The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television, -CasparCG Server, 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 -the -casparcg-server package is only available for amd64, but I hope -this can be improved. The package is in contrib because it depend on -the non-free fdk-aac -library. 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 not available as a build -dependency, it is not yet possible to upload CEF to Debian. I -hope this will change in the future.
- -The reason I got involved is that -the Norwegian open channel -Frikanalen 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.
+ +Some years ago, in 2016, I +wrote +for the first time about the Ring peer to peer messaging system. +It would provide messaging without any central server coordinating the +system and without requiring all users to register a phone number or +own a mobile phone. Back then, I could not get it to work, and put it +aside until it had seen more development. A few days ago I decided to +give it another try, and am happy to report that this time I am able +to not only send and receive messages, but also place audio and video +calls. But only if UDP is not blocked into your network.
+ +The Ring system changed name earlier this year to +Jami. I +tried doing web search for 'ring' when I discovered it for the first +time, and can only applaud this change as it is impossible to find +something called Ring among the noise of other uses of that word. Now +you can search for 'jami' and this client and +the Jami system is the first hit at +least on duckduckgo.
+ +Jami will by default encrypt messages as well as audio and video +calls, and try to send them directly between the communicating parties +if possible. If this proves impossible (for example if both ends are +behind NAT), it will use a central SIP TURN server maintained by the +Jami project. Jami can also be a normal SIP client. If the SIP +server is unencrypted, the audio and video calls will also be +unencrypted. This is as far as I know the only case where Jami will +do anything without encryption.
+ +Jami is available for several platforms: Linux, Windows, MacOSX, +Android, iOS, and Android TV. It is included in Debian already. Jami +also work for those using F-Droid without any Google connections, +while Signal do not. +The +protocol is described in the Ring project wiki. The system uses a +distributed hash table (DHT) system (similar to BitTorrent) running +over UDP. On one of the networks I use, I discovered Jami failed to +work. I tracked this down to the fact that incoming UDP packages +going to ports 1-49999 were blocked, and the DHT would pick a random +port and end up in the low range most of the time. After talking to +the developers, I solved this by enabling the dhtproxy in the +settings, thus using TCP to talk to a central DHT proxy instead of + +peering directly with others. I've been told the developers are +working on allowing DHT to use TCP to avoid this problem. I also ran +into a problem when trying to talk to the version of Ring included in +Debian Stable (Stretch). Apparently the protocol changed between +beta2 and the current version, making these clients incompatible. +Hopefully the protocol will not be made incompatible in the +future.
+ +It is worth noting that while looking at Jami and its features, I +came across another communication platform I have not tested yet. The +Tox protocol +and family of Tox clients. It might +become the topic of a future blog post.
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A fun way to learn how to program -Python is to follow the -instructions in the book -"Learn to program -with Minecraft", 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 -Minetest.
- -There is a -Minetest module implementing the same API, making it possible to -use the Python programs coded to talk to Minecraft with Minetest too. -I -uploaded -this module 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 -the -packaging rules are currently located under 'unfinished' on -Salsa.
- -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.
- -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 -recipes -I found are only -working with a standalone Minecraft server setup. Are there any -options to use with the normal desktop version?
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+ +The first book I published, +Free Culture by Lawrence +Lessig, is still selling a few copies. Not a lot, but enough to +have contributed slightly over $500 to the Creative Commons Corporation +so far. All the profit is sent there. Most books are still sold via +Amazon (83 copies), with Ingram second (49) and Lulu (12) and Machette (7) as +minor channels. Bying directly from Lulu bring the largest cut to +Creative Commons. The English Edition sold 80 copies so far, the +French 59 copies, and Norwegian only 8 copies. Nothing impressive, +but nice to see the work we put down is still being appreciated. The +ebook edition is available for free from +Github.
+ +Title / language | +Quantity | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016 jan-jun | +2016 jul-dec | +2017 jan-jun | +2017 jul-dec | +2018 jan-jun | +2018 jul-dec | +2019 jan-may | +|
Culture Libre / French | +3 | +6 | +19 | +11 | +7 | +6 | +7 | +
Fri kultur / Norwegian | +7 | +1 | +0 | +0 | +0 | +0 | +0 | +
Free Culture / English | +14 | +27 | +16 | +9 | +3 | +7 | +3 | +
Total | +24 | +34 | +35 | +20 | +10 | +13 | +10 | +
It is fun to see the French edition being more popular than the +English one.
+ +If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native +language, I would be happy to help make it happen. Please get in +touch.
A few hours ago, a new and improved version (2.4) of -the VLC -bittorrent plugin 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:
- --apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent -- -
After it is installed, you can try to use it to play a file -downloaded live via bittorrent like this: - -
-vlc https://archive.org/download/Glass_201703/Glass_201703_archive.torrent -+ +
Just 15 days ago,
+
I am very happy to see all of this fall into place, for use by +the +Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt implementations.
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@@ -159,55 +224,76 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my addressFNs -menneskerettighetserklæring artikkel 13 første punkt lyder som -følger:
- --Enhver har rett til å bevege seg fritt og til fritt å velge -oppholdssted innenfor en stats grenser. -- -
Det er altsÃ¥ en menneskerett Ã¥ kunne bevege seg fritt i landet. -For Ã¥ bevege seg fritt i landet, sÃ¥ mÃ¥ en kunne bevege seg uten Ã¥ bli -sporet. Det vil i dagens samfunn innebære Ã¥ bevege seg uten Ã¥ legge -igjen digitale spor og uten Ã¥ være radiomerket. Hvis en vet at ens -bevegelser, hvor en befinner seg nÃ¥r, og hvem som befinner seg i -nærheten, blir samlet inn og gjort tilgjengelig for fremmede, det være -seg myndighetene eller private organisasjoner, sÃ¥ kan en ikke lenger -bevege seg fritt. Dette gjør at det er en forutsetning for Ã¥ ha glede -av retten til Ã¥ bevege seg fritt i landet at en motstÃ¥r fristelsen til -Ã¥ legge igjen digitale spor nÃ¥r en betaler for seg. Rettigheter som -ikke blir brukt, blir fjernet. Den eneste mÃ¥ten i dag Ã¥ unngÃ¥ Ã¥ legge -igjen digitale spor nÃ¥r en betaler for seg, er Ã¥ betale med kontanter, -samt takke nei til Ã¥ legge igjen navn og adresse (slik f.eks. Elkjøp -ber om — jeg sier de kan legge inn «anonym anonym» nÃ¥r -datasystemet deres trenger et navn). Personlig anbefaler jeg Ã¥ -konsekvent bruke kontant betaling nÃ¥r man beveger seg rundt, for Ã¥ -bidra til forsvaret av menneskerettighetene i Norge. Kanskje noe ogsÃ¥ -for deg? Merk at det ikke er tilstrekkelig for Ã¥ unngÃ¥ sporing Ã¥ -betale med kontanter, men det er et lite steg i riktig retning.
- -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 -kontantløst -diktatur som venter oss hvis mange nok slutter å insistere på å -betale med kontanter. Jeg anbefaler deg å lese den.
+ +A while back a college and friend from Debian and the Skolelinux / +Debian Edu project approached me, asking if I knew someone that might +be interested in helping out with a technology project he was running +as a teacher at L'école +franco-danoise - the Danish-French school and kindergarden. The +kids were building robots, rovers. The story behind it is to build a +rover for use +on +the dark side of the moon, and remote control it. As travel cost +was a bit high for the final destination, and they wanted to test the +concept first, he was looking for volunteers to host a rover for the +kids to control in a foreign country. I ended up volunteering as a +host, and last week the rover arrived. It took a while to arrive +after it was +built and shipped, because of customs confusion. Luckily we were +able fix it quickly with help from my colleges at work.
+ +This is what it looked like when the rover arrived. Note the cute +eyes looking up on me from the wrapping
+ +


Once the robot arrived, we needed to track +down batteries and figure out how to build custom firmware for it with +the appropriate wifi settings. I asked a friend if I could get two +18650 batteries from his pile of Tesla batteries (he had them from the +wrack of a crashed Tesla), so now the rover is running on Tesla +batteries.
+ +Building +the rover +firmware proved a bit harder, as the code did not work out of the +box with the Arduino IDE package in Debian Buster. I suspect this is +due to a unsolved + license problem +with arduino blocking Debian from upgrading to the latest version. +In the end we gave up debugging why the IDE failed to find the +required libraries, and ended up using the Arduino Makefile from the +arduino-mk Debian +package instead. Unfortunately the camera library is missing from +the Arduino environment in Debian, so we disabled the camera support +for the first firmware build, to get something up and running. With +this reduced firmware, the robot could be controlled via the +controller server, driving around and measuring distance using its +internal acoustic sensor.
+ +Next, With some help from my friend in Denmark, which checked in the +camera library into the gitlab repository for me to use, we were able +to build a new and more complete version of the firmware, and the +robot is now up and running. This is what the "commander" web page +look like after taking a measurement and a snapshot:
+ +
If you want to learn more about this project, you can check out the +The +Dark Side Challenge Hackaday web pages.
-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 -15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b. -Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching on Frikanalen the OWASP -talk by Scott Helme titled -"What Weâve Learned From -Billions of Security Reports". I had not heard of the -Content -Security Policy standard 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.
- -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 -enabling -the attack reported by Scott Helme earlier this year.
- -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 -standardized under W3C these -days, and is supposed by most web browsers
- -I managed to find a -Django middleware for implementing CSP 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.
+ +This morning, a new release of +Nikita +Noark 5 core project was +announced +on the project mailing list. The Nikita 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 0.4 +since version 0.3, see the email link above for links to a demo site:
+ +-
+
+
- Roll out OData handling to all endpoints where applicable +
- Changed the relation key for "ny-journalpost" to the official one. +
- Better link generation on outgoing links. +
- Tidy up code and make code and approaches more consistent throughout + the codebase +
- Update rels to be in compliance with updated version in the + interface standard +
- Avoid printing links on empty objects as they can't have links +
- Small bug fixes and improvements +
- Start moving generation of outgoing links to @Service layer so access + control can be used when generating links +
- Log exception that was being swallowed so it's traceable +
- Fix name mapping problem +
- Update templated printing so templated should only be printed if it + is set true. Requires more work to roll out across entire + application. +
- Remove Record->DocumentObject as per domain model of n5v4 +
- Add ability to delete lists filtered with OData +
- Return NO_CONTENT (204) on delete as per interface standard +
- Introduce support for ConstraintViolationException exception +
- Make Service classes extend NoarkService +
- Make code base respect X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Proto and + X-Forwarded-Port +
- Update CorrespondencePart* code to be more in line with Single + Responsibility Principle +
- Make package name follow directory structure +
- Make sure Document number starts at 1, not 0 +
- Fix isues discovered by FindBugs +
- Update from Date to ZonedDateTime +
- Fix wrong tablename +
- Introduce Service layer tests +
- Improvements to CorrespondencePart +
- Continued work on Class / Classificationsystem +
- Fix feature where authors were stored as storageLocations +
- Update HQL builder for OData +
- Update OData search capability from webpage + +
If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to +you, please contact us on IRC +(#nikita on +irc.freenode.net) or email +(nikita-noark +mailing list).
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@@ -261,37 +375,50 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my addressIf you read my blog regularly, you probably know I am involved in -running and developing the Norwegian -TV channel Frikanalen. 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 -new -and improved version 0.0.3 Frikanalen addon 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 CasparCG -output look like. The alternative is the SD video stream, generated -using MLT. CasparCG is controlled by our -mltplayout -server which instead of talking to mlt is giving PLAY instructions -to the CasparCG server when it is time to start a new program.
- -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 NUUG, -Debconf, Makercon, and TED, -but there are also some periods with -EMPT TV and -P7. +
+As part of my involvement in the work to +standardise +a REST based API for Noark 5, the Norwegian archiving standard, I +spent some time the last few months to try to register a +MIME type +and PRONOM +code for the SOSI file format. The background is that there is a +set of formats approved for long term storage and archiving in Norway, +and among these formats, SOSI is the only format missing a MIME type +and PRONOM code.
+ +What is SOSI, you might ask? To quote Wikipedia: SOSI is short for +Samordnet Opplegg for Stedfestet Informasjon (literally "Coordinated +Approach for Spatial Information", but more commonly expanded in +English to Systematic Organization of Spatial Information). It is a +text based file format for geo-spatial vector information used in +Norway. Information about the SOSI format can be found in English +from Wikipedia. The +specification is available in Norwegian from +the +Norwegian mapping authority. The SOSI standard, which originated +in the beginning of nineteen eighties, was the inspiration and formed the +basis for the XML based +Geography +Markup Language.
+ +I have so far written +a pattern matching +rule for the file(1) unix tool to recognize SOSI files, submitted +a request to the PRONOM project to have a PRONOM ID assigned to the +format (reference TNA1555078202S60), and today send a request to IANA +to register the "text/vnd.sosi" MIME type for this format (referanse +IANA +#1143144). If all goes well, in a few months, anyone implementing +the Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt API spesification should be able to +use an official MIME type and PRONOM code for SOSI files. In +addition, anyone using SOSI files on Linux should be able to +automatically recognise the format and web sites handing out SOSI +files can begin providing a more specific MIME type. So far, SOSI +files has been handed out from web sites using the +"application/octet-stream" MIME type, which is just a nice way of +stating "I do not know". Soon, we will know. :)
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@@ -308,33 +435,146 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my addressAs part of my involvement in -the Nikita -archive API project, 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 my -notmuch email database, 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 -an -official MIME type 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.
- -To try to get one official MIME type for these files, I've brought -up the topic on -the -media-types mailing list. 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?
+ +As part of my involvement with the +Nikita +Noark 5 core project, I have been proposing improvements to the +API specification created by The +National Archives of Norway and helped migrating the text from a +version control system unfriendly binary format (docx) to Markdown in +git. Combined with the migration to a public git repository (on +github), this has made it possible for anyone to suggest improvement +to the text.
+ +The specification is filled with UML diagrams. I believe the +original diagrams were modelled using Sparx Systems Enterprise +Architect, and exported as EMF files for import into docx. This +approach make it very hard to track changes using a version control +system. To improve the situation I have been looking for a good text +based UML format with associated command line free software tools on +Linux and Windows, to allow anyone to send in corrections to the UML +diagrams in the specification. The tool must be text based to work +with git, and command line to be able to run it automatically to +generate the diagram images. Finally, it must be free software to +allow anyone, even those that can not accept a non-free software +license, to contribute.
+ +I did not know much about free software UML modelling tools when I +started. I have used dia and inkscape for simple modelling in the +past, but neither are available on Windows, as far as I could tell. I +came across a nice +list +of text mode uml tools, and tested out a few of the tools listed +there. The PlantUML tool seemed +most promising. After verifying that the packages +is available in +Debian and found its +Java source under a GPL license on github, I set out to test if it +could represent the diagrams we needed, ie the ones currently in +the +Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt specification. I am happy to report +that it could represent them, even thought it have a few warts here +and there.
+ +After a few days of modelling I completed the task this weekend. A +temporary link to the complete set of diagrams (original and from +PlantUML) is available in +the +github issue discussing the need for a text based UML format, but +please note I lack a sensible tool to convert EMF files to PNGs, so +the "original" rendering is not as good as the original was in the +publised PDF.
+ +Here is an example UML diagram, showing the core classes for +keeping metadata about archived documents:
+ ++@startuml +skinparam classAttributeIconSize 0 + +!include media/uml-class-arkivskaper.iuml +!include media/uml-class-arkiv.iuml +!include media/uml-class-klassifikasjonssystem.iuml +!include media/uml-class-klasse.iuml +!include media/uml-class-arkivdel.iuml +!include media/uml-class-mappe.iuml +!include media/uml-class-merknad.iuml +!include media/uml-class-registrering.iuml +!include media/uml-class-basisregistrering.iuml +!include media/uml-class-dokumentbeskrivelse.iuml +!include media/uml-class-dokumentobjekt.iuml +!include media/uml-class-konvertering.iuml +!include media/uml-datatype-elektronisksignatur.iuml + +Arkivstruktur.Arkivskaper "+arkivskaper 1..*" <-o "+arkiv 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Arkiv +Arkivstruktur.Arkiv o--> "+underarkiv 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Arkiv +Arkivstruktur.Arkiv "+arkiv 1" o--> "+arkivdel 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Arkivdel +Arkivstruktur.Klassifikasjonssystem "+klassifikasjonssystem [0..1]" <--o "+arkivdel 1..*" Arkivstruktur.Arkivdel +Arkivstruktur.Klassifikasjonssystem "+klassifikasjonssystem [0..1]" o--> "+klasse 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Klasse +Arkivstruktur.Arkivdel "+arkivdel 0..1" o--> "+mappe 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Mappe +Arkivstruktur.Arkivdel "+arkivdel 0..1" o--> "+registrering 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Registrering +Arkivstruktur.Klasse "+klasse 0..1" o--> "+mappe 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Mappe +Arkivstruktur.Klasse "+klasse 0..1" o--> "+registrering 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Registrering +Arkivstruktur.Mappe --> "+undermappe 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Mappe +Arkivstruktur.Mappe "+mappe 0..1" o--> "+registrering 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Registrering +Arkivstruktur.Merknad "+merknad 0..*" <--* Arkivstruktur.Mappe +Arkivstruktur.Merknad "+merknad 0..*" <--* Arkivstruktur.Dokumentbeskrivelse +Arkivstruktur.Basisregistrering -|> Arkivstruktur.Registrering +Arkivstruktur.Merknad "+merknad 0..*" <--* Arkivstruktur.Basisregistrering +Arkivstruktur.Registrering "+registrering 1..*" o--> "+dokumentbeskrivelse 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Dokumentbeskrivelse +Arkivstruktur.Dokumentbeskrivelse "+dokumentbeskrivelse 1" o-> "+dokumentobjekt 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Dokumentobjekt +Arkivstruktur.Dokumentobjekt *-> "+konvertering 0..*" Arkivstruktur.Konvertering +Arkivstruktur.ElektroniskSignatur -[hidden]-> Arkivstruktur.Dokumentobjekt +@enduml ++ +
The format is quite +compact, with little redundant information. The text expresses +entities and relations, and there is little layout related fluff. One +can reuse content by using include files, allowing for consistent +naming across several diagrams. The include files can be standalone +PlantUML too. Here is the content of +media/uml-class-arkivskaper.iuml:
+ ++@startuml +class Arkivstruktur.Arkivskaper+ +{ + +arkivskaperID : string + +arkivskaperNavn : string + +beskrivelse : string [0..1] +} +@enduml +
This is what the complete diagram for the PlantUML notation above +look like:
+ +A cool feature of PlantUML is that the generated PNG files include +the entire original source diagram as text. The source (with include +statements expanded) can be extracted using for example +exiftool. Another cool feature is that parts of the entities +can be hidden after inclusion. This allow to use include files with +all attributes listed, even for UML diagrams that should not list any +attributes.
+ +The diagram also show some of the warts. Some times the layout +engine place text labels on top of each other, and some times it place +the class boxes too close to each other, not leaving room for the +labels on the relationship arrows. The former can be worked around by +placing extra newlines in the labes (ie "\n"). I did not do it here +to be able to demonstrate the issue. I have not found a good way +around the latter, so I normally try to reduce the problem by changing +from vertical to horizontal links to improve the layout.
+ +All in all, I am quite happy with PlantUML, and very impressed with +how quickly its lead developer responds to questions. So far I got an +answer to my questions in a few hours when I send an email. I +definitely recommend looking at PlantUML if you need to make UML +diagrams. Note, PlantUML can draw a lot more than class relations. +Check out the documention for a complete list. :)
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@@ -351,70 +591,47 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my addressMy 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 -Speaker -Testing and Analysis describing how to test speakers, and it listing -several software options, among them -AUDio MEasurement -System (AUDMES). 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 -Understanding -Speaker Specifications and Frequency Response and an article from -ecoustics on -Understanding -Speaker Frequency Response, 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.
- -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.
- -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 -Free Hearing Test -Software, 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.
- -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 -include in Debian? 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 -REW, but I want something -that can be developed also when the vendor looses interest.
+ +Yesterday, a new release of +Nikita +Noark 5 core project was +announced +on the project mailing list. 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 0.3 +since version 0.2.1 (from NEWS.md):
+ +-
+
- Improved ClassificationSystem and Class behaviour. +
- Tidied up known inconsistencies between domain model and hateaos links. +
- Added experimental code for blockchain integration. +
- Make token expiry time configurable at upstart from properties file. +
- Continued work on OData search syntax. +
- Started work on pagination for entities, partly implemented for Saksmappe. +
- Finalise ClassifiedCode Metadata entity. +
- Implement mechanism to check if authentication token is still + valid. This allow the GUI to return a more sensible message to the + user if the token is expired. +
- Reintroduce browse.html page to allow user to browse JSON API using + hateoas links. +
- Fix bug in handling file/mappe sequence number. Year change was + not properly handled. +
- Update application yml files to be in sync with current development. +
- Stop 'converting' everything to PDF using libreoffice. Only + convert the file formats doc, ppt, xls, docx, pptx, xlsx, odt, odp + and ods. +
- Continued code style fixing, making code more readable. +
- Minor bug fixes. + +
If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to +you, please contact us on IRC +(#nikita on +irc.freenode.net) or email +(nikita-noark +mailing list).
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@@ -431,67 +648,183 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my addressBittorrent 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 -NRK, Linux distributors like -Debian and -Ubuntu, and of course the -Internet archive. - -
Almost a month ago -a new -package adding Bittorrent support to VLC became available in -Debian testing and unstable. To test it, simply install it like -this:
- --apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent -- -
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 -Internet -Archive page with movies using a web browser and click on the -torrent link to start streaming the movie.
- -Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin. One is the -fact that it will hang and -block VLC -from exiting until the torrent streaming starts. Another is the -fact that it -will pick -and play a random file in a multi file torrent. 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.
- -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.
- -As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my -activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address -15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.
+ +Et virksomhetsarkiv for meg, er et arbeidsverktøy der en enkelt kan +finne informasjonen en trenger når en trenger det, og der +virksomhetens samlede kunnskap er tilgjengelig. Det må være greit å +finne frem i, litt som en bibliotek. Men der et bibliotek gjerne tar +vare på offentliggjort informasjon som er tilgjengelig flere steder, +tar et arkiv vare på virksomhetsintern og til tider personlig +informasjon som ofte kun er tilgjengelig fra et sted.
+ +Jeg mistenker den eneste måten å sikre at arkivet inneholder den +samlede kunnskapen i en virksomhet, er å bruke det som virksomhetens +kunnskapslager. Det innebærer å automatisk kopiere (brev, epost, +SMS-er etc) inn i arkivet når de sendes og mottas, og der filtrere +vekk det en ikke vil ta vare på, og legge på metadata om det som er +samlet inn for enkel gjenfinning. En slik bruk av arkivet innebærer at +arkivet er en del av daglig virke, ikke at det er siste hvilested for +informasjon ingen lenger har daglig bruk for. For å kunne være en del +av det daglige virket må arkivet enkelt kunne integreres med andre +systemer. I disse dager betyr det å tilby arkivet som en +nett-tjeneste til hele virksomheten, tilgjengelig for både mennesker +og datamaskiner. Det betyr i tur å både tilby nettsider og et +maskinlesbart grensesnitt.
+ +For noen år siden erkjente visjonære arkivarer fordelene med et +standardisert maskinlesbart grensesnitt til organisasjonens arkiv. De +gikk igang med å lage noe de kalte +Noark +5 Tjenestegrensesnitt. Gjort riktig, så åpner slike maskinlesbare +grensesnitt for samvirke på tvers av uavhengige programvaresystemer. +Gjort feil, vil det blokkere for samvirke og bidra til +leverandørinnlåsing. For å gjøre det riktig så må grensesnittet være +klart og entydig beskrevet i en spesifikasjon som gjør at +spesifikasjonen tolkes på samme måte uavhengig av hvem som leser den, +og uavhengig av hvem som tar den i bruk.
+ +For å oppnå klare og entydige beskrivelser i en spesifikasjon, som +trengs for å kunne få en fri og åpen standard (se +Digistan-definisjon), +så trengs det en åpen og gjennomsiktig inngangsport med lav terskel, +der de som forsøker å ta den i bruk enkelt kan få inn korreksjoner, +etterlyse klargjøringer og rapportere uklarheter i spesifikasjonen. +En trenger også automatiserte datasystemer som måler og sjekker at et +gitt grensesnitt fungerer i tråd med spesifikasjonen.
+ +For Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnittet er det nå etablert en slik åpen +og gjennomsiktig inngangsport på prosjekttjenesten github. Denne +inngangsporten består først og fremst av en åpen portal som lar enhver +se hva som er gjort av endringer i spesifikasjonsteksten over tid, men +det hører også med et åpent "diskusjonsforum" der en kan +komme med endringsforslag og forespørsler om klargjøringer. Alle +registrerte brukere på github kan bidra med innspill til disse +henvendelsene.
+ +I samarbeide med Arkivverket har jeg fått opprettet et git-depot +med spesifikasjonsteksten for tjenestegrensesnittet, der det er lagt +inn historikk for endringer i teksten de siste årene, samt lagt inn +endringsforslag og forespørsler om klargjøring av teksten. Bakgrunnen +for at jeg bidro med dette er at jeg er involvert i +Nikita-prosjektet, +som lager en fri programvare-utgave av Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt. +Det er først når en forsøker å lage noe i tråd med en spesifikasjon at +en oppdager hvor mange detaljer som må beskrives i spesifikasjonen for +å sikre samhandling.
+ +Spesifikasjonen vedlikeholdes i et rent tekstformat, for å ha et +format egnet for versjonskontroll via versjontrollsystemet git. Dette +gjør det både enkelt å se konkret hvilke endringer som er gjort når, +samt gjør det praktisk mulig for enhver med github-konto å sende inn +endringsforslag med formuleringer til spesifikasjonsteksten. Dette +tekstformatet vises frem som nettsider på github, slik at en ikke +trenger spesielle verktøy for å se på siste utgave av +spesifikasjonen.
+ +Fra dette rene tekstformatet kan det så avledes ulike formater, som +HTML for websider, PDF for utskrift på papir og ePub for lesing med +ebokleser. Avlednings-systemet (byggesystemet) bruker i dag +verktøyene pandoc, latex, docbook-xsl og GNU make til +transformasjonen. Tekstformatet som brukes dag er +Markdown, men det vurderes +å +endre +til formatet RST i fremtiden for bedre styring av utseende på +PDF-utgaven.
+ +Versjonskontrollsystemet git ble valgt da det er både fleksibelt, +avansert og enkelt å ta i bruk. Github ble valgt (foran f.eks. Gitlab +som vi bruker i Nikita), da Arkivverket allerede hadde tatt i bruk +Github i andre sammenhenger.
+ +Enkle endringer i teksten kan gjøres av priviligerte brukere +direkte i nettsidene til Github, ved å finne aktuell fil som skal +endres (f.eks. kapitler/03-konformitet.md), klikke på den lille +bokstaven i høyre hjørne over teksten. Det kommer opp en nettside der +en kan endre teksten slik en ønsker. Når en er fornøyd med endringen +så må endringen "sjekkes inn" i historikken. Det gjøres ved +å gi en kort beskrivelse av endringen (beskriv helst hvorfor endringen +trengs, ikke hva som er endret), under overskriften "Commit +changes". En kan og bør legge inn en lengre forklaring i det +større skrivefeltet, før en velger om endringen skal sendes direkte +til 'master'-grenen (dvs. autorativ utgave av spesifikasjonen) eller +om en skal lage en ny gren for denne endringen og opprette en +endringsforespørsel (aka "Pull Request"/PR). Når alt dette +er gjort kan en velge "Commit changes" for å sende inn +endringen. Hvis den er lagt inn i "master"-grenen så er den +en offisiell del av spesifikasjonen med en gang. Hvis den derimot er +en endringsforespørsel, så legges den inn i +listen +over forslag til endringer som venter på korrekturlesing og +godkjenning.
+ +Større endringer (for eksempel samtidig endringer i flere filer) +gjøres enklest ved å hente ned en kopi av git-depoet lokalt og gjøre +endringene der før endringsforslaget sendes inn. Denne prosessen er +godt beskrivet i dokumentasjon fra github. Git-prosjektet som skal +"klones" er +https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard/.
+ +For å registrere nye utfordringer (issues) eller kommentere på +eksisterende utfordringer benyttes nettsiden +https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard/issues. +I skrivende stund er det 48 åpne og 11 avsluttede utfordringer. Et +forslag til hva som bør være med når en beskriver en utfordring er +tilgjengelig som utfordring +#14.
+ +For å bygge en PDF-utgave av spesifikasjonen så bruker jeg i dag en +Debian GNU/Linux-maskin med en rekke programpakker installert. Når +dette er på plass, så holder det å kjøre kommandoen 'make pdf html' på +kommandolinjen, vente ca. 20 sekunder, før spesifikasjon.pdf og +spesifikasjon.html ligger klar på disken. Verktøyene for bygging av +PDF, HTML og ePub-utgave er også tilgjengelig på Windows og +MacOSX.
+ +Github bidrar med rammeverket. Men for at åpent vedlikehold av +spesifikasjonen skal fungere, så trengs det folk som bidrar med sin +tid og kunnskap. Arkivverket har sagt de skal bidra med innspill og +godkjenne forslag til endringer, men det blir størst suksess hvis alle +som bruker og lager systemer basert på Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt +bidrar med sin kunnskap og kommer med forslag til forebedringer. Jeg +stiller. Blir du med?
+ +Det er viktig å legge til rette for åpen diskusjon blant alle +interesserte, som ikke krever at en må godta lange kontrakter med +vilkår for deltagelse. Inntil Arkivverket dukker opp på IRC har vi +laget en IRC-kanal der interesserte enkelt kan orientere seg og +diskutere tjenestegrensesnittet. Alle er velkommen til å ta turen +innom +#nikita +(f.eks. via irc.freenode.net) for å møte likesinnede.
+ +Det holder dog ikke å ha en god spesifikasjon, hvis ikke de som tar +den i bruk gjør en like god jobb. For å automatisk teste om et konkret +tjenestegrensesnitt følger (min) forståelse av +spesifikasjonsdokumentet, har jeg skrevet et program som kobler seg +opp til et Noark 5v4 REST-tjeneste og tester alt den finner for å se +om det er i henhold til min tolkning av spesifikasjonen. Dette +verktøyet er tilgjengelig fra +https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester, +og brukes daglig mens vi utvikler Nikita for å sikre at vi ikke +introduserer nye feil. Hvis en skal sikre samvirke på tvers av ulike +systemer er det helt essensielt å kunne raskt og automatisk sjekke at +tjenestegrensesnittet oppfører seg som forventet. Jeg håper andre som +lager sin utgave av tjenestegrensesnittet vi bruke dette verktøyet, +slik at vi tidlig og raskt kan oppdage hvor vi har tolket +spesifikasjonen ulikt, og dermed få et godt grunnlag for å gjøre +spesifikasjonsteksten enda klarere og bedre.
+ +Dagens beskrivelse av Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt er et svært godt +utgangspunkt for å gjøre virksomhetens arkiv til et dynamisk og +sentralt arbeidsverktøy i organisasjonen. Blir du med å gjøre den +enda bedre?
This morning, the new release of the -Nikita -Noark 5 core project was -announced -on the project mailing list. 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): - -
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- Fix typos in REL names -
- Tidy up error message reporting -
- Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger() -
- Change some String handling to StringBuffer -
- Fix error reporting -
- Code tidy-up -
- Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid - race conditions -
- Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings -
- Update methods to make them null-safe -
- Fix many issues reported by coverity -
- Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model -
- Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes -
- Fix CORS issues when downloading document -
- Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload -
- Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS -
- Adding concept description of mail integration -
- Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost -
- Better handling of required values during deserialisation -
- Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime -
- Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors. -
- Improve parse error reporting. -
- Started on OData search and filtering. -
- Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project. -
- Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab. -
- Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/. -
- Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2. -
- Added support for OAuth2 authentication. -
- Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity. -
- Corrected handling of date/datetime fields. -
- Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin. -
- Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe, - ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse. -
- Several fixes for korrespondansepart*. -
- Updated web GUI:
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- Now handle both file upload and download. -
- Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login. -
- Forms now fetches default values from API using GET. -
- Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats. -
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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(-).
- -If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to -you, please contact us on IRC -(#nikita on -irc.freenode.net) or email -(nikita-noark -mailing list).
+ +For +syv år siden oppdaget jeg at billettautomater for +kollektivtrafikken i Oslo kjørte +Windows 2000 +Professional. Operativsystemet har ikke fått sikkerhetsfikser fra +Microsoft siden 2010-07-13 i følge dem selv. Den samme versjonen av +operativsystemet var i bruk +for +to og et halvt år siden, og jammen er det ikke også i bruk den dag +i dag:
+ + + +Bildet er tatt i dag av Kirill Miazine og tilgjengelig for bruk med +bruksvilkårene til +Creative +Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
+ +Kanskje det hadde vært +bedre +med gratis kollektivtrafikk, slik at vi slapp å stole på +datakompetansen til Ruter for å verne våre privatliv samt holde +personopplysninger og betalingsinformasjon unna uvedkommende. Eneste +måten å sikre at hvor en befinner seg ikke kan hentes ut fra Ruters +systemer er å betale enkeltbilletter med kontanter. Jeg vet at Ruter +har en god historie om hvor personvernvennlige mobil-app og +RFID-kortene er, men den historien er ikke mulig å uavhengig +kontrollere uten priviligert tilgang til interne system og blir dermed +bare nok en god historie basert på tillit til de som forteller +historien. Det er ikke slik en sikrer privatsfæren. Det gjør en ved +å sikre at det ikke (kan) registreres informasjon om ens person.
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