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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from March 2018</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from March 2018</description>
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  10                 <title>H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
  15 helsevesenet.  Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
  16 Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
  17 samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
  18 tid.  Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
  19 Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
  20 dit vi havner gitt nok tid.  I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
  21 oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
  22 bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
  23 medfødte sykdommer.  Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
  24 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true&quot;&gt;Stortingets
  25 flertallsinnstilling&lt;/a&gt; er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
  26 at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
  27 undersøkelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
  28
  29 &lt;p&gt;Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:&lt;/p&gt;
  30
  31 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
  32
  33   &lt;p&gt;«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
  34   synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
  35   diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
  36   hele befolkningen.»&lt;/p&gt;
  37
  38 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  39
  40 &lt;p&gt;Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
  41 blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
  42 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
  43 lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
  44 og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven&lt;/a&gt; viser at en ikke kan være
  45 trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
  46 misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.&lt;/p&gt;
  47
  48 &lt;p&gt;Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
  49 blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
  50 gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
  51 det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
  52 samtykke.  Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
  53 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
  54 websider&lt;/a&gt;, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
  55 sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
  56 greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.&lt;/p&gt;
  57
  58 &lt;p&gt;I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
  59 er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
  60 konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
  61 brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
  62 dette i dag.&lt;/p&gt;
  63
  64 &lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
  65 det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
  66 til min adresse
  67 &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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  72                 <title>First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
  73                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</link>
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  75                 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  76                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
  77 Commons.  This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
  78 from those around the globe making a living using Creative
  79 Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
  80
  81 &lt;p&gt;Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
  82 translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
  83 &lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc&quot;&gt;Made with Creative Commons from 2017&lt;/a&gt;
  84 was complete.  The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
  85 Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work.  Get in
  86 touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
  87 translate into your mother tongue.&lt;/p&gt;
  88
  89 &lt;p&gt;The whole book project started when
  90 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gwolf.org/node/4102&quot;&gt;Gunnar Wolf announced&lt;/a&gt; that he
  91 was going to make a Spanish edition of the book.  I noticed, and
  92 offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
  93 translating the
  94 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Free
  95 Culture&lt;/a&gt; and
  96 &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian&quot;&gt;The Debian
  97 Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt; books to Norwegian Bokmål.  To make a
  98 long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
  99 first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
 100 Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself.  The first
 101 proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
 102 reading remains.  We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
 103 create a book cover.  Once it is done we will publish the book on
 104 paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.&lt;/p&gt;
 105
 106 &lt;p&gt;The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
 107 downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
 108 The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
 109 using pandoc.  The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
 110 is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators.  The translated
 111 PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
 112 create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
 113 create the final PDF.  The end result is a set of editions of the
 114 manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.&lt;/p&gt;
 115
 116 &lt;p&gt;The translation is conducted using
 117 &lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/&quot;&gt;the
 118 Weblate web based translation system&lt;/a&gt;.  Please have a look there
 119 and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
 120 reading. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 121
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 129                 <title>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
 130                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</link>
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 132                 <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
 133                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
 134 choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
 135 While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
 136 info screen booting with some text scrolling.  I was not quick enough
 137 with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
 138 screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
 139 corrupt file system:
 140
 141 &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[photo of subway info screen]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 143 &lt;p&gt;While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
 144 content on the screen worries me.&lt;/p&gt;
 145
 146 &lt;p&gt;The image show the version booting is &#39;Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid&#39;,
 147 indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
 148 after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
 149 Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14.  Since Lenny Debian
 150 has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
 151 (Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
 152 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history&quot;&gt;a Debian
 153 version history on Wikpedia&lt;/a&gt;.  This mean the system is running
 154 around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
 155 many years.&lt;/p&gt;
 156
 157 &lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
 158 Ruter, running outdated software.  In 2012,
 159 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html&quot;&gt;I
 160 discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000&lt;/a&gt;,
 161 and this was
 162 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html&quot;&gt;still
 163 the case in 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  Given the response from the responsible people
 164 in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
 165 Windows 2000.  Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.&lt;/p&gt;
 166
 167 &lt;p&gt;The photo is made available under the license terms
 168 &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
 169 4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 170
 171 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 172 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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