X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/e76c2a38a8d0a01e950c822fa49ff3a4ad85d257..ed339a38453ed95dfb25e4ade1b05e3d3772a102:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index b8f9c7a1a8..c85c7f822a 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -7,648 +7,538 @@ - Updated sales number for my Free Culture paper editions - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_sales_number_for_my_Free_Culture_paper_editions.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_sales_number_for_my_Free_Culture_paper_editions.html - Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:40:00 +0200 - <p>It is pleasing to see that the work we put down in publishing new -editions of the classic <a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">Free -Culture book</a> by the founder of the Creative Commons movement, -Lawrence Lessig, is still being appreciated. I had a look at the -latest sales numbers for the paper edition today. Not too impressive, -but happy to see some buyers still exist. All the revenue from the -books is sent to the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative -Commons Corporation</a>, and they receive the largest cut if you buy -directly from Lulu. Most books are sold via Amazon, with Ingram -second and only a small fraction directly from Lulu. The ebook -edition is available for free from -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Github</a>.</p> - -<table border="0"> -<tr><th rowspan="2" valign="bottom">Title / language</th><th colspan="3">Quantity</th></tr> -<tr><th>2016 jan-jun</th><th>2016 jul-dec</th><th>2017 jan-may</th></tr> - -<tr> - <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Culture Libre / French</a></td> - <td align="right">3</td> - <td align="right">6</td> - <td align="right">15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Fri kultur / Norwegian</a></td> - <td align="right">7</td> - <td align="right">1</td> - <td align="right">0</td> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">Free Culture / English</a></td> - <td align="right">14</td> - <td align="right">27</td> - <td align="right">16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td>Total</td> - <td align="right">24</td> - <td align="right">34</td> - <td align="right">31</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p>A bit sad to see the low sales number on the Norwegian edition, and -a bit surprising the English edition still selling so well.</p> - -<p>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.</p> + En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html + Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200 + <p>Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det +kriminelt å åpne andres brev. Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs +<a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205">§ 205 +(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)</a>, som sier at «Med +bot eller fengsel inntil 2 år straffes den som uberettiget ... c) +åpner brev eller annen lukket skriftlig meddelelse som er adressert +til en annen, eller på annen måte skaffer seg uberettiget tilgang til +innholdet.» Dette gjelder såvel postbud som alle andre som har +befatning med brevet etter at avsender har befatning med et lukket +brev. Tilsvarende står også tidligere utgaver av den norske +straffeloven.</p> + +<p>Når en registrerer seg på usikre digitale postkasseløsningene, som +f.eks. Digipost og e-Boks, og slik tar disse i bruk, så gir en de som +står bak løsningene tillatelse til å åpne sine brev. Dette er +nødvendig for at innholdet i digital post skal kunne vises frem til +mottaker via tjenestens websider. Dermed gjelder ikke straffelovens +paragraf om forbud mot å åpne brev, da tilgangen ikke lenger er +uberetiget. En gir altså fremmede tilgang til å lese sin +korrespondanse. I tillegg vil bruk av slike usikre digitale +postbokser føre til at det blir registrert når du leser brevene, hvor +du befinner deg (vha. tilkoblingens IP-adresse), hvilket utstyr du +bruker og en rekke annen personlig informasjon som ikke er +tilgjengelig når papirpost brukes. Jeg foretrekker at det er +lovmessig beskyttelse av min korrespondanse, som jo inneholder privat +og personlig informasjon. Det bidrar til litt bedre vern av personlig +integritet i dagens norske samfunn.</p> - Release 0.1.1 of free software archive system Nikita announced - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_1_1_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_1_1_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html - Sat, 10 Jun 2017 00:40:00 +0200 - <p>I am very happy to report that the -<a href="https://github.com/hiOA-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">Nikita Noark 5 -core project</a> tagged its second release today. 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 0.1.1 since version 0.1.0 (from NEWS.md): - -<ul> + Self-appointed leaders of the Free World + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html + Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100 + <p>The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the +re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism. I +am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain, +<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people">sited +by The Hill and others</a>: - <li>Continued work on the angularjs GUI, including document upload.</li> - <li>Implemented correspondencepartPerson, correspondencepartUnit and - correspondencepartInternal</li> - <li>Applied for coverity coverage and started submitting code on - regualr basis.</li> - <li>Started fixing bugs reported by coverity</li> - <li>Corrected and completed HATEOAS links to make sure entire API is - available via URLs in _links.</li> - <li>Corrected all relation URLs to use trailing slash.</li> - <li>Add initial support for storing data in ElasticSearch.</li> - <li>Now able to receive and store uploaded files in the archive.</li> - <li>Changed JSON output for object lists to have relations in _links.</li> - <li>Improve JSON output for empty object lists.</li> - <li>Now uses correct MIME type application/vnd.noark5-v4+json.</li> - <li>Added support for docker container images.</li> - <li>Added simple API browser implemented in JavaScript/Angular.</li> - <li>Started on archive client implemented in JavaScript/Angular.</li> - <li>Started on prototype to show the public mail journal.</li> - <li>Improved performance by disabling Sprint FileWatcher.</li> - <li>Added support for 'arkivskaper', 'saksmappe' and 'journalpost'.</li> - <li>Added support for some metadata codelists.</li> - <li>Added support for Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS).</li> - <li>Changed login method from Basic Auth to JSON Web Token (RFC 7519) - style.</li> - <li>Added support for GET-ing ny-* URLs.</li> - <li>Added support for modifying entities using PUT and eTag.</li> - <li>Added support for returning XML output on request.</li> - <li>Removed support for English field and class names, limiting ourself - to the official names.</li> - <li>...</li> - -</ul> - -<p>If this sound interesting to you, please contact us on IRC (#nikita -on irc.freenode.net) or email -(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark -mailing list).</p> - - - - - Idea for storing trusted timestamps in a Noark 5 archive - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_trusted_timestamps_in_a_Noark_5_archive.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_trusted_timestamps_in_a_Noark_5_archive.html - Wed, 7 Jun 2017 21:40:00 +0200 - <p><em>This is a copy of -<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2017-June/000297.html">an -email I posted to the nikita-noark mailing list</a>. Please follow up -there if you would like to discuss this topic. The background is that -we are making a free software archive system based on the Norwegian -<a href="https://www.arkivverket.no/forvaltning-og-utvikling/regelverk-og-standarder/noark-standarden">Noark -5 standard</a> for government archives.</em></p> - -<p>I've been wondering a bit lately how trusted timestamps could be -stored in Noark 5. -<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping">Trusted -timestamps</a> can be used to verify that some information -(document/file/checksum/metadata) have not been changed since a -specific time in the past. This is useful to verify the integrity of -the documents in the archive.</p> - -<p>Then it occured to me, perhaps the trusted timestamps could be -stored as dokument variants (ie dokumentobjekt referered to from -dokumentbeskrivelse) with the filename set to the hash it is -stamping?</p> - -<p>Given a "dokumentbeskrivelse" with an associated "dokumentobjekt", -a new dokumentobjekt is associated with "dokumentbeskrivelse" with the -same attributes as the stamped dokumentobjekt except these -attributes:</p> - -<ul> - -<li>format -> "RFC3161" -<li>mimeType -> "application/timestamp-reply" -<li>formatDetaljer -> "&lt;source URL for timestamp service&gt;" -<li>filenavn -> "&lt;sjekksum&gt;.tsr" - -</ul> - -<p>This assume a service following -<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3161">IETF RFC 3161</a> is -used, which specifiy the given MIME type for replies and the .tsr file -ending for the content of such trusted timestamp. As far as I can -tell from the Noark 5 specifications, it is OK to have several -variants/renderings of a dokument attached to a given -dokumentbeskrivelse objekt. It might be stretching it a bit to make -some of these variants represent crypto-signatures useful for -verifying the document integrity instead of representing the dokument -itself.</p> - -<p>Using the source of the service in formatDetaljer allow several -timestamping services to be used. This is useful to spread the risk -of key compromise over several organisations. It would only be a -problem to trust the timestamps if all of the organisations are -compromised.</p> - -<p>The following oneliner on Linux can be used to generate the tsr -file. $input is the path to the file to checksum, and $sha256 is the -SHA-256 checksum of the file (ie the "<sjekksum>.tsr" value mentioned -above).</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -openssl ts -query -data "$inputfile" -cert -sha256 -no_nonce \ - | curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/timestamp-query" \ - --data-binary "@-" http://zeitstempel.dfn.de > $sha256.tsr -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>To verify the timestamp, you first need to download the public key -of the trusted timestamp service, for example using this command:</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -wget -O ca-cert.txt \ - https://pki.pca.dfn.de/global-services-ca/pub/cacert/chain.txt -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>Note, the public key should be stored alongside the timestamps in -the archive to make sure it is also available 100 years from now. It -is probably a good idea to standardise how and were to store such -public keys, to make it easier to find for those trying to verify -documents 100 or 1000 years from now. :)</p> - -<p>The verification itself is a simple openssl command:</p> +<p><blockquote> +<p>"An American president does not lead the Free World by +congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."</p> +</blockquote></p> -<p><blockquote><pre> -openssl ts -verify -data $inputfile -in $sha256.tsr \ - -CAfile ca-cert.txt -text -</pre></blockquote></p> +<p>While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is +phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA +have not lead the Free World since at least before its government +<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">kidnapped a +completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to +Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and +sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year</a>.</p> -<p>Is there any reason this approach would not work? Is it somehow against -the Noark 5 specification?</p> +<p>USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the +one taken by any Free World.</p> - Når nynorskoversettelsen svikter til eksamen... - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/N_r_nynorskoversettelsen_svikter_til_eksamen___.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/N_r_nynorskoversettelsen_svikter_til_eksamen___.html - Sat, 3 Jun 2017 08:20:00 +0200 - <p><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/norge/Krever-at-elever-ma-fa-annullert-eksamen-etter-rot-med-oppgavetekster-622459b.html">Aftenposten -melder i dag</a> om feil i eksamensoppgavene for eksamen i politikk og -menneskerettigheter, der teksten i bokmåls og nynorskutgaven ikke var -like. Oppgaveteksten er gjengitt i artikkelen, og jeg ble nysgjerring -på om den fri oversetterløsningen -<a href="https://www.apertium.org/">Apertium</a> ville gjort en bedre -jobb enn Utdanningsdirektoratet. Det kan se slik ut.</p> - -<p>Her er bokmålsoppgaven fra eksamenen:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p>Drøft utfordringene knyttet til nasjonalstatenes og andre aktørers -rolle og muligheter til å håndtere internasjonale utfordringer, som -for eksempel flykningekrisen.</p> - -<p>Vedlegge er eksempler på tekster som kan gi relevante perspektiver -på temaet:</p> -<ol> -<li>Flykningeregnskapet 2016, UNHCR og IDMC -<li>«Grenseløst Europa for fall» A-Magasinet, 26. november 2015 -</ol> - -</blockquote> - -<p>Dette oversetter Apertium slik:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p>Drøft utfordringane knytte til nasjonalstatane sine og rolla til -andre aktørar og høve til å handtera internasjonale utfordringar, som -til dømes *flykningekrisen.</p> - -<p>Vedleggja er døme på tekster som kan gje relevante perspektiv på -temaet:</p> - -<ol> -<li>*Flykningeregnskapet 2016, *UNHCR og *IDMC</li> -<li>«*Grenseløst Europa for fall» A-Magasinet, 26. november 2015</li> -</ol> - -</blockquote> - -<p>Ord som ikke ble forstått er markert med stjerne (*), og trenger -ekstra språksjekk. Men ingen ord er forsvunnet, slik det var i -oppgaven elevene fikk presentert på eksamen. Jeg mistenker dog at -"andre aktørers rolle og muligheter til ..." burde vært oversatt til -"rolla til andre aktørar og deira høve til ..." eller noe slikt, men -det er kanskje flisespikking. Det understreker vel bare at det alltid -trengs korrekturlesning etter automatisk oversettelse.</p> + Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html + Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100 + <p>So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for +(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people, +mostly in the USA. What I find a bit surprising, is how little +criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to +Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place. And what about the +people handing their private and personal information to Facebook? +And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are +handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook? +No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised +that information about peoples interests, political views, personal +lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.</p> + +<p>What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is +selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it +in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed. It is well known that +Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal +nevertheless. Of course the information provided to them by Facebook +would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal +information about the millions of Facebook users. Collected +information will be misused sooner or later. The only way to avoid +such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place. If +you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for +the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the +information.</p> + +<p>Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook +account, and take back some control of your personal information. +<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely">According +to The Guardian</a>, it is a bit hard to find out how to request +account removal (and not just 'disabling'). You need to +<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content">visit +a specific Facebook page</a> and click on 'let us know' on that page +to get to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account">the +real account deletion screen</a>. Perhaps something to consider? I +would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows, +perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the +exposure a bit.</p> + +<p>If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge +Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk +Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to <a href="">NUUG</a> last april about +<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/"> +Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on +politics</a>.</p> + +<p>And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones, +use some end-to-end encrypted method like +<a href="https://www.signal.org/">Signal</a> or +<a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, and stop sharing your private +messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.</p> - Epost inn som arkivformat i Riksarkivarens forskrift? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Epost_inn_som_arkivformat_i_Riksarkivarens_forskrift_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Epost_inn_som_arkivformat_i_Riksarkivarens_forskrift_.html - Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:30:00 +0200 - <p>I disse dager, med frist 1. mai, har Riksarkivaren ute en høring på -sin forskrift. Som en kan se er det ikke mye tid igjen før fristen -som går ut på søndag. Denne forskriften er det som lister opp hvilke -formater det er greit å arkivere i -<a href="http://www.arkivverket.no/arkivverket/Offentleg-forvalting/Noark/Noark-5">Noark -5-løsninger</a> i Norge.</p> - -<p>Jeg fant høringsdokumentene hos -<a href="https://www.arkivrad.no/aktuelt/riksarkivarens-forskrift-pa-horing">Norsk -Arkivråd</a> etter å ha blitt tipset på epostlisten til -<a href="https://github.com/hiOA-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">fri -programvareprosjektet Nikita Noark5-Core</a>, som lager et Noark 5 -Tjenestegresesnitt. Jeg er involvert i Nikita-prosjektet og takket -være min interesse for tjenestegrensesnittsprosjektet har jeg lest en -god del Noark 5-relaterte dokumenter, og til min overraskelse oppdaget -at standard epost ikke er på listen over godkjente formater som kan -arkiveres. Høringen med frist søndag er en glimrende mulighet til å -forsøke å gjøre noe med det. Jeg holder på med -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/blob/master/docs/hoering-arkivforskrift.tex">egen -høringsuttalelse</a>, og lurer på om andre er interessert i å støtte -forslaget om å tillate arkivering av epost som epost i arkivet.</p> - -<p>Er du igang med å skrive egen høringsuttalelse allerede? I så fall -kan du jo vurdere å ta med en formulering om epost-lagring. Jeg tror -ikke det trengs så mye. Her et kort forslag til tekst:</p> + H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html + Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100 + <p>I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske +helsevesenet. Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre, +Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å +samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig +tid. Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge. +Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er +dit vi havner gitt nok tid. I dag er det nesten hundre prosent +oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på +bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel +medfødte sykdommer. Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år. +<a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true">Stortingets +flertallsinnstilling</a> er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener +at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om +undersøkelsen.</p> + +<p>Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:</p> <p><blockquote> - <p>Viser til høring sendt ut 2017-02-17 (Riksarkivarens referanse - 2016/9840 HELHJO), og tillater oss å sende inn noen innspill om - revisjon av Forskrift om utfyllende tekniske og arkivfaglige - bestemmelser om behandling av offentlige arkiver (Riksarkivarens - forskrift).</p> - - <p>Svært mye av vår kommuikasjon foregår i dag på e-post.  Vi - foreslår derfor at Internett-e-post, slik det er beskrevet i IETF - RFC 5322, - <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322</a>. bør - inn som godkjent dokumentformat.  Vi foreslår at forskriftens - oversikt over godkjente dokumentformater ved innlevering i § 5-16 - endres til å ta med Internett-e-post.</p> - + <p>«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad + synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må + diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra + hele befolkningen.»</p> + </blockquote></p> -<p>Som del av arbeidet med tjenestegrensesnitt har vi testet hvordan -epost kan lagres i en Noark 5-struktur, og holder på å skrive et -forslag om hvordan dette kan gjøres som vil bli sendt over til -arkivverket så snart det er ferdig. De som er interesserte kan -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/blob/master/docs/epostlagring.md">følge -fremdriften på web</a>.</p> - -<p>Oppdatering 2017-04-28: I dag ble høringuttalelsen jeg skrev - <a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/NUUGs_h_ringuttalelse_til_Riksarkivarens_forskrift.shtml">sendt - inn av foreningen NUUG</a>.</p> +<p>Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har +blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om +<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info">folkehelseinstituttets +lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale +og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven</a> viser at en ikke kan være +trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot +misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.</p> + +<p>Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede +blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det +gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre +det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten +samtykke. Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra +<a href="https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/">folkehelseinstituttets +websider</a>, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å +sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er +greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.</p> + +<p>I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som +er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative +konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir +brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for +dette i dag.</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>.</p> + + + + + First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html + Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100 + <p>I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative +Commons. This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories +from those around the globe making a living using Creative +Commons.</p> + +<p>Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer +translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book +<a href="https://madewith.cc">Made with Creative Commons from 2017</a> +was complete. The Spanish translation is also complete, while the +Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work. Get in +touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to +translate into your mother tongue.</p> + +<p>The whole book project started when +<a href="http://gwolf.org/node/4102">Gunnar Wolf announced</a> that he +was going to make a Spanish edition of the book. I noticed, and +offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with +translating the +<a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Free +Culture</a> and +<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian">The Debian +Administrator's Handbook</a> books to Norwegian Bokmål. To make a +long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the +first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of +Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself. The first +proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof +reading remains. We will also need to translate the 14 figures and +create a book cover. Once it is done we will publish the book on +paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.</p> + +<p>The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is +downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc. +The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook +using pandoc. The DocBook is modified again using a script before it +is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators. The translated +PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to +create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to +create the final PDF. The end result is a set of editions of the +manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.</p> + +<p>The translation is conducted using +<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/">the +Weblate web based translation system</a>. Please have a look there +and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof +reading. :)</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> - Offentlig elektronisk postjournal blokkerer tilgang for utvalgte webklienter - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Offentlig_elektronisk_postjournal_blokkerer_tilgang_for_utvalgte_webklienter.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Offentlig_elektronisk_postjournal_blokkerer_tilgang_for_utvalgte_webklienter.html - Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0200 - <p>Jeg oppdaget i dag at <a href="https://www.oep.no/">nettstedet som -publiserer offentlige postjournaler fra statlige etater</a>, OEP, har -begynt å blokkerer enkelte typer webklienter fra å få tilgang. Vet -ikke hvor mange det gjelder, men det gjelder i hvert fall libwww-perl -og curl. For å teste selv, kjør følgende:</p> - -<blockquote><pre> -% curl -v -s https://www.oep.no/pub/report.xhtml?reportId=3 2>&1 |grep '< HTTP' -< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found -% curl -v -s --header 'User-Agent:Opera/12.0' https://www.oep.no/pub/report.xhtml?reportId=3 2>&1 |grep '< HTTP' -< HTTP/1.1 200 OK -% -</pre></blockquote> - -<p>Her kan en se at tjenesten gir «404 Not Found» for curl i -standardoppsettet, mens den gir «200 OK» hvis curl hevder å være Opera -versjon 12.0. Offentlig elektronisk postjournal startet blokkeringen -2017-03-02.</p> - -<p>Blokkeringen vil gjøre det litt vanskeligere å maskinelt hente -informasjon fra oep.no. Kan blokkeringen være gjort for å hindre -automatisert innsamling av informasjon fra OEP, slik Pressens -Offentlighetsutvalg gjorde for å dokumentere hvordan departementene -hindrer innsyn i -<a href="http://presse.no/dette-mener-np/undergraver-offentlighetsloven/">rapporten -«Slik hindrer departementer innsyn» som ble publiserte i januar -2017</a>. Det virker usannsynlig, da det jo er trivielt å bytte -User-Agent til noe nytt.</p> - -<p>Finnes det juridisk grunnlag for det offentlige å diskriminere -webklienter slik det gjøres her? Der tilgang gis eller ikke alt etter -hva klienten sier at den heter? Da OEP eies av DIFI og driftes av -Basefarm, finnes det kanskje noen dokumenter sendt mellom disse to -aktørene man kan be om innsyn i for å forstå hva som har skjedd. Men -<a href="https://www.oep.no/search/result.html?period=dateRange&fromDate=01.01.2016&toDate=01.04.2017&dateType=documentDate&caseDescription=&descType=both&caseNumber=&documentNumber=&sender=basefarm&senderType=both&documentType=all&legalAuthority=&archiveCode=&list2=196&searchType=advanced&Search=Search+in+records">postjournalen -til DIFI viser kun to dokumenter</a> det siste året mellom DIFI og -Basefarm. -<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/blokkering_av_tilgang_til_oep_fo">Mimes brønn neste</a>, -tenker jeg.</p> + Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html + Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100 + <p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of +choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations. +While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the +info screen booting with some text scrolling. I was not quick enough +with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot +screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a +corrupt file system: + +<p align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img align="center" width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg" alt="[photo of subway info screen]"></a></p> + +<p>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the +content on the screen worries me.</p> + +<p>The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid', +indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid +after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before +Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14. Since Lenny Debian +has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8 +(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to +<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history">a Debian +version history on Wikpedia</a>. This mean the system is running +around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for +many years.</p> + +<p>This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company, +Ruter, running outdated software. In 2012, +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html">I +discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000</a>, +and this was +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html">still +the case in 2016</a>. Given the response from the responsible people +in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched +Windows 2000. Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.</p> + +<p>The photo is made available under the license terms +<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons +4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)</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> - Free software archive system Nikita now able to store documents - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_archive_system_Nikita_now_able_to_store_documents.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_archive_system_Nikita_now_able_to_store_documents.html - Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:00:00 +0100 - <p>The <a href="https://github.com/hiOA-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">Nikita -Noark 5 core project</a> is implementing the Norwegian standard for -keeping an electronic archive of government documents. -<a href="http://www.arkivverket.no/arkivverket/Offentlig-forvaltning/Noark/Noark-5/English-version">The -Noark 5 standard</a> document the requirement for data systems used by -the archives in the Norwegian government, and the Noark 5 web interface -specification document a REST web service for storing, searching and -retrieving documents and metadata in such archive. I've been involved -in the project since a few weeks before Christmas, when the Norwegian -Unix User Group -<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/NOARK5_kjerne_som_fri_programvare_f_r_epostliste_hos_NUUG.shtml">announced -it supported the project</a>. I believe this is an important project, -and hope it can make it possible for the government archives in the -future to use free software to keep the archives we citizens depend -on. But as I do not hold such archive myself, personally my first use -case is to store and analyse public mail journal metadata published -from the government. I find it useful to have a clear use case in -mind when developing, to make sure the system scratches one of my -itches.</p> - -<p>If you would like to help make sure there is a free software -alternatives for the archives, please join our IRC channel -(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita"">#nikita on -irc.freenode.net</a>) and -<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">the -project mailing list</a>.</p> - -<p>When I got involved, the web service could store metadata about -documents. But a few weeks ago, a new milestone was reached when it -became possible to store full text documents too. Yesterday, I -completed an implementation of a command line tool -<tt>archive-pdf</tt> to upload a PDF file to the archive using this -API. The tool is very simple at the moment, and find existing -<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds">fonds</a>, series and -files while asking the user to select which one to use if more than -one exist. Once a file is identified, the PDF is associated with the -file and uploaded, using the title extracted from the PDF itself. The -process is fairly similar to visiting the archive, opening a cabinet, -locating a file and storing a piece of paper in the archive. Here is -a test run directly after populating the database with test data using -our API tester:</p> + The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html + Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:20:00 +0100 + <p>Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the +traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until +systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD. +<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">The upstream +project still exist</a>, though, and up until today, the upstream +source was available from Savannah via subversion. I am happy to +report that this just changed.</p> + +<p>The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three +repositories:</p> -<p><blockquote><pre> -~/src//noark5-tester$ ./archive-pdf mangelmelding/mangler.pdf -using arkiv: Title of the test fonds created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446 -using arkivdel: Title of the test series created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446 - - 0 - Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446 - 1 - Title of the test file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446 -Select which mappe you want (or search term): 0 -Uploading mangelmelding/mangler.pdf - PDF title: Mangler i spesifikasjonsdokumentet for NOARK 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt - File 2017/1: Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446 -~/src//noark5-tester$ -</pre></blockquote></p> +<ul> + +<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git">sysvinit</a></li> +<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/insserv.git">insserv</a></li> +<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/startpar.git">startpar</a></li> + +</ul> + +<p>I do not really spend much time on the project these days, and I +has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good +version control system to help those willing to move it forward.</p> -<p>You can see here how the fonds (arkiv) and serie (arkivdel) only had -one option, while the user need to choose which file (mappe) to use -among the two created by the API tester. The <tt>archive-pdf</tt> -tool can be found in the git repository for the API tester.</p> - -<p>In the project, I have been mostly working on -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester">the API -tester</a> so far, while getting to know the code base. The API -tester currently use -<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS">the HATEOAS links</a> -to traverse the entire exposed service API and verify that the exposed -operations and objects match the specification, as well as trying to -create objects holding metadata and uploading a simple XML file to -store. The tester has proved very useful for finding flaws in our -implementation, as well as flaws in the reference site and the -specification.</p> - -<p>The test document I uploaded is a summary of all the specification -defects we have collected so far while implementing the web service. -There are several unclear and conflicting parts of the specification, -and we have -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/tree/master/mangelmelding">started -writing down</a> the questions we get from implementing it. We use a -format inspired by how <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/austin/">The -Austin Group</a> collect defect reports for the POSIX standard with -<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mantis.html">their -instructions for the MANTIS defect tracker system</a>, in lack of an official way to structure defect reports for Noark 5 (our first submitted defect report was a <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/blob/master/mangelmelding/sendt/2017-03-15-mangel-prosess.md">request for a procedure for submitting defect reports</a> :). - -<p>The Nikita project is implemented using Java and Spring, and is -fairly easy to get up and running using Docker containers for those -that want to test the current code base. The API tester is -implemented in Python.</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> - Detecting NFS hangs on Linux without hanging yourself... - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detecting_NFS_hangs_on_Linux_without_hanging_yourself___.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detecting_NFS_hangs_on_Linux_without_hanging_yourself___.html - Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:20:00 +0100 - <p>Over the years, administrating thousand of NFS mounting linux -computers at the time, I often needed a way to detect if the machine -was experiencing NFS hang. If you try to use <tt>df</tt> or look at a -file or directory affected by the hang, the process (and possibly the -shell) will hang too. So you want to be able to detect this without -risking the detection process getting stuck too. It has not been -obvious how to do this. When the hang has lasted a while, it is -possible to find messages like these in dmesg:</p> - -<p><blockquote> -nfs: server nfsserver not responding, still trying -<br>nfs: server nfsserver OK -</blockquote></p> - -<p>It is hard to know if the hang is still going on, and it is hard to -be sure looking in dmesg is going to work. If there are lots of other -messages in dmesg the lines might have rotated out of site before they -are noticed.</p> - -<p>While reading through the nfs client implementation in linux kernel -code, I came across some statistics that seem to give a way to detect -it. The om_timeouts sunrpc value in the kernel will increase every -time the above log entry is inserted into dmesg. And after digging a -bit further, I discovered that this value show up in -/proc/self/mountstats on Linux.</p> - -<p>The mountstats content seem to be shared between files using the -same file system context, so it is enough to check one of the -mountstats files to get the state of the mount point for the machine. -I assume this will not show lazy umounted NFS points, nor NFS mount -points in a different process context (ie with a different filesystem -view), but that does not worry me.</p> - -<p>The content for a NFS mount point look similar to this:</p> + Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html + Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0100 + <p>A few days ago, a new major version of +<a href="https://www.videolan.org/">VLC</a> was announced, and I +decided to check out if it now supported streaming over +<a href="http://bittorrent.org/">bittorrent</a> and +<a href="https://webtorrent.io">webtorrent</a>. Bittorrent is one of +the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and +Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using +<a href="https://webrtc.org">WebRTC</a> as its transport channel, +allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique. +The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client +supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other. +I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look. +Looking at +<a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html">the release +notes</a> did not help answering this question, so I started searching +the web. I found several news articles from 2013, most of them +tracing the news from Torrentfreak +("<a href=https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-giant-vlc-mulls-bittorrent-support-130211/">Open +Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support</a>"), about a +initiative to pay someone to create a VLC patch for bittorrent +support. To figure out what happend with this initiative, I headed +over to the #videolan IRC channel and asked if there were some bug or +feature request tickets tracking such feature. I got an answer from +lead developer Jean-Babtiste Kempf, telling me that there was a patch +but neither he nor anyone else knew where it was. So I searched a bit +more, and came across an independent +<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent">VLC plugin to add +bittorrent support</a>, created by Johan Gunnarsson in 2016/2017. +Again according to Jean-Babtiste, this is not the patch he was talking +about.</p> + +<p>Anyway, to test the plugin, I made a working Debian package from +the git repository, with some modifications. After installing this +package, I could stream videos from +<a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a> using VLC +commands like this:</p> <p><blockquote><pre> -[...] -device /dev/mapper/Debian-var mounted on /var with fstype ext3 -device nfsserver:/mnt/nfsserver/home0 mounted on /mnt/nfsserver/home0 with fstype nfs statvers=1.1 - opts: rw,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60,soft,nolock,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=129.240.3.145,mountvers=3,mountport=4048,mountproto=udp,local_lock=all - age: 7863311 - caps: caps=0x3fe7,wtmult=4096,dtsize=8192,bsize=0,namlen=255 - sec: flavor=1,pseudoflavor=1 - events: 61063112 732346265 1028140 35486205 16220064 8162542 761447191 71714012 37189 3891185 45561809 110486139 4850138 420353 15449177 296502 52736725 13523379 0 52182 9016896 1231 0 0 0 0 0 - bytes: 166253035039 219519120027 0 0 40783504807 185466229638 11677877 45561809 - RPC iostats version: 1.0 p/v: 100003/3 (nfs) - xprt: tcp 925 1 6810 0 0 111505412 111480497 109 2672418560317 0 248 53869103 22481820 - per-op statistics - NULL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - GETATTR: 61063106 61063108 0 9621383060 6839064400 453650 77291321 78926132 - SETATTR: 463469 463470 0 92005440 66739536 63787 603235 687943 - LOOKUP: 17021657 17021657 0 3354097764 4013442928 57216 35125459 35566511 - ACCESS: 14281703 14290009 5 2318400592 1713803640 1709282 4865144 7130140 - READLINK: 125 125 0 20472 18620 0 1112 1118 - READ: 4214236 4214237 0 715608524 41328653212 89884 22622768 22806693 - WRITE: 8479010 8494376 22 187695798568 1356087148 178264904 51506907 231671771 - CREATE: 171708 171708 0 38084748 46702272 873 1041833 1050398 - MKDIR: 3680 3680 0 773980 993920 26 23990 24245 - SYMLINK: 903 903 0 233428 245488 6 5865 5917 - MKNOD: 80 80 0 20148 21760 0 299 304 - REMOVE: 429921 429921 0 79796004 61908192 3313 2710416 2741636 - RMDIR: 3367 3367 0 645112 484848 22 5782 6002 - RENAME: 466201 466201 0 130026184 121212260 7075 5935207 5961288 - LINK: 289155 289155 0 72775556 67083960 2199 2565060 2585579 - READDIR: 2933237 2933237 0 516506204 13973833412 10385 3190199 3297917 - READDIRPLUS: 1652839 1652839 0 298640972 6895997744 84735 14307895 14448937 - FSSTAT: 6144 6144 0 1010516 1032192 51 9654 10022 - FSINFO: 2 2 0 232 328 0 1 1 - PATHCONF: 1 1 0 116 140 0 0 0 - COMMIT: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -device binfmt_misc mounted on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc with fstype binfmt_misc -[...] +vlc https://archive.org/download/LoveNest/LoveNest_archive.torrent </pre></blockquote></p> -<p>The key number to look at is the third number in the per-op list. -It is the number of NFS timeouts experiences per file system -operation. Here 22 write timeouts and 5 access timeouts. If these -numbers are increasing, I believe the machine is experiencing NFS -hang. Unfortunately the timeout value do not start to increase right -away. The NFS operations need to time out first, and this can take a -while. The exact timeout value depend on the setup. For example the -defaults for TCP and UDP mount points are quite different, and the -timeout value is affected by the soft, hard, timeo and retrans NFS -mount options.</p> - -<p>The only way I have been able to get working on Debian and RedHat -Enterprise Linux for getting the timeout count is to peek in /proc/. -But according to -<ahref="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-4555/netmonitor-12/index.html">Solaris -10 System Administration Guide: Network Services</a>, the 'nfsstat -c' -command can be used to get these timeout values. But this do not work -on Linux, as far as I can tell. I -<ahref="http://bugs.debian.org/857043">asked Debian about this</a>, -but have not seen any replies yet.</p> - -<p>Is there a better way to figure out if a Linux NFS client is -experiencing NFS hangs? Is there a way to detect which processes are -affected? Is there a way to get the NFS mount going quickly once the -network problem causing the NFS hang has been cleared? I would very -much welcome some clues, as we regularly run into NFS hangs.</p> +<p>The plugin is supposed to handle magnet links too, but since The +Internet Archive do not have magnet links and I did not want to spend +time tracking down another source, I have not tested it. It can take +quite a while before the video start playing without any indication of +what is going on from VLC. It took 10-20 seconds when I measured it. +Some times the plugin seem unable to find the correct video file to +play, and show the metadata XML file name in the VLC status line. I +have no idea why.</p> + +<p>I have created a <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/890360">request for +a new package in Debian (RFP)</a> and +<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/1">asked if +the upstream author is willing to help make this happen</a>. Now we +wait to see what come out of this. I do not want to maintain a +package that is not maintained upstream, nor do I really have time to +maintain more packages myself, so I might leave it at this. But I +really hope someone step up to do the packaging, and hope upstream is +still maintaining the source. If you want to help, please update the +RFP request or the upstream issue.</p> + +<p>I have not found any traces of webtorrent support for VLC.</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> - 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 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> - -<p><strong>Update 2017-03-13:</strong> Look like -<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/13/rand-paul-is-right-nsa-routinely-monitors-americans-communications-without-warrants/">The -Intercept report that US Senator Rand Paul confirm what I state above</a>.</p> + Version 3.1 of Cura, the 3D print slicer, is now in Debian + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Version_3_1_of_Cura__the_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Version_3_1_of_Cura__the_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian.html + Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:20:00 +0100 + <p>A new version of the +<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura">3D printer slicer +software Cura</a>, version 3.1.0, is now available in Debian Testing +(aka Buster) and Debian Unstable (aka Sid). I hope you find it +useful. It was uploaded the last few days, and the last update will +enter testing tomorrow. See the +<a href="https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura-software/release-notes">release +notes</a> for the list of bug fixes and new features. Version 3.2 +was announced 6 days ago. We will try to get it into Debian as +well.</p> + +<p>More information related to 3D printing is available on the +<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/3DPrinting">3D printing</a> and +<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/3D-printer">3D printer</a> wiki pages +in Debian.</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> - 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 - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html - Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:50:00 +0100 - <p>For almost a year now, we have been working on making a Norwegian -Bokmål edition of <a href="https://debian-handbook.info/">The Debian -Administrator's Handbook</a>. Now, thanks to the tireless effort of -Ole-Erik, Ingrid and Andreas, the initial translation is complete, and -we are working on the proof reading to ensure consistent language and -use of correct computer science terms. The plan is to make the book -available on paper, as well as in electronic form. For that to -happen, the proof reading must be completed and all the figures need -to be translated. If you want to help out, get in touch.</p> - -<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-handbook/debian-handbook-nb-NO.pdf">A - -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/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 -provide Norwegian bokmål screen shots and figures.</p> + Overvåkning i Kina vs. Norge + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Overv_kning_i_Kina_vs__Norge.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Overv_kning_i_Kina_vs__Norge.html + Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:40:00 +0100 + <p>Jeg lar meg fascinere av en artikkel +<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/terroristene-star-pa-dora/69436116">i +Dagbladet om Kinas håndtering av Xinjiang</a>, spesielt følgende +utsnitt:</p> + +<p><blockquote> + +<p>«I den sørvestlige byen Kashgar nærmere grensa til +Sentral-Asia meldes det nå at 120.000 uigurer er internert i såkalte +omskoleringsleirer. Samtidig er det innført et omfattende +helsesjekk-program med innsamling og lagring av DNA-prøver fra +absolutt alle innbyggerne. De mest avanserte overvåkingsmetodene +testes ut her. Programmer for å gjenkjenne ansikter og stemmer er på +plass i regionen. Der har de lokale myndighetene begynt å installere +GPS-systemer i alle kjøretøy og egne sporingsapper i +mobiltelefoner.</p> + +<p>Politimetodene griper så dypt inn i folks dagligliv at motstanden +mot Beijing-regimet øker.»</p> + +</blockquote></p> + +<p>Beskrivelsen avviker jo desverre ikke så veldig mye fra tilstanden +her i Norge.</p> + +<table> +<tr> +<th>Dataregistrering</th> +<th>Kina</th> +<th>Norge</th> + +<tr> +<td>Innsamling og lagring av DNA-prøver fra befolkningen</td> +<td>Ja</td> +<td>Delvis, planlagt for alle nyfødte.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ansiktsgjenkjenning</td> +<td>Ja</td> +<td>Ja</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Stemmegjenkjenning</td> +<td>Ja</td> +<td>Nei</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Posisjons-sporing av mobiltelefoner</td> +<td>Ja</td> +<td>Ja</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Posisjons-sporing av biler</td> +<td>Ja</td> +<td>Ja</td> +</tr> + +</table> + +<p>I Norge har jo situasjonen rundt Folkehelseinstituttets lagring av +DNA-informasjon på vegne av politiet, der de nektet å slette +informasjon politiet ikke hadde lov til å ta vare på, gjort det klart +at DNA tar vare på ganske lenge. I tillegg finnes det utallige +biobanker som lagres til evig tid, og det er planer om å innføre +<a href="https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/75E9/4-av-10-mener-staten-bor-lagre-DNA-profiler-pa-alle-nyfodte">evig +lagring av DNA-materiale fra alle spebarn som fødes</a> (med mulighet +for å be om sletting).</p> + +<p>I Norge er det system på plass for ansiktsgjenkjenning, som +<a href="https://www.nrk.no/norge/kun-gardermoen-har-teknologi-for-ansiktsgjenkjenning-i-norge-1.12719461">en +NRK-artikkel fra 2015</a> forteller er aktiv på Gardermoen, samt +<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/inntil-27-000-bor-i-norge-under-falsk-id/60500781">brukes +til å analysere bilder innsamlet av myndighetene</a>. Brukes det også +flere plasser? Det er tett med overvåkningskamera kontrollert av +politi og andre myndigheter i for eksempel Oslo sentrum.</p> + +<p>Jeg er ikke kjent med at Norge har noe system for identifisering av +personer ved hjelp av stemmegjenkjenning.</p> + +<p>Posisjons-sporing av mobiltelefoner er ruinemessig tilgjengelig for +blant annet politi, NAV og Finanstilsynet, i tråd med krav i +telefonselskapenes konsesjon. I tillegg rapporterer smarttelefoner +sin posisjon til utviklerne av utallige mobil-apper, der myndigheter +og andre kan hente ut informasjon ved behov. Det er intet behov for +noen egen app for dette.</p> + +<p>Posisjons-sporing av biler er rutinemessig tilgjengelig via et tett +nett av målepunkter på veiene (automatiske bomstasjoner, +køfribrikke-registrering, automatiske fartsmålere og andre veikamera). +Det er i tillegg vedtatt at alle nye biler skal selges med utstyr for +GPS-sporing (eCall).</p> + +<p>Det er jammen godt vi lever i et liberalt demokrati, og ikke en +overvåkningsstat, eller?</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>.</p>