X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/935aaa4ed78787b5ec884283656af2bebe33ccad..0ef8c8a0a862a1038c25839b1e02ed3e60d9c40b:/blog/archive/2016/05/05.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2016/05/05.rss b/blog/archive/2016/05/05.rss index bccd05b712..2759849cc0 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2016/05/05.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2016/05/05.rss @@ -6,6 +6,99 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Tor - from its creators mouth 11 years ago + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tor___from_its_creators_mouth_11_years_ago.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tor___from_its_creators_mouth_11_years_ago.html + Sat, 28 May 2016 14:20:00 +0200 + <p>A little more than 11 years ago, one of the creators of Tor, and +the current President of <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">the Tor +project</a>, Roger Dingledine, gave a talk for the members of the +<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User group</a> (NUUG). A +video of the talk was recorded, and today, thanks to the great help +from David Noble, I finally was able to publish the video of the talk +on Frikanalen, the Norwegian open channel TV station where NUUG +currently publishes its talks. You can +<a href="http://frikanalen.no/se">watch the live stream using a web +browser</a> with WebM support, or check out the recording on the video +on demand page for the talk +"<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625599">Tor: Anonymous +communication for the US Department of Defence...and you.</a>".</p> + +<p>Here is the video included for those of you using browsers with +HTML video and Ogg Theora support:</p> + +<p><video width="70%" poster="http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/large_thumb/20050421-tor-frikanalen.jpg" controls> + <source src="http://simula.gunkies.org/media/625599/theora/20050421-tor-frikanalen.ogv" type="video/ogg"/> +</video></p> + +<p>I guess the gist of the talk can be summarised quite simply: If you +want to help the military in USA (and everyone else), use Tor. :)</p> + + + + + Isenkram with PackageKit support - new version 0.23 available in Debian unstable + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_with_PackageKit_support___new_version_0_23_available_in_Debian_unstable.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_with_PackageKit_support___new_version_0_23_available_in_Debian_unstable.html + Wed, 25 May 2016 10:20:00 +0200 + <p><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram">The isenkram +system</a> is a user-focused solution in Debian for handling hardware +related packages. The idea is to have a database of mappings between +hardware and packages, and pop up a dialog suggesting for the user to +install the packages to use a given hardware dongle. Some use cases +are when you insert a Yubikey, it proposes to install the software +needed to control it; when you insert a braille reader list it +proposes to install the packages needed to send text to the reader; +and when you insert a ColorHug screen calibrator it suggests to +install the driver for it. The system work well, and even have a few +command line tools to install firmware packages and packages for the +hardware already in the machine (as opposed to hotpluggable hardware).</p> + +<p>The system was initially written using aptdaemon, because I found +good documentation and example code on how to use it. But aptdaemon +is going away and is generally being replaced by +<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/">PackageKit</a>, +so Isenkram needed a rewrite. And today, thanks to the great patch +from my college Sunil Mohan Adapa in the FreedomBox project, the +rewrite finally took place. I've just uploaded a new version of +Isenkram into Debian Unstable with the patch included, and the default +for the background daemon is now to use PackageKit. To check it out, +install the <tt>isenkram</tt> package and insert some hardware dongle +and see if it is recognised.</p> + +<p>If you want to know what kind of packages isenkram would propose for +the machine it is running on, you can check out the isenkram-lookup +program. This is what it look like on a Thinkpad X230:</p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> +% isenkram-lookup +bluez +cheese +fprintd +fprintd-demo +gkrellm-thinkbat +hdapsd +libpam-fprintd +pidgin-blinklight +thinkfan +tleds +tp-smapi-dkms +tp-smapi-source +tpb +%p +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>The hardware mappings come from several places. The preferred way +is for packages to announce their hardware support using +<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/">the +cross distribution appstream system</a>. +See +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">previous +blog posts about isenkram</a> to learn how to do that.</p> + + + Discharge rate estimate in new battery statistics collector for Debian http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html