X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/5b378f4bd14aa68586b252bd11737fc48e46157b..b0e0987d30dc410df79d1033c314e2dbbf4fb26f:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index d9f699704d..0465482870 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,41 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + How does it feel to be wiretapped, when you should be doing the wiretapping... + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_does_it_feel_to_be_wiretapped__when_you_should_be_doing_the_wiretapping___.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_does_it_feel_to_be_wiretapped__when_you_should_be_doing_the_wiretapping___.html + Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:50:00 +0100 + <p>So the new president in the United States of America claim to be +surprised to discover that he was wiretapped during the election +before he was elected president. He even claim this must be illegal. +Well, doh, if it is one thing the confirmations from Snowden +documented, it is that the entire population in USA is wiretapped, one +way or another. Of course the president candidates were wiretapped, +alongside the senators, judges and the rest of the people in USA.</p> + +<p>Next, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ask the Department of +Justice to go public rejecting the claims that Donald Trump was +wiretapped illegally. I fail to see the relevance, given that I am +sure the surveillance industry in USA according to themselves believe +they have all the legal backing they need to conduct mass surveillance +on the entire world.</p> + +<p>There is even the director of the FBI stating that he never saw an +order requesting wiretapping of Donald Trump. That is not very +surprising, given how the FISA court work, with all its activity being +secret. Perhaps he only heard about it?</p> + +<p>What I find most sad in this story is how Norwegian journalists +present it. In a news reports the other day in the radio from the +Norwegian National broadcasting Company (NRK), I heard the journalist +claim that 'the FBI denies any wiretapping', while the reality is that +'the FBI denies any illegal wiretapping'. There is a fundamental and +important difference, and it make me sad that the journalists are +unable to grasp it.</p> + + + Norwegian Bokmål translation of The Debian Administrator's Handbook complete, proofreading in progress http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html @@ -26,7 +61,7 @@ to be translated. If you want to help out, get in touch.</p> fresh PDF edition</a> in A4 format (the final book will have smaller pages) of the book created every morning is available for proofreading. If you find any errors, please -<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/debian-handbook/">visit +<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">visit Weblate and correct the error</a>. The <a href="http://l.github.io/debian-handbook/stat/nb-NO/index.html">state of the translation including figures</a> is a useful source for those @@ -586,97 +621,6 @@ it make sense to split different entry types into separate files or not. The program is thus likely to change. If you find it interesting, please get in touch. :)</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&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> - - - - - Appstream just learned how to map hardware to packages too! - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Appstream_just_learned_how_to_map_hardware_to_packages_too_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Appstream_just_learned_how_to_map_hardware_to_packages_too_.html - Fri, 23 Dec 2016 10:30:00 +0100 - <p>I received a very nice Christmas present today. As my regular -readers probably know, I have been working on the -<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">the Isenkram -system</a> for many years. The goal of the Isenkram system is to make -it easier for users to figure out what to install to get a given piece -of hardware to work in Debian, and a key part of this system is a way -to map hardware to packages. Isenkram have its own mapping database, -and also uses data provided by each package using the AppStream -metadata format. And today, -<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/appstream">AppStream</a> in -Debian learned to look up hardware the same way Isenkram is doing it, -ie using fnmatch():</p> - -<p><pre> -% appstreamcli what-provides modalias \ - usb:v1130p0202d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00 -Identifier: pymissile [generic] -Name: pymissile -Summary: Control original Striker USB Missile Launcher -Package: pymissile -% appstreamcli what-provides modalias usb:v0694p0002d0000 -Identifier: libnxt [generic] -Name: libnxt -Summary: utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick -Package: libnxt ---- -Identifier: t2n [generic] -Name: t2n -Summary: Simple command-line tool for Lego NXT -Package: t2n ---- -Identifier: python-nxt [generic] -Name: python-nxt -Summary: Python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot -Package: python-nxt ---- -Identifier: nbc [generic] -Name: nbc -Summary: C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks -Package: nbc -% -</pre></p> - -<p>A similar query can be done using the combined AppStream and -Isenkram databases using the isenkram-lookup tool:</p> - -<p><pre> -% isenkram-lookup usb:v1130p0202d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00 -pymissile -% isenkram-lookup usb:v0694p0002d0000 -libnxt -nbc -python-nxt -t2n -% -</pre></p> - -<p>You can find modalias values relevant for your machine using -<tt>cat $(find /sys/devices/ -name modalias)</tt>. - -<p>If you want to make this system a success and help Debian users -make the most of the hardware they have, please -help<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">add -AppStream metadata for your package following the guidelines</a> -documented in the wiki. So far only 11 packages provide such -information, among the several hundred hardware specific packages in -Debian. The Isenkram database on the other hand contain 101 packages, -mostly related to USB dongles. Most of the packages with hardware -mapping in AppStream are LEGO Mindstorms related, because I have, as -part of my involvement in -<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">the Debian LEGO -team</a> given priority to making sure LEGO users get proposed the -complete set of packages in Debian for that particular hardware. The -team also got a nice Christmas present today. The -<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nxt-firmware">nxt-firmware -package</a> made it into Debian. With this package in place, it is -now possible to use the LEGO Mindstorms NXT unit with only free -software, as the nxt-firmware package contain the source and firmware -binaries for the NXT brick.</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&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>