- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html">Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 2nd March 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover by operating system of
-choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway. While
-passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the info
-screen booting with some text scrolling. I was not quick enough with
-my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot screen,
-but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a corrupt file
-system:
-
-<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg" alt="[photo of subway info screen]"></a></p>
-
-<p>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, the details of the
-content on the screen worries me.
-
-The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid',
-indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
-between Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and after
-Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14. Since Lenny Debian
-has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
-(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history">a Debian
-version history on Wikpedia</a>. This mean the system is running
-around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
-many years.</p>
-
-<p>This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
-Ruter, running outdated software. In 2012,
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html">I
-discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000</a>,
-and this was
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html">still
-the case in 2016</a>. Given the response from the responsible people
-in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
-Windows 2000. Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.</p>
-
-<p>The photo is made available under the license terms
-<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons
-4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</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>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html">The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git</a></div>
- <div class="date">18th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the
-traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until
-systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD.
-<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">The upstream
-project still exist</a>, though, and up until today, the upstream
-source was available from Savannah via subversion. I am happy to
-report that this just changed.</p>
-
-<p>The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three
-repositories:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git">sysvinit</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/insserv.git">insserv</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/startpar.git">startpar</a></li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>I do not really spend much time on the project these days, and I
-has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good
-version control system to help those willing to move it forward.</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>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html">Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources</a></div>
- <div class="date">14th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, a new major version of
-<a href="https://www.videolan.org/">VLC</a> was announced, and I
-decided to check out if it now supported streaming over
-<a href="http://bittorrent.org/">bittorrent</a> and
-<a href="https://webtorrent.io">webtorrent</a>. Bittorrent is one of
-the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and
-Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using
-<a href="https://webrtc.org">WebRTC</a> as its transport channel,
-allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique.
-The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client
-supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other.
-I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look.
-Looking at
-<a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html">the release
-notes</a> did not help answering this question, so I started searching
-the web. I found several news articles from 2013, most of them
-tracing the news from Torrentfreak
-("<a href=https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-giant-vlc-mulls-bittorrent-support-130211/">Open
-Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support</a>"), about a
-initiative to pay someone to create a VLC patch for bittorrent
-support. To figure out what happend with this initiative, I headed
-over to the #videolan IRC channel and asked if there were some bug or
-feature request tickets tracking such feature. I got an answer from
-lead developer Jean-Babtiste Kempf, telling me that there was a patch
-but neither he nor anyone else knew where it was. So I searched a bit
-more, and came across an independent
-<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent">VLC plugin to add
-bittorrent support</a>, created by Johan Gunnarsson in 2016/2017.
-Again according to Jean-Babtiste, this is not the patch he was talking
-about.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, to test the plugin, I made a working Debian package from
-the git repository, with some modifications. After installing this
-package, I could stream videos from
-<a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a> using VLC
-commands like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-vlc https://archive.org/download/LoveNest/LoveNest_archive.torrent
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The plugin is supposed to handle magnet links too, but since The
-Internet Archive do not have magnet links and I did not want to spend
-time tracking down another source, I have not tested it. It can take
-quite a while before the video start playing without any indication of
-what is going on from VLC. It took 10-20 seconds when I measured it.
-Some times the plugin seem unable to find the correct video file to
-play, and show the metadata XML file name in the VLC status line. I
-have no idea why.</p>
-
-<p>I have created a <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/890360">request for
-a new package in Debian (RFP)</a> and
-<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/1">asked if
-the upstream author is willing to help make this happen</a>. Now we
-wait to see what come out of this. I do not want to maintain a
-package that is not maintained upstream, nor do I really have time to
-maintain more packages myself, so I might leave it at this. But I
-really hope someone step up to do the packaging, and hope upstream is
-still maintaining the source. If you want to help, please update the
-RFP request or the upstream issue.</p>
-
-<p>I have not found any traces of webtorrent support for VLC.</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>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Version_3_1_of_Cura__the_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian.html">Version 3.1 of Cura, the 3D print slicer, is now in Debian</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A new version of the
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura">3D printer slicer
-software Cura</a>, version 3.1.0, is now available in Debian Testing
-(aka Buster) and Debian Unstable (aka Sid). I hope you find it
-useful. It was uploaded the last few days, and the last update will
-enter testing tomorrow. See the
-<a href="https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura-software/release-notes">release
-notes</a> for the list of bug fixes and new features. Version 3.2
-was announced 6 days ago. We will try to get it into Debian as
-well.</p>
-
-<p>More information related to 3D printing is available on the
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/3DPrinting">3D printing</a> and
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/3D-printer">3D printer</a> wiki pages
-in Debian.</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>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Overv_kning_i_Kina_vs__Norge.html">Overvåkning i Kina vs. Norge</a></div>
- <div class="date">12th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg lar meg fascinere av en artikkel
-<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/terroristene-star-pa-dora/69436116">i
-Dagbladet om Kinas håndtering av Xinjiang</a>, spesielt følgende
-utsnitt:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>«I den sørvestlige byen Kashgar nærmere grensa til
-Sentral-Asia meldes det nå at 120.000 uigurer er internert i såkalte
-omskoleringsleirer. Samtidig er det innført et omfattende
-helsesjekk-program med innsamling og lagring av DNA-prøver fra
-absolutt alle innbyggerne. De mest avanserte overvåkingsmetodene
-testes ut her. Programmer for å gjenkjenne ansikter og stemmer er på
-plass i regionen. Der har de lokale myndighetene begynt å installere
-GPS-systemer i alle kjøretøy og egne sporingsapper i
-mobiltelefoner.</p>
-
-<p>Politimetodene griper så dypt inn i folks dagligliv at motstanden
-mot Beijing-regimet øker.»</p>
-
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Beskrivelsen avviker jo desverre ikke så veldig mye fra tilstanden
-her i Norge.</p>
-
-<table>
-<tr>
-<th>Dataregistrering</th>
-<th>Kina</th>
-<th>Norge</th>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Innsamling og lagring av DNA-prøver fra befolkningen</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Delvis, planlagt for alle nyfødte.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Ansiktsgjenkjenning</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Stemmegjenkjenning</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Nei</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Posisjons-sporing av mobiltelefoner</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Posisjons-sporing av biler</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-<td>Ja</td>
-</tr>
-
-</table>
-
-<p>I Norge har jo situasjonen rundt Folkehelseinstituttets lagring av
-DNA-informasjon på vegne av politiet, der de nektet å slette
-informasjon politiet ikke hadde lov til å ta vare på, gjort det klart
-at DNA tar vare på ganske lenge. I tillegg finnes det utallige
-biobanker som lagres til evig tid, og det er planer om å innføre
-<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/75E9/4-av-10-mener-staten-bor-lagre-DNA-profiler-pa-alle-nyfodte">evig
-lagring av DNA-materiale fra alle spebarn som fødes</a> (med mulighet
-for å be om sletting).</p>
-
-<p>I Norge er det system på plass for ansiktsgjenkjenning, som
-<a href="https://www.nrk.no/norge/kun-gardermoen-har-teknologi-for-ansiktsgjenkjenning-i-norge-1.12719461">en
-NRK-artikkel fra 2015</a> forteller er aktiv på Gardermoen, samt
-<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/inntil-27-000-bor-i-norge-under-falsk-id/60500781">brukes
-til å analysere bilder innsamlet av myndighetene</a>. Brukes det også
-flere plasser? Det er tett med overvåkningskamera kontrollert av
-politi og andre myndigheter i for eksempel Oslo sentrum.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg er ikke kjent med at Norge har noe system for identifisering av
-personer ved hjelp av stemmegjenkjenning.</p>
-
-<p>Posisjons-sporing av mobiltelefoner er ruinemessig tilgjengelig for
-blant annet politi, NAV og Finanstilsynet, i tråd med krav i
-telefonselskapenes konsesjon. I tillegg rapporterer smarttelefoner
-sin posisjon til utviklerne av utallige mobil-apper, der myndigheter
-og andre kan hente ut informasjon ved behov. Det er intet behov for
-noen egen app for dette.</p>
-
-<p>Posisjons-sporing av biler er rutinemessig tilgjengelig via et tett
-nett av målepunkter på veiene (automatiske bomstasjoner,
-køfribrikke-registrering, automatiske fartsmålere og andre veikamera).
-Det er i tillegg vedtatt at alle nye biler skal selges med utstyr for
-GPS-sporing (eCall).</p>
-
-<p>Det er jammen godt vi lever i et liberalt demokrati, og ikke en
-overvåkningsstat, eller?</p>
-
-<p>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
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_hard_can______and___be_.html">How hard can æ, ø and å be?</a></div>
- <div class="date">11th February 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><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>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_11_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html">Legal to share more than 11,000 movies listed on IMDB?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 7th January 2018</div>
- <div class="body"><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>
-
-<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>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentarer_til__Evaluation_of__il_legality__for_Popcorn_Time.html">Kommentarer til «Evaluation of (il)legality» for Popcorn Time</a></div>
- <div class="date">20th December 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I går var jeg i Follo tingrett som sakkyndig vitne og presenterte
- mine undersøkelser rundt
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