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                <title>New and improved sqlcipher in Debian for accessing Signal database</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_and_improved_sqlcipher_in_Debian_for_accessing_Signal_database.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;For a while now I wanted to have direct access to the
&lt;a href=&quot;https://signal.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; database of messages and
channels of my Desktop edition of Signal.  I prefer the enforced end
to end encryption of Signal these days for my communication with
friends and family, to increase the level of safety and privacy as
well as raising the cost of the mass surveillance government and
non-government entities practice these days.  In August I came across
a nice
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yoranbrondsema.com/post/the-guide-to-extracting-statistics-from-your-signal-conversations/&quot;&gt;recipe
on how to use sqlcipher to extract statistics from the Signal
database&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to do this.  Unfortunately this did not
work with the version of sqlcipher in Debian.  The
&lt;a href=&quot;http://tracker.debian.org/sqlcipher/&quot;&gt;sqlcipher&lt;/a&gt;
package is a &quot;fork&quot; of the sqlite package with added support for
encrypted databases.  Sadly the current Debian maintainer
&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/961598&quot;&gt;announced more than three
years ago that he did not have time to maintain sqlcipher&lt;/a&gt;, so it
seemed unlikely to be upgraded by the maintainer.  I was reluctant to
take on the job myself, as I have very limited experience maintaining
shared libraries in Debian.  After waiting and hoping for a few
months, I gave up the last  week, and set out to update the package.  In
the process I orphaned it to make it more obvious for the next person
looking at it that the package need proper maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The version in Debian was around five years old, and quite a lot of
changes had taken place upstream into the Debian maintenance git
repository.  After spending a few days importing the new upstream
versions, realising that upstream did not care much for SONAME
versioning as I saw library symbols being both added and removed with
minor version number changes to the project, I concluded that I had to
do a SONAME bump of the library package to avoid surprising the
reverse dependencies.  I even added a simple
autopkgtest script to ensure the package work as intended.  Dug deep
into the hole of learning shared library maintenance, I set out a few
days ago to upload the new version to Debian experimental to see what
the quality assurance framework in Debian had to say about the result.
The feedback told me the pacakge was not too shabby, and yesterday I
uploaded the latest version to Debian unstable.  It should enter
testing today or tomorrow, perhaps delayed by
&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1055812&quot;&gt;a small library
transition&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Armed with a new version of sqlcipher, I can now have a look at the
SQL database in ~/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite.  First, one need to
fetch the encryption key from the Signal configuration using this
simple JSON extraction command:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;/usr/bin/jq -r &#39;.&quot;key&quot;&#39; ~/.config/Signal/config.json&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Assuming the result from that command is &#39;secretkey&#39;, which is a
hexadecimal number representing the key used to encrypt the database.
Next, one can now connect to the database and inject the encryption
key for access via SQL to fetch information from the database.  Here
is an example dumping the database structure:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;
% sqlcipher ~/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite
sqlite&gt; PRAGMA key = &quot;x&#39;secretkey&#39;&quot;;
sqlite&gt; .schema
CREATE TABLE sqlite_stat1(tbl,idx,stat);
CREATE TABLE conversations(
      id STRING PRIMARY KEY ASC,
      json TEXT,

      active_at INTEGER,
      type STRING,
      members TEXT,
      name TEXT,
      profileName TEXT
    , profileFamilyName TEXT, profileFullName TEXT, e164 TEXT, serviceId TEXT, groupId TEXT, profileLastFetchedAt INTEGER);
CREATE TABLE identityKeys(
      id STRING PRIMARY KEY ASC,
      json TEXT
    );
CREATE TABLE items(
      id STRING PRIMARY KEY ASC,
      json TEXT
    );
CREATE TABLE sessions(
      id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
      conversationId TEXT,
      json TEXT
    , ourServiceId STRING, serviceId STRING);
CREATE TABLE attachment_downloads(
    id STRING primary key,
    timestamp INTEGER,
    pending INTEGER,
    json TEXT
  );
CREATE TABLE sticker_packs(
    id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
    key TEXT NOT NULL,

    author STRING,
    coverStickerId INTEGER,
    createdAt INTEGER,
    downloadAttempts INTEGER,
    installedAt INTEGER,
    lastUsed INTEGER,
    status STRING,
    stickerCount INTEGER,
    title STRING
  , attemptedStatus STRING, position INTEGER DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL, storageID STRING, storageVersion INTEGER, storageUnknownFields BLOB, storageNeedsSync
      INTEGER DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL);
CREATE TABLE stickers(
    id INTEGER NOT NULL,
    packId TEXT NOT NULL,

    emoji STRING,
    height INTEGER,
    isCoverOnly INTEGER,
    lastUsed INTEGER,
    path STRING,
    width INTEGER,

    PRIMARY KEY (id, packId),
    CONSTRAINT stickers_fk
      FOREIGN KEY (packId)
      REFERENCES sticker_packs(id)
      ON DELETE CASCADE
  );
CREATE TABLE sticker_references(
    messageId STRING,
    packId TEXT,
    CONSTRAINT sticker_references_fk
      FOREIGN KEY(packId)
      REFERENCES sticker_packs(id)
      ON DELETE CASCADE
  );
CREATE TABLE emojis(
    shortName TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
    lastUsage INTEGER
  );
CREATE TABLE messages(
        rowid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC,
        id STRING UNIQUE,
        json TEXT,
        readStatus INTEGER,
        expires_at INTEGER,
        sent_at INTEGER,
        schemaVersion INTEGER,
        conversationId STRING,
        received_at INTEGER,
        source STRING,
        hasAttachments INTEGER,
        hasFileAttachments INTEGER,
        hasVisualMediaAttachments INTEGER,
        expireTimer INTEGER,
        expirationStartTimestamp INTEGER,
        type STRING,
        body TEXT,
        messageTimer INTEGER,
        messageTimerStart INTEGER,
        messageTimerExpiresAt INTEGER,
        isErased INTEGER,
        isViewOnce INTEGER,
        sourceServiceId TEXT, serverGuid STRING NULL, sourceDevice INTEGER, storyId STRING, isStory INTEGER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (type IS &#39;story&#39;), isChangeCreatedByUs INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, isTimerChangeFromSync INTEGER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (
          json_extract(json, &#39;$.expirationTimerUpdate.fromSync&#39;) IS 1
        ), seenStatus NUMBER default 0, storyDistributionListId STRING, expiresAt INT
        GENERATED ALWAYS
        AS (ifnull(
          expirationStartTimestamp + (expireTimer * 1000),
          9007199254740991
        )), shouldAffectActivity INTEGER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (
          type IS NULL
          OR
          type NOT IN (
            &#39;change-number-notification&#39;,
            &#39;contact-removed-notification&#39;,
            &#39;conversation-merge&#39;,
            &#39;group-v1-migration&#39;,
            &#39;keychange&#39;,
            &#39;message-history-unsynced&#39;,
            &#39;profile-change&#39;,
            &#39;story&#39;,
            &#39;universal-timer-notification&#39;,
            &#39;verified-change&#39;
          )
        ), shouldAffectPreview INTEGER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (
          type IS NULL
          OR
          type NOT IN (
            &#39;change-number-notification&#39;,
            &#39;contact-removed-notification&#39;,
            &#39;conversation-merge&#39;,
            &#39;group-v1-migration&#39;,
            &#39;keychange&#39;,
            &#39;message-history-unsynced&#39;,
            &#39;profile-change&#39;,
            &#39;story&#39;,
            &#39;universal-timer-notification&#39;,
            &#39;verified-change&#39;
          )
        ), isUserInitiatedMessage INTEGER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (
          type IS NULL
          OR
          type NOT IN (
            &#39;change-number-notification&#39;,
            &#39;contact-removed-notification&#39;,
            &#39;conversation-merge&#39;,
            &#39;group-v1-migration&#39;,
            &#39;group-v2-change&#39;,
            &#39;keychange&#39;,
            &#39;message-history-unsynced&#39;,
            &#39;profile-change&#39;,
            &#39;story&#39;,
            &#39;universal-timer-notification&#39;,
            &#39;verified-change&#39;
          )
        ), mentionsMe INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, isGroupLeaveEvent INTEGER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (
          type IS &#39;group-v2-change&#39; AND
          json_array_length(json_extract(json, &#39;$.groupV2Change.details&#39;)) IS 1 AND
          json_extract(json, &#39;$.groupV2Change.details[0].type&#39;) IS &#39;member-remove&#39; AND
          json_extract(json, &#39;$.groupV2Change.from&#39;) IS NOT NULL AND
          json_extract(json, &#39;$.groupV2Change.from&#39;) IS json_extract(json, &#39;$.groupV2Change.details[0].aci&#39;)
        ), isGroupLeaveEventFromOther INTEGER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (
          isGroupLeaveEvent IS 1
          AND
          isChangeCreatedByUs IS 0
        ), callId TEXT
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (
          json_extract(json, &#39;$.callId&#39;)
        ));
CREATE TABLE sqlite_stat4(tbl,idx,neq,nlt,ndlt,sample);
CREATE TABLE jobs(
        id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
        queueType TEXT STRING NOT NULL,
        timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL,
        data STRING TEXT
      );
CREATE TABLE reactions(
        conversationId STRING,
        emoji STRING,
        fromId STRING,
        messageReceivedAt INTEGER,
        targetAuthorAci STRING,
        targetTimestamp INTEGER,
        unread INTEGER
      , messageId STRING);
CREATE TABLE senderKeys(
        id TEXT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
        senderId TEXT NOT NULL,
        distributionId TEXT NOT NULL,
        data BLOB NOT NULL,
        lastUpdatedDate NUMBER NOT NULL
      );
CREATE TABLE unprocessed(
        id STRING PRIMARY KEY ASC,
        timestamp INTEGER,
        version INTEGER,
        attempts INTEGER,
        envelope TEXT,
        decrypted TEXT,
        source TEXT,
        serverTimestamp INTEGER,
        sourceServiceId STRING
      , serverGuid STRING NULL, sourceDevice INTEGER, receivedAtCounter INTEGER, urgent INTEGER, story INTEGER);
CREATE TABLE sendLogPayloads(
        id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC,

        timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL,
        contentHint INTEGER NOT NULL,
        proto BLOB NOT NULL
      , urgent INTEGER, hasPniSignatureMessage INTEGER DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL);
CREATE TABLE sendLogRecipients(
        payloadId INTEGER NOT NULL,

        recipientServiceId STRING NOT NULL,
        deviceId INTEGER NOT NULL,

        PRIMARY KEY (payloadId, recipientServiceId, deviceId),

        CONSTRAINT sendLogRecipientsForeignKey
          FOREIGN KEY (payloadId)
          REFERENCES sendLogPayloads(id)
          ON DELETE CASCADE
      );
CREATE TABLE sendLogMessageIds(
        payloadId INTEGER NOT NULL,

        messageId STRING NOT NULL,

        PRIMARY KEY (payloadId, messageId),

        CONSTRAINT sendLogMessageIdsForeignKey
          FOREIGN KEY (payloadId)
          REFERENCES sendLogPayloads(id)
          ON DELETE CASCADE
      );
CREATE TABLE preKeys(
        id STRING PRIMARY KEY ASC,
        json TEXT
      , ourServiceId NUMBER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (json_extract(json, &#39;$.ourServiceId&#39;)));
CREATE TABLE signedPreKeys(
        id STRING PRIMARY KEY ASC,
        json TEXT
      , ourServiceId NUMBER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (json_extract(json, &#39;$.ourServiceId&#39;)));
CREATE TABLE badges(
        id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
        category TEXT NOT NULL,
        name TEXT NOT NULL,
        descriptionTemplate TEXT NOT NULL
      );
CREATE TABLE badgeImageFiles(
        badgeId TEXT REFERENCES badges(id)
          ON DELETE CASCADE
          ON UPDATE CASCADE,
        &#39;order&#39; INTEGER NOT NULL,
        url TEXT NOT NULL,
        localPath TEXT,
        theme TEXT NOT NULL
      );
CREATE TABLE storyReads (
        authorId STRING NOT NULL,
        conversationId STRING NOT NULL,
        storyId STRING NOT NULL,
        storyReadDate NUMBER NOT NULL,

        PRIMARY KEY (authorId, storyId)
      );
CREATE TABLE storyDistributions(
        id STRING PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
        name TEXT,

        senderKeyInfoJson STRING
      , deletedAtTimestamp INTEGER, allowsReplies INTEGER, isBlockList INTEGER, storageID STRING, storageVersion INTEGER, storageUnknownFields BLOB, storageNeedsSync INTEGER);
CREATE TABLE storyDistributionMembers(
        listId STRING NOT NULL REFERENCES storyDistributions(id)
          ON DELETE CASCADE
          ON UPDATE CASCADE,
        serviceId STRING NOT NULL,

        PRIMARY KEY (listId, serviceId)
      );
CREATE TABLE uninstalled_sticker_packs (
        id STRING NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
        uninstalledAt NUMBER NOT NULL,
        storageID STRING,
        storageVersion NUMBER,
        storageUnknownFields BLOB,
        storageNeedsSync INTEGER NOT NULL
      );
CREATE TABLE groupCallRingCancellations(
        ringId INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
        createdAt INTEGER NOT NULL
      );
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS &#39;messages_fts_data&#39;(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, block BLOB);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS &#39;messages_fts_idx&#39;(segid, term, pgno, PRIMARY KEY(segid, term)) WITHOUT ROWID;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS &#39;messages_fts_content&#39;(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, c0);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS &#39;messages_fts_docsize&#39;(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, sz BLOB);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS &#39;messages_fts_config&#39;(k PRIMARY KEY, v) WITHOUT ROWID;
CREATE TABLE edited_messages(
        messageId STRING REFERENCES messages(id)
          ON DELETE CASCADE,
        sentAt INTEGER,
        readStatus INTEGER
      , conversationId STRING);
CREATE TABLE mentions (
        messageId REFERENCES messages(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
        mentionAci STRING,
        start INTEGER,
        length INTEGER
      );
CREATE TABLE kyberPreKeys(
        id STRING PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
        json TEXT NOT NULL, ourServiceId NUMBER
        GENERATED ALWAYS AS (json_extract(json, &#39;$.ourServiceId&#39;)));
CREATE TABLE callsHistory (
        callId TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
        peerId TEXT NOT NULL, -- conversation id (legacy) | uuid | groupId | roomId
        ringerId TEXT DEFAULT NULL, -- ringer uuid
        mode TEXT NOT NULL, -- enum &quot;Direct&quot; | &quot;Group&quot;
        type TEXT NOT NULL, -- enum &quot;Audio&quot; | &quot;Video&quot; | &quot;Group&quot;
        direction TEXT NOT NULL, -- enum &quot;Incoming&quot; | &quot;Outgoing
        -- Direct: enum &quot;Pending&quot; | &quot;Missed&quot; | &quot;Accepted&quot; | &quot;Deleted&quot;
        -- Group: enum &quot;GenericGroupCall&quot; | &quot;OutgoingRing&quot; | &quot;Ringing&quot; | &quot;Joined&quot; | &quot;Missed&quot; | &quot;Declined&quot; | &quot;Accepted&quot; | &quot;Deleted&quot;
        status TEXT NOT NULL,
        timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL,
        UNIQUE (callId, peerId) ON CONFLICT FAIL
      );
[ dropped all indexes to save space in this blog post ]
CREATE TRIGGER messages_on_view_once_update AFTER UPDATE ON messages
      WHEN
        new.body IS NOT NULL AND new.isViewOnce = 1
      BEGIN
        DELETE FROM messages_fts WHERE rowid = old.rowid;
      END;
CREATE TRIGGER messages_on_insert AFTER INSERT ON messages
      WHEN new.isViewOnce IS NOT 1 AND new.storyId IS NULL
      BEGIN
        INSERT INTO messages_fts
          (rowid, body)
        VALUES
          (new.rowid, new.body);
      END;
CREATE TRIGGER messages_on_delete AFTER DELETE ON messages BEGIN
        DELETE FROM messages_fts WHERE rowid = old.rowid;
        DELETE FROM sendLogPayloads WHERE id IN (
          SELECT payloadId FROM sendLogMessageIds
          WHERE messageId = old.id
        );
        DELETE FROM reactions WHERE rowid IN (
          SELECT rowid FROM reactions
          WHERE messageId = old.id
        );
        DELETE FROM storyReads WHERE storyId = old.storyId;
      END;
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE messages_fts USING fts5(
        body,
        tokenize = &#39;signal_tokenizer&#39;
      );
CREATE TRIGGER messages_on_update AFTER UPDATE ON messages
      WHEN
        (new.body IS NULL OR old.body IS NOT new.body) AND
         new.isViewOnce IS NOT 1 AND new.storyId IS NULL
      BEGIN
        DELETE FROM messages_fts WHERE rowid = old.rowid;
        INSERT INTO messages_fts
          (rowid, body)
        VALUES
          (new.rowid, new.body);
      END;
CREATE TRIGGER messages_on_insert_insert_mentions AFTER INSERT ON messages
      BEGIN
        INSERT INTO mentions (messageId, mentionAci, start, length)
        
    SELECT messages.id, bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;mentionAci&#39; as mentionAci,
      bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;start&#39; as start,
      bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;length&#39; as length
    FROM messages, json_each(messages.json -&gt;&gt; &#39;bodyRanges&#39;) as bodyRanges
    WHERE bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;mentionAci&#39; IS NOT NULL
  
        AND messages.id = new.id;
      END;
CREATE TRIGGER messages_on_update_update_mentions AFTER UPDATE ON messages
      BEGIN
        DELETE FROM mentions WHERE messageId = new.id;
        INSERT INTO mentions (messageId, mentionAci, start, length)
        
    SELECT messages.id, bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;mentionAci&#39; as mentionAci,
      bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;start&#39; as start,
      bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;length&#39; as length
    FROM messages, json_each(messages.json -&gt;&gt; &#39;bodyRanges&#39;) as bodyRanges
    WHERE bodyRanges.value -&gt;&gt; &#39;mentionAci&#39; IS NOT NULL
  
        AND messages.id = new.id;
      END;
sqlite&gt;
&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Finally I have the tool needed to inspect and process Signal
messages that I need, without using the vendor provided client.  Now
on to transforming it to a more useful format.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
                <title>New chrpath release 0.17</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_17.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_17.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;The chrpath package provide a simple command line tool to remove or
modify the rpath or runpath of compiled ELF program.  It is almost 10
years since I updated the code base, but I stumbled over the tool
today, and decided it was time to move the code base from Subversion
to git and find a new home for it, as the previous one (Debian Alioth)
has been shut down.  I decided to go with
&lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/&quot;&gt;Codeberg&lt;/a&gt; this time, as it is my git
service of choice these days, did a quick and dirty migration to git
and updated the code with a few patches I found in the Debian bug
tracker.  These are the release notes:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;New in 0.17 released 2023-11-10:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Moved project to Codeberg, as Alioth is shut down.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add Solaris support (use &amp;lt;sys/byteorder.h&gt; instead of &amp;lt;byteswap.h&gt;).
   Patch from Rainer Orth.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Added missing newline from printf() line.  Patch from Frank Dana.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Corrected handling of multiple ELF sections. Patch from Frank Dana.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Updated build rules for .deb.  Partly based on patch from djcj.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The latest edition is tagged and available from
&lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/pere/chrpath&quot;&gt;https://codeberg.org/pere/chrpath&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
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        <item>
                <title>Test framework for DocBook processors / formatters</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Test_framework_for_DocBook_processors___formatters.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Test_framework_for_DocBook_processors___formatters.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Sun, 5 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;All the books I have published so far has been using
&lt;a href=&quot;https://docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; somewhere in the process.
For the first book, the source format was DocBook, while for every
later book it was an intermediate format used as the stepping stone to
be able to present the same manuscript in several formats, on paper,
as ebook in ePub format, as a HTML page and as a PDF file either for
paper production or for Internet consumption.  This is made possible
with a wide variety of free software tools with DocBook support in
Debian.  The source format of later books have been docx via rst,
Markdown, Filemaker and Asciidoc, and for all of these I was able to
generate a suitable DocBook file for further processing using
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pandoc&quot;&gt;pandoc&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/asciidoc&quot;&gt;a2x&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/asciidoctor&quot;&gt;asciidoctor&lt;/a&gt;,
as well as rendering using
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xmlto&quot;&gt;xmlto&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dbtoepub&quot;&gt;dbtoepub&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dblatex&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/docbook-xsl&quot;&gt;docbook-xsl&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fop&quot;&gt;fop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;books I
have published&lt;/a&gt; are translated books, with English as the source
language.  The use of
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/po4a&quot;&gt;po4a&lt;/a&gt; to
handle translations using the gettext PO format has been a blessing,
but publishing translated books had triggered the need to ensure the
DocBook tools handle relevant languages correctly.  For every new
language I have published, I had to submit patches dblatex, dbtoepub
and docbook-xsl fixing incorrect language and country specific issues
in the framework themselves.  Typically this has been missing keywords
like &#39;figure&#39; or sort ordering of index entries.  After a while it
became tiresome to only discover issues like this by accident, and I
decided to write a DocBook &quot;test framework&quot; exercising various
features of DocBook and allowing me to see all features exercised for
a given language.  It consist of a set of DocBook files, a version 4
book, a version 5 book, a v4 book set, a v4 selection of problematic
tables, one v4 testing sidefloat and finally one v4 testing a book of
articles.  The DocBook files are accompanied with a set of build rules
for building PDF using dblatex and docbook-xsl/fop, HTML using xmlto
or docbook-xsl and epub using dbtoepub.  The result is a set of files
visualizing footnotes, indexes, table of content list, figures,
formulas and other DocBook features, allowing for a quick review on
the completeness of the given locale settings.  To build with a
different language setting, all one need to do is edit the lang= value
in the .xml file to pick a different ISO 639 code value and run
&#39;make&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/pere/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;test framework
source code&lt;/a&gt; is available from Codeberg, and a generated set of
presentations of the various examples is available as Codeberg static
web pages at
&lt;a href=&quot;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&lt;/a&gt;.
Using this test framework I have been able to discover and report
several bugs and missing features in various tools, and got a lot of
them fixed.  For example I got Northern Sami keywords added to both
docbook-xsl and dblatex, fixed several typos in Norwegian bokmål and
Norwegian Nynorsk, support for non-ascii title IDs added to pandoc,
Norwegian index sorting support fixed in xindy and initial Norwegian
Bokmål support added to dblatex.  Some issues still remains, though.
Default index sorting rules are still broken in several tools, so the
Norwegian letters æ, ø and å are more often than not sorted properly
in the book index.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The test framework recently received some more polish, as part of
publishing my latest book.  This book contained a lot of fairly
complex tables, which exposed bugs in some of the tools.  This made me
add a new test file with various tables, as well as spend some time to
brush up the build rules.  My goal is for the test framework to
exercise all DocBook features to make it easier to see which features
work with different processors, and hopefully get them all to support
the full set of DocBook features.  Feel free to send patches to extend
the test set, and test it with your favorite DocBook processor.
Please visit these two URLs to learn more:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/pere/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;https://codeberg.org/pere/docbook-example/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more on Docbook and translations, I recommend
having a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://docbook.org/&quot;&gt;the DocBook
web site&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://doccookbook.sourceforge.net/html/en/&quot;&gt;the DoCookBook
site&lt;a/&gt; and my earlier blog post on
&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html&quot;&gt;how
the Skolelinux project process and translate documentation&lt;/a&gt;,  a talk I gave earlier this year on
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20230314-oversetting-og-publisering-av-b%c3%b8ker-med-fri-programvare/&quot;&gt;how
to translate and publish books using free software&lt;/a&gt; (Norwegian
only).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;!--

https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/issues/205 (docbook-xsl: sme support)
https://bugs.debian.org/968437 (xindy: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
https://bugs.debian.org/856123 (pandoc: markdown to docbook with non-english titles)
https://bugs.debian.org/864813 (dblatex: missing nb words)
https://bugs.debian.org/756386 (dblatex: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
https://bugs.debian.org/796871 (dbtoepub: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
https://bugs.debian.org/792616 (dblatex: PDF metadata)
https://bugs.debian.org/686908 (docbook-xsl: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&amp;atid=373747&amp;aid=3556630&amp;group_id=21935 (docbook-xsl: nb/nn support)
https://bugs.debian.org/684391 (dblatex: initial nb support)

--&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>«Virkninger av angrefristloven», hovedfagsoppgaven som fikk endret en lov</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Virkninger_av_angrefristloven___hovedfagsoppgaven_som_fikk_endret_en_lov.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Virkninger_av_angrefristloven___hovedfagsoppgaven_som_fikk_endret_en_lov.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2023-10-29-bok-angrefrist.svg&quot; width=&quot;20%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I 1979 leverte Ole-Erik Yrvin en hovedfagsoppgave for Cand. Scient.
  ved Institutt for sosiologi på Universitetet i Oslo på oppdrag fra
  Forbruker- og administrasjonsdepartementet. Oppgaven evaluerte
  Angrefristloven fra 1972, og det han oppdaget førte til at loven ble
  endret fire år senere.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg har kjent Ole-Erik en stund, og synes det var trist at hans
  oppgave ikke lenger er tilgjengelig, hverken fra oppdragsgiver
  eller fra universitetet.  Hans forsøk på å få den avbildet og lagt
  ut på Internett har vist seg fånyttes, så derfor tilbød jeg meg for
  en stund tilbake å publisere den og gjøre den tilgjengelig med
  fribruksvilkår på Internett.  Det er nå klart, og hovedfagsoppgaven
  er tilgjengelig blant annet via &lt;a
  href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;min liste over
  publiserte bøker&lt;/a&gt;, både som nettside,
  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Ole-Erik+Yrvin&quot;&gt;digital
  bok i ePub-format og på papir fra lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg regner med at
  den også vil dukke opp på nettbokhandlere i løpet av en måned eller
  to.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Alle tabeller og figurer er gjenskapt for bedre lesbarhet, noen
  skrivefeil rettet opp og mange referanser har fått flere detaljer
  som ISBN-nummer og DOI-referanse.  Selv om jeg ikke regner med at
  dette blir en kioskvelter, så håper jeg denne nye utgaven kan komme
  fremtiden til glede.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;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
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Merk,
betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>«underordnet tjenestemann blir inhabil fordi en overordnet er inhabil».</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_underordnet_tjenestemann_blir_inhabil_fordi_en_overordnet_er_inhabil__.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_underordnet_tjenestemann_blir_inhabil_fordi_en_overordnet_er_inhabil__.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Thu, 7 Sep 2023 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Medlemmene av Norges regjering har demonstert de siste månedene at
habilitetsvureringer ikke er deres sterke side og det gjelder både
Arbeiderpartiets og Senterpartiers representater. Det er heldigvis
enklere i det private, da inhabilitetsreglene kun gjelder de som
jobber for folket, ikke seg selv.  Sist ut er utenriksminister
Huitfeldt.  I går kom nyheten om at
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/riksadvokaten_-okokrim-nestsjef-kan-behandle-huitfeldt-saken-1.16545162&quot;&gt;Riksadvokaten
har konkludert med at nestsjefen i Økokrim kan behandle sak om
habilitet og innsidekunnskap&lt;/a&gt; for Huitfeldt, på tross av at hans
overordnede, sjefen for Økokrim, har meldt seg inhabil i saken.  Dette
er litt rart.  I veilednigen
«&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/krd/vedlegg/komm/veiledere/habilitet_i_kommuner_og_fylkeskommuner.pdf&quot;&gt;Habilitet
i kommuner og fylkeskommuner&lt;/a&gt;» av Kommunal- og regionaldepartementet
forteller de hva som gjelder, riktig nok gjelder veiledningen ikke for
Økokrim som jo ikke er kommune eller fylkeskommune, men jeg får ikke
inntrykk av at dette er regler som kun gjelder for kommune og
fylkeskommune:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;«&lt;strong&gt;2.1 Oversikt over inhabilitetsgrunnlagene&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;p&gt;De alminnelige reglene om inhabilitet for den offentlige
forvaltningen er gitt i
&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1967-02-10/KAPITTEL_2#KAPITTEL_2&quot;&gt;forvaltningsloven
§§ 6 til 10&lt;/a&gt;. Forvaltningslovens hovedregel om inhabilitet framgår
av § 6. Her er det gitt tre ulike grunnlag som kan føre til at en
tjenestemann eller folkevalgt blir inhabil. I § 6 første ledd
bokstavene a til e er det oppstilt konkrete tilknytningsforhold mellom
tjenestemannen og saken eller sakens parter som automatisk fører til
inhabilitet. Annet ledd oppstiller en skjønnsmessig regel om at
tjenestemannen også kan bli inhabil etter en konkret vurdering av
inhabilitetsspørsmålet, der en lang rekke momenter kan være
relevante. I tredje ledd er det regler om såkalt avledet
inhabilitet. Det vil si at en underordnet tjenestemann blir inhabil
fordi en overordnet er inhabil.»&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Loven sier ganske enkelt «Er den overordnede tjenestemann ugild,
kan avgjørelse i saken heller ikke treffes av en direkte underordnet
tjenestemann i samme forvaltningsorgan.»  Jeg antar tanken er at en
underordnet vil stå i fare for å tilpasse sine konklusjoner til det
overordnet vil ha fordel av, for å fortsatt ha et godt forhold til sin
overordnede.  Men jeg er ikke jurist og forstår nok ikke kompliserte
juridiske vurderinger.  For å sitere «Kamerat Napoleon» av George
Orwell: «Alle dyr er like, men noen dyr er likere enn andre».
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                <title>Invidious add-on for Kodi 20</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Invidious_add_on_for_Kodi_20.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Invidious_add_on_for_Kodi_20.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I still enjoy &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt; as my multimedia center
at home.  Sadly two of the services I really would like to use from
within Kodi are not easily available.  The most wanted add-on would be
one making &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;
available, and it has
&lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Internet_Archive&quot;&gt;not been
working&lt;/a&gt; for many years.  The second most wanted add-on is one
using &lt;a href=&quot;https://invidious.io/&quot;&gt;the Invidious privacy enhanced
Youtube frontent&lt;/a&gt;.  A plugin for this has been partly working, but
not been kept up to date in the Kodi add-on repository, and its
upstream seem to have given it up in April this year, when the git
repository was closed.  A few days ago I got tired of this sad state
of affairs and decided to
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/kodi-invidious-plugin&quot;&gt;have
a go at improving the Invidious add-on&lt;/a&gt;.  As
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872&quot;&gt;Google has
already attacked&lt;/a&gt; the Invidious concept, so it need all the support
if can get.  My small contribution here is to improve the service
status on Kodi.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I added support to the Invidious add-on for automatically picking a
working Invidious instance, instead of requiring the user to specify
the URL to a specific instance after installation.  I also had a look
at the set of patches floating around in the various forks on github,
and decided to clean up at least some of the features I liked and
integrate them into my new release branch.  Now the plugin can handle
channel and short video items in search results.  Earlier it could
only handle single video instances in the search response.  I also
brushed up the set of metadata displayed a bit, but hope I can figure
out how to get more relevant metadata displayed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because I only use Kodi 20 myself, I only test on version 20 and am
only motivated to ensure version 20 is working.  Because of API changes
between version 19 and 20, I suspect it will fail with earlier Kodi
versions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I already
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/xbmc/repo-plugins/pull/4363&quot;&gt;asked to have
the add-on added&lt;/a&gt; to the official Kodi 20 repository, and is
waiting to heard back from the repo maintainers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>What did I learn from OpenSnitch this summer?</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_did_I_learn_from_OpenSnitch_this_summer_.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_did_I_learn_from_OpenSnitch_this_summer_.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;With yesterdays
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610&quot;&gt;release of Debian
12 Bookworm&lt;/a&gt;, I am happy to know the
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; is available for a wider audience.
I have been running it for a few weeks now, and have been surprised
about some of the programs connecting to the Internet.  Some programs
are obviously calling out from my machine, like the NTP network based
clock adjusting system and Tor to reach other Tor clients, but others
were more dubious.  For example, the KDE Window manager try to look up
the host name in DNS, for no apparent reason, but if this lookup is
blocked the KDE desktop get periodically stuck when I use it.  Another
surprise was how much Firefox call home directly to mozilla.com,
mozilla.net and googleapis.com, to mention a few, when I visit other
web pages.  This direct connection happen even if I told Firefox to
always use a proxy, and the proxy setting is ignored for this traffic.
Other surprising connections come from audacity and dirmngr (I do not
use Gnome).  It took some trial and error to get a good default set of
permissions.  Without it, I would get popups asking for permissions at
any time, also the most inconvenient ones where I am in the middle of
a time sensitive gaming session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I suspect some application developers should rethink when then need
to use network connections or DNS lookups, and recommend testing
OpenSnitch (only &lt;tt&gt;apt install opensnitch&lt;/tt&gt; away in Debian
Bookworm) to locate and report any surprising Internet connections on
your desktop machine.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At the moment the upstream developer and Debian package maintainer
is working on making the system more reliable in Debian, by enabling
the eBPF kernel module to track processes and connections instead of
depending in content in /proc/.  This should enter unstable fairly
soon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2023-06-12&lt;/strong&gt;: I got a tip about
&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues&quot;&gt;a list of privacy
issues in Free Software&lt;/a&gt; and the
&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-privacy&quot;&gt;#debian-privacy IRC
channel&lt;/a&gt; discussing these topics.&lt;/p&gt;

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                <title>wmbusmeters, parse data from your utility meter - nice free software</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a European standard for reading utility meters like water,
gas, electricity or heat distribution meters.  The
&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter-Bus&quot;&gt;Meter-Bus standard
(EN 13757-2, EN 13757-3 and EN 13757–4)&lt;/a&gt; provide a cross vendor way
to talk to and collect meter data.  I ran into this standard when I
wanted to monitor some heat distribution meters, and managed to find
free software that could do the job.  The meters in question broadcast
encrypted messages with meter information via radio, and the hardest
part was to track down the encryption keys from the vendor.  With this
in place I could set up a MQTT gateway to submit the meter data for
graphing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The free software systems in question,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rtl-wmbus&quot;&gt;rtl-wmbus&lt;/a&gt; to
read the messages from a software defined radio, and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wmbusmeters&quot;&gt;wmbusmeters&lt;/a&gt; to
decrypt and decode the content of the messages, is working very well
and allowe me to get frequent updates from my meters.  I got in touch
with upstream last year to see if there was any interest in publishing
the packages via Debian.  I was very happy to learn that Fredrik
Öhrström volunteered to maintain the packages, and I have since
assisted him in getting Debian package build rules in place as well as
sponsoring the packages into the Debian archive.  Sadly we completed
it too late for them to become part of the next stable Debian release
(Bookworm).  The wmbusmeters package just cleared the NEW queue.  It
will need some work to fix a built problem, but I expect Fredrik will
find a solution soon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you got a infrastructure meter supporting the Meter Bus
standard, I strongly recommend having a look at these nice
packages.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>The 2023 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_2023_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_2023_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;The LinuxCNC project is making headway these days.  A lot of
patches and issues have seen activity on
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/&quot;&gt;the project github
pages&lt;/a&gt; recently.  A few weeks ago there was a developer gathering
over at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tormach.com/&quot;&gt;Tormach&lt;/a&gt; headquarter in
Wisconsin, and now we are planning a new gathering in Norway.  If you
wonder what LinuxCNC is, lets quote Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&quot;LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers,
cutting machines, robots and hexapods. It can control up to 9 axes or
joints of a CNC machine using G-code (RS-274NGC) as input. It has
several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen,
interactive development).&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian developer gathering take place the weekend June 16th
to 18th this year, and is open for everyone interested in contributing
to LinuxCNC.  Up to date information about the gathering can be found
in
&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/emc-developers/thread/sa64jp06nob.fsf%40hjemme.reinholdtsen.name/#msg37837251&quot;&gt;the
developer mailing list thread&lt;/a&gt; where the gathering was announced.
Thanks to the good people at
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.redpill-linpro.com/&quot;&gt;Redpill-Linpro&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuugfoundation.no/no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, we
have enough sponsor funds to pay for food, and shelter for the people
traveling from afar to join us.  If you would like to join the
gathering, get in touch.&lt;/p&gt;
 
&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time</title>
                <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_in_Debian_ready_for_prime_time.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;A bit delayed,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; package in Debian now got the
latest fixes ready for Debian Bookworm.  Because it depend on a
package missing on some architectures, the autopkgtest check of the
testing migration script did not understand that the tests were
actually working, so the migration was delayed.  A bug in the package
dependencies is also fixed, so those installing the firewall package
(opensnitch) now also get the GUI admin tool (python3-opensnitch-ui)
installed by default.  I am very grateful to Gustavo Iñiguez Goya for
his work on getting the package ready for Debian Bookworm.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Armed with this package I have discovered some surprising
connections from programs I believed were able to work completly
offline, and it has already proven its worth, at least to me.  If you
too want to get more familiar with the kind of programs using
Internett connections on your machine, I recommend testing &lt;tt&gt;apt
install opensnitch&lt;/tt&gt; in Bookworm and see what you think.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The package is still not able to build its eBPF module within
Debian.  Not sure how much work it would be to get it working, but
suspect some kernel related packages need to be extended with more
header files to get it working.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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