi, but not English.  Because of this, the Northern Sámi
-edition include both descriptions, the Norwegian edition include the
-Norwegian description and the English edition lack a descripiton.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Once the database was available without any usage restrictions, and
-armed with my experience in publishing books, I decided to publish a
-Norwegian/English dictionary as a book using the database, to make the
-data set available also on paper and as an ebook.  Further into the
-project, it occurred to me that I could just as easily make an English
-dictionary, and talking to Svein and concluding that it was within
-reach, I decided to make a Northern Sámi dictionary too.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Thus I suddenly find myself publishing a Northern Sámi dictionary,
-even though I do not understand the language myself.  I hope it will
-be well received, and can help revive the impressive work done almost
-thirty years ago to document the vocabulary of metal workers.  If I
-get some help, I might even extend it with some of the words I find
-missing, like collet, rotary broach, carbide, knurler, arbor press and
-others.  But the first edition build from a lightly edited version of
-the original database, with no new entries added.  If you would like
-to check it out, visit
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;my list of published
-books&lt;/a&gt; and consider
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Petter+Reinholdtsen&quot;&gt;buying
-a paper or ebook copy from lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;.  The paper edition is only
-available in hardcover to increase its durability in the workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report that in the process, and thanks to help
-from both Svein Lund and Børre Gaup who understand the language, the
-docbook tools I use to create books, dblatex and docbook-xsl, now
-include support for Northern Sámi.  Before I started, these lacked the
-needed locale settings for this language, but now the patches are
-included upstream.&lt;/p&gt;
-
+               <title>OpenSnitch available in Debian Sid and Bookworm</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_available_in_Debian_Sid_and_Bookworm.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_available_in_Debian_Sid_and_Bookworm.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the efforts of the OpenSnitch lead developer Gustavo
+Iñiguez Goya allowing me to sponsor the upload,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
+application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; is now available in Debian
+Testing, soon to become the next stable release of Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is a package which set up a network firewall on one or more
+machines, which is controlled by a graphical user interface that will
+ask the user if a program should be allowed to connect to the local
+network or the Internet.  If some background daemon is trying to dial
+home, it can be blocked from doing so with a simple mouse click, or by
+default simply by not doing anything when the GUI question dialog pop
+up.  A list of all programs discovered using the network is provided
+in the GUI, giving the user an overview of how the machine(s) programs
+use the network.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;OpenSnitch was uploaded for NEW processing about a month ago, and I
+had little hope of it getting accepted and shaping up in time for the
+package freeze, but the Debian ftpmasters proved to be amazingly quick
+at checking out the package and it was accepted into the archive about
+week after the first upload.  It is now team maintained under the Go
+language team umbrella.  A few fixes to the default setup is only in
+Sid, and should migrate to Testing/Bookworm in a week.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;During testing I ran into an
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/issues/813&quot;&gt;issue
+with Minecraft server broadcasts disappearing&lt;/a&gt;, which was quickly
+resolved by the developer with a patch and a proposed configuration
+change.  I&#39;ve been told this was caused by the Debian packages default
+use if /proc/ information to track down kernel status, instead of the
+newer eBPF module that can be used.  The reason is simply that
+upstream and I have failed to find a way to build the eBPF modules for
+OpenSnitch without a complete configured Linux kernel source tree,
+which as far as we can tell is unavailable as a build dependency in
+Debian.  We tried unsuccessfully so far to use the kernel-headers
+package.  It would be great if someone could provide some clues how to
+build eBPF modules on build daemons in Debian, possibly without the full
+kernel source.&lt;/p&gt;
+ 

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 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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