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- <title>The worlds only stone power plant?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power,
-solar power, and wood power are well known. Until a few days ago, I
-had never heard of stone power. Then I learn about a quarry in a
-mountain in
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i
-Norway, where
-<a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the
-Bremanger Quarry</a> company is extracting stone and dumping the stone
-into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour. This downward movement
-in this shaft is used to produce electricity. In short, it is using
-falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and
-according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is
-using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power
-grid. I find the concept truly amazing. Is this the worlds only
-stone power plant?</p>
+ <title>CasparCG Server for TV broadcast playout in Debian</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/CasparCG_Server_for_TV_broadcast_playout_in_Debian.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/CasparCG_Server_for_TV_broadcast_playout_in_Debian.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television,
+<a href="https://casparcg.com/">CasparCG Server</a>, entered Debian
+today. This completes many months of work to get the source ready to
+go into Debian. The first upload to the Debian NEW queue happened a
+month ago, but the work upstream to prepare it for Debian started more
+than two and a half month ago. So far
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/casparcg-server">the
+casparcg-server package</a> is only available for amd64, but I hope
+this can be improved. The package is in contrib because it depend on
+the <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdk-aac">non-free fdk-aac
+library</a>. The Debian package lack support for streaming web pages
+because Debian is missing CEF, Chromium Embedded Framework. CEF is
+wanted by several packages in Debian. But because the Chromium source
+is <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/893448">not available as a build
+dependency</a>, it is not yet possible to upload CEF to Debian. I
+hope this will change in the future.</p>
+
+<p>The reason I got involved is that
+<a href="https://frikanalen.no/">the Norwegian open channel
+Frikanalen</a> is starting to use CasparCG for our HD playout, and I
+would like to have all the free software tools we use to run the TV
+channel available as packages from the Debian project. The last
+remaining piece in the puzzle is Open Broadcast Encoder, but it depend
+on quite a lot of patched libraries which would have to be included in
+Debian first.</p>
</description>
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- <title>Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>My movie playing setup involve <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a>,
-<a href="https://openelec.tv">OpenELEC</a> (probably soon to be
-replaced with <a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a>) and an
-Infocus IN76 video projector. My projector can be controlled via both
-a infrared remote controller, and a RS-232 serial line. The vendor of
-my projector, <a href="https://www.infocus.com/">InFocus</a>, had been
-sensible enough to document the serial protocol in its user manual, so
-it is easily available, and I used it some years ago to write
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control">a
-small script to control the projector</a>. For a while now, I longed
-for a setup where the projector was controlled by Kodi, for example in
-such a way that when the screen saver went on, the projector was
-turned off, and when the screen saver exited, the projector was turned
-on again.</p>
-
-<p>A few days ago, with very good help from parts of my family, I
-managed to find a Kodi Add-on for controlling a Epson projector, and
-got in touch with its author to see if we could join forces and make a
-Add-on with support for several projectors. To my pleasure, he was
-positive to the idea, and we set out to add InFocus support to his
-add-on, and make the add-on suitable for the official Kodi add-on
-repository.</p>
-
-<p>The Add-on is now working (for me, at least), with a few minor
-adjustments. The most important change I do relative to the master
-branch in the github repository is embedding the
-<a href="https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial">pyserial module</a> in
-the add-on. The long term solution is to make a "script" type
-pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
-Kodi. But until that in place, I embed it.</p>
-
-<p>The add-on can be configured to turn on the projector when Kodi
-starts, off when Kodi stops as well as turn the projector off when the
-screensaver start and on when the screesaver stops. It can also be
-told to set the projector source when turning on the projector.
-
-<p>If this sound interesting to you, check out
-<a href="https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol">the
-project github repository</a>. Perhaps you can send patches to
-support your projector too? As soon as we find time to wrap up the
-latest changes, it should be available for easy installation using any
-Kodi instance.</p>
-
-<p>For future improvements, I would like to add projector model
-detection and the ability to adjust the brightness level of the
-projector from within Kodi. We also need to figure out how to handle
-the cooling period of the projector. My projector refuses to turn on
-for 60 seconds after it was turned off. This is not handled well by
-the add-on at the moment.</p>
+ <title>Learn to program with Minetest on Debian</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Learn_to_program_with_Minetest_on_Debian.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Learn_to_program_with_Minetest_on_Debian.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A fun way to learn how to program
+<a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> is to follow the
+instructions in the book
+"<a href="https://nostarch.com/programwithminecraft">Learn to program
+with Minecraft</a>", which introduces programming in Python to people
+who like to play with Minecraft. The book uses a Python library to
+talk to a TCP/IP socket with an API accepting build instructions and
+providing information about the current players in a Minecraft world.
+The TCP/IP API was first created for the Minecraft implementation for
+Raspberry Pi, and has since been ported to some server versions of
+Minecraft. The book contain recipes for those using Windows, MacOSX
+and Raspian. But a little known fact is that you can follow the same
+recipes using the free software construction game
+<a href="https://minetest.net/">Minetest</a>.</p>
+
+<p>There is <a href="https://github.com/sprintingkiwi/pycraft_mod">a
+Minetest module implementing the same API</a>, making it possible to
+use the Python programs coded to talk to Minecraft with Minetest too.
+I
+<a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/minetest-mod-pycraft_0.20%2Bgit20180331.0376a0a%2Bdfsg-1.html">uploaded
+this module</a> to Debian two weeks ago, and as soon as it clears the
+FTP masters NEW queue, learning to program Python with Minetest on
+Debian will be a simple 'apt install' away. The Debian package is
+maintained as part of the Debian Games team, and
+<a href="https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/unfinished/minetest-mod-pycraft">the
+packaging rules</a> are currently located under 'unfinished' on
+Salsa.</p>
+
+<p>You will most likely need to install several of the Minetest
+modules in Debian for the examples included with the library to work
+well, as there are several blocks used by the example scripts that are
+provided via modules in Minetest. Without the required blocks, a
+simple stone block is used instead. My initial testing with a analog
+clock did not get gold arms as instructed in the python library, but
+instead used stone arms.</p>
+
+<p>I tried to find a way to add the API to the desktop version of
+Minecraft, but were unable to find any working recipes. The
+<a href="https://www.epiphanydigest.com/tag/minecraft-python-api/">recipes</a>
+I <a href="https://github.com/kbsriram/mcpiapi">found</a> are only
+working with a standalone Minecraft server setup. Are there any
+options to use with the normal desktop version?</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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- <title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I <a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS">VHS-kassettenes</a>
-tid var det rett frem å ta vare på et TV-program en ønsket å kunne se
-senere, uten å være avhengig av at programmet ble sendt på nytt.
-Kanskje ønsket en å se programmet på hytten der det ikke var
-TV-signal, eller av andre grunner ha det tilgjengelig for fremtidig
-fornøyelse. Dette er blitt vanskeligere med introduksjon av
-digital-TV og webstreaming, der opptak til harddisk er utenfor de
-flestes kontroll hvis de bruker ufri programvare og bokser kontrollert
-av andre. Men for NRK her i Norge, finnes det heldigvis flere fri
-programvare-alternativer, som jeg har
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">skrevet</a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">om</a>
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html">før</a>.
-Så lenge kilden for nedlastingen er lovlig lagt ut på nett (hvilket
-jeg antar NRK gjør), så er slik lagring til privat bruk også lovlig i
-Norge.</p>
-
-<p>Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
-<a href="https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a> ikke kunne
-bake undertekster fra NRK inn i videofilene, og at jeg derfor
-foretrakk andre alternativer. Nylig oppdaget jeg at dette har endret
-seg. Fordelen med youtube-dl er at den er tilgjengelig direkte fra
-Linux-distribusjoner som <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
-og <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, slik at en slipper å
-finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.</p>
-
-<p>For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
-underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
-brukes:</p>
+ <title>Non-blocking bittorrent plugin for vlc</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Non_blocking_bittorrent_plugin_for_vlc.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Non_blocking_bittorrent_plugin_for_vlc.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A few hours ago, a new and improved version (2.4) of
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">the VLC
+bittorrent plugin</a> was uploaded to Debian. This new version
+include a complete rewrite of the bittorrent related code, which seem
+to make the plugin non-blocking. This mean you can actually exit VLC
+even when the plugin seem to be unable to get the bittorrent streaming
+started. The new version also include support for filtering playlist
+by file extension using command line options, if you want to avoid
+processing audio, video or images. The package is currently in Debian
+unstable, but should be available in Debian testing in two days. To
+test it, simply install it like this:</p>
<p><pre>
-youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
- --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
- https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
</pre></p>
-<p>URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no. Resultatet er en
-MP4-fil med filmen og undertekster som kan spilles av med VLC. Merk
-at VLC ikke viser frem undertekster før du aktiverer dem. For å gjøre
-det, høyreklikk med musa i fremviservinduet, velg menyvalget for
-undertekst og så norsk språk. Jeg testet også '--write-auto-sub',
-men det kommandolinjeargumentet ser ikke ut til å fungere, så jeg
-endte opp med settet med argumentlisten over, som jeg fant i en
-feilrapport i youtube-dl-prosjektets samling over feilrapporter.</p>
-
-<p>Denne støtten i youtube-dl gjør det svært enkelt å lagre
-NRK-innslag, det være seg nyheter, filmer, serier eller dokumentater,
-for å ha dem tilgjengelig for fremtidig referanse og bruk, uavhengig
-av hvor lenge innslagene ligger tilgjengelig hos NRK. Så får det ikke
-hjelpe at NRKs jurister mener at det er
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">vesensforskjellig
-å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming</a>, når det rent
-teknisk er samme sak.</p>
-
-<p>Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
-prosjektoversikten for
-<a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html">en
-komplett liste</a>.</p>
+<p>After it is installed, you can try to use it to play a file
+downloaded live via bittorrent like this:
+
+<p><pre>
+vlc https://archive.org/download/Glass_201703/Glass_201703_archive.torrent
+</pre></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>
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<item>
- <title>Stortingsflertallet går inn for ny IP-basert sensurinfrastruktur i Norge</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p><a href="https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper">VG</a>,
-<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219">Dagbladet</a>
-og
-<a href="https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381">NRK</a>
-melder i dag at flertallet i Familie- og kulturkomiteen på Stortinget
-har bestemt seg for å introdusere en ny sensurinfrastruktur i Norge.
-Fra før har Norge en «frivillig» sensurinfrastruktur basert på
-DNS-navn, der de største ISP-ene basert på en liste med DNS-navn
-forgifter DNS-svar og omdirigerer til et annet IP-nummer enn det som
-ligger i DNS. Nå kommer altså IP-basert omdirigering i tillegg. Når
-infrastrukturen er på plass, er sensur av IP-adresser redusert et
-spørsmål om hvilke IP-nummer som skal blokkeres. Listen over
-IP-adresser vil naturligvis endre seg etter hvert som myndighetene
-endrer seg. Det er ingen betryggende tanke.</p>
+ <title>Retten til kontant betaling er en rettighet som må brukes for å beholdes</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Retten_til_kontant_betaling_er_en_rettighet_som_m__brukes_for___beholdes.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Retten_til_kontant_betaling_er_en_rettighet_som_m__brukes_for___beholdes.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="https://www.fn.no/Om-FN/Avtaler/Menneskerettigheter/FNs-verdenserklaering-om-menneskerettigheter">FNs
+menneskerettighetserklæring</a> artikkel 13 første punkt lyder som
+følger:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+Enhver har rett til å bevege seg fritt og til fritt å velge
+oppholdssted innenfor en stats grenser.
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Det er altså en menneskerett å kunne bevege seg fritt i landet.
+For å bevege seg fritt i landet, så må en kunne bevege seg uten å bli
+sporet. Det vil i dagens samfunn innebære å bevege seg uten å legge
+igjen digitale spor og uten å være radiomerket. Hvis en vet at ens
+bevegelser, hvor en befinner seg når, og hvem som befinner seg i
+nærheten, blir samlet inn og gjort tilgjengelig for fremmede, det være
+seg myndighetene eller private organisasjoner, så kan en ikke lenger
+bevege seg fritt. Dette gjør at det er en forutsetning for å ha glede
+av retten til å bevege seg fritt i landet at en motstår fristelsen til
+å legge igjen digitale spor når en betaler for seg. Rettigheter som
+ikke blir brukt, blir fjernet. Den eneste måten i dag å unngå å legge
+igjen digitale spor når en betaler for seg, er å betale med kontanter,
+samt takke nei til å legge igjen navn og adresse (slik f.eks. Elkjøp
+ber om &mdash; jeg sier de kan legge inn «anonym anonym» når
+datasystemet deres trenger et navn). Personlig anbefaler jeg å
+konsekvent bruke kontant betaling når man beveger seg rundt, for å
+bidra til forsvaret av menneskerettighetene i Norge. Kanskje noe også
+for deg? Merk at det ikke er tilstrekkelig for å unngå sporing å
+betale med kontanter, men det er et lite steg i riktig retning.</p>
+
+<p>Det er flere andre argumenter i tillegg til
+menneskerettighetsargumentet for å bruke kontanter. I går hadde
+Dagbladet en utmerket kommentar av sin journalist John Olav Egeland om
+hvilket
+<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/kontantlost-diktatur/70543434">kontantløst
+diktatur</a> som venter oss hvis mange nok slutter å insistere på å
+betale med kontanter. Jeg anbefaler deg å lese den.</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>.
+Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
-kriminelt å åpne andres brev. Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
-<a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205">§ 205
-(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)</a>, som sier at «Med
-bot eller fengsel inntil 2 år straffes den som uberettiget ... c)
-åpner brev eller annen lukket skriftlig meddelelse som er adressert
-til en annen, eller på annen måte skaffer seg uberettiget tilgang til
-innholdet.» Dette gjelder såvel postbud som alle andre som har
-befatning med brevet etter at avsender har befatning med et lukket
-brev. Tilsvarende står også tidligere utgaver av den norske
-straffeloven.</p>
-
-<p>Når en registrerer seg på usikre digitale postkasseløsningene, som
-f.eks. Digipost og e-Boks, og slik tar disse i bruk, så gir en de som
-står bak løsningene tillatelse til å åpne sine brev. Dette er
-nødvendig for at innholdet i digital post skal kunne vises frem til
-mottaker via tjenestens websider. Dermed gjelder ikke straffelovens
-paragraf om forbud mot å åpne brev, da tilgangen ikke lenger er
-uberettiget. En gir altså fremmede tilgang til å lese sin
-korrespondanse. I tillegg vil bruk av slike usikre digitale
-postbokser føre til at det blir registrert når du leser brevene, hvor
-du befinner deg (vha. tilkoblingens IP-adresse), hvilket utstyr du
-bruker og en rekke annen personlig informasjon som ikke er
-tilgjengelig når papirpost brukes. Jeg foretrekker at det er
-lovmessig beskyttelse av min korrespondanse, som jo inneholder privat
-og personlig informasjon. Det bidrar til litt bedre vern av personlig
-integritet i dagens norske samfunn.</p>
+ <title>Why is your site not using Content Security Policy / CSP?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_site_not_using_Content_Security_Policy___CSP_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_site_not_using_Content_Security_Policy___CSP_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2018 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching on Frikanalen the OWASP
+talk by Scott Helme titled
+"<a href="https://frikanalen.no/video/626080/">What We’ve Learned From
+Billions of Security Reports</a>". I had not heard of the
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy">Content
+Security Policy standard</a> nor its ability to "call home" when a
+browser detect a policy breach (I do not follow web page design
+development much these days), and found the talk very illuminating.</p>
+
+<p>The mechanism allow a web site owner to use HTTP headers to tell
+visitors web browser which sources (internal and external) are allowed to
+be used on the web site. Thus it become possible to enforce a "only
+local content" policy despite web designers urge to fetch programs
+from random sites on the Internet, like the one
+<a href="https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/68966/hacking/browsealoud-plugin-hack.html">enabling
+the attack</a> reported by Scott Helme earlier this year.</p>
+
+<p>Using CSP seem like an obvious thing for a site admin to implement
+to take some control over the information leak that occur when
+external sources are used to render web pages, it is a mystery more
+sites are not using CSP? It is being
+<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP/">standardized under W3C</a> these
+days, and is supposed by most web browsers</p>
+
+<p>I managed to find <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/django-csp">a
+Django middleware for implementing CSP</a> and was happy to discover
+it was already in Debian. I plan to use it to add CSP support to the
+Frikanalen web site soon.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
-re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism. I
-am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
-<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people">sited
-by The Hill and others</a>:
-
-<p><blockquote>
-<p>"An American president does not lead the Free World by
-congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."</p>
-</blockquote></p>
+ <title>New and improved Frikanalen Kodi addon version 0.0.3</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_and_improved_Frikanalen_Kodi_addon_version_0_0_3.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_and_improved_Frikanalen_Kodi_addon_version_0_0_3.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>If you read my blog regularly, you probably know I am involved in
+running and developing the <a href="https://frikanalen.no/">Norwegian
+TV channel Frikanalen</a>. It is an open channel, allowing everyone
+in Norway to publish videos on a TV channel with national coverage.
+You can think of it as Youtube for national television.
+In addition to distribution on RiksTV and Uninett, Frikanalen is also
+available as a Kodi addon. The last few days I have updated the code
+to add more features. A
+<a href="https://kodi.tv/addon/plugins-video-add-ons/frikanalen-nett-tv">new
+and improved version 0.0.3 Frikanalen addon</a> was just made
+available via the Kodi repositories. This new version include a
+option to browse videos by category, as well as free text search
+in the video archive. It will now also show the video duration in the
+video lists, which were missing earlier. A new and experimental
+link to the HD video stream currently being worked on is provided, for
+those that want to see what the <a href="https://casparcg.com/">CasparCG</a>
+output look like. The alternative is the SD video stream, generated
+using MLT. CasparCG is controlled by our
+<a href="https://github.com/Frikanalen/mltplayout/">mltplayout
+server</a> which instead of talking to mlt is giving PLAY instructions
+to the CasparCG server when it is time to start a new program.</p>
+
+<p>By now, you are probably wondering what kind of content is being
+played on the channel. These days, it is filled with technical
+presentations like those from <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>,
+<a href="https://www.debconf.org/">Debconf</a>, Makercon, and TED,
+but there are also some periods with
+<a href="https://www.empo.no/">EMPT TV</a> and
+<a href="https://www.p7.no/">P7</a>.
-<p>While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
-phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
-have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">kidnapped a
-completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
-Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
-sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year</a>.</p>
-
-<p>USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
-one taken by any Free World.</p>
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
-(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
-mostly in the USA. What I find a bit surprising, is how little
-criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
-Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place. And what about the
-people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
-And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
-handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
-No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
-that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
-lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.</p>
-
-<p>What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
-selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
-in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed. It is well known that
-Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
-nevertheless. Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
-would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
-information about the millions of Facebook users. Collected
-information will be misused sooner or later. The only way to avoid
-such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place. If
-you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
-the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
-information.</p>
-
-<p>Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
-account, and take back some control of your personal information.
-<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely">According
-to The Guardian</a>, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
-account removal (and not just 'disabling'). You need to
-<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content">visit
-a specific Facebook page</a> and click on 'let us know' on that page
-to get to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account">the
-real account deletion screen</a>. Perhaps something to consider? I
-would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
-perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
-exposure a bit.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
-Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
-Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to <a href="">NUUG</a> last april about
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/">
-Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
-politics</a>.</p>
-
-<p>And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
-use some end-to-end encrypted method like
-<a href="https://www.signal.org/">Signal</a> or
-<a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, and stop sharing your private
-messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.</p>
+ <title>Time for an official MIME type for patches?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_an_official_MIME_type_for_patches_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_an_official_MIME_type_for_patches_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2018 08:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>As part of my involvement in
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">the Nikita
+archive API project</a>, I've been importing a fairly large lump of
+emails into a test instance of the archive to see how well this would
+go. I picked a subset of <a href="https://notmuchmail.org/">my
+notmuch email database</a>, all public emails sent to me via
+@lists.debian.org, giving me a set of around 216 000 emails to import.
+In the process, I had a look at the various attachments included in
+these emails, to figure out what to do with attachments, and noticed
+that one of the most common attachment formats do not have
+<a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml">an
+official MIME type</a> registered with IANA/IETF. The output from
+diff, ie the input for patch, is on the top 10 list of formats
+included in these emails. At the moment people seem to use either
+text/x-patch or text/x-diff, but neither is officially registered. It
+would be better if one official MIME type were registered and used
+everywhere.</p>
+
+<p>To try to get one official MIME type for these files, I've brought
+up the topic on
+<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/media-types">the
+media-types mailing list</a>. If you are interested in discussion
+which MIME type to use as the official for patch files, or involved in
+making software using a MIME type for patches, perhaps you would like
+to join the discussion?</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
-helsevesenet. Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
-Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
-samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
-tid. Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
-Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
-dit vi havner gitt nok tid. I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
-oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
-bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
-medfødte sykdommer. Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
-<a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true">Stortingets
-flertallsinnstilling</a> er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
-at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
-undersøkelsen.</p>
-
-<p>Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
- <p>«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
- synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
- diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
- hele befolkningen.»</p>
-
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
-blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
-<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info">folkehelseinstituttets
-lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
-og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven</a> viser at en ikke kan være
-trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
-misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.</p>
-
-<p>Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
-blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
-gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
-det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
-samtykke. Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
-<a href="https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/">folkehelseinstituttets
-websider</a>, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
-sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
-greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.</p>
-
-<p>I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
-er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
-konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
-brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
-dette i dag.</p>
+ <title>Measuring the speaker frequency response using the AUDMES free software GUI - nice free software</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_the_speaker_frequency_response_using_the_AUDMES_free_software_GUI___nice_free_software.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_the_speaker_frequency_response_using_the_AUDMES_free_software_GUI___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-10-22-audmes-measure-speakers.png" align="right" width="40%"/></p>
+
+<p>My current home stereo is a patchwork of various pieces I got on
+flee markeds over the years. It is amazing what kind of equipment
+show up there. I've been wondering for a while if it was possible to
+measure how well this equipment is working together, and decided to
+see how far I could get using free software. After trawling the web I
+came across an article from DIY Audio and Video on
+<a href="https://www.diyaudioandvideo.com/Tutorial/SpeakerResponseTesting/">Speaker
+Testing and Analysis</a> describing how to test speakers, and it listing
+several software options, among them
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/audmes/">AUDio MEasurement
+System (AUDMES)</a>. It is the only free software system I could find
+focusing on measuring speakers and audio frequency response. In the
+process I also found an interesting article from NOVO on
+<a href="http://novo.press/understanding-speaker-specifications-and-frequency-response/">Understanding
+Speaker Specifications and Frequency Response</a> and an article from
+ecoustics on
+<a href="https://www.ecoustics.com/articles/understanding-speaker-frequency-response/">Understanding
+Speaker Frequency Response</a>, with a lot of information on what to
+look for and how to interpret the graphs. Armed with this knowledge,
+I set out to measure the state of my speakers.</p>
+
+<p>The first hurdle was that AUDMES hadn't seen a commit for 10 years
+and did not build with current compilers and libraries. I got in
+touch with its author, who no longer was spending time on the program
+but gave me write access to the subversion repository on Sourceforge.
+The end result is that now the code build on Linux and is capable of
+saving and loading the collected frequency response data in CSV
+format. The application is quite nice and flexible, and I was able to
+select the input and output audio interfaces independently. This made
+it possible to use a USB mixer as the input source, while sending
+output via my laptop headphone connection. I lacked the hardware and
+cabling to figure out a different way to get independent cabling to
+speakers and microphone.</p>
+
+<p>Using this setup I could see how a large range of high frequencies
+apparently were not making it out of my speakers. The picture show
+the frequency response measurement of one of the speakers. Note the
+frequency lines seem to be slightly misaligned, compared to the CSV
+output from the program. I can not hear several of these are high
+frequencies, according to measurement from
+<a href="http://freehearingtestsoftware.com">Free Hearing Test
+Software</a>, an freeware system to measure your hearing (still
+looking for a free software alternative), so I do not know if they are
+coming out out the speakers. I thus do not quite know how to figure
+out if the missing frequencies is a problem with the microphone, the
+amplifier or the speakers, but I managed to rule out the audio card in my
+PC by measuring my Bose noise canceling headset using its own
+microphone. This setup was able to see the high frequency tones, so
+the problem with my stereo had to be in the amplifier or speakers.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, to try to role out one factor I ended up picking up a new
+set of speakers at a flee marked, and these work a lot better than the
+old speakers, so I guess the microphone and amplifier is OK. If you
+need to measure your own speakers, check out AUDMES. If more people
+get involved, perhaps the project could become good enough to
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/910876">include in Debian</a>? And if
+you know of some other free software to measure speakers and amplifier
+performance, please let me know. I am aware of the freeware option
+<a href="https://www.roomeqwizard.com/">REW</a>, but I want something
+that can be developed also when the vendor looses interest.</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
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
-Commons. This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
-from those around the globe making a living using Creative
-Commons.</p>
-
-<p>Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
-translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
-<a href="https://madewith.cc">Made with Creative Commons from 2017</a>
-was complete. The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
-Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work. Get in
-touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
-translate into your mother tongue.</p>
-
-<p>The whole book project started when
-<a href="http://gwolf.org/node/4102">Gunnar Wolf announced</a> that he
-was going to make a Spanish edition of the book. I noticed, and
-offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
-translating the
-<a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Free
-Culture</a> and
-<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian">The Debian
-Administrator's Handbook</a> books to Norwegian Bokmål. To make a
-long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
-first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
-Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself. The first
-proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
-reading remains. We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
-create a book cover. Once it is done we will publish the book on
-paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.</p>
-
-<p>The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
-downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
-The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
-using pandoc. The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
-is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators. The translated
-PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
-create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
-create the final PDF. The end result is a set of editions of the
-manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.</p>
-
-<p>The translation is conducted using
-<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/">the
-Weblate web based translation system</a>. Please have a look there
-and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
-reading. :)</p>
+ <title>Web browser integration of VLC with Bittorrent support</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Bittorrent is as far as I know, currently the most efficient way to
+distribute content on the Internet. It is used all by all sorts of
+content providers, from national TV stations like
+<a href="https://www.nrk.no/">NRK</a>, Linux distributors like
+<a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> and
+<a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, and of course the
+<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet archive</A>.
+
+<p>Almost a month ago
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">a new
+package adding Bittorrent support to VLC</a> became available in
+Debian testing and unstable. To test it, simply install it like
+this:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>Since the plugin was made available for the first time in Debian,
+several improvements have been made to it. In version 2.2-4, now
+available in both testing and unstable, a desktop file is provided to
+teach browsers to start VLC when the user click on torrent files or
+magnet links. The last part is thanks to me finally understanding
+what the strange x-scheme-handler style MIME types in desktop files
+are used for. By adding x-scheme-handler/magnet to the MimeType entry
+in the desktop file, at least the browsers Firefox and Chromium will
+suggest to start VLC when selecting a magnet URI on a web page. The
+end result is that now, with the plugin installed in Buster and Sid,
+one can visit any
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p">Internet
+Archive page with movies</a> using a web browser and click on the
+torrent link to start streaming the movie.</p>
+
+<p>Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin. One is the
+fact that it will hang and
+<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/13">block VLC
+from exiting until the torrent streaming starts</a>. Another is the
+fact that it
+<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/9">will pick
+and play a random file in a multi file torrent</a>. This is not
+always the video file you want. Combined with the first it can be a
+bit hard to get the video streaming going. But when it work, it seem
+to do a good job.</p>
+
+<p>For the Debian packaging, I would love to find a good way to test
+if the plugin work with VLC using autopkgtest. I tried, but do not
+know enough of the inner workings of VLC to get it working. For now
+the autopkgtest script is only checking if the .so file was
+successfully loaded by VLC. If you have any suggestions, please
+submit a patch to the Debian bug tracking system.</p>
<p>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>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
-choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
-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 align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img align="center" 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, some details of the
-content on the screen worries me.</p>
-
-<p>The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid',
-indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
-after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
-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>
+ <title>Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>This morning, the new release of the
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
+Noark 5 core project</a> was
+<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2018-October/000406.html">announced
+on the project mailing list</a>. The free software solution is an
+implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
+government offices in Norway. These were the changes in version 0.2
+since version 0.1.1 (from NEWS.md):
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix typos in REL names</li>
+ <li>Tidy up error message reporting</li>
+ <li>Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger()</li>
+ <li>Change some String handling to StringBuffer</li>
+ <li>Fix error reporting</li>
+ <li>Code tidy-up</li>
+ <li>Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid
+ race conditions</li>
+ <li>Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings</li>
+ <li>Update methods to make them null-safe</li>
+ <li>Fix many issues reported by coverity</li>
+ <li>Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model</li>
+ <li>Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes</li>
+ <li>Fix CORS issues when downloading document</li>
+ <li>Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload</li>
+ <li>Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS</li>
+ <li>Adding concept description of mail integration</li>
+ <li>Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost</li>
+ <li>Better handling of required values during deserialisation </li>
+ <li>Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime</li>
+ <li>Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors.</li>
+ <li>Improve parse error reporting.</li>
+ <li>Started on OData search and filtering.</li>
+ <li>Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project.</li>
+ <li>Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab.</li>
+ <li>Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/.</li>
+ <li>Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2.</li>
+ <li>Added support for OAuth2 authentication.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity.</li>
+ <li>Corrected handling of date/datetime fields.</li>
+ <li>Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin.</li>
+ <li>Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe,
+ ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse.</li>
+ <li>Several fixes for korrespondansepart*.</li>
+ <li>Updated web GUI:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Now handle both file upload and download.</li>
+ <li>Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login.</li>
+ <li>Forms now fetches default values from API using GET.</li>
+ <li>Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The changes and improvements are extensive. Running diffstat on
+the changes between git tab 0.1.1 and 0.2 show 1098 files changed,
+108666 insertions(+), 54066 deletions(-).</p>
+
+<p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
+you, please contact us on IRC
+(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
+irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
+(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
+mailing list</a>).</p>
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