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4 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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6 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
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10 <title>Isenkram with PackageKit support - new version 0.23 available in Debian unstable</title>
11 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_with_PackageKit_support___new_version_0_23_available_in_Debian_unstable.html</link>
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13 <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
14 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram&quot;&gt;The isenkram
15 system&lt;/a&gt; is a user-focused solution in Debian for handling hardware
16 related packages. The idea is to have a database of mappings between
17 hardware and packages, and pop up a dialog suggesting for the user to
18 install the packages to use a given hardware dongle. Some use cases
19 are when you insert a Yubikey, it proposes to install the software
20 needed to control it; when you insert a braille reader list it
21 proposes to install the packages needed to send text to the reader;
22 and when you insert a ColorHug screen calibrator it suggests to
23 install the driver for it. The system work well, and even have a few
24 command line tools to install firmware packages and packages for the
25 hardware already in the machine (as opposed to hotpluggable hardware).&lt;/p&gt;
26
27 &lt;p&gt;The system was initially written using aptdaemon, because I found
28 good documentation and example code on how to use it. But aptdaemon
29 is going away and is generally being replaced by
30 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/&quot;&gt;PackageKit&lt;/a&gt;,
31 so Isenkram needed a rewrite. And today, thanks to the great patch
32 from my college Sunil Mohan Adapa in the FreedomBox project, the
33 rewrite finally took place. I&#39;ve just uploaded a new version of
34 Isenkram into Debian Unstable with the patch included, and the default
35 for the background daemon is now to use PackageKit. To check it out,
36 install the &lt;tt&gt;isenkram&lt;/tt&gt; package and insert some hardware dongle
37 and see if it is recognised.&lt;/p&gt;
38
39 &lt;p&gt;If you want to know what kind of packages isenkram would propose for
40 the machine it is running on, you can check out the isenkram-lookup
41 program. This is what it look like on a Thinkpad X230:&lt;/p&gt;
42
43 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
44 % isenkram-lookup
45 bluez
46 cheese
47 fprintd
48 fprintd-demo
49 gkrellm-thinkbat
50 hdapsd
51 libpam-fprintd
52 pidgin-blinklight
53 thinkfan
54 tleds
55 tp-smapi-dkms
56 tp-smapi-source
57 tpb
58 %p
59 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
60
61 &lt;p&gt;The hardware mappings come from several places. The preferred way
62 is for packages to announce their hardware support using
63 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/&quot;&gt;the
64 cross distribution appstream system&lt;/a&gt;.
65 See
66 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/&quot;&gt;previous
67 blog posts about isenkram&lt;/a&gt; to learn how to do that.&lt;/p&gt;
68 </description>
69 </item>
70
71 <item>
72 <title>Discharge rate estimate in new battery statistics collector for Debian</title>
73 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html</link>
74 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html</guid>
75 <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 09:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
76 <description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I updated the
77 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;battery-stats
78 package in Debian&lt;/a&gt; with a few patches sent to me by skilled and
79 enterprising users. There were some nice user and visible changes.
80 First of all, both desktop menu entries now work. A design flaw in
81 one of the script made the history graph fail to show up (its PNG was
82 dumped in ~/.xsession-errors) if no controlling TTY was available.
83 The script worked when called from the command line, but not when
84 called from the desktop menu. I changed this to look for a DISPLAY
85 variable or a TTY before deciding where to draw the graph, and now the
86 graph window pop up as expected.&lt;/p&gt;
87
88 &lt;p&gt;The next new feature is a discharge rate estimator in one of the
89 graphs (the one showing the last few hours). New is also the user of
90 colours showing charging in blue and discharge in red. The percentages
91 of this graph is relative to last full charge, not battery design
92 capacity.&lt;/p&gt;
93
94 &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-rate.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
95
96 &lt;p&gt;The other graph show the entire history of the collected battery
97 statistics, comparing it to the design capacity of the battery to
98 visualise how the battery life time get shorter over time. The red
99 line in this graph is what the previous graph considers 100 percent:
100
101 &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-history.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
102
103 &lt;p&gt;In this graph you can see that I only charge the battery to 80
104 percent of last full capacity, and how the capacity of the battery is
105 shrinking. :(&lt;/p&gt;
106
107 &lt;p&gt;The last new feature is in the collector, which now will handle
108 more hardware models. On some hardware, Linux power supply
109 information is stored in /sys/class/power_supply/ACAD/, while the
110 collector previously only looked in /sys/class/power_supply/AC/. Now
111 both are checked to figure if there is power connected to the
112 machine.&lt;/p&gt;
113
114 &lt;p&gt;If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please
115 check out the
116 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;battery-stats&lt;/a&gt;
117 in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on
118 Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from &lt;a
119 href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.
120 Patches are very welcome.&lt;/p&gt;
121
122 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
123 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
124 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
125 </description>
126 </item>
127
128 <item>
129 <title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble</title>
130 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</link>
131 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</guid>
132 <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
133 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
134 2004 book Cultura Libre was published. Today I noticed that the book
135 is now available from book stores. You can now buy it from
136 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
137 ($19.99),
138 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705&quot;&gt;Barnes
139 &amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ($?) and as always from
140 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
141 ($19.99). The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project. If
142 you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
143 from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
144 and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
145 less).&lt;/p&gt;
146
147 &lt;p&gt;I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
148 sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon. Not quite sure how
149 that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
150 edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
151 the paperback edition, they are
152 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;available
153 from github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
154 </description>
155 </item>
156
157 <item>
158 <title>I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</title>
159 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
160 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
161 <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
162 <description>&lt;p&gt;I just donated to the
163 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;NUUG defence
164 &quot;fond&quot;&lt;/a&gt; to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
165 site popcorn-time.no tested in court. I hope everyone that agree with
166 me will do the same.&lt;/p&gt;
167
168 &lt;p&gt;Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
169 hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
170 talking to a judge first? I am. What if the free software system
171 combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
172 and was called Popcorn Time? Would that affect your view? It still
173 make me worried.&lt;/p&gt;
174
175 &lt;p&gt;In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
176 change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
177 police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
178 the courts. I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
179 the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
180 that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
181 permission first. I was even more surprised when I had a look at
182 &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no&quot;&gt;the web
183 site content on the Internet Archive&lt;/A&gt;, and only found news coverage
184 about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
185 holders permissions.&lt;/p&gt;
186
187 &lt;p&gt;The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
188 example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim&quot;&gt;Hegnar Online&lt;/a&gt; and
189 &lt;a href=&quot;http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/&quot;&gt;ITavisen&lt;a/&gt;
190 and
191 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;),
192 at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
193 on
194 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/&quot;&gt;protests
195 from the law professor Olav Torvund&lt;/a&gt; and
196 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995&quot;&gt;lawyer
197 Jon Wessel-Aas&lt;/a&gt;. It even got some
198 &lt;a href=&quot;https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/&quot;&gt;coverage
199 on TorrentFreak&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
200
201 &lt;p&gt;I
202 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html&quot;&gt;
203 wrote about the case a month ago&lt;/a&gt;, when the
204 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt; (NUUG),
205 where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
206 The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
207 given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
208 legally challenged. They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
209 those that want to support the request.&lt;/p&gt;
210
211 &lt;p&gt;If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
212 censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
213 applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
214 suggest you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;show
215 your support by donating to NUUG&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;
216 </description>
217 </item>
218
219 <item>
220 <title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
221 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
222 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</guid>
223 <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
224 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
225 &lt;a href=&quot;http://zfsonlinux.org/&quot;&gt;ZFS for Linux&lt;/a&gt; finally entered
226 Debian. The package status can be seen on
227 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux&quot;&gt;the package tracker
228 for zfs-linux&lt;/a&gt;. and
229 &lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
230 team status page&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to help out, please join us.
231 &lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git&quot;&gt;The
232 source code&lt;/a&gt; is available via git on Alioth. It would also be
233 great if you could help out with
234 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms&quot;&gt;the dkms package&lt;/a&gt;, as
235 it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.&lt;/p&gt;
236 </description>
237 </item>
238
239 <item>
240 <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
241 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
242 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
243 <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
244 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
245 Debian claim support for most file formats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
246
247 &lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
248 plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
249 Edu. I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
250 for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
251 plugin supported most file formats / media types.
252 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;The
253 result&lt;/a&gt; can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
254 not been updated for a while. But browser plugins are less relevant
255 these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
256 players.&lt;/p&gt;
257
258 &lt;p&gt;A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
259 player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
260 Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why. The cause is a
261 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/822245&quot;&gt;missing MIME type in the VLC
262 desktop file&lt;/a&gt;. In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
263 of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
264 only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
265 two for VLC. This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
266 compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
267 instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
268 support most file formats.&lt;/p&gt;
269
270 &lt;p&gt;The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
271 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;a
272 table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
273 in the table&lt;/a&gt;, with the package supporting most MIME types being
274 listed first in the table.&lt;/p&gt;
275
276 &lt;/p&gt;The best multimedia player in Debian? It is totem, followed by
277 parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
278 kmplayer. Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
279 support?&lt;/p&gt;
280 </description>
281 </item>
282
283 <item>
284 <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
285 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
286 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</guid>
287 <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
288 <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
289 &lt;a href=&quot;https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/&quot;&gt;The Pyra&lt;/a&gt;, a
290 handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled. I
291 would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)&lt;/p&gt;
292
293 &lt;p&gt;The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
294 plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5&quot;
295 LCD touch screen. The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
296 day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
297 confirming this. The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
298 last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
299 production started.&lt;/p&gt;
300
301 &lt;p&gt;As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
302 Debian. Please let me know if you know of any others. Is it the
303 first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?&lt;/p&gt;
304 </description>
305 </item>
306
307 <item>
308 <title>NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no</title>
309 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</link>
310 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</guid>
311 <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
312 <description>&lt;p&gt;It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of
313 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the Norwegian Unix User group&lt;/a&gt;, a
314 member association for those of us believing in free software, open
315 standards and unix-like operating systems. NUUG announced today it
316 will
317 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Pressemelding__NUUG_og_EFN_begj_rer_rettslig_pr_ving_for_DNS_domenebeslag_av_popcorn_time_no.shtml&quot;&gt;try
318 to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as
319 unlawful&lt;/a&gt;, to stand up for the principle that writing about a
320 controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web
321 pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the
322 police. The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority
323 for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
324 a month ago. I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give
325 the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far
326 as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.&lt;/p&gt;
327 </description>
328 </item>
329
330 <item>
331 <title>Ny utgave (v2.2) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
332 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
333 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</guid>
334 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
335 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag tok jeg mot til meg og pakket sammen en ny versjon av den
336 frie norske stavekontrollen, ca. tre og et halvt år etter forrige
337 gang. Resultatet kan lastes ned fra
338 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/&quot;&gt;no.speling.org-prosjeksiden&lt;/a&gt;, både
339 som kildekodepakke og som &quot;pack&quot;-fil som kanskje fortsatt kan brukes
340 av OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice. Byggesystemet trenger oppussing, men i
341 denne omgang hadde jeg bare tid til å fikse byggefeil forårsaket av
342 endringer i GNU grep. De øvrige endringene var gjort tidligere i
343 påvente av en ny utgave.&lt;/p&gt;
344
345 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her er det som er nytt (fra NEWS-fila i
346 kildekodepakken):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
347
348 &lt;p&gt;Release 2.2 (2016-04-15)&lt;/p&gt;
349
350 &lt;ul&gt;
351
352 &lt;li&gt;Rewrite how scripts/speling2words handle tripple consonants, to
353 avoid importing duplicate words from no.speling.org, and getting
354 rid of the existing duplicates in norsk.words.&lt;/li&gt;
355 &lt;li&gt;Remove duplicate entries with tripple consonants from norsk.words.&lt;/li&gt;
356 &lt;li&gt;Update frequency for entries in norsk.words based on
357 &lt;URL:http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/ordlistf.zip&gt; (ran &#39;make
358 freq-update&#39;).&lt;/li&gt;
359 &lt;li&gt;Correct nn ispell build, avoid crash in munchlist causing lots of
360 words to fall out of the database.&lt;/li&gt;
361 &lt;li&gt;Use grep -a to convince grep it is working on text files, to work
362 with newer grep versions.&lt;/li&gt;
363
364 &lt;li&gt;Remove some words disputed in the no.speling.org review process:
365 &lt;ul&gt;
366 &lt;li&gt;apparent (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
367 &lt;li&gt;likke (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
368 &lt;li&gt;ugjest, ugjesten, ugjestens (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
369 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
370
371 &lt;/ul&gt;
372 </description>
373 </item>
374
375 <item>
376 <title>I.F. Stone - an inspiration for us all</title>
377 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</link>
378 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</guid>
379 <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
380 <description>&lt;p&gt;I first got to know I.F. Stone when I came across an article by Jon
381 Schwarz on The Intercept
382 &lt;a href=&quot;https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/new-documentary-legacy-f-stone/&quot;&gt;about
383 his extraordinary contribution to investigative journalism in
384 USA&lt;/a&gt;. The article is about a new documentary in two parts
385 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/123974841&quot;&gt;part one is 12 minutes&lt;/a&gt; and
386 &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/123974842&quot;&gt;part two is 30 minutes&lt;/a&gt;), and
387 I found both truly fascinating. It is amazing what he was able to
388 find by digging up public sources and government papers. He
389 documented lots of government abuse and cover ups, and I find
390 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php&quot;&gt;his weekly news letters&lt;/a&gt;
391 inspiring to read even today.&lt;/p&gt;
392
393 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
394 All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
395 &lt;br&gt;- I. F. Stone
396 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
397
398 &lt;p&gt;His starting point was that reporters should not assume governments
399 and corporations are telling the truth, but verify all their claims as
400 much as possible. I wonder how many Norwegian reporters can be said
401 to follow the principles of I. F. Stone. They are definitely in short
402 supply. If you, like me half a year ago, have never heard of him,
403 check him out.&lt;/p&gt;
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