- <title>How hard can æ, ø and å be?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_hard_can______and___be_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_hard_can______and___be_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-02-11-peppes-unicode.jpeg" align="right"/>
-
-<p>We write 2018, and it is 30 years since Unicode was introduced.
-Most of us in Norway have come to expect the use of our alphabet to
-just work with any computer system. But it is apparently beyond reach
-of the computers printing recites at a restaurant. Recently I visited
-a Peppes pizza resturant, and noticed a few details on the recite.
-Notice how 'ø' and 'å' are replaced with strange symbols in
-'Servitør', 'Å BETALE', 'Beløp pr. gjest', 'Takk for besøket.' and 'Vi
-gleder oss til å se deg igjen'.</p>
-
-<p>I would say that this state is passed sad and over in embarrassing.</p>
-
-<p>I removed personal and private information to be nice.</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>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Legal to share more than 11,000 movies listed on IMDB?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_11_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_11_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 7 Jan 2018 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I've continued to track down list of movies that are legal to
-distribute on the Internet, and identified more than 11,000 title IDs
-in The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) so far. Most of them (57%) are
-feature films from USA published before 1923. I've also tracked down
-more than 24,000 movies I have not yet been able to map to IMDB title
-ID, so the real number could be a lot higher. According to the front
-web page for <a href="https://retrofilmvault.com/">Retro Film
-Vault</A>, there are 44,000 public domain films, so I guess there are
-still some left to identify.</p>
-
-<p>The complete data set is available from
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">a
-public git repository</a>, including the scripts used to create it.
-Most of the data is collected using web scraping, for example from the
-"product catalog" of companies selling copies of public domain movies,
-but any source I find believable is used. I've so far had to throw
-out three sources because I did not trust the public domain status of
-the movies listed.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, this is the summary of the 28 collected data sources so
-far:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
- 2352 entries ( 66 unique) with and 15983 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-search.json
- 2302 entries ( 120 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json
- 195 entries ( 63 unique) with and 200 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-cinemovies.json
- 89 entries ( 52 unique) with and 38 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-creative-commons.json
- 344 entries ( 28 unique) with and 655 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm.json
- 668 entries ( 209 unique) with and 1064 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-filmchest-com.json
- 830 entries ( 21 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json
- 19 entries ( 19 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-gb.json
- 6822 entries ( 6669 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-us.json
- 137 entries ( 0 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-externlist.json
- 1205 entries ( 57 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json
- 84 entries ( 20 unique) with and 167 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-infodigi-pd.json
- 158 entries ( 135 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-looney-tunes.json
- 113 entries ( 4 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json
- 182 entries ( 100 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-silent.json
- 229 entries ( 87 unique) with and 1 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json
- 44 entries ( 2 unique) with and 64 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-openflix.json
- 291 entries ( 33 unique) with and 474 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-profilms-pd.json
- 211 entries ( 7 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-info.json
- 1232 entries ( 57 unique) with and 1875 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-net.json
- 46 entries ( 13 unique) with and 81 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json
- 698 entries ( 64 unique) with and 118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json
- 1758 entries ( 882 unique) with and 3786 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-retrofilmvault.json
- 16 entries ( 0 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-thehillproductions.json
- 63 entries ( 16 unique) with and 141 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json
-11583 unique IMDB title IDs in total, 8724 only in one list, 24647 without IMDB title ID
-</pre></p>
-
-<p> I keep finding more data sources. I found the cinemovies source
-just a few days ago, and as you can see from the summary, it extended
-my list with 63 movies. Check out the mklist-* scripts in the git
-repository if you are curious how the lists are created. Many of the
-titles are extracted using searches on IMDB, where I look for the
-title and year, and accept search results with only one movie listed
-if the year matches. This allow me to automatically use many lists of
-movies without IMDB title ID references at the cost of increasing the
-risk of wrongly identify a IMDB title ID as public domain. So far my
-random manual checks have indicated that the method is solid, but I
-really wish all lists of public domain movies would include unique
-movie identifier like the IMDB title ID. It would make the job of
-counting movies in the public domain a lot easier.</p>
+ <title>Debian now got everything you need to program Micro:bit</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_got_everything_you_need_to_program_Micro_bit.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_got_everything_you_need_to_program_Micro_bit.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I am amazed and very pleased to discover that since a few days ago,
+everything you need to program the <a href="https://microbit.org/">BBC
+micro:bit</a> is available from the Debian archive. All this is
+thanks to the hard work of Nick Morrott and the Debian python
+packaging team. The micro:bit project recommend the mu-editor to
+program the microcomputer, as this editor will take care of all the
+machinery required to injekt/flash micropython alongside the program
+into the micro:bit, as long as the pieces are available.</p>
+
+<p>There are three main pieces involved. The first to enter Debian
+was
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-uflash">python-uflash</a>,
+which was accepted into the archive 2019-01-12. The next one was
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mu-editor">mu-editor</a>, which
+showed up 2019-01-13. The final and hardest part to to into the
+archive was
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firmware-microbit-micropython">firmware-microbit-micropython</a>,
+which needed to get its build system and dependencies into Debian
+before it was accepted 2019-01-20. The last one is already in Debian
+Unstable and should enter Debian Testing / Buster in three days. This
+all allow any user of the micro:bit to get going by simply running
+'apt install mu-editor' when using Testing or Unstable, and once
+Buster is released as stable, all the users of Debian stable will be
+catered for.</p>
+
+<p>As a minor final touch, I added rules to
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram">the isenkram
+package</a> for recognizing micro:bit and recommend the mu-editor
+package. This make sure any user of the isenkram desktop daemon will
+get a popup suggesting to install mu-editor then the USB cable from
+the micro:bit is inserted for the first time.</p>
+
+<p>This should make it easier to have fun.</p>