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- <title>I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I just donated to the
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">NUUG defence
-"fond"</a> to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
-site popcorn-time.no tested in court. I hope everyone that agree with
-me will do the same.</p>
-
-<p>Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
-hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
-talking to a judge first? I am. What if the free software system
-combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
-and was called Popcorn Time? Would that affect your view? It still
-make me worried.</p>
-
-<p>In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
-change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
-police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
-the courts. I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
-the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
-that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
-permission first. I was even more surprised when I had a look at
-<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no">the web
-site content on the Internet Archive</A>, and only found news coverage
-about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
-holders permissions.</p>
-
-<p>The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
-example <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim">Hegnar Online</a> and
-<a href="http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/">ITavisen<a/>
-and
-<a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452">NRK</a>),
-at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
-on
-<a href="http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/">protests
-from the law professor Olav Torvund</a> and
-<a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995">lawyer
-Jon Wessel-Aas</a>. It even got some
-<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/">coverage
-on TorrentFreak</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
-wrote about the case a month ago</a>, when the
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> (NUUG),
-where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
-The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
-given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
-legally challenged. They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
-those that want to support the request.</p>
-
-<p>If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
-censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
-applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
-suggest you <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">show
-your support by donating to NUUG</a>.</a>
+ <title>The worlds only stone power plant?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power,
+solar power, and wood power are well known. Until a few days ago, I
+had never heard of stone power. Then I learn about a quarry in a
+mountain in
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i
+Norway, where
+<a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the
+Bremanger Quarry</a> company is extracting stone and dumping the stone
+into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour. This downward movement
+in this shaft is used to produce electricity. In short, it is using
+falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and
+according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is
+using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power
+grid. I find the concept truly amazing. Is this the worlds only
+stone power plant?</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
-<a href="http://zfsonlinux.org/">ZFS for Linux</a> finally entered
-Debian. The package status can be seen on
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux">the package tracker
-for zfs-linux</a>. and
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
-team status page</a>. If you want to help out, please join us.
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">The
-source code</a> is available via git on Alioth. It would also be
-great if you could help out with
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms">the dkms package</a>, as
-it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.</p>
+ <title>Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>My movie playing setup involve <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a>,
+<a href="https://openelec.tv">OpenELEC</a> (probably soon to be
+replaced with <a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a>) and an
+Infocus IN76 video projector. My projector can be controlled via both
+a infrared remote controller, and a RS-232 serial line. The vendor of
+my projector, <a href="https://www.infocus.com/">InFocus</a>, had been
+sensible enough to document the serial protocol in its user manual, so
+it is easily available, and I used it some years ago to write
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control">a
+small script to control the projector</a>. For a while now, I longed
+for a setup where the projector was controlled by Kodi, for example in
+such a way that when the screen saver went on, the projector was
+turned off, and when the screen saver exited, the projector was turned
+on again.</p>
+
+<p>A few days ago, with very good help from parts of my family, I
+managed to find a Kodi Add-on for controlling a Epson projector, and
+got in touch with its author to see if we could join forces and make a
+Add-on with support for several projectors. To my pleasure, he was
+positive to the idea, and we set out to add InFocus support to his
+add-on, and make the add-on suitable for the official Kodi add-on
+repository.</p>
+
+<p>The Add-on is now working (for me, at least), with a few minor
+adjustments. The most important change I do relative to the master
+branch in the github repository is embedding the
+<a href="https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial">pyserial module</a> in
+the add-on. The long term solution is to make a "script" type
+pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
+Kodi. But until that in place, I embed it.</p>
+
+<p>The add-on can be configured to turn on the projector when Kodi
+starts, off when Kodi stops as well as turn the projector off when the
+screensaver start and on when the screesaver stops. It can also be
+told to set the projector source when turning on the projector.
+
+<p>If this sound interesting to you, check out
+<a href="https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol">the
+project github repository</a>. Perhaps you can send patches to
+support your projector too? As soon as we find time to wrap up the
+latest changes, it should be available for easy installation using any
+Kodi instance.</p>
+
+<p>For future improvements, I would like to add projector model
+detection and the ability to adjust the brightness level of the
+projector from within Kodi. We also need to figure out how to handle
+the cooling period of the projector. My projector refuses to turn on
+for 60 seconds after it was turned off. This is not handled well by
+the add-on at the moment.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p><strong>Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
-Debian claim support for most file formats.</strong></p>
-
-<p>A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
-plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
-Edu. I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
-for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
-plugin supported most file formats / media types.
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">The
-result</a> can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
-not been updated for a while. But browser plugins are less relevant
-these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
-players.</p>
-
-<p>A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
-player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
-Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why. The cause is a
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/822245">missing MIME type in the VLC
-desktop file</a>. In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
-of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
-only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
-two for VLC. This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
-compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
-instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
-support most file formats.</p>
-
-<p>The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">a
-table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
-in the table</a>, with the package supporting most MIME types being
-listed first in the table.</p>
-
-</p>The best multimedia player in Debian? It is totem, followed by
-parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
-kmplayer. Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
-support?</p>
+ <title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I <a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS">VHS-kassettenes</a>
+tid var det rett frem å ta vare på et TV-program en ønsket å kunne se
+senere, uten å være avhengig av at programmet ble sendt på nytt.
+Kanskje ønsket en å se programmet på hytten der det ikke var
+TV-signal, eller av andre grunner ha det tilgjengelig for fremtidig
+fornøyelse. Dette er blitt vanskeligere med introduksjon av
+digital-TV og webstreaming, der opptak til harddisk er utenfor de
+flestes kontroll hvis de bruker ufri programvare og bokser kontrollert
+av andre. Men for NRK her i Norge, finnes det heldigvis flere fri
+programvare-alternativer, som jeg har
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">skrevet</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">om</a>
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html">før</a>.
+Så lenge kilden for nedlastingen er lovlig lagt ut på nett (hvilket
+jeg antar NRK gjør), så er slik lagring til privat bruk også lovlig i
+Norge.</p>
+
+<p>Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
+<a href="https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a> ikke kunne
+bake undertekster fra NRK inn i videofilene, og at jeg derfor
+foretrakk andre alternativer. Nylig oppdaget jeg at dette har endret
+seg. Fordelen med youtube-dl er at den er tilgjengelig direkte fra
+Linux-distribusjoner som <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
+og <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, slik at en slipper å
+finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.</p>
+
+<p>For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
+underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
+brukes:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
+ --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
+ https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no. Resultatet er en
+MP4-fil med filmen og undertekster som kan spilles av med VLC. Merk
+at VLC ikke viser frem undertekster før du aktiverer dem. For å gjøre
+det, høyreklikk med musa i fremviservinduet, velg menyvalget for
+undertekst og så norsk språk. Jeg testet også '--write-auto-sub',
+men det kommandolinjeargumentet ser ikke ut til å fungere, så jeg
+endte opp med settet med argumentlisten over, som jeg fant i en
+feilrapport i youtube-dl-prosjektets samling over feilrapporter.</p>
+
+<p>Denne støtten i youtube-dl gjør det svært enkelt å lagre
+NRK-innslag, det være seg nyheter, filmer, serier eller dokumentater,
+for å ha dem tilgjengelig for fremtidig referanse og bruk, uavhengig
+av hvor lenge innslagene ligger tilgjengelig hos NRK. Så får det ikke
+hjelpe at NRKs jurister mener at det er
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">vesensforskjellig
+å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming</a>, når det rent
+teknisk er samme sak.</p>
+
+<p>Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
+prosjektoversikten for
+<a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html">en
+komplett liste</a>.</p>
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- <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
-<a href="https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/">The Pyra</a>, a
-handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled. I
-would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)</p>
-
-<p>The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
-plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5"
-LCD touch screen. The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
-day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
-confirming this. The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
-last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
-production started.</p>
-
-<p>As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
-Debian. Please let me know if you know of any others. Is it the
-first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
+ <title>Stortingsflertallet går inn for ny IP-basert sensurinfrastruktur i Norge</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper">VG</a>,
+<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219">Dagbladet</a>
+og
+<a href="https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381">NRK</a>
+melder i dag at flertallet i Familie- og kulturkomiteen på Stortinget
+har bestemt seg for å introdusere en ny sensurinfrastruktur i Norge.
+Fra før har Norge en «frivillig» sensurinfrastruktur basert på
+DNS-navn, der de største ISP-ene basert på en liste med DNS-navn
+forgifter DNS-svar og omdirigerer til et annet IP-nummer enn det som
+ligger i DNS. Nå kommer altså IP-basert omdirigering i tillegg. Når
+infrastrukturen er på plass, er sensur av IP-adresser redusert et
+spørsmål om hvilke IP-nummer som skal blokkeres. Listen over
+IP-adresser vil naturligvis endre seg etter hvert som myndighetene
+endrer seg. Det er ingen betryggende tanke.</p>
</description>
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- <title>NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the Norwegian Unix User group</a>, a
-member association for those of us believing in free software, open
-standards and unix-like operating systems. NUUG announced today it
-will
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Pressemelding__NUUG_og_EFN_begj_rer_rettslig_pr_ving_for_DNS_domenebeslag_av_popcorn_time_no.shtml">try
-to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as
-unlawful</a>, to stand up for the principle that writing about a
-controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web
-pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the
-police. The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority
-for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
-a month ago. I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give
-the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far
-as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.</p>
+ <title>En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
+kriminelt å åpne andres brev. Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
+<a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205">§ 205
+(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)</a>, som sier at «Med
+bot eller fengsel inntil 2 år straffes den som uberettiget ... c)
+åpner brev eller annen lukket skriftlig meddelelse som er adressert
+til en annen, eller på annen måte skaffer seg uberettiget tilgang til
+innholdet.» Dette gjelder såvel postbud som alle andre som har
+befatning med brevet etter at avsender har befatning med et lukket
+brev. Tilsvarende står også tidligere utgaver av den norske
+straffeloven.</p>
+
+<p>Når en registrerer seg på usikre digitale postkasseløsningene, som
+f.eks. Digipost og e-Boks, og slik tar disse i bruk, så gir en de som
+står bak løsningene tillatelse til å åpne sine brev. Dette er
+nødvendig for at innholdet i digital post skal kunne vises frem til
+mottaker via tjenestens websider. Dermed gjelder ikke straffelovens
+paragraf om forbud mot å åpne brev, da tilgangen ikke lenger er
+uberettiget. En gir altså fremmede tilgang til å lese sin
+korrespondanse. I tillegg vil bruk av slike usikre digitale
+postbokser føre til at det blir registrert når du leser brevene, hvor
+du befinner deg (vha. tilkoblingens IP-adresse), hvilket utstyr du
+bruker og en rekke annen personlig informasjon som ikke er
+tilgjengelig når papirpost brukes. Jeg foretrekker at det er
+lovmessig beskyttelse av min korrespondanse, som jo inneholder privat
+og personlig informasjon. Det bidrar til litt bedre vern av personlig
+integritet i dagens norske samfunn.</p>
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- <title>Ny utgave (v2.2) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I dag tok jeg mot til meg og pakket sammen en ny versjon av den
-frie norske stavekontrollen, ca. tre og et halvt år etter forrige
-gang. Resultatet kan lastes ned fra
-<a href="http://no.speling.org/">no.speling.org-prosjeksiden</a>, både
-som kildekodepakke og som "pack"-fil som kanskje fortsatt kan brukes
-av OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice. Byggesystemet trenger oppussing, men i
-denne omgang hadde jeg bare tid til å fikse byggefeil forårsaket av
-endringer i GNU grep. De øvrige endringene var gjort tidligere i
-påvente av en ny utgave.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Her er det som er nytt (fra NEWS-fila i
-kildekodepakken):</strong></p>
-
-<p>Release 2.2 (2016-04-15)</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>Rewrite how scripts/speling2words handle tripple consonants, to
- avoid importing duplicate words from no.speling.org, and getting
- rid of the existing duplicates in norsk.words.</li>
- <li>Remove duplicate entries with tripple consonants from norsk.words.</li>
- <li>Update frequency for entries in norsk.words based on
- <URL:http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/ordlistf.zip> (ran 'make
- freq-update').</li>
- <li>Correct nn ispell build, avoid crash in munchlist causing lots of
- words to fall out of the database.</li>
- <li>Use grep -a to convince grep it is working on text files, to work
- with newer grep versions.</li>
-
- <li>Remove some words disputed in the no.speling.org review process:
- <ul>
- <li>apparent (nb)</li>
- <li>likke (nb)</li>
- <li>ugjest, ugjesten, ugjestens (nb)</li>
- </ul></li>
-
-</ul>
+ <title>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
+re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism. I
+am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
+<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people">sited
+by The Hill and others</a>:
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>"An American president does not lead the Free World by
+congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
+phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
+have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">kidnapped a
+completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
+Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
+sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year</a>.</p>
+
+<p>USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
+one taken by any Free World.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>I.F. Stone - an inspiration for us all</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I first got to know I.F. Stone when I came across an article by Jon
-Schwarz on The Intercept
-<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/new-documentary-legacy-f-stone/">about
-his extraordinary contribution to investigative journalism in
-USA</a>. The article is about a new documentary in two parts
-(<a href="https://vimeo.com/123974841">part one is 12 minutes</a> and
-<a href="https://vimeo.com/123974842">part two is 30 minutes</a>), and
-I found both truly fascinating. It is amazing what he was able to
-find by digging up public sources and government papers. He
-documented lots of government abuse and cover ups, and I find
-<a href="http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php">his weekly news letters</a>
-inspiring to read even today.</p>
+ <title>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
+(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
+mostly in the USA. What I find a bit surprising, is how little
+criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
+Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place. And what about the
+people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
+And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
+handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
+No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
+that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
+lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.</p>
-<p><blockquote>
-All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
-<br>- I. F. Stone
-</blockquote></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>His starting point was that reporters should not assume governments
-and corporations are telling the truth, but verify all their claims as
-much as possible. I wonder how many Norwegian reporters can be said
-to follow the principles of I. F. Stone. They are definitely in short
-supply. If you, like me half a year ago, have never heard of him,
-check him out.</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>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I'm happy to report that
-<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">the
-French paperback edition</a> of
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
-project to translate</a> the <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free
-Culture</a> book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on
-Lulu.com. Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which
-should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in
-book stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble too.</p>
-
-<p>This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the
-<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a> developer Benoît
-Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation
-available from
-<a href="http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre">the Wikilivres
-wiki pages</a> and completed and corrected the translation to match
-the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as
-coordinated the proof reading of the final result. I believe the end
-result look great, but I am biased and do not read French. In
-addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB
-and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.</p>
-
-<p>When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly
-triple the price to allow the book stores some profit. I also had to
-accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com.
-But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license
-(CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem. To bypass the problem I
-discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed
-that the revenue for these editions go to the
-<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons non-profit
-Corporation</a> who handle donations to the Creative Commons project.
-So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the
-<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">English</a>
-and
-<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Norwegian
-Bokmål</a> editions, according to Lulu.com. They will get the revenue
-for the French edition too. Their revenue is higher if you buy the
-book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I
-recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.</p>
-
-<p>Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language?
-The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the
-technical bar to enter is fairly low. Get in touch if you would like
-to make this happen.</p>
+ <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>
+
+<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>
</description>
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- <title>Lets make a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator's Handbook</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>During this weekends
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Oslo__Takk_for_feilfiksingsfesten.shtml">bug
-squashing party and developer gathering</a>, we decided to do our part
-to make sure there are good books about Debian available in Norwegian
-Bokmål, and got in touch with the people behind the
-<a href="http://debian-handbook.info/">Debian Administrator's Handbook
-project</a> to get started. If you want to help out, please start
-contributing using
-<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">the
-hosted weblate project page</a>, and get in touch using
-<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators">the
-translators mailing list</a>. Please also check out
-<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/">the instructions for
-contributors</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The book is already available on paper in English, French and
-Japanese, and our goal is to get it available on paper in Norwegian
-Bokmål too. In addition to the paper edition, there are also EPUB and
-Mobi versions available. And there are incomplete translations
-available for many more languages.</p>
+ <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>
+
+<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>One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Just for fun I had a look at the popcon number of ZFS related
-packages in Debian, and was quite surprised with what I found. I use
-ZFS myself at home, but did not really expect many others to do so.
-But I might be wrong.</p>
-
-<p>According to
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=spl-linux">the popcon
-results for spl-linux</a>, there are 1019 Debian installations, or
-0.53% of the population, with the package installed. As far as I know
-the only use of the spl-linux package is as a support library for ZFS
-on Linux, so I use it here as proxy for measuring the number of ZFS
-installation on Linux in Debian. In the kFreeBSD variant of Debian
-the ZFS feature is already available, and there
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=zfsutils">the popcon
-results for zfsutils</a> show 1625 Debian installations or 0.84% of
-the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.</p>
-
-<p>But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum
-<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00006.html">announced
-in April 2015</a> that the legal obstacles blocking ZFS on Debian were
-cleared, the package is still not in Debian. The package is again in
-the NEW queue. Several uploads have been rejected so far because the
-debian/copyright file was incomplete or wrong, but there is no reason
-to give up. The current status can be seen on
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
-team status page</a>, and
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">the
-source code</a> is available on Alioth.</p>
-
-<p>As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure
-my home server can function in the future using only official Debian
-packages, and the current blocker is to get the debian/copyright file
-accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try
-to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html">creating,
-updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically</a>, and I
-used the techniques I explored there to try to find any errors in the
-copyright file. It is not very easy to check every one of the around
-2000 files in the source package, but I hope we this time got it
-right. If you want to help out, check out the git source and try to
-find missing entries in the debian/copyright file.</p>
+ <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>
+
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+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
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