X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/c7856f0988d8b4ea27e2e63f439c6a83e534698a..c82646f92e1149bc69f64100b4aaeacb0c3a588f:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index cc76c52282..69bfb04d9c 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,86 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html + Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200 + <p>I'm happy to report that +<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">the +French paperback edition</a> of +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my +project to translate</a> the <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free +Culture</a> book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on +Lulu.com. Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which +should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in +book stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble too.</p> + +<p>This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the +<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a> developer Benoît +Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation +available from +<a href="http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre">the Wikilivres +wiki pages</a> and completed and corrected the translation to match +the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as +coordinated the proof reading of the final result. I believe the end +result look great, but I am biased and do not read French. In +addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB +and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.</p> + +<p>When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly +triple the price to allow the book stores some profit. I also had to +accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com. +But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license +(CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem. To bypass the problem I +discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed +that the revenue for these editions go to the +<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons non-profit +Corporation</a> who handle donations to the Creative Commons project. +So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the +<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">English</a> +and +<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Norwegian +Bokmål</a> editions, according to Lulu.com. They will get the revenue +for the French edition too. Their revenue is higher if you buy the +book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I +recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.</p> + +<p>Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language? +The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the +technical bar to enter is fairly low. Get in touch if you would like +to make this happen.</p> + + + + + Lets make a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator's Handbook + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html + Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:20:00 +0200 + <p>During this weekends +<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Oslo__Takk_for_feilfiksingsfesten.shtml">bug +squashing party and developer gathering</a>, we decided to do our part +to make sure there are good books about Debian available in Norwegian +Bokmål, and got in touch with the people behind the +<a href="http://debian-handbook.info/">Debian Administrator's Handbook +project</a> to get started. If you want to help out, please start +contributing using +<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">the +hosted weblate project page</a>, and get in touch using +<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators">the +translators mailing list</a>. Please also check out +<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/">the instructions for +contributors</a>.</p> + +<p>The book is already available on paper in English, French and +Japanese, and our goal is to get it available on paper in Norwegian +Bokmål too. In addition to the paper edition, there are also EPUB and +Mobi versions available. And there are incomplete translations +available for many more languages.</p> + + + One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux? http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html @@ -42,7 +122,7 @@ source code</a> is available on Alioth.</p> <p>As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure my home server can function in the future using only official Debian -packages, and the current blocker is to get he debian/copyright file +packages, and the current blocker is to get the debian/copyright file accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html">creating, @@ -508,8 +588,8 @@ det er gått et halvt år.</p> <p><strong>Oppdatering 2016-04-07</strong>: En nærmere undersøkelse av OEP-oppføringene til Utenriksdepartementet viste at det var en teknisk -feil måten jeg laget statistikken, der alle oppføringer med '-' i -unntakgsgrunnlagsfeltet ble talt opp som unntatt offentlighet. Det +feil i måten jeg laget statistikken, der alle oppføringer med '-' i +unntaksgrunnlagsfeltet ble talt opp som unntatt offentlighet. Det var UD ikke alene om. Det viste seg å gjelde Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsdepartementet (4), Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet (3525), Landbruks- og matdepartementet (1753), Nærings- og @@ -1026,158 +1106,5 @@ packages providing appstream metadata.</p> - - Creepy, visualise geotagged social media information - nice free software - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html - Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:50:00 +0100 - <p>Most people seem not to realise that every time they walk around -with the computerised radio beacon known as a mobile phone their -position is tracked by the phone company and often stored for a long -time (like every time a SMS is received or sent). And if their -computerised radio beacon is capable of running programs (often called -mobile apps) downloaded from the Internet, these programs are often -also capable of tracking their location (if the app requested access -during installation). And when these programs send out information to -central collection points, the location is often included, unless -extra care is taken to not send the location. The provided -information is used by several entities, for good and bad (what is -good and bad, depend on your point of view). What is certain, is that -the private sphere and the right to free movement is challenged and -perhaps even eradicated for those announcing their location this way, -when they share their whereabouts with private and public -entities.</p> - -<p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-01-24-nice-creepy-desktop-window.png"></p> - -<p>The phone company logs provide a register of locations to check out -when one want to figure out what the tracked person was doing. It is -unavailable for most of us, but provided to selected government -officials, company staff, those illegally buying information from -unfaithful servants and crackers stealing the information. But the -public information can be collected and analysed, and a free software -tool to do so is called -<a href="http://www.geocreepy.com/">Creepy or Cree.py</a>. I -discovered it when I read -<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Slik-kan-du-bli-overvaket-pa-Twitter-og-Instagram-uten-a-ane-det-7787884.html">an -article about Creepy</a> in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten i -November 2014, and decided to check if it was available in Debian. -The python program was in Debian, but -<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/creepy">the version in -Debian</a> was completely broken and practically unmaintained. I -uploaded a new version which did not work quite right, but did not -have time to fix it then. This Christmas I decided to finally try to -get Creepy operational in Debian. Now a fixed version is available in -Debian unstable and testing, and almost all Debian specific patches -are now included -<a href="https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy">upstream</a>.</p> - -<p>The Creepy program visualises geolocation information fetched from -Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Google+, and allow one to get a -complete picture of every social media message posted recently in a -given area, or track the movement of a given individual across all -these services. Earlier it was possible to use the search API of at -least some of these services without identifying oneself, but these -days it is impossible. This mean that to use Creepy, you need to -configure it to log in as yourself on these services, and provide -information to them about your search interests. This should be taken -into account when using Creepy, as it will also share information -about yourself with the services.</p> - -<p>The picture above show the twitter messages sent from (or at least -geotagged with a position from) the city centre of Oslo, the capital -of Norway. One useful way to use Creepy is to first look at -information tagged with an area of interest, and next look at all the -information provided by one or more individuals who was in the area. -I tested it by checking out which celebrity provide their location in -twitter messages by checkout out who sent twitter messages near a -Norwegian TV station, and next could track their position over time, -making it possible to locate their home and work place, among other -things. A similar technique have been -<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/does-this-soldiers-instagram-account-prove-russia-is-covertl">used -to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine</a>, and it is both a powerful -tool to discover lying governments, and a useful tool to help people -understand the value of the private information they provide to the -public.</p> - -<p>The package is not trivial to backport to Debian Stable/Jessie, as -it depend on several python modules currently missing in Jessie (at -least python-instagram, python-flickrapi and -python-requests-toolbelt).</p> - -<p>(I have uploaded -<a href="https://screenshots.debian.net/package/creepy">the image to -screenshots.debian.net</a> and licensed it under the same terms as the -Creepy program in Debian.)</p> - - - - - Always download Debian packages using Tor - the simple recipe - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html - Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:30:00 +0100 - <p>During his DebConf15 keynote, Jacob Appelbaum -<a href="https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/331/what-is-to-be-done/">observed -that those listening on the Internet lines would have good reason to -believe a computer have a given security hole</a> if it download a -security fix from a Debian mirror. This is a good reason to always -use encrypted connections to the Debian mirror, to make sure those -listening do not know which IP address to attack. In August, Richard -Hartmann observed that encryption was not enough, when it was possible -to interfere download size to security patches or the fact that -download took place shortly after a security fix was released, and -<a href="http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/08/24-Tor-enabled_Debian_mirror/">proposed -to always use Tor to download packages from the Debian mirror</a>. He -was not the first to propose this, as the -<tt><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt-transport-tor">apt-transport-tor</a></tt> -package by Tim Retout already existed to make it easy to convince apt -to use <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a>, but I was not -aware of that package when I read the blog post from Richard.</p> - -<p>Richard discussed the idea with Peter Palfrader, one of the Debian -sysadmins, and he set up a Tor hidden service on one of the central -Debian mirrors using the address vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion, thus making -it possible to download packages directly between two tor nodes, -making sure the network traffic always were encrypted.</p> - -<p>Here is a short recipe for enabling this on your machine, by -installing <tt>apt-transport-tor</tt> and replacing http and https -urls with tor+http and tor+https, and using the hidden service instead -of the official Debian mirror site. I recommend installing -<tt>etckeeper</tt> before you start to have a history of the changes -done in /etc/.</p> - -<blockquote><pre> -apt install apt-transport-tor -sed -i 's% http://ftp.debian.org/% tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/%' /etc/apt/sources.list -sed -i 's% http% tor+http%' /etc/apt/sources.list -</pre></blockquote> - -<p>If you have more sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, run -the sed commands for these too. The sed command is assuming your are -using the ftp.debian.org Debian mirror. Adjust the command (or just -edit the file manually) to match your mirror.</p> - -<p>This work in Debian Jessie and later. Note that tools like -<tt>apt-file</tt> only recently started using the apt transport -system, and do not work with these tor+http URLs. For -<tt>apt-file</tt> you need the version currently in experimental, -which need a recent apt version currently only in unstable. So if you -need a working <tt>apt-file</tt>, this is not for you.</p> - -<p>Another advantage from this change is that your machine will start -using Tor regularly and at fairly random intervals (every time you -update the package lists or upgrade or install a new package), thus -masking other Tor traffic done from the same machine. Using Tor will -become normal for the machine in question.</p> - -<p>On <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox</a>, APT -is set up by default to use <tt>apt-transport-tor</tt> when Tor is -enabled. It would be great if it was the default on any Debian -system.</p> - - -