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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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  10                 <title>Nikita version 0.6 released - free software archive API server</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am very pleased to be able to share with you
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2021-June/000576.html&quot;&gt;the
  16 announcement of a new version of the archiving system Nikita&lt;/a&gt;
  17 published by its lead developer Thomas Sødring:&lt;/p&gt;
  18
  19 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
  20
  21 &lt;p&gt;It is with great pleasure that we can announce a new release of
  22 nikita.  Version 0.6
  23 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core&quot;&gt;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core&lt;/a&gt;). This
  24 release makes new record keeping functionality available. This really
  25 is a maturity release. Both in terms of functionality but also code.
  26 Considerable effort has gone into refactoring the codebase and
  27 simplifying the code. Notable changes for this release include:&lt;/p&gt;
  28
  29 &lt;ul&gt;
  30
  31   &lt;li&gt;Significantly improved OData parsing&lt;/li&gt;
  32   &lt;li&gt;Support for business specific metadata and national identifiers&lt;/li&gt;
  33   &lt;li&gt;Continued implementation of domain model and endpoints&lt;/li&gt;
  34   &lt;li&gt;Improved testing&lt;/li&gt;
  35   &lt;li&gt;Ability to export and import from arkivstruktur.xml&lt;/li&gt;
  36
  37 &lt;/ul&gt;
  38
  39 &lt;p&gt;We are currently in the process of reaching an agreement with an
  40 archive institution to publish their picture archive using nikita with
  41 business specific metadata and we hope that we can share this with you
  42 soon. This is an interesting project as it allows the organisation to
  43 bring an older picture archive back to life while using the original
  44 metadata values stored as business specific metadata. Combined with
  45 OData means the scope and use of the archive is significantly
  46 increased and will showcase both the flexibility and power of
  47 Noark.&lt;/p&gt;
  48
  49 &lt;p&gt;I really think we are approaching a version 1.0 of nikita, even
  50 though there is still a lot of work to be done. The notable work at
  51 the moment is to implement access-control and full text indexing of
  52 documents.&lt;/p&gt;
  53
  54 &lt;p&gt;My sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed to this
  55 release!&lt;/p&gt;
  56
  57 &lt;p&gt;- Thomas&lt;/p&gt;
  58
  59 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Release 0.6 2021-06-10 (d1ba5fc7e8bad0cfdce45ac20354b19d10ebbc7b)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  60
  61 &lt;ul&gt;
  62
  63   &lt;li&gt;Refactor metadata entity search&lt;/li&gt;
  64   &lt;li&gt;Remove redundant security configuration&lt;/li&gt;
  65   &lt;li&gt;Make OpenAPI documentation work&lt;/li&gt;
  66   &lt;li&gt;Change database structure / inheritance model to a more sensible approach&lt;/li&gt;
  67   &lt;li&gt;Make it possible to move entities around the fonds structure&lt;/li&gt;
  68   &lt;li&gt;Implemented a number of missing endpoints&lt;/li&gt;
  69   &lt;li&gt;Make sure yml files are in sync&lt;/li&gt;
  70   &lt;li&gt;Implemented/finalised storing and use of
  71   &lt;ul&gt;
  72        &lt;li&gt;Business Specific Metadata&lt;/li&gt;
  73        &lt;li&gt;Norwegian National Identifiers&lt;/li&gt;
  74        &lt;li&gt;Cross Reference&lt;/li&gt;
  75        &lt;li&gt;Keyword&lt;/li&gt;
  76        &lt;li&gt;StorageLocation&lt;/li&gt;
  77        &lt;li&gt;Author&lt;/li&gt;
  78        &lt;li&gt;Screening for relevant objects&lt;/li&gt;
  79        &lt;li&gt;ChangeLog&lt;/li&gt;
  80        &lt;li&gt;EventLog&lt;/li&gt;
  81   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  82   &lt;li&gt;Make generation of updated docker image part of successful CI pipeline&lt;/li&gt;
  83   &lt;li&gt;Implement pagination for all list requests
  84   &lt;ul&gt;
  85        &lt;li&gt;Refactor code to support lists&lt;/li&gt;
  86        &lt;li&gt;Refactor code for readability&lt;/li&gt;
  87        &lt;li&gt;Standardise the controller/service code&lt;/li&gt;
  88   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  89   &lt;li&gt;Finalise File-&gt;CaseFile expansion and Record-&gt;registryEntry/recordNote
  90 expansion&lt;/li&gt;
  91   &lt;li&gt;Improved Continuous Integration (CI) approach via gitlab&lt;/li&gt;
  92   &lt;li&gt;Changed conversion approach to generate tagged PDF documents&lt;/li&gt;
  93   &lt;li&gt;Updated dependencies
  94   &lt;ul&gt;
  95        &lt;li&gt;For security reasons&lt;/li&gt;
  96        &lt;li&gt;Brought codebase to spring-boot version 2.5.0&lt;/li&gt;
  97        &lt;li&gt;Remove import of necessary dependencies&lt;/li&gt;
  98        &lt;li&gt;Remove non-used metrics classes&lt;/li&gt;
  99   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 100   &lt;li&gt;Added new analysis to CI including&lt;/li&gt;
 101   &lt;li&gt;Implemented storing of Keyword&lt;/li&gt;
 102   &lt;li&gt;Implemented storing of Screening and ScreeningMetadata&lt;/li&gt;
 103   &lt;li&gt;Improved OData support
 104   &lt;ul&gt;
 105        &lt;li&gt;Better support for inheritance in queries where applicable&lt;/li&gt;
 106        &lt;li&gt;Brought in more OData tests&lt;/li&gt;
 107        &lt;li&gt;Improved OData/hibernate understanding of queries&lt;/li&gt;
 108        &lt;li&gt;Implement $count, $orderby&lt;/li&gt;
 109        &lt;li&gt;Finalise $top and $skip&lt;/li&gt;
 110        &lt;li&gt;Make sure &amp; is used between query parameters&lt;/li&gt;
 111   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 112   &lt;li&gt;Improved Testing in codebase
 113   &lt;ul&gt;
 114        &lt;li&gt;A new approach for integration tests to make test more readable&lt;/li&gt;
 115        &lt;li&gt;Introduce tests in parallel with code development for TDD approach&lt;/li&gt;
 116        &lt;li&gt;Remove test that required particular access to storage&lt;/li&gt;
 117   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 118   &lt;li&gt;Implement case-handling process from received email to case-handler
 119   &lt;ul&gt;
 120        &lt;li&gt;Develop required GUI elements (digital postroom from email)&lt;/li&gt;
 121        &lt;li&gt;Introduced leader, quality control and postroom roles&lt;/li&gt;
 122   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 123   &lt;li&gt;Make PUT requests return 200 OK not 201 CREATED&lt;/li&gt;
 124   &lt;li&gt;Make DELETE requests return 204 NO CONTENT not 200 OK&lt;/li&gt;
 125   &lt;li&gt;Replaced &#39;oppdatert*&#39; with &#39;endret*&#39; everywhere to match latest spec&lt;/li&gt;
 126   &lt;li&gt;Upgrade Gitlab CI to use python &gt; 3 for CI scripts&lt;/li&gt;
 127   &lt;li&gt;Bug fixes
 128   &lt;ul&gt;
 129        &lt;li&gt;Fix missing ALLOW&lt;/li&gt;
 130        &lt;li&gt;Fix reading of objects from jar file during start-up&lt;/li&gt;
 131        &lt;li&gt;Reduce the number of warnings in the codebase&lt;/li&gt;
 132        &lt;li&gt;Fix delete problems&lt;/li&gt;
 133        &lt;li&gt;Make better use of cascade for &quot;leaf&quot; objects&lt;/li&gt;
 134        &lt;li&gt;Add missing annotations where relevant&lt;/li&gt;
 135        &lt;li&gt;Remove the use of ETAG for delete&lt;/li&gt;
 136        &lt;li&gt;Fix missing/wrong/broken rels discovered by runtest&lt;/li&gt;
 137        &lt;li&gt;Drop unofficial convertFil (konverterFil) end point&lt;/li&gt;
 138        &lt;li&gt;Fix regex problem for dateTime&lt;/li&gt;
 139        &lt;li&gt;Fix multiple static analysis issues discovered by coverity&lt;/li&gt;
 140        &lt;li&gt;Fix proxy problem when looking for object class names&lt;/li&gt;
 141        &lt;li&gt;Add many missing translated Norwegian to English (internal)
 142 attribute/entity names&lt;/li&gt;
 143        &lt;li&gt;Change UUID generation approach to allow code also set a value&lt;/li&gt;
 144        &lt;li&gt;Fix problem with Part/PartParson&lt;/li&gt;
 145        &lt;li&gt;Fix problem with empty OData search results&lt;/li&gt;
 146        &lt;li&gt;Fix metadata entity domain problem&lt;/li&gt;
 147   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 148   &lt;li&gt;General Improvements
 149   &lt;ul&gt;
 150        &lt;li&gt;Makes future refactoring easier as coupling is reduced&lt;/li&gt;
 151        &lt;li&gt;Allow some constant variables to be set from property file&lt;/li&gt;
 152        &lt;li&gt;Refactor code to make reflection work better across codebase&lt;/li&gt;
 153        &lt;li&gt;Reduce the number of @Service layer classes used in @Controller
 154 classes&lt;/li&gt;
 155        &lt;li&gt;Be more consistent on naming of similar variable types&lt;/li&gt;
 156        &lt;li&gt;Start printing rels/href if they are applicable&lt;/li&gt;
 157        &lt;li&gt;Cleaner / standardised approach to deleting objects&lt;/li&gt;
 158        &lt;li&gt;Avoid concatenation when using StringBuilder&lt;/li&gt;
 159        &lt;li&gt;Consolidate code to avoid duplication&lt;/li&gt;
 160        &lt;li&gt;Tidy formatting for a more consistent reading style across
 161 similar class files&lt;/li&gt;
 162        &lt;li&gt;Make throw a log.error message not an log.info message&lt;/li&gt;
 163        &lt;li&gt;Make throw print the log value rather than printing in multiple
 164 places&lt;/li&gt;
 165        &lt;li&gt;Add some missing pronom codes&lt;/li&gt;
 166        &lt;li&gt;Fix time formatting issue in Gitlab CI&lt;/li&gt;
 167        &lt;li&gt;Remove stale / unused code&lt;/li&gt;
 168        &lt;li&gt;Use only UUID datatype rather than combination String/UUID for systemID&lt;/li&gt;
 169        &lt;li&gt;Mark variables final and @NotNull where relevant to indicate
 170 intention&lt;/li&gt;
 171   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 172   &lt;li&gt;Change Date values to DateTime to maintain compliance with Noark 5
 173 standard&lt;/li&gt;
 174   &lt;li&gt;Domain model improvements using Hypersistence Optimizer
 175   &lt;ul&gt;
 176        &lt;li&gt;Move @Transactional from class to methods to avoid borrowing the JDBC Connection unnecessarily&lt;/li&gt;
 177        &lt;li&gt;Fix OneToOne performance issues&lt;/li&gt;
 178        &lt;li&gt;Fix ManyToMany performance issues&lt;/li&gt;
 179        &lt;li&gt;Add missing bidirectional synchronization support&lt;/li&gt;
 180        &lt;li&gt;Fix ManyToMany performance issue&lt;/li&gt;
 181   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 182   &lt;li&gt;Make List&lt;&gt; and Set&lt;&gt; use final-keyword to avoid potential problems
 183 during update operations&lt;/li&gt;
 184   &lt;li&gt;Changed internal URLs, replaced &quot;hateoas-api&quot; with &quot;api&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;
 185   &lt;li&gt;Implemented storing of Precedence.&lt;/li&gt;
 186   &lt;li&gt;Corrected handling of screening.&lt;/li&gt;
 187   &lt;li&gt;Corrected _links collection returned for list of mixed entity types
 188 to match the specific entity.&lt;/li&gt;
 189   &lt;li&gt;Improved several internal structures.&lt;/li&gt;
 190 &lt;/ul&gt;
 191
 192 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 193
 194 &lt;p&gt;If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
 195 you, please contact us on IRC
 196 (&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.oftc.net/%23nikita&quot;&gt;#nikita on
 197 irc.oftc.net&lt;/a&gt;) or email
 198 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark&quot;&gt;nikita-noark
 199 mailing list&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
 200
 201 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 202 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 203 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 204 </description>
 205         </item>
 206
 207         <item>
 208                 <title>VLC bittorrent plugin in Bullseye, saved by the bell?</title>
 209                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_in_Bullseye__saved_by_the_bell_.html</link>
 210                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_in_Bullseye__saved_by_the_bell_.html</guid>
 211                 <pubDate>Sat, 1 May 2021 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 212                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday morning I got a warning call from the Debian quality
 213 control system that
 214 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;the VLC
 215 bittorrent plugin&lt;/a&gt; was due to be removed because of a release
 216 critical bug in one of its dependencies.  As you might remember, this
 217 plugin make VLC able to stream videos directly from a bittorrent
 218 source using both torrent files and magnet links, similar to using a
 219 HTTP source.  I believe such protocol support is a vital feature in
 220 VLC, allowing efficient streaming from sources such at the almost 7
 221 million movies in &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;the Internet
 222 Archive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 223
 224 &lt;p&gt;The dependency was the unmaintained
 225 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libtorrent-rasterbar&quot;&gt;libtorrent-rasterbar&lt;/a&gt;
 226 package, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/987306&quot;&gt;the bug in
 227 question&lt;/a&gt; blocked its python library from working properly.  As I
 228 did not want Bullseye to release without bittorrent support in VLC, I
 229 set out to check out the status, and track down a fix for the problem.
 230 Luckily the issue had already been identified and fixed upstream,
 231 providing everything needed.  All I needed to do was to fetch the
 232 Debian git repository, extract and trim the patch from upstream and
 233 apply it to the Debian package for upload.&lt;/p&gt;
 234
 235 &lt;p&gt;The fixed library was uploaded yesterday evening.  But that is not
 236 enough to get it into Bullseye, as Debian is currently in package
 237 freeze to prepare for a new next stable release.  Only non-critical
 238 packages with
 239 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/autopkgtest&quot;&gt;autopkgtest
 240 setup&lt;/a&gt; included, in other words able to validate automatically that
 241 the package is working, are allowed to migrate automatically into the
 242 next release at this stage.  And the unmaintained libtorrent-rasterbar
 243 lack such testing, and thus needed a manual override.  I am happy to
 244 report that such manual override was approved a few minutes ago, thus
 245 increasing significantly the chance of VLC bittorrent streaming being
 246 available out of the box also for Debian/Buster users.  A bit too
 247 close shave for my liking, as the Bullseye release is most likely just
 248 a few days away, and this  did feel like the package was saved by the
 249 bell.  I am so glad the warning email showed up in time for me to
 250 handle the issue, and a big thanks go to the Debian Release team for
 251 the quick feedback on
 252 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-release&quot;&gt;#debian-release&lt;/a&gt;
 253 and their &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/987865&quot;&gt;swift
 254 unblocking&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 255
 256 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 257 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 258 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 259 </description>
 260         </item>
 261
 262         <item>
 263                 <title>Updated Valutakrambod, now also with information from NBX</title>
 264                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_Valutakrambod__now_also_with_information_from_NBX.html</link>
 265                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_Valutakrambod__now_also_with_information_from_NBX.html</guid>
 266                 <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 267                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I have neglected the Valutakrambod library for a while, but decided
 268 this weekend to give it a face lift.  I fixed a few minor glitches in
 269 several of the service drivers, where the API had changed since I last
 270 looked at the code.  I also added support for fetching the order book
 271 from the newcomer Norwegian Bitcoin Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;
 272
 273 &lt;p&gt;I also decided to migrate the project from github to gitlab in the
 274 process.  If you want a python library for talking to various currency
 275 exchanges, check out
 276 &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/petterreinholdtsen/valutakrambod&quot;&gt;code for
 277 valutakrambod&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 278
 279 &lt;p&gt;This is what the output from &#39;&lt;tt&gt;bin/btc-rates-curses -c&lt;/tt&gt;&#39;
 280 looked like a few minutes ago:&lt;/p&gt;
 281
 282 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 283            Name Pair           Bid         Ask Spread Ftcd    Age   Freq
 284        Bitfinex BTCEUR  39229.0000  39246.0000   0.0%   44     44    nan
 285         Bitmynt BTCEUR  39071.0000  41048.9000   4.8%   43     74    nan
 286          Bitpay BTCEUR  39326.7000         nan   nan%   39    nan    nan
 287        Bitstamp BTCEUR  39398.7900  39417.3200   0.0%    0      0      1
 288            Bl3p BTCEUR  39158.7800  39581.9000   1.1%    0    nan      3
 289        Coinbase BTCEUR  39197.3100  39621.9300   1.1%   38    nan    nan
 290          Kraken+BTCEUR  39432.9000  39433.0000   0.0%    0      0      0
 291         Paymium BTCEUR  39437.2100  39499.9300   0.2%    0   2264    nan
 292         Bitmynt BTCNOK 409750.9600 420516.8500   2.6%   43     74    nan
 293          Bitpay BTCNOK 410332.4000         nan   nan%   39    nan    nan
 294        Coinbase BTCNOK 408675.7300 412813.7900   1.0%   38    nan    nan
 295         MiraiEx BTCNOK 412174.1800 418396.1500   1.5%   34    nan    nan
 296             NBX BTCNOK 405835.9000 408921.4300   0.8%   33    nan    nan
 297        Bitfinex BTCUSD  47341.0000  47355.0000   0.0%   44     53    nan
 298          Bitpay BTCUSD  47388.5100         nan   nan%   39    nan    nan
 299        Coinbase BTCUSD  47153.6500  47651.3700   1.0%   37    nan    nan
 300          Gemini BTCUSD  47416.0900  47439.0500   0.0%   36    336    nan
 301          Hitbtc BTCUSD  47429.9900  47386.7400  -0.1%    0      0      0
 302          Kraken+BTCUSD  47401.7000  47401.8000   0.0%    0      0      0
 303   Exchangerates EURNOK     10.4012     10.4012   0.0%   38  76236    nan
 304      Norgesbank EURNOK     10.4012     10.4012   0.0%   31  76236    nan
 305        Bitstamp EURUSD      1.2030      1.2045   0.1%    2      2      1
 306   Exchangerates EURUSD      1.2121      1.2121   0.0%   38  76236    nan
 307      Norgesbank USDNOK      8.5811      8.5811   0.0%   31  76236    nan
 308 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 309
 310 &lt;p&gt;Yes, I notice the negative spread on Hitbtc.  Either I fail to
 311 understand their Websocket API or they are sending bogus data.  I&#39;ve
 312 seen the same with Kraken, and suspect there is something wrong with
 313 the data they send.&lt;/p&gt;
 314
 315 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 316 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 317 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 318 </description>
 319         </item>
 320
 321         <item>
 322                 <title>Boken «Hvordan knuse overvåkningskapitalismen» lanseres på norsk</title>
 323                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Hvordan_knuse_overv_kningskapitalismen__lanseres_p__norsk.html</link>
 324                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Hvordan_knuse_overv_kningskapitalismen__lanseres_p__norsk.html</guid>
 325                 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
 326                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter intenst arbeid over mange måneder er endelig den norske
 327 utgaven av «Hvordan knuse overvåkningskapitalismen» av Cory Doctorow
 328 ferdig og klar til å glede millioner av lesere over hele verden.
 329 Følgende pressemelding ble nettopp sendt ut til norske redaksjoner:
 330
 331 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 332
 333 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva gjør stordata med oss, og hvordan gjør algoritmene
 334 «fake news» til realiter?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 335
 336 &lt;p&gt;Nå foreligger en viktig bok om temaet også på norsk. Boken klargjør
 337 og foreslår hvordan vi selv som enkeltpersoner, men også nasjonalt og
 338 internasjonalt kan bekjempe stordatakonsentrasjonene;
 339 «overvåkingskapitalismen».  Boken er «Hvordan knuse
 340 overvåkingskapitalismen» av dr. Cory Doctorow. Den engelske
 341 bokutgivelsen kom for noen dager siden og lanseres med et Webinar
 342 torsdag 2021-01-28. Doctorow besøkte Norge og NUUG i desember med sin
 343 presentasjon Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What&#39;s Really Happening With
 344 &quot;Surveillance Capitalism&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
 345
 346 &lt;p&gt;I funn etter funn, eksempel etter eksempel, gjennomgår og
 347 analyserer dr. Doctorow de utfordringer vi møter i større og større
 348 omfang. Ikke bare i USA, men også her hjemme.&lt;/p&gt;
 349
 350 &lt;p&gt;Cory Doctorow er en britisk-kanadisk forfatter, journalist og
 351 aktivist, kjent for sine science fiction-romaner, for arbeidet for
 352 Creative Commons-bevegelsen, og for sine bidrag til reform av
 353 opphavsretten. Han er både æresdoktor og gjesteforeleser i
 354 datavitenskap ved Open University i UK, konsulent for Electronic
 355 Frontier Foundation, og godt kjent for innsiktsfullt å kommentere og
 356 skrive om digital utvikling.&lt;/p&gt;
 357
 358 &lt;p&gt;Boken lanseres nå på norsk, både som ebok og på papir, oversatt av
 359 en dugnadsgjeng ledet av Petter Reinholdtsen.&lt;/p&gt;
 360
 361 &lt;p&gt;Boken reiser noen helt grunnleggende og samfunnskritiske spørsmål:
 362 Hva fører det til når store deler av Internettet domineres av få store
 363 aktører og deres styringsverktøy og algoritmer?&lt;/p&gt;
 364
 365 &lt;p&gt;Som individer bør vi være opptatt at grenser blir satt og håndhevet
 366 - grenser for overvåkning av individet, for utøvelse av kommersiell
 367 og politisk påvirkning, og for monopoldannelser i
 368 dataverdenen. Slik grensesetting styrker personvernet.&lt;/p&gt;
 369
 370 &lt;p&gt;Konkurransetilsynet har ansvaret for at konkurranselovens § 11 skal
 371 forby «et dominerende foretak for utilbørlig å utnytte og misbruke
 372 sin dominerende stilling». Et tilsvarende forbud omfattes også av
 373 EØS-avtalens artikkel 54. Boken går i detalj om serien av
 374 innskrenkninger vi møter i valgfriheten, innskrenkninger som denne
 375 lovgivningen nettopp skal forhindre. Håndhevelse av en slik lovgivning
 376 er også til fordel for mindre næringsdrivende som uten dette får
 377 begrenset sine faktiske eller potensielle muligheter for vekst og
 378 etablering. «Slik atferd kan utgjøre et misbruk og kan ta ulike
 379 former», skriver Konkurransetilsynet.&lt;/p&gt;
 380
 381 &lt;p&gt;Cory Doctorow går i sin bok lengre enn det med sine mange eksempler
 382 på forhold det burde vært grepet inn mot.&lt;/p&gt;
 383
 384 &lt;p&gt;«Boken bør bidra til et sterkere engasjemen fra voktere av
 385 Internettet nasjonalt og internasjonalt - EU medregnet» sier
 386 oversetter Ole-Erik Yrvin og fortsetter: «Vi har derfor
 387 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2021-01-26-knus-overvaakningskapitalismen-helleland.pdf&quot;&gt;allerede
 388 tatt opp bokens forslag&lt;/a&gt; direkte med Distrikts- og
 389 digitaliseringsminister Linda Hofstad Helleland (H) og
 390 Konkurransetilsynet slik at de kan følges opp.»&lt;/p&gt;
 391
 392 &lt;p&gt;«Også Norge bør innta en pådriverrolle i denne utviklingen», sier
 393 Petter Reinholdtsen. «Tiden er knapp, og tilsynsmyndighetene må få
 394 de verktøy og de ressurser de trenger for at vi her hjemme skal oppnå
 395 nødvendige resultater. Dette gjelder ikke bare vår egen generasjon;
 396 det gjelder alle generasjoner fremover», avslutter Petter
 397 Reinholdsen.&lt;/p&gt;
 398
 399 &lt;p&gt;Kontaktinformasjon:&lt;/p&gt;
 400
 401 &lt;ul&gt;
 402
 403 &lt;li&gt;Ole-Erik Yrvin, oeyrvin (at) gmail.com, +47 46500450&lt;/li&gt;
 404
 405 &lt;li&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen, pere (at) hungry.com&lt;/li&gt;
 406
 407 &lt;/ul&gt;
 408
 409 &lt;p&gt;Relevante lenker:&lt;p&gt;
 410
 411 &lt;ul&gt;
 412
 413 &lt;li&gt;«Hvordan knuse overvåkingskapitalismen» kan bestilles på papir,
 414 som ebok eller leses på nett via
 415 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 416
 417 &lt;li&gt;Opptak av NUUG-møtet Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What&#39;s Really
 418 Happening With &quot;Surveillance Capitalism&quot; med Cory Doctorow,
 419 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20201208-doctorow/&quot;&gt;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20201208-doctorow/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 420
 421 &lt;li&gt;Påmelding til webinar som lanserer den engelske utgaven kan gjøres
 422 via
 423 &lt;a href=&quot;https://craphound.com/category/destroy/&quot;&gt;https://craphound.com/category/destroy/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 424
 425 &lt;li&gt;Cory Doctorows nettsted er
 426 &lt;a href=&quot;https://craphound.com/&quot;&gt;https://craphound.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 427
 428 &lt;/ul&gt;
 429
 430 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 431
 432 &lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
 433 det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
 434 til min adresse
 435 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
 436 Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 437 </description>
 438         </item>
 439
 440         <item>
 441                 <title>Latest Jami back in Debian Testing, and scriptable using dbus</title>
 442                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Latest_Jami_back_in_Debian_Testing__and_scriptable_using_dbus.html</link>
 443                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Latest_Jami_back_in_Debian_Testing__and_scriptable_using_dbus.html</guid>
 444                 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
 445                 <description>&lt;p&gt;After a lot of hard work by its maintainer Alexandre Viau and
 446 others, the decentralized communication platform
 447 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software)&quot;&gt;Jami&lt;/a&gt;
 448 (earlier known as Ring), managed to get
 449 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ring&quot;&gt;its latest version&lt;/a&gt;
 450 into Debian Testing.  Several of its dependencies has caused build and
 451 propagation problems, which all seem to be solved now.&lt;/p&gt;
 452
 453 &lt;p&gt;In addition to the fact that Jami is decentralized, similar to how
 454 bittorrent is decentralized, I first of all like how it is not
 455 connected to external IDs like phone numbers.  This allow me to set up
 456 computers to send me notifications using Jami without having to find
 457 get a phone number for each computer.  Automatic notification via Jami
 458 is also made trivial thanks to the provided client side API (as a DBus
 459 service).  Here is my bourne shell script demonstrating how to let any
 460 system send a message to any Jami address.  It will create a new
 461 identity before sending the message, if no Jami identity exist
 462 already:&lt;/p&gt;
 463
 464 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 465 #!/bin/sh
 466 #
 467 # Usage: $0 &lt;jami-address&gt; &lt;message&gt;
 468 #
 469 # Send &lt;message&gt; to &lt;jami-address&gt;, create local jami account if
 470 # missing.
 471 #
 472 # License: GPL v2 or later at your choice
 473 # Author: Petter Reinholdtsen
 474
 475
 476 if [ -z &quot;$HOME&quot; ] ; then
 477     echo &quot;error: missing \$HOME, required for dbus to work&quot;
 478     exit 1
 479 fi
 480
 481 # First, get dbus running if not already running
 482 DBUSLAUNCH=/usr/bin/dbus-launch
 483 PIDFILE=/run/asterisk/dbus-session.pid
 484 if [ -e $PIDFILE ] ; then
 485     . $PIDFILE
 486     if ! kill -0 $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID 2&gt;/dev/null ; then
 487         unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
 488     fi
 489 fi
 490 if [ -z &quot;$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS&quot; ] &amp;&amp; [ -x &quot;$DBUSLAUNCH&quot; ]; then
 491     DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=&quot;unix:path=$HOME/.dbus&quot;
 492     dbus-daemon --session --address=&quot;$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS&quot; --nofork --nopidfile --syslog-only &lt; /dev/null &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 3&gt;&amp;1 &amp;
 493     DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=$!
 494     (
 495         echo DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID
 496         echo DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=\&quot;&quot;$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS&quot;\&quot;
 497         echo export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
 498     ) &gt; $PIDFILE
 499     . $PIDFILE
 500 fi &amp;
 501
 502 dringop() {
 503     part=&quot;$1&quot;; shift
 504     op=&quot;$1&quot;; shift
 505     dbus-send --session \
 506         --dest=&quot;cx.ring.Ring&quot; /cx/ring/Ring/$part cx.ring.Ring.$part.$op $*
 507 }
 508
 509 dringopreply() {
 510     part=&quot;$1&quot;; shift
 511     op=&quot;$1&quot;; shift
 512     dbus-send --session --print-reply \
 513         --dest=&quot;cx.ring.Ring&quot; /cx/ring/Ring/$part cx.ring.Ring.$part.$op $*
 514 }
 515
 516 firstaccount() {
 517     dringopreply ConfigurationManager getAccountList | \
 518       grep string | awk -F&#39;&quot;&#39; &#39;{print $2}&#39; | head -n 1
 519 }
 520
 521 account=$(firstaccount)
 522
 523 if [ -z &quot;$account&quot; ] ; then
 524     echo &quot;Missing local account, trying to create it&quot;
 525     dringop ConfigurationManager addAccount \
 526       dict:string:string:&quot;Account.type&quot;,&quot;RING&quot;,&quot;Account.videoEnabled&quot;,&quot;false&quot;
 527     account=$(firstaccount)
 528     if [ -z &quot;$account&quot; ] ; then
 529         echo &quot;unable to create local account&quot;
 530         exit 1
 531     fi
 532 fi
 533
 534 # Not using dringopreply to ensure $2 can contain spaces
 535 dbus-send --print-reply --session \
 536   --dest=cx.ring.Ring \
 537   /cx/ring/Ring/ConfigurationManager \
 538   cx.ring.Ring.ConfigurationManager.sendTextMessage \
 539   string:&quot;$account&quot; string:&quot;$1&quot; \
 540   dict:string:string:&quot;text/plain&quot;,&quot;$2&quot;
 541 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 542
 543 &lt;p&gt;If you want to check it out yourself, visit the
 544 &lt;a href=&quot;https://jami.net/&quot;&gt;the Jami system project page&lt;/a&gt; to learn
 545 more, and install the latest Jami client from Debian Unstable or
 546 Testing.&lt;/p&gt;
 547
 548 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 549 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 550 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 551 </description>
 552         </item>
 553
 554         <item>
 555                 <title>Boken «Made with Creative Commons» lanseres på norsk</title>
 556                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Made_with_Creative_Commons__lanseres_p__norsk.html</link>
 557                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Boken__Made_with_Creative_Commons__lanseres_p__norsk.html</guid>
 558                 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 23:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
 559                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Endelig er den norske utgaven av «Made with Creative Commons»
 560 ferdig og publisert.  Følgende pressemelding ble nettopp sendt ut:
 561
 562 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 563
 564 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boken «Made with Creative Commons» lanseres på norsk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 565
 566 &lt;p&gt;«Gjort med Creative Commons» er en bok om gjenbruk, deling og den
 567 digitale allmenningen. Boken omhandler å bygge en forretningsmodell på
 568 åpne verdier, endringene i tankesett og filosofi, og fordelene og
 569 praksisen som kommer med å være «åpen».&lt;/p&gt;
 570
 571 &lt;p&gt;Forfatterne Paul Stacey og Sarah Hinchliff Pearson tar oss med inn
 572 i samtaler med 24 mennesker, prosjekter og organisasjoner som på ulike
 573 måter generere inntekter gjennom deling av sine verk. Som leser får
 574 man innsikt i hvordan alt fra forskere, forfattere, kunstnere og
 575 filmskapere tjener penger basert på åpne forretningsmodeller. En av
 576 referansestudiene i denne boken viser hvordan Blender Animation Studio
 577 lager vakre animasjonsfilmer som de publiserer under en fri lisens,
 578 basert på en plattform som er fri programvare.&lt;/p&gt;
 579
 580 &lt;p&gt;Utover praktiske eksempler på forskjellige forretningsmodeller berører
 581 også boken forskjellen mellom tradisjonelle kommersielle virksomheter og
 582 de som tar utgangspunkt i den globale delingskulturen.&lt;/p&gt;
 583
 584 &lt;p&gt;«Hvis du ønsker å lære mer om digital delingskultur og Creative Commons
 585 er dette en bok som både vil inspirere og gi grunnleggende innsikt» sier
 586 leder av Creative Commons Norge, Christer Solheim Gundersen. «De siste
 587 årene har denne globale bevegelsen sett en betydelig vekst med totalt
 588 over 1,6 milliarder verk med CC-lisens tilgjengelig på nett.»
 589
 590 Nå er den tilgjengelig på norsk takket være liten gruppe frivillige
 591 entusiaster ledet av Petter Reinholdtsen. «På vegne av Creative Commons
 592 Norge vil jeg takke hver enkelt bidragsyter. Dette prosjektet er i seg
 593 selv et inspirerende eksempel på at delingskulturen også har godt
 594 fotfeste her i Norge.», avslutter Gundersen.&lt;/p&gt;
 595
 596 &lt;p&gt;Boken er selvsagt fritt tilgjengelig under en Creative Commons lisens,
 597 og kan også kjøpes som ebok og papirutgave på blant annet Lulu.com og
 598 Amazon.&lt;/p&gt;
 599
 600 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lenker og kontaktinformasjon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 601
 602 &lt;ul&gt;
 603
 604 &lt;li&gt;Kontaktpunkt:
 605 &lt;br&gt;Ole-Erik Yrvin (oeyrvin@gmail.com) og
 606 &lt;br&gt;Christer Solheim Gundersen (christer@goopen.no), +47 9341 1360&lt;/li&gt;
 607
 608 &lt;li&gt;Bokens &lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc/&quot;&gt;engelske nettside&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 609
 610 &lt;li&gt;Den &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;norske utgavens nettside&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 611
 612 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/sarah-hinchliff-pearson-and-paul-stacey-and-bryan-mathers-and-ryan-merkley/gjort-med-creative-commons/paperback/product-m5jy75.html&quot;&gt;Papirutgaven fra Lulu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 613
 614 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/sarah-hinchliff-pearson-and-paul-stacey-and-bryan-mathers-and-ryan-merkley/gjort-med-creative-commons/ebook/product-zw2r4k.html&quot;&gt;Epub-utgaven fra lulu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 615
 616 &lt;/ul&gt;
 617
 618 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 619
 620 &lt;p&gt;Nå håper jeg bare den får mange lesere, og finner veien under mange
 621 juletrær.&lt;/p&gt;
 622
 623 &lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
 624 det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
 625 til min adresse
 626 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
 627 Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 628 </description>
 629         </item>
 630
 631         <item>
 632                 <title>Buster based Bokmål edition of Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook</title>
 633                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_based_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</link>
 634                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_based_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</guid>
 635                 <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
 636                 <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-10-20-debian-handbook-nb-testprint.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;60%&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 637
 638 &lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that we finally made it!  Norwegian Bokmål
 639 became the first translation published on paper of the new Buster
 640 based edition of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/&quot;&gt;The Debian
 641 Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  The print proof reading copy arrived
 642 some days ago, and it looked good, so now the book is approved for
 643 general distribution.  This updated paperback edition &lt;a
 644 href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian&quot;&gt;is available from
 645 lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;.  The book is also available for download in electronic
 646 form as PDF, EPUB and Mobipocket, and can also be
 647 &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/browse/nb-NO/stable/&quot;&gt;read online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 648
 649 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to wrap up this Creative Common licensed project,
 650 which concludes several months of work by several volunteers. The
 651 number of Linux related books published in Norwegian are few, and I
 652 really hope this one will gain many readers, as it is packed with deep
 653 knowledge on Linux and the Debian ecosystem.  The book will be
 654 available for various Internet book stores like Amazon and Barnes &amp;
 655 Noble soon, but I recommend buying
 656 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/roland-mas-and-rapha%C3%ABl-hertzog/h%C3%A5ndbok-for-debian-administratoren/paperback/product-9j7qwq.html&quot;&gt;Håndbok
 657 for Debian-administratoren&lt;/a&gt;&quot; directly from the source at Lulu.
 658
 659 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 660 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 661 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 662 </description>
 663         </item>
 664
 665         <item>
 666                 <title>Buster update of Norwegian Bokmål edition of Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook almost done</title>
 667                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_update_of_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_almost_done.html</link>
 668                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Buster_update_of_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_almost_done.html</guid>
 669                 <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
 670                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the good work of several volunteers, the updated edition
 671 of the Norwegian translation for
 672 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/&quot;&gt;The Debian Administrator&#39;s
 673 Handbook&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is now almost completed.  After many months of proof
 674 reading, I consider the proof reading complete enough for us to move
 675 to the next step, and have asked for the print version to be prepared
 676 and sent of to the print on demand service lulu.com.  While it is
 677 still not to late if you find any incorrect translations on
 678 &lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/languages/nb_NO/debian-handbook/&quot;&gt;the
 679 hosted Weblate service&lt;/a&gt;, but it will be soon. :) You can check out
 680 &lt;a href=&quot; https://debian-handbook.info/browse/nb-NO/stable/&quot;&gt;the Buster
 681 edition on the web&lt;/a&gt; until the print edition is ready.&lt;/p&gt;
 682
 683 &lt;p&gt;The book will be for sale on lulu.com and various web book stores,
 684 with links available from the web site for the book linked to above.
 685 I hope a lot of readers find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;
 686
 687 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 688 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 689 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 690 </description>
 691         </item>
 692
 693         <item>
 694                 <title>Working on updated Norwegian Bokmål edition of Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook</title>
 695                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Working_on_updated_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</link>
 696                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Working_on_updated_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</guid>
 697                 <pubDate>Sat, 4 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
 698                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Three years ago, the first Norwegian Bokmål edition of
 699 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/&quot;&gt;The Debian Administrator&#39;s
 700 Handbook&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was published.  This was based on Debian Jessie.  Now a
 701 new and updated version based on Buster is getting ready.  Work on the
 702 updated Norwegian Bokmål edition has been going on for a few months
 703 now, and yesterday, we reached the first mile stone, with 100% of the
 704 texts being translated.  A lot of proof reading remains, of course,
 705 but a major step towards a new edition has been taken.&lt;/p&gt;
 706
 707 &lt;p&gt;The book is translated by volunteers, and we would love to get some
 708 help with the proof reading.  The translation uses
 709 &lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/languages/nb_NO/debian-handbook/&quot;&gt;the
 710 hosted Weblate service&lt;/a&gt;, and we welcome everyone to have a look and
 711 submit improvements and suggestions.  There is also a proof readers
 712 PDF available on request, get in touch if you want to help out that
 713 way.&lt;/p&gt;
 714
 715 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 716 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 717 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 718 </description>
 719         </item>
 720
 721         <item>
 722                 <title>Secure Socket API - a simple and powerful approach for TLS support in software</title>
 723                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Secure_Socket_API___a_simple_and_powerful_approach_for_TLS_support_in_software.html</link>
 724                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Secure_Socket_API___a_simple_and_powerful_approach_for_TLS_support_in_software.html</guid>
 725                 <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2020 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 726                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As a member of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix
 727 User Group&lt;/a&gt;, I have the pleasure of receiving the
 728 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/&quot;&gt;USENIX&lt;/a&gt; magazine
 729 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/&quot;&gt;;login:&lt;/a&gt;
 730 several times a year.  I rarely have time to read all the articles,
 731 but try to at least skim through them all as there is a lot of nice
 732 knowledge passed on there.  I even carry the latest issue with me most
 733 of the time to try to get through all the articles when I have a few
 734 spare minutes.&lt;/p&gt;
 735
 736 &lt;p&gt;The other day I came across a nice article titled
 737 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/winter2018/oneill&quot;&gt;The
 738 Secure Socket API: TLS as an Operating System Service&lt;/a&gt;&quot; with a
 739 marvellous idea I hope can make it all the way into the POSIX standard.
 740 The idea is as simple as it is powerful.  By introducing a new
 741 socket() option IPPROTO_TLS to use TLS, and a system wide service to
 742 handle setting up TLS connections, one both make it trivial to add TLS
 743 support to any program currently using the POSIX socket API, and gain
 744 system wide control over certificates, TLS versions and encryption
 745 systems used.  Instead of doing this:&lt;/p&gt;
 746
 747 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 748 int socket = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
 749 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 750
 751 &lt;p&gt;the program code would be doing this:&lt;p&gt;
 752
 753 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 754 int socket = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TLS);
 755 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 756
 757 &lt;p&gt;According to the ;login: article, converting a C program to use TLS
 758 would normally modify only 5-10 lines in the code, which is amazing
 759 when compared to using for example the OpenSSL API.&lt;/p&gt;
 760
 761 &lt;p&gt;The project has set up the
 762 &lt;a href=&quot;https://securesocketapi.org/&quot;&gt;https://securesocketapi.org/&lt;/a&gt;
 763 web site to spread the idea, and the code for a kernel module and the
 764 associated system daemon is available from two github repositories:
 765 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/markoneill/ssa&quot;&gt;ssa&lt;/a&gt; and
 766 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/markoneill/ssa-daemon&quot;&gt;ssa-daemon&lt;/a&gt;.
 767 Unfortunately there is no explicit license information with the code,
 768 so its copyright status is unclear.  A
 769 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/markoneill/ssa/issues/2&quot;&gt;request to solve
 770 this&lt;/a&gt; about it has been unsolved since 2018-08-17.&lt;/p&gt;
 771
 772 &lt;p&gt;I love the idea of extending socket() to gain TLS support, and
 773 understand why it is an advantage to implement this as a kernel module
 774 and system wide service daemon, but can not help to think that it
 775 would be a lot easier to get projects to move to this way of setting
 776 up TLS if it was done with a user space approach where programs
 777 wanting to use this API approach could just link with a wrapper
 778 library.&lt;/p&gt;
 779
 780 &lt;p&gt;I recommend you check out this simple and powerful approach to more
 781 secure network connections. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 782
 783 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 784 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 785 &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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