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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from June 2022</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from June 2022</description>
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  10                 <title>My free software activity of late (2022)</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I guess it is time to bring some light on the various free software
  15 and open culture activities and projects I have worked on or been
  16 involved in the last year and a half.&lt;/p&gt;
  17
  18 &lt;p&gt;First, lets mention the book
  19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;releases I managed to
  20 publish&lt;/a&gt;.  The Cory Doctorow book &quot;Hvordan knuse
  21 overvåkningskapitalismen&quot; argue that it is not the magic machine
  22 learning of the big technology companies that causes the surveillance
  23 capitalism to thrive, it is the lack of trust busting to enforce
  24 existing anti-monopoly laws.  I also published a family of
  25 dictionaries for machinists, one sorted on the English words, one
  26 sorted on the Norwegian and the last sorted on the North Sámi words.
  27 A bit on the back burner but not forgotten is the Debian
  28 Administrators Handbook, where a new edition is being worked on.  I
  29 have not spent as much time as I want to help bring it to completion,
  30 but hope I will get more spare time to look at it before the end of
  31 the year.&lt;/p&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;p&gt;With my Debian had I have spent time on several projects, both
  34 updating existing packages, helping to bring in new packages and
  35 working with upstream projects to try to get them ready to go into
  36 Debian.  The list is rather long, and I will only mention my own
  37 isenkram, openmotor, vlc bittorrent plugin, xprintidle, norwegian
  38 letter style for latex, bs1770gain, and recordmydesktop.  In addition
  39 to these I have sponsored several packages into Debian, like audmes.&lt;/p&gt;
  40
  41 &lt;p&gt;The last year I have looked at several infrastructure projects for
  42 collecting meter data and video surveillance recordings.  This include
  43 several ONVIF related tools like onvifviewer and zoneminder as well as
  44 rtl-433, wmbusmeters and rtl-wmbus.&lt;/p&gt;
  45
  46 &lt;p&gt;In parallel with this I have looked at fabrication related free
  47 software solutions like pycam and LinuxCNC.  The latter recently
  48 gained improved translation support using po4a and weblate, which was
  49 a harder nut to crack that I had anticipated when I started.&lt;/p&gt;
  50
  51 &lt;p&gt;Several hours have been spent translating free software to
  52 Norwegian Bokmål on the Weblate hosted service.  Do not have a
  53 complete list, but you will find my contributions in at least gnucash,
  54 minetest and po4a.&lt;/p&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;I also spent quite some time on the Norwegian archiving specification
  57 Noark 5, and its companion project Nikita implementing the API
  58 specification for Noark 5.&lt;/p&gt;
  59
  60 &lt;p&gt;Recently I have been looking into free software tools to do company
  61 accounting here in Norway., which present an interesting mix between
  62 law, rules, regulations, format specifications and API interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;
  63
  64 &lt;p&gt;I guess I should also mention the Norwegian community driven
  65 government interfacing projects Mimes Brønn and Fiksgatami, which have
  66 ended up in a kind of limbo while the future of the projects is being
  67 worked out.&lt;/p&gt;
  68
  69 &lt;p&gt;These are just a few of the projects I have been involved it, and
  70 would like to give more visibility.  I&#39;ll stop here to avoid delaying
  71 this post.&lt;/p&gt;
  72
  73 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  74 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
  75 &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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  80                 <title>LinuxCNC translators life just got a bit easier</title>
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  83                 <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jun 2022 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
  84                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in oktober last year, when I started looking at the
  85 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCNC&quot;&gt;LinuxCNC&lt;/a&gt; system, I
  86 proposed to change the documentation build system make life easier for
  87 translators.  The original system consisted of independently written
  88 documentation files for each language, with no automated way to track
  89 changes done in other translations and no help for the translators to
  90 know how much was left to translated.  By using
  91 &lt;a href=&quot;https://po4a.org/&quot;&gt;the po4a system&lt;/a&gt; to generate POT and PO
  92 files from the English documentation, this can be improved.  A small
  93 team of LinuxCNC contributors got together and today our labour
  94 finally payed off.  Since a few hours ago, it is now possible to
  95 translate &lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/linuxcnc/&quot;&gt;the
  96 LinuxCNC documentation on Weblate&lt;/a&gt;, alongside the program itself.&lt;/p&gt;
  97
  98 &lt;p&gt;The effort to migrate the documentation to use po4a has been both
  99 slow and frustrating.  I am very happy we finally made it.&lt;/p&gt;
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 101 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 102 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 103 &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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