X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/adbdc330f6a088f6e40b51375676adde219ba3db..cded90eceb255184a3506b35d622eea9760ea993:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 4fa8456b57..770eae38cb 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -7,165 +7,194 @@ - Totalovervåkning av innbyggernes bevegelser - nei takk! - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Totaloverv_kning_av_innbyggernes_bevegelser___nei_takk_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Totaloverv_kning_av_innbyggernes_bevegelser___nei_takk_.html - Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:30:00 +0200 - <p>Jeg er blitt spurt hva jeg synes om lansering av smittestopp-appen, -overvåkningsløsningen lansert av Folkehelseinstituttet, -Simula-senteret og Regjeringen i dag, fulgt av klare trusler fra -regjeringen om konsekvenser hvis befolkningen ikke tar den i bruk. -Rekker ikke skrive noe fyldig om temaet, men det er klart for meg at -den utraderer retten til privatliv samt utgjør en personlig -sikkerhetsrisiko for alle som tar den i bruk. Bare det er nok til at -det fremstår som en svert dårlig ide å bli med på denne "dugnaden". -Det finnes andre og bedre tilnærminger enn den valgt av FHI. Har de -valgt den for å sikre seg nok et datasett i den fremtidige -ehelse-portalen? Potensialet for misbruk av informasjon samlet inn av -appen er for stort, effekten på neste krise for klar og gevinsten for -liten.</p> - -<p>For å si det med forhenværende leder i Datatilsynet, Georg Apenes, -som skrev i en kronikk den gang Datatilsynet gjorde vernet privatsfæren at -«<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/rent-mel-i-bilen/66333882">SENTRALT -I en liberal forestillingsverden finner vi aksept av borgerens rett -til å kunne velge å være i fred; å være u-iakttatt, uregistrert og -anonym</a>». Det er ikke uten grunn han startet kronikken med -«Personvern et fremmedord i enkelte av de statsorganene som samler -inn, oppbevarer og bruker personopplysninger». Der har nok -statsorganene bare blitt dårligere på 13 år.</p> - -<p>Det er jo også verdt å merke seg at personvernrådet i EU (EDPB) -mener -<a href="https://nrkbeta.no/2020/04/16/personvernrad-i-eu-mener-norsk-app-bryter-med-viktig-personvernprinsipp/">opererer -i strid med prinsippet om dataminimering</a>. Også de ser at det -finnes mye bedre måter å gjøre dette på.</p> + Nikita version 0.6 released - free software archive API server + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nikita_version_0_6_released___free_software_archive_API_server.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nikita_version_0_6_released___free_software_archive_API_server.html + Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:10:00 +0200 + <p>I am very pleased to be able to share with you +<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2021-June/000576.html">the +announcement of a new version of the archiving system Nikita</a> +published by its lead developer Thomas Sødring:</p> + +<p><blockquote> + +<p>It is with great pleasure that we can announce a new release of +nikita. Version 0.6 +(<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core</a>). This +release makes new record keeping functionality available. This really +is a maturity release. Both in terms of functionality but also code. +Considerable effort has gone into refactoring the codebase and +simplifying the code. Notable changes for this release include:</p> +<ul> -<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til -det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner -til min adresse -<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>. -Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p> - - - - - Ny URL til den frie norske stavekontrollen - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_URL_til_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_URL_til_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen.html - Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:00:00 +0100 - <p>Det er lenge siden jeg har sett på den norske stavekontrollen, sist -jeg skrev om temaet var i 2016, og i mellomtiden har nettstedet -no.speling.org forsvunnet, og både git-depotet på Alioth og -mailman-tjenesten som hadde epostlistene for oversettelser blitt lagt -ned. Men bokmål og nynorsk trenger fortsatt stavekontroll, så etter -et par purringer fra en som har lyst til å forbedre stavekontrollen -har jeg endelig fått lagt ut ny offentlig kopi av git-depotet. Jeg -valgte gitlab foran github.. Siste utgave av stavekontrollen kan -hentes ned fra -<a href="https://gitlab.com/norwegian-language-tools/spell-norwegian">https://gitlab.com/norwegian-language-tools/spell-norwegian</a>. -Ingen ny versjon i denne omgang altså, bare et nytt sted å samle -forbedringer til den frie norske stavekontrollen. :) + <li>Significantly improved OData parsing</li> + <li>Support for business specific metadata and national identifiers</li> + <li>Continued implementation of domain model and endpoints</li> + <li>Improved testing</li> + <li>Ability to export and import from arkivstruktur.xml</li> -<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til -det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner -til min adresse -<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>. -Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p> - - - - - Nikita version 0.5 released - updated free software archive API server - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nikita_version_0_5_released___updated_free_software_archive_API_server.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nikita_version_0_5_released___updated_free_software_archive_API_server.html - Mon, 2 Mar 2020 19:00:00 +0100 - <p>Today, after many months of development, a new release of -<ahref="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita -Noark 5 core project</a> was finally -<ahref="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2020-March/000519.html">announced -on the project mailing list</a>. 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 0.5 -since version 0.4, see the email link above for links to a demo -site:</p> +</ul> -<ul> +<p>We are currently in the process of reaching an agreement with an +archive institution to publish their picture archive using nikita with +business specific metadata and we hope that we can share this with you +soon. This is an interesting project as it allows the organisation to +bring an older picture archive back to life while using the original +metadata values stored as business specific metadata. Combined with +OData means the scope and use of the archive is significantly +increased and will showcase both the flexibility and power of +Noark.</p> + +<p>I really think we are approaching a version 1.0 of nikita, even +though there is still a lot of work to be done. The notable work at +the moment is to implement access-control and full text indexing of +documents.</p> - <li>Updated to Noark 5 versjon 5.0 API specification. - <ul> - <li>Changed formatting of _links from [] to {} to match IETF draft - on JSON HAL.</li> - <li>Merged Registrering og Basisregistrering in version 4 to - combined Registrering.</li> - <li>DokumentObjekt is now subtype of ArkivEnhet.</li> - <li>Introducing new entity Arkivnotat.</li> - <li>Changed all relation keys to use /v5/ instead of /v4/.</li> - <li>Corrected to use new official relation keys when possible.</li> - <li>Renamed Sakspart to Part and connect it to Mappe, Registrering - and Dokumentbeskrivelse instead of only Saksmappe.</li> - <li>Moved Korrespondansepart connection from Journalpost to - Registrering.</li> - <li>Moved Part and Korrespondansepart from package sakarkiv to - arkivstruktur.</li> - <li>Renamed presedensstatus to presedensStatus.</li> - <li>Use new JSON content-type "application/vnd.noark5+json".</li> - <li>Updated prepopulated format list to use PRONOM codes.</li> - <li>Implemented endpoint for system information.</li> - <li>Implemented national identifiers for both file and record.</li> - <li>Implemented comments.</li> - <li>implemented sign off.</li> - <li>implemented conversion.</li> - </ul></li> - <li>Improved/implemented OData search and paging support for more entities.</li> - <li>No longer exposes attribute Dokumentobjekt.referanseDokumentfil, - one should use the relation in _links instead.</li> - <li>Corrected relation keys under - https://rel.arkivverket.no/noark5/v5/api/administrasjon/, replacing - 'administrasjon' with 'admin'.</li> - <li>Fixed several security and stability issues discovered by Coverity.</li> - <li>Corrected handling ETag errors, now return code 409.</li> - <li>Improved handling of Kryssreferanse.</li> - <li>Changed internal database model to use UUID/SystemID as primary keys - in tables.</li> - <li>Changed internal database table names to use package prefix.</li> - <li>Changed time zone handling for date and datetime attributes, to be - more according to the new definition in the API specification.</li> - <li>Change revoke-token to only drop token on POST requests, not GET.</li> - <li>Updated to newer Spring version.</li> - <li>Changed primary key and URL component for metadata code lists to - use the 'kode' value instead of a SystemID.</li> - <li>Corrected implementation of Part and Sakspart.</li> - <li>Changed instance lists with subtypes (like .../registrering/ and - .../mappe/) to include the attributes and _links entries for the - subtype in the supertype lists.</li> - <li>Adjusted _links relations to make it possible to figure out the - entity of an instance using the self->href->relation key lookup - method.</li> - <li>Fixed several end points to make sure GET, PUT, POST and DELETE - match each other.</li> - <li>Updated DELETE endpoints to work with UUID based entity - identifiers.</li> - <li>Restructured code to use more common URL related constants in entry - point values and replace @RequestMapping with method specific - annotations.</li> - <li>Added first unit test code.</li> - <li>Updated web GUI to work with the updated API.</li> - <li>Changed integer fields, enforce them as numeric.</li> - <li>Rewrote and simplify metadata handling to use common service and - controller code instead of duplicating for each type.</li> - <li>Implemented the remaining metadata types.</li> - <li>Changed Country list source from Wikipedia to Debian iso-codes and - updated the list of Countries.</li> - <li>Many many corrections and improvements.</li> +<p>My sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed to this +release!</p> +<p>- Thomas</p> + +<p><strong>Release 0.6 2021-06-10 (d1ba5fc7e8bad0cfdce45ac20354b19d10ebbc7b)</strong></p> + +<ul> + + <li>Refactor metadata entity search</li> + <li>Remove redundant security configuration</li> + <li>Make OpenAPI documentation work</li> + <li>Change database structure / inheritance model to a more sensible approach</li> + <li>Make it possible to move entities around the fonds structure</li> + <li>Implemented a number of missing endpoints</li> + <li>Make sure yml files are in sync</li> + <li>Implemented/finalised storing and use of + <ul> +     <li>Business Specific Metadata</li> +     <li>Norwegian National Identifiers</li> +     <li>Cross Reference</li> +     <li>Keyword</li> +     <li>StorageLocation</li> +     <li>Author</li> +     <li>Screening for relevant objects</li> +     <li>ChangeLog</li> +     <li>EventLog</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Make generation of updated docker image part of successful CI pipeline</li> + <li>Implement pagination for all list requests + <ul> +     <li>Refactor code to support lists</li> +     <li>Refactor code for readability</li> +     <li>Standardise the controller/service code</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Finalise File->CaseFile expansion and Record->registryEntry/recordNote +expansion</li> + <li>Improved Continuous Integration (CI) approach via gitlab</li> + <li>Changed conversion approach to generate tagged PDF documents</li> + <li>Updated dependencies + <ul> +     <li>For security reasons</li> +     <li>Brought codebase to spring-boot version 2.5.0</li> +     <li>Remove import of necessary dependencies</li> +     <li>Remove non-used metrics classes</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Added new analysis to CI including</li> + <li>Implemented storing of Keyword</li> + <li>Implemented storing of Screening and ScreeningMetadata</li> + <li>Improved OData support + <ul> +     <li>Better support for inheritance in queries where applicable</li> +     <li>Brought in more OData tests</li> +     <li>Improved OData/hibernate understanding of queries</li> +     <li>Implement $count, $orderby</li> +     <li>Finalise $top and $skip</li> +     <li>Make sure & is used between query parameters</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Improved Testing in codebase + <ul> +     <li>A new approach for integration tests to make test more readable</li> +     <li>Introduce tests in parallel with code development for TDD approach</li> +     <li>Remove test that required particular access to storage</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Implement case-handling process from received email to case-handler + <ul> +     <li>Develop required GUI elements (digital postroom from email)</li> +     <li>Introduced leader, quality control and postroom roles</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Make PUT requests return 200 OK not 201 CREATED</li> + <li>Make DELETE requests return 204 NO CONTENT not 200 OK</li> + <li>Replaced 'oppdatert*' with 'endret*' everywhere to match latest spec</li> + <li>Upgrade Gitlab CI to use python > 3 for CI scripts</li> + <li>Bug fixes + <ul> +     <li>Fix missing ALLOW</li> +     <li>Fix reading of objects from jar file during start-up</li> +     <li>Reduce the number of warnings in the codebase</li> +     <li>Fix delete problems</li> +     <li>Make better use of cascade for "leaf" objects</li> +     <li>Add missing annotations where relevant</li> +     <li>Remove the use of ETAG for delete</li> +     <li>Fix missing/wrong/broken rels discovered by runtest</li> +     <li>Drop unofficial convertFil (konverterFil) end point</li> +     <li>Fix regex problem for dateTime</li> +     <li>Fix multiple static analysis issues discovered by coverity</li> +     <li>Fix proxy problem when looking for object class names</li> +     <li>Add many missing translated Norwegian to English (internal) +attribute/entity names</li> +     <li>Change UUID generation approach to allow code also set a value</li> +     <li>Fix problem with Part/PartParson</li> +     <li>Fix problem with empty OData search results</li> +     <li>Fix metadata entity domain problem</li> + </ul></li> + <li>General Improvements + <ul> +     <li>Makes future refactoring easier as coupling is reduced</li> +     <li>Allow some constant variables to be set from property file</li> +     <li>Refactor code to make reflection work better across codebase</li> +     <li>Reduce the number of @Service layer classes used in @Controller +classes</li> +     <li>Be more consistent on naming of similar variable types</li> +     <li>Start printing rels/href if they are applicable</li> +     <li>Cleaner / standardised approach to deleting objects</li> +     <li>Avoid concatenation when using StringBuilder</li> +     <li>Consolidate code to avoid duplication</li> +     <li>Tidy formatting for a more consistent reading style across +similar class files</li> +     <li>Make throw a log.error message not an log.info message</li> +     <li>Make throw print the log value rather than printing in multiple +places</li> +     <li>Add some missing pronom codes</li> +     <li>Fix time formatting issue in Gitlab CI</li> +     <li>Remove stale / unused code</li> +     <li>Use only UUID datatype rather than combination String/UUID for systemID</li> +     <li>Mark variables final and @NotNull where relevant to indicate +intention</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Change Date values to DateTime to maintain compliance with Noark 5 +standard</li> + <li>Domain model improvements using Hypersistence Optimizer + <ul> +     <li>Move @Transactional from class to methods to avoid borrowing the JDBC Connection unnecessarily</li> +     <li>Fix OneToOne performance issues</li> +     <li>Fix ManyToMany performance issues</li> +     <li>Add missing bidirectional synchronization support</li> +     <li>Fix ManyToMany performance issue</li> + </ul></li> + <li>Make List<> and Set<> use final-keyword to avoid potential problems +during update operations</li> + <li>Changed internal URLs, replaced "hateoas-api" with "api".</li> + <li>Implemented storing of Precedence.</li> + <li>Corrected handling of screening.</li> + <li>Corrected _links collection returned for list of mixed entity types +to match the specific entity.</li> + <li>Improved several internal structures.</li> </ul> +</blockquote></p> + <p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to you, please contact us on IRC -(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on -irc.freenode.net</a>) or email +(<a href="irc://irc.oftc.net/%23nikita">#nikita on +irc.oftc.net</a>) or email (<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark mailing list</a>).</p> @@ -176,33 +205,112 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address - Blockchain and IoT articles accepted into Records Management Journal - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blockchain_and_IoT_articles_accepted_into_Records_Management_Journal.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blockchain_and_IoT_articles_accepted_into_Records_Management_Journal.html - Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:05:00 +0100 - <p>On Tuesday, two scietific articles we have been working on for a -while, was finally accepted for publication into -<a href="https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0956-5698">Records -Management Journal</a>. Still waiting for the assigned DOI urls to -start working, but you can have a look at the LaTeX originals here.</p> - -<p>The first article is -"<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-02-25-rmj-iot-record-keeping.pdf">A -record-keeping approach to managing IoT-data for government -agencies</a>" (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056">DOI -10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056</a>) by Thomas Sødring, Petter Reinholdtsen -and David Massey, and sketches some approaches for storing measurement -data (aka Internet of Things sensor data) in a archive, thus providing -a well defined mechanism for screening and deletion of the information </p> - -<p>The second article is -"<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-02-25-rmj-block-chain-record-keeping.pdf">Publishing -and using record-keeping structural information in a blockchain</a>" -(<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050">DOI -10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050<a/>) by Thomas Sødring, Petter Reinholdtsen -and Svein Ølnes, where we describe a way for third parties to validate -authenticity and thus improve trust in the records kept in a -archive.</p> + VLC bittorrent plugin in Bullseye, saved by the bell? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_in_Bullseye__saved_by_the_bell_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_in_Bullseye__saved_by_the_bell_.html + Sat, 1 May 2021 11:00:00 +0200 + <p>Yesterday morning I got a warning call from the Debian quality +control system that +<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">the VLC +bittorrent plugin</a> was due to be removed because of a release +critical bug in one of its dependencies. As you might remember, this +plugin make VLC able to stream videos directly from a bittorrent +source using both torrent files and magnet links, similar to using a +HTTP source. I believe such protocol support is a vital feature in +VLC, allowing efficient streaming from sources such at the almost 7 +million movies in <a href="https://archive.org/">the Internet +Archive</a>.</p> + +<p>The dependency was the unmaintained +<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libtorrent-rasterbar">libtorrent-rasterbar</a> +package, and <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/987306">the bug in +question</a> blocked its python library from working properly. As I +did not want Bullseye to release without bittorrent support in VLC, I +set out to check out the status, and track down a fix for the problem. +Luckily the issue had already been identified and fixed upstream, +providing everything needed. All I needed to do was to fetch the +Debian git repository, extract and trim the patch from upstream and +apply it to the Debian package for upload.</p> + +<p>The fixed library was uploaded yesterday evening. But that is not +enough to get it into Bullseye, as Debian is currently in package +freeze to prepare for a new next stable release. Only non-critical +packages with +<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/autopkgtest">autopkgtest +setup</a> included, in other words able to validate automatically that +the package is working, are allowed to migrate automatically into the +next release at this stage. And the unmaintained libtorrent-rasterbar +lack such testing, and thus needed a manual override. I am happy to +report that such manual override was approved a few minutes ago, thus +increasing significantly the chance of VLC bittorrent streaming being +available out of the box also for Debian/Buster users. A bit too +close shave for my liking, as the Bullseye release is most likely just +a few days away, and this did feel like the package was saved by the +bell. I am so glad the warning email showed up in time for me to +handle the issue, and a big thanks go to the Debian Release team for +the quick feedback on +<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-release">#debian-release</a> +and their <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/987865">swift +unblocking</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 +<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> + + + + + Updated Valutakrambod, now also with information from NBX + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_Valutakrambod__now_also_with_information_from_NBX.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_Valutakrambod__now_also_with_information_from_NBX.html + Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:30:00 +0100 + <p>I have neglected the Valutakrambod library for a while, but decided +this weekend to give it a face lift. I fixed a few minor glitches in +several of the service drivers, where the API had changed since I last +looked at the code. I also added support for fetching the order book +from the newcomer Norwegian Bitcoin Exchange.</p> + +<p>I also decided to migrate the project from github to gitlab in the +process. If you want a python library for talking to various currency +exchanges, check out +<a href="https://gitlab.com/petterreinholdtsen/valutakrambod">code for +valutakrambod</a>.</p> + +<p>This is what the output from '<tt>bin/btc-rates-curses -c</tt>' +looked like a few minutes ago:</p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> + Name Pair Bid Ask Spread Ftcd Age Freq + Bitfinex BTCEUR 39229.0000 39246.0000 0.0% 44 44 nan + Bitmynt BTCEUR 39071.0000 41048.9000 4.8% 43 74 nan + Bitpay BTCEUR 39326.7000 nan nan% 39 nan nan + Bitstamp BTCEUR 39398.7900 39417.3200 0.0% 0 0 1 + Bl3p BTCEUR 39158.7800 39581.9000 1.1% 0 nan 3 + Coinbase BTCEUR 39197.3100 39621.9300 1.1% 38 nan nan + Kraken+BTCEUR 39432.9000 39433.0000 0.0% 0 0 0 + Paymium BTCEUR 39437.2100 39499.9300 0.2% 0 2264 nan + Bitmynt BTCNOK 409750.9600 420516.8500 2.6% 43 74 nan + Bitpay BTCNOK 410332.4000 nan nan% 39 nan nan + Coinbase BTCNOK 408675.7300 412813.7900 1.0% 38 nan nan + MiraiEx BTCNOK 412174.1800 418396.1500 1.5% 34 nan nan + NBX BTCNOK 405835.9000 408921.4300 0.8% 33 nan nan + Bitfinex BTCUSD 47341.0000 47355.0000 0.0% 44 53 nan + Bitpay BTCUSD 47388.5100 nan nan% 39 nan nan + Coinbase BTCUSD 47153.6500 47651.3700 1.0% 37 nan nan + Gemini BTCUSD 47416.0900 47439.0500 0.0% 36 336 nan + Hitbtc BTCUSD 47429.9900 47386.7400 -0.1% 0 0 0 + Kraken+BTCUSD 47401.7000 47401.8000 0.0% 0 0 0 + Exchangerates EURNOK 10.4012 10.4012 0.0% 38 76236 nan + Norgesbank EURNOK 10.4012 10.4012 0.0% 31 76236 nan + Bitstamp EURUSD 1.2030 1.2045 0.1% 2 2 1 + Exchangerates EURUSD 1.2121 1.2121 0.0% 38 76236 nan + Norgesbank USDNOK 8.5811 8.5811 0.0% 31 76236 nan +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>Yes, I notice the negative spread on Hitbtc. Either I fail to +understand their Websocket API or they are sending bogus data. I've +seen the same with Kraken, and suspect there is something wrong with +the data they send.</p> <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address @@ -211,36 +319,115 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address - Redaksjon på plass for Noark 5 tjenestegrensesnitt - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Redaksjon_p__plass_for_Noark_5_tjenestegrensesnitt.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Redaksjon_p__plass_for_Noark_5_tjenestegrensesnitt.html - Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:45:00 +0100 - <p>Arbeidet med å lage et godt, fritt og åpent standardisert maskinelt -grensesnitt for arkivering, med tilhørende fri -programvareimplementasjon fortsetter. Jeg snakker om -<a href="https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard">Noark -5 Tjenestegrensesnitt</a> og -<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita</a>. -Siste nytt etter -<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20200127-noark-seminar/">seminaret -for noen dager siden</a>, er vi i Nikita-prosjektet har fått beskjed -fra Arkivverket at det blir satt ned en redaksjon for å videreutvikle -spesifikasjonen. Redaksjonen består av Mona Danielsen og Anne Sofie -Knutsen ved arkivverket, Thomas Sødring ved OsloMet, og meg selv fra -NUUG. De to sistenevnte tar seg av de åpenbare forbedringene, mens -hele redaksjonen diskuterer tvilstilfeller. Jeg håper dette vil bidra -til at vi lykkes i å gjøre denne protokollspesifikasjonen så entydig -og klar at den vil bidra til et velfungerende marked for -arkivsystemer, og sikre at programmer som trenger å snakke med -arkivsystemet kan snakke med enhver implementasjon av -API-spesifikasjonen. Nikita er den første implementasjonen, men det -bør blir flere.</p> - -<p>Det gjenstår riktig nok endel før vi er i mål, selv om svært mye -allerede er på plass. Med innspill og forslag til forbedringer fra -alle som vil ha et leverandøruavhengig og fullstendig -datamaskinlesbart grensesnitt til arkivet, så tror jeg vi vil -lykkes.</p> + Boken «Hvordan knuse overvåkningskapitalismen» lanseres på norsk + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Hvordan_knuse_overv_kningskapitalismen__lanseres_p__norsk.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Hvordan_knuse_overv_kningskapitalismen__lanseres_p__norsk.html + Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:10:00 +0100 + <p>Etter intenst arbeid over mange måneder er endelig den norske +utgaven av «Hvordan knuse overvåkningskapitalismen» av Cory Doctorow +ferdig og klar til å glede millioner av lesere over hele verden. +Følgende pressemelding ble nettopp sendt ut til norske redaksjoner: + +<blockquote> + +<p><strong>Hva gjør stordata med oss, og hvordan gjør algoritmene +«fake news» til realiter?</strong></p> + +<p>Nå foreligger en viktig bok om temaet også på norsk. Boken klargjør +og foreslår hvordan vi selv som enkeltpersoner, men også nasjonalt og +internasjonalt kan bekjempe stordatakonsentrasjonene; +«overvåkingskapitalismen». Boken er «Hvordan knuse +overvåkingskapitalismen» av dr. Cory Doctorow. Den engelske +bokutgivelsen kom for noen dager siden og lanseres med et Webinar +torsdag 2021-01-28. Doctorow besøkte Norge og NUUG i desember med sin +presentasjon Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What's Really Happening With +"Surveillance Capitalism".</p> + +<p>I funn etter funn, eksempel etter eksempel, gjennomgår og +analyserer dr. Doctorow de utfordringer vi møter i større og større +omfang. Ikke bare i USA, men også her hjemme.</p> + +<p>Cory Doctorow er en britisk-kanadisk forfatter, journalist og +aktivist, kjent for sine science fiction-romaner, for arbeidet for +Creative Commons-bevegelsen, og for sine bidrag til reform av +opphavsretten. Han er både æresdoktor og gjesteforeleser i +datavitenskap ved Open University i UK, konsulent for Electronic +Frontier Foundation, og godt kjent for innsiktsfullt å kommentere og +skrive om digital utvikling.</p> + +<p>Boken lanseres nå på norsk, både som ebok og på papir, oversatt av +en dugnadsgjeng ledet av Petter Reinholdtsen.</p> + +<p>Boken reiser noen helt grunnleggende og samfunnskritiske spørsmål: +Hva fører det til når store deler av Internettet domineres av få store +aktører og deres styringsverktøy og algoritmer?</p> + +<p>Som individer bør vi være opptatt at grenser blir satt og håndhevet +- grenser for overvåkning av individet, for utøvelse av kommersiell +og politisk påvirkning, og for monopoldannelser i +dataverdenen. Slik grensesetting styrker personvernet.</p> + +<p>Konkurransetilsynet har ansvaret for at konkurranselovens § 11 skal +forby «et dominerende foretak for utilbørlig å utnytte og misbruke +sin dominerende stilling». Et tilsvarende forbud omfattes også av +EØS-avtalens artikkel 54. Boken går i detalj om serien av +innskrenkninger vi møter i valgfriheten, innskrenkninger som denne +lovgivningen nettopp skal forhindre. Håndhevelse av en slik lovgivning +er også til fordel for mindre næringsdrivende som uten dette får +begrenset sine faktiske eller potensielle muligheter for vekst og +etablering. «Slik atferd kan utgjøre et misbruk og kan ta ulike +former», skriver Konkurransetilsynet.</p> + +<p>Cory Doctorow går i sin bok lengre enn det med sine mange eksempler +på forhold det burde vært grepet inn mot.</p> + +<p>«Boken bør bidra til et sterkere engasjemen fra voktere av +Inter­nettet nasjonalt og internasjonalt - EU medregnet» sier +oversetter Ole-Erik Yrvin og fortsetter: «Vi har derfor +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2021-01-26-knus-overvaakningskapitalismen-helleland.pdf">allerede +tatt opp bokens forslag</a> direkte med Distrikts- og +digitaliseringsminister Linda Hofstad Helleland (H) og +Konkurransetilsynet slik at de kan følges opp.»</p> + +<p>«Også Norge bør innta en pådriverrolle i denne utviklingen», sier +Petter Reinholdtsen. «Tiden er knapp, og tilsynsmyndighetene må få +de verktøy og de ressurser de trenger for at vi her hjemme skal oppnå +nødvendige resultater. Dette gjelder ikke bare vår egen generasjon; +det gjelder alle generasjoner fremover», avslutter Petter +Reinholdsen.</p> + +<p>Kontaktinformasjon:</p> + +<ul> + +<li>Ole-Erik Yrvin, oeyrvin (at) gmail.com, +47 46500450</li> + +<li>Petter Reinholdtsen, pere (at) hungry.com</li> + +</ul> + +<p>Relevante lenker:<p> + +<ul> + +<li>«Hvordan knuse overvåkingskapitalismen» kan bestilles på papir, +som ebok eller leses på nett via +<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/">http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/</a>.</li> + +<li>Opptak av NUUG-møtet Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What's Really +Happening With "Surveillance Capitalism" med Cory Doctorow, +<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20201208-doctorow/">https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20201208-doctorow/</a>.</li> + +<li>Påmelding til webinar som lanserer den engelske utgaven kan gjøres +via +<a href="https://craphound.com/category/destroy/">https://craphound.com/category/destroy/</a>.</li> + +<li>Cory Doctorows nettsted er +<a href="https://craphound.com/">https://craphound.com/</a>.</li> + +</ul> + +</blockquote> <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 @@ -251,82 +438,187 @@ Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p> - Artikkel om Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt og Nikita i Arkivråd nummer 3 for 2019 - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Artikkel_om_Noark_5_Tjenestegrensesnitt_og_Nikita_i_Arkivr_d_nummer_3_for_2019.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Artikkel_om_Noark_5_Tjenestegrensesnitt_og_Nikita_i_Arkivr_d_nummer_3_for_2019.html - Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:00:00 +0100 - <p>Like før julaften ble en artikkel jeg har skrevet om vedlikehold av -<a href="https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard">Noark -5 Tjenestegrensesnitt</a> og Nikita publisert i <a -href="https://www.arkivrad.no/arkivrad">tidsskriftet Arkivråd</a>. -Det er basert på -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pen_og_gjennomsiktig_vedlikehold_av_spesifikasjonen_for_Noark_5_Tjenestegrensesnitt.html">min bloggpost -om samme tema</a> som ble publisert 2019-03-11. Jeg oppdaget nettopp -at nettsiden til tidsskriftet Arkivråd er oppdatert med siste utgave, -og artikkelen dermed er tilgjengelig for alle. Du finner den i -<a href="https://www.arkivrad.no/sites/arkivrad/files/arkivrad_03_2019_nett.pdf">PDF-en -til nummer 2019/3 på side 30-33</a>. Jeg håper leserne av -tidsskriftet får lyst til å sjekke ut tjenestegrensesnittet og at -artikkelen vil gjøre det enklere for flere å bidra til en enda bedre, -klarere og mer entydig API-spesifikasjon. Det kan gjøre at -<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">arkivsystemet -Nikita</a> kan bli enda bedre når spesifikasjonen forbedres.</p> + Latest Jami back in Debian Testing, and scriptable using dbus + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Latest_Jami_back_in_Debian_Testing__and_scriptable_using_dbus.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Latest_Jami_back_in_Debian_Testing__and_scriptable_using_dbus.html + Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0100 + <p>After a lot of hard work by its maintainer Alexandre Viau and +others, the decentralized communication platform +<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software)">Jami</a> +(earlier known as Ring), managed to get +<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ring">its latest version</a> +into Debian Testing. Several of its dependencies has caused build and +propagation problems, which all seem to be solved now.</p> + +<p>In addition to the fact that Jami is decentralized, similar to how +bittorrent is decentralized, I first of all like how it is not +connected to external IDs like phone numbers. This allow me to set up +computers to send me notifications using Jami without having to find +get a phone number for each computer. Automatic notification via Jami +is also made trivial thanks to the provided client side API (as a DBus +service). Here is my bourne shell script demonstrating how to let any +system send a message to any Jami address. It will create a new +identity before sending the message, if no Jami identity exist +already:</p> + +<p><pre> +#!/bin/sh +# +# Usage: $0 <jami-address> <message> +# +# Send <message> to <jami-address>, create local jami account if +# missing. +# +# License: GPL v2 or later at your choice +# Author: Petter Reinholdtsen + + +if [ -z "$HOME" ] ; then + echo "error: missing \$HOME, required for dbus to work" + exit 1 +fi + +# First, get dbus running if not already running +DBUSLAUNCH=/usr/bin/dbus-launch +PIDFILE=/run/asterisk/dbus-session.pid +if [ -e $PIDFILE ] ; then + . $PIDFILE + if ! kill -0 $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID 2>/dev/null ; then + unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS + fi +fi +if [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ] && [ -x "$DBUSLAUNCH" ]; then + DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=$HOME/.dbus" + dbus-daemon --session --address="$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" --nofork --nopidfile --syslog-only < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 3>&1 & + DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=$! + ( + echo DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID + echo DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=\""$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"\" + echo export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS + ) > $PIDFILE + . $PIDFILE +fi & + +dringop() { + part="$1"; shift + op="$1"; shift + dbus-send --session \ + --dest="cx.ring.Ring" /cx/ring/Ring/$part cx.ring.Ring.$part.$op $* +} + +dringopreply() { + part="$1"; shift + op="$1"; shift + dbus-send --session --print-reply \ + --dest="cx.ring.Ring" /cx/ring/Ring/$part cx.ring.Ring.$part.$op $* +} + +firstaccount() { + dringopreply ConfigurationManager getAccountList | \ + grep string | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' | head -n 1 +} + +account=$(firstaccount) + +if [ -z "$account" ] ; then + echo "Missing local account, trying to create it" + dringop ConfigurationManager addAccount \ + dict:string:string:"Account.type","RING","Account.videoEnabled","false" + account=$(firstaccount) + if [ -z "$account" ] ; then + echo "unable to create local account" + exit 1 + fi +fi + +# Not using dringopreply to ensure $2 can contain spaces +dbus-send --print-reply --session \ + --dest=cx.ring.Ring \ + /cx/ring/Ring/ConfigurationManager \ + cx.ring.Ring.ConfigurationManager.sendTextMessage \ + string:"$account" string:"$1" \ + dict:string:string:"text/plain","$2" +</pre></p> + +<p>If you want to check it out yourself, visit the +<a href="https://jami.net/">the Jami system project page</a> to learn +more, and install the latest Jami client from Debian Unstable or +Testing.</p> -<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til -det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner -til min adresse -<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>. -Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p> +<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> - Meningsløst, men for hvem... - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Meningsl_st__men_for_hvem___.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Meningsl_st__men_for_hvem___.html - Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:35:00 +0100 - <p>En historie som har betydd endel for meg, og som jeg av og til -tenker på når hverdagen tynger, ble så vidt jeg har klart å finne ut, -skrevet av <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Eiseley">Loren -Eiseley</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Thrower">i -flere ulike varianter</a>. På norsk tror jeg den går under navnet -«Gutten og sjøstjernen», og jeg fant en oversettelse av en utgave av den -hos -<a href="https://no.quora.com/Hva-er-din-favoritthistorie">Quora</a>. -Fant også <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qClChUdlfI">en -filmatisering</a>, men den versjonen jeg liker best fant jeg -<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/56782.Loren_Eiseley">hos -Goodreads</a>. Jeg oversatte den utgaven til norsk i går, og har lyst -til å dele den med deg: - -<blockquote><p>Mens jeg tok en pause fra skrivingen og vandret på en -øde strand ved daggry, så jeg en gutt i det fjerne bøye seg ned og -kaste noe mens han vandret mot meg over den endeløse stranden. Da han -kom nærmere, kunne jeg se at han kastet sjøstjerner, som var etterlatt -i sanden av tidevannet, tilbake i havet. Da han var nær nok spurte jeg -ham hvorfor han jobbet så hardt på denne merkelige oppgaven. Han sa at -solen snart ville stå opp og tørke sjøstjernene slik at de ville -dø.</p> - -<p>Jeg sa til ham at dette var helt meningsløst. Det var kilometer på -kilometer med strand, og det lå sjøstjerner hele veien. En person -alene kunne ikke gjøre noen forskjell. Han smilte da han plukket opp -neste sjøstjerne. Mens han kastet den så langt ut i havet som han -klarte sa han, «for denne gjør det en forskjell». Jeg droppet -skrivingen og tilbrakte resten av morgenen med å kaste -sjøstjerner.</p> - -<p>- Loren Eiseley</p> -</blockquote> + Boken «Made with Creative Commons» lanseres på norsk + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Made_with_Creative_Commons__lanseres_p__norsk.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Made_with_Creative_Commons__lanseres_p__norsk.html + Sun, 15 Nov 2020 23:50:00 +0100 + <p>Endelig er den norske utgaven av «Made with Creative Commons» +ferdig og publisert. Følgende pressemelding ble nettopp sendt ut: + +<blockquote> + +<p><strong>Boken «Made with Creative Commons» lanseres på norsk</strong></p> + +<p>«Gjort med Creative Commons» er en bok om gjenbruk, deling og den +digitale allmenningen. Boken omhandler å bygge en forretningsmodell på +åpne verdier, endringene i tankesett og filosofi, og fordelene og +praksisen som kommer med å være «åpen».</p> + +<p>Forfatterne Paul Stacey og Sarah Hinchliff Pearson tar oss med inn +i samtaler med 24 mennesker, prosjekter og organisasjoner som på ulike +måter generere inntekter gjennom deling av sine verk. Som leser får +man innsikt i hvordan alt fra forskere, forfattere, kunstnere og +filmskapere tjener penger basert på åpne forretningsmodeller. En av +referansestudiene i denne boken viser hvordan Blender Animation Studio +lager vakre animasjonsfilmer som de publiserer under en fri lisens, +basert på en plattform som er fri programvare.</p> + +<p>Utover praktiske eksempler på forskjellige forretningsmodeller berører +også boken forskjellen mellom tradisjonelle kommersielle virksomheter og +de som tar utgangspunkt i den globale delingskulturen.</p> + +<p>«Hvis du ønsker å lære mer om digital delingskultur og Creative Commons +er dette en bok som både vil inspirere og gi grunnleggende innsikt» sier +leder av Creative Commons Norge, Christer Solheim Gundersen. «De siste +årene har denne globale bevegelsen sett en betydelig vekst med totalt +over 1,6 milliarder verk med CC-lisens tilgjengelig på nett.» + +Nå er den tilgjengelig på norsk takket være liten gruppe frivillige +entusiaster ledet av Petter Reinholdtsen. «På vegne av Creative Commons +Norge vil jeg takke hver enkelt bidragsyter. Dette prosjektet er i seg +selv et inspirerende eksempel på at delingskulturen også har godt +fotfeste her i Norge.», avslutter Gundersen.</p> + +<p>Boken er selvsagt fritt tilgjengelig under en Creative Commons lisens, +og kan også kjøpes som ebok og papirutgave på blant annet Lulu.com og +Amazon.</p> + +<p><strong>Lenker og kontaktinformasjon</strong></p> + +<ul> -<p>Kanskje noe du også kan ha glede av å tenke på når ting virker -håpløst?</p> +<li>Kontaktpunkt: +<br>Ole-Erik Yrvin (oeyrvin@gmail.com) og +<br>Christer Solheim Gundersen (christer@goopen.no), +47 9341 1360</li> -<p>Teksten er gjengitt og oversatt basert på utgaven på Good Read, -uten tillatelse fra noen andre enn meg selv. Jeg håper på tilgivelse, -hvis det er et problem for noen, da det er gjort i beste mening. Hvis -eventuell rettighetshaver tar kontakt vil jeg fjerne teksten og i -stedet legge ut henvendelsen der teksten kreves fjernet.</p> +<li>Bokens <a href="https://madewith.cc/">engelske nettside</a></li> + +<li>Den <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/">norske utgavens nettside</a></li> + +<li><a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/sarah-hinchliff-pearson-and-paul-stacey-and-bryan-mathers-and-ryan-merkley/gjort-med-creative-commons/paperback/product-m5jy75.html">Papirutgaven fra Lulu</a></li> + +<li><a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/sarah-hinchliff-pearson-and-paul-stacey-and-bryan-mathers-and-ryan-merkley/gjort-med-creative-commons/ebook/product-zw2r4k.html">Epub-utgaven fra lulu</a></li> + +</ul> + +</blockquote> + +<p>Nå håper jeg bare den får mange lesere, og finner veien under mange +juletrær.</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 @@ -337,69 +629,88 @@ Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p> - Artikkel om Nikita i Arkheion nummer 2019/2 - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Artikkel_om_Nikita_i_Arkheion_nummer_2019_2.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Artikkel_om_Nikita_i_Arkheion_nummer_2019_2.html - Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:05:00 +0100 - <p>Jeg hadde i dag gleden av å oppdage at en artikkel om -<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">arkivsystemet -Nikita</a> som vi skrev i sommer, nå er publisert i -<a href="http://www.arkheion.no/">Arkheion, fagtidsskrift for kommunial -arkivsektor</a>. Du finner artikkelen på side 30-33 i nummer 2019/2, -PDF kan lastes ned fra nettstedet til tidsskriftet. Kanskje -publiseringen kan føre til at noen flere får øynene opp for verdien av -et åpent standardisert API for arkivering og søk i arkivet.</p> + Buster based Bokmål edition of Debian Administrator's Handbook + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_based_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_based_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html + Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:35:00 +0200 + <p align="center"><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-10-20-debian-handbook-nb-testprint.jpeg" width="60%"/></p> + +<p>I am happy to report that we finally made it! Norwegian Bokmål +became the first translation published on paper of the new Buster +based edition of "<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/">The Debian +Administrator's Handbook</a>". The print proof reading copy arrived +some days ago, and it looked good, so now the book is approved for +general distribution. This updated paperback edition <a +href="https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian">is available from +lulu.com</a>. The book is also available for download in electronic +form as PDF, EPUB and Mobipocket, and can also be +<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/browse/nb-NO/stable/">read online</a>.</p> + +<p>I am very happy to wrap up this Creative Common licensed project, +which concludes several months of work by several volunteers. The +number of Linux related books published in Norwegian are few, and I +really hope this one will gain many readers, as it is packed with deep +knowledge on Linux and the Debian ecosystem. The book will be +available for various Internet book stores like Amazon and Barnes & +Noble soon, but I recommend buying +"<a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/roland-mas-and-rapha%C3%ABl-hertzog/h%C3%A5ndbok-for-debian-administratoren/paperback/product-9j7qwq.html">Håndbok +for Debian-administratoren</a>" directly from the source at Lulu. -<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til -det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner -til min adresse -<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>. -Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p> +<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> - When terms and policy turn users away - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/When_terms_and_policy_turn_users_away.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/When_terms_and_policy_turn_users_away.html - Sat, 7 Dec 2019 21:15:00 +0100 - <p>When asked to accept terms of use and privacy policies that state -it will to remove rights I otherwise had or accept unreasonable terms -undermining my privacy, I choose away the service. I simply do not -have the conscience to accept terms I have no indention of upholding. -But how are the system and service providers to know how many people -they scared away? Normally I just quietly walk away. But today, I -tried a new approach. I sent the following email (removing the -specifics, as I am not out to take the specific service in question) -to the service provider I decided to not use, to at least give them -one data point on how many users are unhappy with their terms:</p> - -<blockquote> -From: Petter Reinholdtsen -<br>Subject: When terms of use turn users away -<br>To: [contact@some.site] -<br>Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:30:56 +0100 - -<p>Dear [Site Owner],</p> - -<p>I was eager to test the system, as it seemed like a fun and -interesting application of [some] technology, but after reading the -terms of use and privacy policy on &lt;URL: -https://www.[some.site]/terms-of-use &gt; and &lt;URL: -https://www.[some.site]/privacy-policy &gt; I want you to know that I -decided to turn away. There were several provisions in the terms and -policy turning me off, but the final term that convinced me was being -asked to sign away my right to reverse engineer.</p> - -<p>-- -<br>Happy hacking -<br>Petter Reinholdtsen</p> -</blockquote> + Buster update of Norwegian Bokmål edition of Debian Administrator's Handbook almost done + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_update_of_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_almost_done.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_update_of_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_almost_done.html + Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:45:00 +0200 + <p>Thanks to the good work of several volunteers, the updated edition +of the Norwegian translation for +"<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/">The Debian Administrator's +Handbook</a>" is now almost completed. After many months of proof +reading, I consider the proof reading complete enough for us to move +to the next step, and have asked for the print version to be prepared +and sent of to the print on demand service lulu.com. While it is +still not to late if you find any incorrect translations on +<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/languages/nb_NO/debian-handbook/">the +hosted Weblate service</a>, but it will be soon. :) You can check out +<a href=" https://debian-handbook.info/browse/nb-NO/stable/">the Buster +edition on the web</a> until the print edition is ready.</p> + +<p>The book will be for sale on lulu.com and various web book stores, +with links available from the web site for the book linked to above. +I hope a lot of readers find it useful.</p> -<p>I do not expect much to come out of it, but sharing it here in case -others want to give something similar a try too. If companies -discover their terms scare away enough people, perhaps they will be -improved...</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> + + + + + Working on updated Norwegian Bokmål edition of Debian Administrator's Handbook + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Working_on_updated_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Working_on_updated_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html + Sat, 4 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0200 + <p>Three years ago, the first Norwegian Bokmål edition of +"<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/">The Debian Administrator's +Handbook</a>" was published. This was based on Debian Jessie. Now a +new and updated version based on Buster is getting ready. Work on the +updated Norwegian Bokmål edition has been going on for a few months +now, and yesterday, we reached the first mile stone, with 100% of the +texts being translated. A lot of proof reading remains, of course, +but a major step towards a new edition has been taken.</p> + +<p>The book is translated by volunteers, and we would love to get some +help with the proof reading. The translation uses +<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/languages/nb_NO/debian-handbook/">the +hosted Weblate service</a>, and we welcome everyone to have a look and +submit improvements and suggestions. There is also a proof readers +PDF available on request, get in touch if you want to help out that +way.</p> <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address @@ -408,58 +719,70 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address - What would it cost to store all 2018 phone calls in Norway? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_2018_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_2018_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html - Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:15:00 +0100 - <p>Four years ago, I did a back of the envelope calculation on -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html">how -much it would cost to store audio recordings of all the phone calls in -Norway</a>, and came up with NOK 2.1 million / EUR 250 000 for the -year 2013. It is time to repeat the calculation using updated -numbers. The calculation is based on how much data storage is needed -for each minute of audio, how many minutes all the calls in Norway -sums up to, multiplied by the cost of data storage.</p> - -<p>The number of phone call minutes for 2018 was fetched from -<a href="https://ekomstatistikken.nkom.no/">the NKOM statistics -site</a>, and for 2018, land line calls are listed as 434 238 000 -minutes, while mobile phone calls are listed with 7 542 006 000 -minutes. The total number of minutes is thus 7 976 244 000. For -simplicity, I decided to ignore any advantages in audio compression the -last four years, and continue to assume 60 Kbytes/min as the last -time.</p> - -<p>Storage prices still varies a lot, but as last time, I decide to -take a reasonable big and cheap hard drive, and double its price to -include the surrounding costs into account. A 10 TB disk cost less -than 4500 NOK / 450 EUR these days, and doubling it give 9000 NOK per -10 TB.</p> - -<p>So, with the parameters in place, lets update the old table -estimating cost for calls in a given year:</p> - -<table border="1"> -<tr><th>Year</th><th>Call minutes</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK / EUR</th></tr> -<tr><td>2005</td><td align="right">24 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.3 PiB</td><td align="right">1 170 000 / 117 000</td></tr> - -<tr><td>2012</td><td align="right">18 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.0 PiB</td><td align="right">900 000 / 90 000</td></tr> - -<tr><td>2013</td><td align="right">17 000 000 000</td><td align="right">950 TiB</td><td align="right">855 000 / 85 500</td></tr> - -<tr><td>2018</td><td align="right">7 976 244 000</td><td align="right">445 TiB</td><td align="right">401 100 / 40 110</td></tr> -</table> - -<p>Both the cost of storage and the number of phone call minutes have -dropped since the last time, bringing the cost down to a level where I -guess even small organizations can afford to store the audio recording -from every phone call taken in a year in Norway. Of course, this is -just the cost of buying the storage equipment. Maintenance, need to -be included as well, but the volume of a single year is about a single -rack of hard drives, so it is not much more than I could fit in my own -home. Wonder how much the electricity bill would raise if I had that -kind of storage? I doubt it would be more than a few tens of thousand -NOK per year.</p> + Secure Socket API - a simple and powerful approach for TLS support in software + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Secure_Socket_API___a_simple_and_powerful_approach_for_TLS_support_in_software.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Secure_Socket_API___a_simple_and_powerful_approach_for_TLS_support_in_software.html + Sat, 6 Jun 2020 12:40:00 +0200 + <p>As a member of the <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix +User Group</a>, I have the pleasure of receiving the +<a href="https://www.usenix.org/">USENIX</a> magazine +<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/">;login:</a> +several times a year. I rarely have time to read all the articles, +but try to at least skim through them all as there is a lot of nice +knowledge passed on there. I even carry the latest issue with me most +of the time to try to get through all the articles when I have a few +spare minutes.</p> + +<p>The other day I came across a nice article titled +"<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/winter2018/oneill">The +Secure Socket API: TLS as an Operating System Service</a>" with a +marvellous idea I hope can make it all the way into the POSIX standard. +The idea is as simple as it is powerful. By introducing a new +socket() option IPPROTO_TLS to use TLS, and a system wide service to +handle setting up TLS connections, one both make it trivial to add TLS +support to any program currently using the POSIX socket API, and gain +system wide control over certificates, TLS versions and encryption +systems used. Instead of doing this:</p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> +int socket = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP); +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>the program code would be doing this:<p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> +int socket = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TLS); +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>According to the ;login: article, converting a C program to use TLS +would normally modify only 5-10 lines in the code, which is amazing +when compared to using for example the OpenSSL API.</p> + +<p>The project has set up the +<a href="https://securesocketapi.org/">https://securesocketapi.org/</a> +web site to spread the idea, and the code for a kernel module and the +associated system daemon is available from two github repositories: +<a href="https://github.com/markoneill/ssa">ssa</a> and +<a href="https://github.com/markoneill/ssa-daemon">ssa-daemon</a>. +Unfortunately there is no explicit license information with the code, +so its copyright status is unclear. A +<a href="https://github.com/markoneill/ssa/issues/2">request to solve +this</a> about it has been unsolved since 2018-08-17.</p> + +<p>I love the idea of extending socket() to gain TLS support, and +understand why it is an advantage to implement this as a kernel module +and system wide service daemon, but can not help to think that it +would be a lot easier to get projects to move to this way of setting +up TLS if it was done with a user space approach where programs +wanting to use this API approach could just link with a wrapper +library.</p> + +<p>I recommend you check out this simple and powerful approach to more +secure network connections. :)</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>