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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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                <title>Cura, the nice 3D print slicer, is now in Debian Unstable</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;After several months of working and waiting, I am happy to report
that the nice and user friendly 3D printer slicer software Cura just
entered Debian Unstable.  It consist of five packages,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura&quot;&gt;cura&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura-engine&quot;&gt;cura-engine&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libarcus&quot;&gt;libarcus&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdm-materials&quot;&gt;fdm-materials&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libsavitar&quot;&gt;libsavitar&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uranium&quot;&gt;uranium&lt;/a&gt;.  The last
two, uranium and cura, entered Unstable yesterday.  This should make
it easier for Debian users to print on at least the Ultimaker class of
3D printers.  My closest 3D printer is an Ultimaker 2+, so it will
make life easier for at least me. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The work to make this happen was done by Gregor Riepl, and I was
happy to assist him in sponsoring the packages.  With the introduction
of Cura, Debian is up to three 3D printer slicers at your service,
Cura, Slic3r and Slic3r Prusa.  If you own or have access to a 3D
printer, give it a go. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The 3D printer software is maintained by the 3D printer Debian
team, flocking together on the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/3dprinter-general&quot;&gt;3dprinter-general&lt;/a&gt;
mailing list and the
&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-3dprinting&quot;&gt;#debian-3dprinting&lt;/a&gt;
IRC channel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The next step for Cura in Debian is to update the cura package to
version 3.0.3 and then update the entire set of packages to version
3.1.0 which showed up the last few days.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Idea for finding all public domain movies in the USA</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;While looking at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/&quot;&gt;the scanned copies
for the copyright renewal entries for movies published in the USA&lt;/a&gt;,
an idea occurred to me.  The number of renewals are so few per year, it
should be fairly quick to transcribe them all and add references to
the corresponding IMDB title ID.  This would give the (presumably)
complete list of movies published 28 years earlier that did _not_
enter the public domain for the transcribed year.  By fetching the
list of USA movies published 28 years earlier and subtract the movies
with renewals, we should be left with movies registered in IMDB that
are now in the public domain.  For the year 1955 (which is the one I
have looked at the most), the total number of pages to transcribe is
21.  For the 28 years from 1950 to 1978, it should be in the range
500-600 pages.  It is just a few days of work, and spread among a
small group of people it should be doable in a few weeks of spare
time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A typical copyright renewal entry look like this (the first one
listed for 1955):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
  ADAM AND EVIL, a photoplay in seven reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  Distribution Corp. (c) 17Aug27; L24293. Loew&#39;s Incorporated (PWH);
  10Jun55; R151558.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The movie title as well as registration and renewal dates are easy
enough to locate by a program (split on first comma and look for
DDmmmYY).  The rest of the text is not required to find the movie in
IMDB, but is useful to confirm the correct movie is found.  I am not
quite sure what the L and R numbers mean, but suspect they are
reference numbers into the archive of the US Copyright Office.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Tracking down the equivalent IMDB title ID is probably going to be
a manual task, but given the year it is fairly easy to search for the
movie title using for example
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/find?q=adam+and+evil+1927&amp;s=all&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/find?q=adam+and+evil+1927&amp;s=all&lt;/a&gt;.
Using this search, I find that the equivalent IMDB title ID for the
first renewal entry from 1955 is
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017588/&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017588/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I suspect the best way to do this would be to make a specialised
web service to make it easy for contributors to transcribe and track
down IMDB title IDs.  In the web service, once a entry is transcribed,
the title and year could be extracted from the text, a search in IMDB
conducted for the user to pick the equivalent IMDB title ID right
away.  By spreading out the work among volunteers, it would also be
possible to make at least two persons transcribe the same entries to
be able to discover any typos introduced.  But I will need help to
make this happen, as I lack the spare time to do all of this on my
own.  If you would like to help, please get in touch.  Perhaps you can
draft a web service for crowd sourcing the task?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note, Project Gutenberg already have some
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=copyright+office+renewals&quot;&gt;transcribed
copies of the US Copyright Office renewal protocols&lt;/a&gt;, but I have
not been able to find any film renewals there, so I suspect they only
have copies of renewal for written works.  I have not been able to find
any transcribed versions of movie renewals so far.  Perhaps they exist
somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I would love to figure out methods for finding all the public
domain works in other countries too, but it is a lot harder.  At least
for Norway and Great Britain, such work involve tracking down the
people involved in making the movie and figuring out when they died.
It is hard enough to figure out who was part of making a movie, but I
do not know how to automate such procedure without a registry of every
person involved in making movies and their death year.&lt;/p&gt;

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activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>Is the short movie «Empty Socks» from 1927 in the public domain or not?</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Three years ago, a presumed lost animation film,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Socks&quot;&gt;Empty Socks from
1927&lt;/a&gt;, was discovered in the Norwegian National Library.  At the
time it was discovered, it was generally assumed to be copyrighted by
The Walt Disney Company, and I blogged about
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavsretts_status_for__Empty_Socks__fra_1927_.html&quot;&gt;my
reasoning to conclude&lt;/a&gt; that it would would enter the Norwegian
equivalent of the public domain in 2053, based on my understanding of
Norwegian Copyright Law.  But a few days ago, I came across
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toonzone.net/forums/threads/exposed-disneys-repurchase-of-oswald-the-rabbit-a-sham.4792291/&quot;&gt;a
blog post claiming the movie was already in the public domain&lt;/a&gt;, at
least in USA.  The reasoning is as follows: The film was released in
November or Desember 1927 (sources disagree), and presumably
registered its copyright that year.  At that time, right holders of
movies registered by the copyright office received government
protection for there work for 28 years.  After 28 years, the copyright
had to be renewed if the wanted the government to protect it further.
The blog post I found claim such renewal did not happen for this
movie, and thus it entered the public domain in 1956.  Yet someone
claim the copyright was renewed and the movie is still copyright
protected.  Can anyone help me to figure out which claim is correct?
I have not been able to find Empty Socks in Catalog of copyright
entries.  Ser.3 pt.12-13 v.9-12 1955-1958 Motion Pictures
&lt;a href=&quot;http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/1955r.html#film&quot;&gt;available
from the University of Pennsylvania&lt;/a&gt;, neither in
&lt;a href=&quot;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084451130;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=83;num=45&quot;&gt;page
45 for the first half of 1955&lt;/a&gt;, nor in
&lt;a href=&quot;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084451130;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=175;num=119&quot;&gt;page
119 for the second half of 1955&lt;/a&gt;.  It is of course possible that
the renewal entry was left out of the printed catalog by mistake.  Is
there some way to rule out this possibility?  Please help, and update
the wikipedia page with your findings.

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activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>Metadata proposal for movies on the Internet Archive</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Metadata_proposal_for_movies_on_the_Internet_Archive.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;It would be easier to locate the movie you want to watch in
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archive.org/&quot;&gt;the Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;, if the
metadata about each movie was more complete and accurate.  In the
archiving community, a well known saying state that good metadata is a
love letter to the future.  The metadata in the Internet Archive could
use a face lift for the future to love us back.  Here is a proposal
for a small improvement that would make the metadata more useful
today.  I&#39;ve been unable to find any document describing the various
standard fields available when uploading videos to the archive, so
this proposal is based on my best quess and searching through several
of the existing movies.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have a few use cases in mind.  First of all, I would like to be
able to count the number of distinct movies in the Internet Archive,
without duplicates.  I would further like to identify the IMDB title
ID of the movies in the Internet Archive, to be able to look up a IMDB
title ID and know if I can fetch the video from there and share it
with my friends.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Second, I would like the Butter data provider for The Internet
archive
(&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/butterproviders/butter-provider-archive&quot;&gt;available
from github&lt;/a&gt;), to list as many of the good movies as possible.  The
plugin currently do a search in the archive with the following
parameters:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
collection:moviesandfilms
AND NOT collection:movie_trailers
AND -mediatype:collection
AND format:&quot;Archive BitTorrent&quot;
AND year
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most of the cool movies that fail to show up in Butter do so
because the &#39;year&#39; field is missing.  The &#39;year&#39; field is populated by
the year part from the &#39;date&#39; field, and should be when the movie was
released (date or year).  Two such examples are
&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/SidneyOlcottsBen-hur1905&quot;&gt;Ben Hur
from 1905&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/Caminandes2GranDillama&quot;&gt;Caminandes
2: Gran Dillama from 2013&lt;/a&gt;, where the year metadata field is
missing.&lt;/p&gt;

So, my proposal is simply, for every movie in The Internet Archive
where an IMDB title ID exist, please fill in these metadata fields
(note, they can be updated also long after the video was uploaded, but
as far as I can tell, only by the uploader):

&lt;dl&gt;

&lt;dt&gt;mediatype&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;Should be &#39;movie&#39; for movies.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;dt&gt;collection&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;Should contain &#39;moviesandfilms&#39;.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;dt&gt;title&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;The title of the movie, without the publication year.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;dt&gt;date&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;The data or year the movie was released.  This make the movie show
up in Butter, as well as make it possible to know the age of the
movie and is useful to figure out copyright status.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;dt&gt;director&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;The director of the movie.  This make it easier to know if the
correct movie is found in movie databases.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;dt&gt;publisher&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;The production company making the movie.  Also useful for
identifying the correct movie.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;dt&gt;links&lt;/dt&gt;

&lt;dd&gt;Add a link to the IMDB title page, for example like this: &amp;lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028496/&quot;&amp;gt;Movie in
IMDB&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.  This make it easier to find duplicates and allow for
counting of number of unique movies in the Archive.  Other external
references, like to TMDB, could be added like this too.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;/dl&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I did consider proposing a Custom field for the IMDB title ID (for
example &#39;imdb_title_url&#39;, &#39;imdb_code&#39; or simply &#39;imdb&#39;, but suspect it
will be easier to simply place it in the links free text field.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I created
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb&quot;&gt;a
list of IMDB title IDs for several thousand movies in the Internet
Archive&lt;/a&gt;, but I also got a list of several thousand movies without
such IMDB title ID (and quite a few duplicates).  It would be great if
this data set could be integrated into the Internet Archive metadata
to be available for everyone in the future, but with the current
policy of leaving metadata editing to the uploaders, it will take a
while before this happen.  If you have uploaded movies into the
Internet Archive, you can help.  Please consider following my proposal
above for your movies, to ensure that movie is properly
counted. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The list is mostly generated using wikidata, which based on
Wikipedia articles make it possible to link between IMDB and movies in
the Internet Archive.  But there are lots of movies without a
Wikipedia article, and some movies where only a collection page exist
(like for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminandes&quot;&gt;the
Caminandes example above&lt;/a&gt;, where there are three movies but only
one Wikidata entry).&lt;/p&gt;

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activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>Legal to share more than 3000 movies listed on IMDB?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_3000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;A month ago, I blogged about my work to
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html&quot;&gt;automatically
check the copyright status of IMDB entries&lt;/a&gt;, and try to count the
number of movies listed in IMDB that is legal to distribute on the
Internet.  I have continued to look for good data sources, and
identified a few more.  The code used to extract information from
various data sources is available in
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb&quot;&gt;a
git repository&lt;/a&gt;, currently available from github.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So far I have identified 3186 unique IMDB title IDs.  To gain
better understanding of the structure of the data set, I created a
histogram of the year associated with each movie (typically release
year).  It is interesting to notice where the peaks and dips in the
graph are located.  I wonder why they are placed there.  I suspect
World War II caused the dip around 1940, but what caused the peak
around 2010?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-11-18-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve so far identified ten sources for IMDB title IDs for movies in
the public domain or with a free license.  This is the statistics
reported when running &#39;make stats&#39; in the git repository:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;
  249 entries (    6 unique) with and   288 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-butter.json
 2301 entries (  540 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json
  830 entries (   29 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json
 2109 entries (  377 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json
  291 entries (  122 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json
  144 entries (  135 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json
  350 entries (    1 unique) with and   801 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies.json
    4 entries (    0 unique) with and   124 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json
  698 entries (  119 unique) with and   118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json
    8 entries (    8 unique) with and   196 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json
 3186 unique IMDB title IDs in total
&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The entries without IMDB title ID are candidates to increase the
data set, but might equally well be duplicates of entries already
listed with IMDB title ID in one of the other sources, or represent
movies that lack a IMDB title ID.  I&#39;ve seen examples of all these
situations when peeking at the entries without IMDB title ID.  Based
on these data sources, the lower bound for movies listed in IMDB that
are legal to distribute on the Internet is between 3186 and 4713.

&lt;p&gt;It would be great for improving the accuracy of this measurement,
if the various sources added IMDB title ID to their metadata.  I have
tried to reach the people behind the various sources to ask if they
are interested in doing this, without any replies so far.  Perhaps you
can help me get in touch with the people behind VODO, Public Domain
Torrents, Public Domain Movies and Public Domain Review to try to
convince them to add more metadata to their movie entries?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another way you could help is by adding pages to Wikipedia about
movies that are legal to distribute on the Internet.  If such page
exist and include a link to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, the
script used to generate free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json should
pick up the mapping as soon as wikidata is updates.&lt;/p&gt;

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activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>Some notes on fault tolerant storage systems</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 1 Nov 2017 15:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;If you care about how fault tolerant your storage is, you might
find these articles and papers interesting.  They have formed how I
think of when designing a storage system.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;USENIX :login; &lt;a
href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2017/ganesan&quot;&gt;Redundancy
Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance.  Analysis of Distributed Storage
Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions&lt;/a&gt; by Aishwarya Ganesan,
Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi
H. Arpaci-Dusseau&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;ZDNet
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/&quot;&gt;Why
RAID 5 stops working in 2009&lt;/a&gt; by Robin Harris&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;ZDNet
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/&quot;&gt;Why
RAID 6 stops working in 2019&lt;/a&gt; by Robin Harris&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;USENIX FAST&#39;07
&lt;a href=&quot;http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf&quot;&gt;Failure
Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population&lt;/a&gt; by Eduardo Pinheiro,
Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz André Barroso&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;USENIX ;login: &lt;a
href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/hughes12-04.pdf&quot;&gt;Data
Integrity.  Finding Truth in a World of Guesses and Lies&lt;/a&gt; by Doug
Hughes&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;USENIX FAST&#39;08
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/bairavasundaram/bairavasundaram_html/&quot;&gt;An
Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack&lt;/a&gt; by
L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, B. Schroeder, A. C.
Arpaci-Dusseau, and R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;USENIX FAST&#39;07 &lt;a
href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/&quot;&gt;Disk
failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean
to you?&lt;/a&gt; by B. Schroeder and G. A. Gibson.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;USENIX ;login: &lt;a
href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/&quot;&gt;Are
Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures?  A Comprehensive
Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics&lt;/a&gt; by Weihang
Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Arkady Kanevsky&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;SIGMETRICS 2007
&lt;a href=&quot;http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmetrics07.pdf&quot;&gt;An
analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives&lt;/a&gt; by
L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, S. Pasupathy, and J. Schindler&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Several of these research papers are based on data collected from
hundred thousands or millions of disk, and their findings are eye
opening.  The short story is simply do not implicitly trust RAID or
redundant storage systems.  Details matter.  And unfortunately there
are few options on Linux addressing all the identified issues.  Both
ZFS and Btrfs are doing a fairly good job, but have legal and
practical issues on their own.  I wonder how cluster file systems like
Ceph do in this regard.  After all, there is an old saying, you know
you have a distributed system when the crash of a computer you have
never heard of stops you from getting any work done.  The same holds
true if fault tolerance do not work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just remember, in the end, it do not matter how redundant, or how
fault tolerant your storage is, if you do not continuously monitor its
status to detect and replace failed disks.&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>Web services for writing academic LaTeX papers as a team</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_services_for_writing_academic_LaTeX_papers_as_a_team.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not
know there are easily available web services available for writing
LaTeX documents as a team.  I thought it was common knowledge, but to
make sure at least my readers are aware of it, I would like to mention
these useful services for writing LaTeX documents.  Some of them even
provide a WYSIWYG editor to ease writing even further.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are two commercial services available,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://sharelatex.com&quot;&gt;ShareLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://overleaf.com&quot;&gt;Overleaf&lt;/a&gt;.  They are very easy to
use.  Just start a new document, select which publisher to write for
(ie which LaTeX style to use), and start writing.  Note, these two
have announced their intention to join forces, so soon it will only be
one joint service.  I&#39;ve used both for different documents, and they
work just fine.  While
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex&quot;&gt;ShareLaTeX is free
software&lt;/a&gt;, while the latter is not.  According to &lt;a
href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/help/17-is-overleaf-open-source&quot;&gt;a
announcement from Overleaf&lt;/a&gt;, they plan to keep the ShareLaTeX code
base maintained as free software.&lt;/p&gt;

But these two are not the only alternatives.
&lt;a href=&quot;https://app.fiduswriter.org/&quot;&gt;Fidus Writer&lt;/a&gt; is another free
software solution with &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/fiduswriter&quot;&gt;the
source available on github&lt;/a&gt;.  I have not used it myself.  Several
others can be found on the nice
&lt;a href=&quot;https://alternativeto.net/software/sharelatex/&quot;&gt;alterntiveTo
web service&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;If you like Google Docs or Etherpad, but would like to write
documents in LaTeX, you should check out these services.  You can even
host your own, if you want to. :)&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>Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently, I needed to automatically check the copyright status of a
set of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/&quot;&gt;The Internet Movie database
(IMDB)&lt;/a&gt; entries, to figure out which one of the movies they refer
to can be freely distributed on the Internet.  This proved to be
harder than it sounds.  IMDB for sure list movies without any
copyright protection, where the copyright protection has expired or
where the movie is lisenced using a permissive license like one from
Creative Commons.  These are mixed with copyright protected movies,
and there seem to be no way to separate these classes of movies using
the information in IMDB.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First I tried to look up entries manually in IMDB,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wikipedia.org/&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;, to get a
feel how to do this.  It is hard to know for sure using these sources,
but it should be possible to be reasonable confident a movie is &quot;out
of copyright&quot; with a few hours work per movie.  As I needed to check
almost 20,000 entries, this approach was not sustainable.  I simply
can not work around the clock for about 6 years to check this data
set.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I asked the people behind The Internet Archive if they could
introduce a new metadata field in their metadata XML for IMDB ID, but
was told that they leave it completely to the uploaders to update the
metadata.  Some of the metadata entries had IMDB links in the
description, but I found no way to download all metadata files in bulk
to locate those ones and put that approach aside.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the process I noticed several Wikipedia articles about movies
had links to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, and it occured to me
that I could use the Wikipedia RDF data set to locate entries with
both, to at least get a lower bound on the number of movies on The
Internet Archive with a IMDB ID.  This is useful based on the
assumption that movies distributed by The Internet Archive can be
legally distributed on the Internet.  With some help from the RDF
community (thank you DanC), I was able to come up with this query to
pass to &lt;a href=&quot;https://query.wikidata.org/&quot;&gt;the SPARQL interface on
Wikidata&lt;/a&gt;:

&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
SELECT ?work ?imdb ?ia ?when ?label
WHERE
{
  ?work wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q11424.
  ?work wdt:P345 ?imdb.
  ?work wdt:P724 ?ia.
  OPTIONAL {
        ?work wdt:P577 ?when.
        ?work rdfs:label ?label.
        FILTER(LANG(?label) = &quot;en&quot;).
  }
}
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If I understand the query right, for every film entry anywhere in
Wikpedia, it will return the IMDB ID and The Internet Archive ID, and
when the movie was released and its English title, if either or both
of the latter two are available.  At the moment the result set contain
2338 entries.  Of course, it depend on volunteers including both
correct IMDB and The Internet Archive IDs in the wikipedia articles
for the movie.  It should be noted that the result will include
duplicates if the movie have entries in several languages.  There are
some bogus entries, either because The Internet Archive ID contain a
typo or because the movie is not available from The Internet Archive.
I did not verify the IMDB IDs, as I am unsure how to do that
automatically.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I wrote a small python script to extract the data set from Wikidata
and check if the XML metadata for the movie is available from The
Internet Archive, and after around 1.5 hour it produced a list of 2097
free movies and their IMDB ID.  In total, 171 entries in Wikidata lack
the refered Internet Archive entry.  I assume the 70 &quot;disappearing&quot;
entries (ie 2338-2097-171) are duplicate entries.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is not too bad, given that The Internet Archive report to
contain &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/feature_films&quot;&gt;5331
feature films&lt;/a&gt; at the moment, but it also mean more than 3000
movies are missing on Wikipedia or are missing the pair of references
on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I was curious about the distribution by release year, and made a
little graph to show how the amount of free movies is spread over the
years:&lt;p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-10-25-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I expect the relative distribution of the remaining 3000 movies to
be similar.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want to help, and want to ensure Wikipedia can be used to
cross reference The Internet Archive and The Internet Movie Database,
please make sure entries like this are listed under the &quot;External
links&quot; heading on the Wikipedia article for the movie:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
* {{Internet Archive film|id=FightingLady}}
* {{IMDb title|id=0036823|title=The Fighting Lady}}
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please verify the links on the final page, to make sure you did not
introduce a typo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here is the complete list, if you want to correct the 171
identified Wikipedia entries with broken links to The Internet
Archive: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1140317&quot;&gt;Q1140317&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656&quot;&gt;Q458656&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656&quot;&gt;Q458656&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q470560&quot;&gt;Q470560&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q743340&quot;&gt;Q743340&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q822580&quot;&gt;Q822580&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q480696&quot;&gt;Q480696&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128761&quot;&gt;Q128761&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1307059&quot;&gt;Q1307059&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1335091&quot;&gt;Q1335091&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537166&quot;&gt;Q1537166&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1438334&quot;&gt;Q1438334&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1479751&quot;&gt;Q1479751&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1497200&quot;&gt;Q1497200&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1498122&quot;&gt;Q1498122&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q865973&quot;&gt;Q865973&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q834269&quot;&gt;Q834269&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q841781&quot;&gt;Q841781&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q841781&quot;&gt;Q841781&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1548193&quot;&gt;Q1548193&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q499031&quot;&gt;Q499031&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1564769&quot;&gt;Q1564769&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1585239&quot;&gt;Q1585239&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1585569&quot;&gt;Q1585569&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1624236&quot;&gt;Q1624236&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4796595&quot;&gt;Q4796595&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4853469&quot;&gt;Q4853469&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4873046&quot;&gt;Q4873046&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q915016&quot;&gt;Q915016&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4660396&quot;&gt;Q4660396&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4677708&quot;&gt;Q4677708&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4738449&quot;&gt;Q4738449&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4756096&quot;&gt;Q4756096&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4766785&quot;&gt;Q4766785&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q880357&quot;&gt;Q880357&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q882066&quot;&gt;Q882066&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q882066&quot;&gt;Q882066&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q204191&quot;&gt;Q204191&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q204191&quot;&gt;Q204191&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1194170&quot;&gt;Q1194170&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q940014&quot;&gt;Q940014&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q946863&quot;&gt;Q946863&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q172837&quot;&gt;Q172837&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573077&quot;&gt;Q573077&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1219005&quot;&gt;Q1219005&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1219599&quot;&gt;Q1219599&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1643798&quot;&gt;Q1643798&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1656352&quot;&gt;Q1656352&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1659549&quot;&gt;Q1659549&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1660007&quot;&gt;Q1660007&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1698154&quot;&gt;Q1698154&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1737980&quot;&gt;Q1737980&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1877284&quot;&gt;Q1877284&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199354&quot;&gt;Q1199354&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199354&quot;&gt;Q1199354&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199451&quot;&gt;Q1199451&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1211871&quot;&gt;Q1211871&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1212179&quot;&gt;Q1212179&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1238382&quot;&gt;Q1238382&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4906454&quot;&gt;Q4906454&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q320219&quot;&gt;Q320219&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1148649&quot;&gt;Q1148649&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q645094&quot;&gt;Q645094&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5050350&quot;&gt;Q5050350&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5166548&quot;&gt;Q5166548&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2677926&quot;&gt;Q2677926&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2698139&quot;&gt;Q2698139&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2707305&quot;&gt;Q2707305&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2740725&quot;&gt;Q2740725&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2024780&quot;&gt;Q2024780&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2117418&quot;&gt;Q2117418&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2138984&quot;&gt;Q2138984&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1127992&quot;&gt;Q1127992&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1058087&quot;&gt;Q1058087&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1070484&quot;&gt;Q1070484&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1080080&quot;&gt;Q1080080&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1090813&quot;&gt;Q1090813&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1251918&quot;&gt;Q1251918&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1254110&quot;&gt;Q1254110&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1257070&quot;&gt;Q1257070&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1257079&quot;&gt;Q1257079&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1197410&quot;&gt;Q1197410&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1198423&quot;&gt;Q1198423&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q706951&quot;&gt;Q706951&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q723239&quot;&gt;Q723239&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2079261&quot;&gt;Q2079261&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1171364&quot;&gt;Q1171364&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q617858&quot;&gt;Q617858&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5166611&quot;&gt;Q5166611&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5166611&quot;&gt;Q5166611&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q324513&quot;&gt;Q324513&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q374172&quot;&gt;Q374172&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7533269&quot;&gt;Q7533269&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q970386&quot;&gt;Q970386&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q976849&quot;&gt;Q976849&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7458614&quot;&gt;Q7458614&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5347416&quot;&gt;Q5347416&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5460005&quot;&gt;Q5460005&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5463392&quot;&gt;Q5463392&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3038555&quot;&gt;Q3038555&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5288458&quot;&gt;Q5288458&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2346516&quot;&gt;Q2346516&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5183645&quot;&gt;Q5183645&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5185497&quot;&gt;Q5185497&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5216127&quot;&gt;Q5216127&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5223127&quot;&gt;Q5223127&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5261159&quot;&gt;Q5261159&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1300759&quot;&gt;Q1300759&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5521241&quot;&gt;Q5521241&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733434&quot;&gt;Q7733434&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736264&quot;&gt;Q7736264&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737032&quot;&gt;Q7737032&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7882671&quot;&gt;Q7882671&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719427&quot;&gt;Q7719427&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719444&quot;&gt;Q7719444&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7722575&quot;&gt;Q7722575&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2629763&quot;&gt;Q2629763&lt;/a&gt;, 
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activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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                <title>A one-way wall on the border?</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I find it fascinating how many of the people being locked inside
the proposed border wall between USA and Mexico support the idea.  The
proposal to keep Mexicans out reminds me of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-berlin-wall&quot;&gt;the
propaganda twist from the East Germany government&lt;/a&gt; calling the wall
the “Antifascist Bulwark” after erecting the Berlin Wall, claiming
that the wall was erected to keep enemies from creeping into East
Germany, while it was obvious to the people locked inside it that it
was erected to keep the people from escaping.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do the people in USA supporting this wall really believe it is a
one way wall, only keeping people on the outside from getting in,
while not keeping people in the inside from getting out?&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>Generating 3D prints in Debian using Cura and Slic3r(-prusa)</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;At my nearby maker space,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/&quot;&gt;Sonen&lt;/a&gt;, I heard the story that it
was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+)
on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had
to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade packages
worked out of the box on Windows and MacOS X.  I found this annoying,
as the software involved,
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura&quot;&gt;Cura&lt;/a&gt;, is free software
and should be trivial to get up and running on Linux if someone took
the time to package it for the relevant distributions.  I even found
&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/706656&quot;&gt;a request for adding into
Debian&lt;/a&gt; from 2013, which had seem some activity over the years but
never resulted in the software showing up in Debian.  So a few days
ago I offered my help to try to improve the situation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now I am very happy to see that all the packages required by a
working Cura in Debian are uploaded into Debian and waiting in the NEW
queue for the ftpmasters to have a look.  You can track the progress
on
&lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=3dprinter-general%40lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
status page for the 3D printer team&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded
now to get slots in &lt;a href=&quot;https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html&quot;&gt;the NEW
queue&lt;/a&gt; while we work up updating the packages to the latest
upstream version.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On a related note, two competitors for Cura, which I found harder
to use and was unable to configure correctly for Ultimaker 2+ in the
short time I spent on it, are already in Debian.  If you are looking
for 3D printer &quot;slicers&quot; and want something already available in
Debian, check out
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r&quot;&gt;slic3r&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r-prusa&quot;&gt;slic3r-prusa&lt;/a&gt;.
The latter is a fork of the former.&lt;/p&gt;

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activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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