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+ <title>My free software activity of late (2022)</title>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_free_software_activity_of_late__2022_.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I guess it is time to bring some light on the various free software
+and open culture activities and projects I have worked on or been
+involved in the last year and a half.</p>
+
+<p>First, lets mention the book
+<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/">releases I managed to
+publish</a>. The Cory Doctorow book "Hvordan knuse
+overvåkningskapitalismen" argue that it is not the magic machine
+learning of the big technology companies that causes the surveillance
+capitalism to thrive, it is the lack of trust busting to enforce
+existing anti-monopoly laws. I also published a family of
+dictionaries for machinists, one sorted on the English words, one
+sorted on the Norwegian and the last sorted on the North Sámi words.
+A bit on the back burner but not forgotten is the Debian
+Administrators Handbook, where a new edition is being worked on. I
+have not spent as much time as I want to help bring it to completion,
+but hope I will get more spare time to look at it before the end of
+the year.</p>
+
+<p>With my Debian had I have spent time on several projects, both
+updating existing packages, helping to bring in new packages and
+working with upstream projects to try to get them ready to go into
+Debian. The list is rather long, and I will only mention my own
+isenkram, openmotor, vlc bittorrent plugin, xprintidle, norwegian
+letter style for latex, bs1770gain, and recordmydesktop. In addition
+to these I have sponsored several packages into Debian, like audmes.</p>
+
+<p>The last year I have looked at several infrastructure projects for
+collecting meter data and video surveillance recordings. This include
+several ONVIF related tools like onvifviewer and zoneminder as well as
+rtl-433, wmbusmeters and rtl-wmbus.</p>
+
+<p>In parallel with this I have looked at fabrication related free
+software solutions like pycam and LinuxCNC. The latter recently
+gained improved translation support using po4a and weblate, which was
+a harder nut to crack that I had anticipated when I started.</p>
+
+<p>Several hours have been spent translating free software to
+Norwegian Bokmål on the Weblate hosted service. Do not have a
+complete list, but you will find my contributions in at least gnucash,
+minetest and po4a.</p>
+
+<p>I also spent quite some time on the Norwegian archiving specification
+Noark 5, and its companion project Nikita implementing the API
+specification for Noark 5.</p>
+
+<p>Recently I have been looking into free software tools to do company
+accounting here in Norway., which present an interesting mix between
+law, rules, regulations, format specifications and API interfaces.</p>
+
+<p>I guess I should also mention the Norwegian community driven
+government interfacing projects Mimes Brønn and Fiksgatami, which have
+ended up in a kind of limbo while the future of the projects is being
+worked out.</p>
+
+<p>These are just a few of the projects I have been involved it, and
+would like to give more visibility. I'll stop here to avoid delaying
+this post.</p>
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<title>LinuxCNC translators life just got a bit easier</title>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jun 2022 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jun 2022 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>Back in oktober last year, when I started looking at the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCNC">LinuxCNC</a> system, I
proposed to change the documentation build system make life easier for
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Hvilke partier støttet datalagringsdirektivet 2 og 3?</title>
- <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvilke_partier_st_ttet_datalagringsdirektivet_2_og_3_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Relativt stille har Stortinget den siste perioden vedtatt
-<a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">datalagringsdirektivet</a> versjon to og tre, og slik økt
-overvåkningstrykket på Internett i Norge betraktelig. Det blir mer og
-mer viktig å <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">bruke Tor</a> og
-god kryptering for å sikre sin privatsfære på Internett.</p>
-
-<p>Først ut var
-<a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=79451">ny
-etterretningstjenestelov</a> vedtatt 2020-06-11, der samtlige partier
-på stortinget (Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet, Høyre, Kristelig
-Folkeparti, Miljøpartiet De Grønne, Senterpartiet, Sosialistisk
-Venstreparti, Venstre og et forhenværende Fremskrittspartimedlem)
-unntatt Rødt støttet loven i sin helhet da den ble vedtatt.
-
-<p>Dernest kom
-<a href="https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=84446">ny
-ekomlov</a> vedtatt 2021-06-08 med støtte fra Arbeiderpartiet,
-Fremskrittspartiet, Høyre, Kristelig Folkeparti, Senterpartiet,
-Venstre og et forhenværende Fremskrittspartimedlem mot stemmene fra
-Sosialistisk Venstreparti, Miljøpartiet De Grønne og Rødt.</p>
-
-<p>Intet parti som støtter slike inngrep i privatsfæren får min støtte
-i valg. Heldigvis er det mange parter også utenfor Stortinget som kan
-ha nytte av den økonomiske støtten som følger av hver stemme de får i
-stortingsvalget i år, selv om de ikke kommer inn på Stortinget i denne
-omgang.</p>
-
-<p>Som et annet målepunkt på hvor mye vern av privatsfæren betyr for
-stortingspartiene kan jeg fortelle at ikke et eneste av partiene på
-Stortinget har besvart
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_mener_partiene_om_vern_av_privatsf_ren_og_sporing_av_befolkningen_.html">brevet
-med spørsmål rundt vern av privatsfæren</a> som de fikk i sommer.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
-anbefaler jeg å lese <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">artiklene
-fra Jon Wessel-Aas</a> om temaet.</p>
-
-<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
-til min adresse
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.
-Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p>
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