<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html">Unlimited randomness with the ChaosKey?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 1st March 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A few days ago I ordered a small batch of
-<a href="http://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/">the ChaosKey</a>, a small
-USB dongle for generating entropy created by Bdale Garbee and Keith
-Packard. Yesterday it arrived, and I am very happy to report that it
-work great! According to its designers, to get it to work out of the
-box, you need the Linux kernel version 4.1 or later. I tested on a
-Debian Stretch machine (kernel version 4.9), and there it worked just
-fine, increasing the available entropy very quickly. I wrote a small
-test oneliner to test. It first print the current entropy level,
-drain /dev/random, and then print the entropy level for five seconds.
-Here is the situation without the ChaosKey inserted:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
- for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
- cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- sleep 1; \
- done
-300
-0+1 oppføringer inn
-0+1 oppføringer ut
-28 byte kopiert, 0,000264565 s, 106 kB/s
-4
-8
-12
-17
-21
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>The entropy level increases by 3-4 every second. In such case any
-application requiring random bits (like a HTTPS enabled web server)
-will halt and wait for more entrpy. And here is the situation with
-the ChaosKey inserted:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
- for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
- cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
- sleep 1; \
- done
-1079
-0+1 oppføringer inn
-0+1 oppføringer ut
-104 byte kopiert, 0,000487647 s, 213 kB/s
-433
-1028
-1031
-1035
-1038
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>Quite the difference. :) I bought a few more than I need, in case
-someone want to buy one here in Norway. :)</p>
-
-<p>Update: The dongle was presented at Debconf last year. You might
-find <a href="https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/94/">the talk
-recording illuminating</a>. It explains exactly what the source of
-randomness is, if you are unable to spot it from the schema drawing
-available from the ChaosKey web site linked at the start of this blog
-post.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_an_official_MIME_type_for_patches_.html">Time for an official MIME type for patches?</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 1st November 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>As part of my involvement in
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">the Nikita
+archive API project</a>, I've been importing a fairly large lump of
+emails into a test instance of the archive to see how well this would
+go. I picked a subset of <a href="https://notmuchmail.org/">my
+notmuch email database</a>, all public emails sent to me via
+@lists.debian.org, giving me a set of around 216 000 emails to import.
+In the process, I had a look at the various attachments included in
+these emails, to figure out what to do with attachments, and noticed
+that one of the most common attachment formats do not have
+<a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml">an
+official MIME type</a> registered with IANA/IETF. The output from
+diff, ie the input for patch, is on the top 10 list of formats
+included in these emails. At the moment people seem to use either
+text/x-patch or text/x-diff, but neither is officially registered. It
+would be better if one official MIME type were registered and used
+everywhere.</p>
+
+<p>To try to get one official MIME type for these files, I've brought
+up the topic on
+<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/media-types">the
+media-types mailing list</a>. If you are interested in discussion
+which MIME type to use as the official for patch files, or involved in
+making software using a MIME type for patches, perhaps you would like
+to join the discussion?</p>
+
+<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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html">Detect OOXML files with undefined behaviour?</a></div>
- <div class="date">21st February 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I just noticed
-<a href="http://www.arkivrad.no/aktuelt/riksarkivarens-forskrift-pa-horing">the
-new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment</a> list
-<a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm">ECMA-376</a>
-/ ISO/IEC 29500 (aka OOXML) as valid formats to put in long term
-storage. Luckily such files will only be accepted based on
-pre-approval from the National Archive. Allowing OOXML files to be
-used for long term storage might seem like a good idea as long as we
-forget that there are plenty of ways for a "valid" OOXML document to
-have content with no defined interpretation in the standard, which
-lead to a question and an idea.</p>
-
-<p>Is there any tool to detect if a OOXML document depend on such
-undefined behaviour? It would be useful for the National Archive (and
-anyone else interested in verifying that a document is well defined)
-to have such tool available when considering to approve the use of
-OOXML. I'm aware of the
-<a href="https://github.com/arlm/officeotron/">officeotron OOXML
-validator</a>, but do not know how complete it is nor if it will
-report use of undefined behaviour. Are there other similar tools
-available? Please send me an email if you know of any such tool.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_the_speaker_frequency_response_using_the_AUDMES_free_software_GUI___nice_free_software.html">Measuring the speaker frequency response using the AUDMES free software GUI - nice free software</a></div>
+ <div class="date">22nd October 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-10-22-audmes-measure-speakers.png" align="right" width="40%"/></p>
+
+<p>My current home stereo is a patchwork of various pieces I got on
+flee markeds over the years. It is amazing what kind of equipment
+show up there. I've been wondering for a while if it was possible to
+measure how well this equipment is working together, and decided to
+see how far I could get using free software. After trawling the web I
+came across an article from DIY Audio and Video on
+<a href="https://www.diyaudioandvideo.com/Tutorial/SpeakerResponseTesting/">Speaker
+Testing and Analysis</a> describing how to test speakers, and it listing
+several software options, among them
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/audmes/">AUDio MEasurement
+System (AUDMES)</a>. It is the only free software system I could find
+focusing on measuring speakers and audio frequency response. In the
+process I also found an interesting article from NOVO on
+<a href="http://novo.press/understanding-speaker-specifications-and-frequency-response/">Understanding
+Speaker Specifications and Frequency Response</a> and an article from
+ecoustics on
+<a href="https://www.ecoustics.com/articles/understanding-speaker-frequency-response/">Understanding
+Speaker Frequency Response</a>, with a lot of information on what to
+look for and how to interpret the graphs. Armed with this knowledge,
+I set out to measure the state of my speakers.</p>
+
+<p>The first hurdle was that AUDMES hadn't seen a commit for 10 years
+and did not build with current compilers and libraries. I got in
+touch with its author, who no longer was spending time on the program
+but gave me write access to the subversion repository on Sourceforge.
+The end result is that now the code build on Linux and is capable of
+saving and loading the collected frequency response data in CSV
+format. The application is quite nice and flexible, and I was able to
+select the input and output audio interfaces independently. This made
+it possible to use a USB mixer as the input source, while sending
+output via my laptop headphone connection. I lacked the hardware and
+cabling to figure out a different way to get independent cabling to
+speakers and microphone.</p>
+
+<p>Using this setup I could see how a large range of high frequencies
+apparently were not making it out of my speakers. The picture show
+the frequency response measurement of one of the speakers. Note the
+frequency lines seem to be slightly misaligned, compared to the CSV
+output from the program. I can not hear several of these are high
+frequencies, according to measurement from
+<a href="http://freehearingtestsoftware.com">Free Hearing Test
+Software</a>, an freeware system to measure your hearing (still
+looking for a free software alternative), so I do not know if they are
+coming out out the speakers. I thus do not quite know how to figure
+out if the missing frequencies is a problem with the microphone, the
+amplifier or the speakers, but I managed to rule out the audio card in my
+PC by measuring my Bose noise canceling headset using its own
+microphone. This setup was able to see the high frequency tones, so
+the problem with my stereo had to be in the amplifier or speakers.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, to try to role out one factor I ended up picking up a new
+set of speakers at a flee marked, and these work a lot better than the
+old speakers, so I guess the microphone and amplifier is OK. If you
+need to measure your own speakers, check out AUDMES. If more people
+get involved, perhaps the project could become good enough to
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/910876">include in Debian</a>? And if
+you know of some other free software to measure speakers and amplifier
+performance, please let me know. I am aware of the freeware option
+<a href="https://www.roomeqwizard.com/">REW</a>, but I want something
+that can be developed also when the vendor looses interest.</p>
+
+<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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nice free software">nice free software</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ruling_ignored_our_objections_to_the_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no___domstolkontroll_.html">Ruling ignored our objections to the seizure of popcorn-time.no (#domstolkontroll)</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th February 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, we received the ruling from
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html">my
-day in court</a>. The case in question is a challenge of the seizure
-of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no. The ruling simply did not mention
-most of our arguments, and seemed to take everything ØKOKRIM said at
-face value, ignoring our demonstration and explanations. But it is
-hard to tell for sure, as we still have not seen most of the documents
-in the case and thus were unprepared and unable to contradict several
-of the claims made in court by the opposition. We are considering an
-appeal, but it is partly a question of funding, as it is costing us
-quite a bit to pay for our lawyer. If you want to help, please
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">donate to the
-NUUG defense fund</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The details of the case, as far as we know it, is available in
-Norwegian from
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the NUUG
-blog</a>. This also include
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/Avslag_etter_rettslig_h_ring_om_DNS_beslaget___vurderer_veien_videre.shtml">the
-ruling itself</a>.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html">Web browser integration of VLC with Bittorrent support</a></div>
+ <div class="date">21st October 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Bittorrent is as far as I know, currently the most efficient way to
+distribute content on the Internet. It is used all by all sorts of
+content providers, from national TV stations like
+<a href="https://www.nrk.no/">NRK</a>, Linux distributors like
+<a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> and
+<a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, and of course the
+<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet archive</A>.
+
+<p>Almost a month ago
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">a new
+package adding Bittorrent support to VLC</a> became available in
+Debian testing and unstable. To test it, simply install it like
+this:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>Since the plugin was made available for the first time in Debian,
+several improvements have been made to it. In version 2.2-4, now
+available in both testing and unstable, a desktop file is provided to
+teach browsers to start VLC when the user click on torrent files or
+magnet links. The last part is thanks to me finally understanding
+what the strange x-scheme-handler style MIME types in desktop files
+are used for. By adding x-scheme-handler/magnet to the MimeType entry
+in the desktop file, at least the browsers Firefox and Chromium will
+suggest to start VLC when selecting a magnet URI on a web page. The
+end result is that now, with the plugin installed in Buster and Sid,
+one can visit any
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p">Internet
+Archive page with movies</a> using a web browser and click on the
+torrent link to start streaming the movie.</p>
+
+<p>Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin. One is the
+fact that it will hang and
+<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/13">block VLC
+from exiting until the torrent streaming starts</a>. Another is the
+fact that it
+<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/9">will pick
+and play a random file in a multi file torrent</a>. This is not
+always the video file you want. Combined with the first it can be a
+bit hard to get the video streaming going. But when it work, it seem
+to do a good job.</p>
+
+<p>For the Debian packaging, I would love to find a good way to test
+if the plugin work with VLC using autopkgtest. I tried, but do not
+know enough of the inner workings of VLC to get it working. For now
+the autopkgtest script is only checking if the .so file was
+successfully loaded by VLC. If you have any suggestions, please
+submit a patch to the Debian bug tracking system.</p>
+
+<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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html">A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 3rd February 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>On Wednesday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
-representing <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">the member association
-NUUG</a>, alongside <a href="https://www.efn.no/">the member
-association EFN</a> and <a href="http://www.imc.no">the DNS registrar
-IMC</a>, challenging the seizure of the DNS name popcorn-time.no. It
-was interesting to sit in a court of law for the first time in my
-life. Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
-Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
-Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/follo-tingrett/Nar-gar-rettssaken/Beramming/?cid=AAAA1701301512081262234UJFBVEZZZZZEJBAvtale">The
-case at hand</a> is that the Norwegian National Authority for
-Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka
-Økokrim) decided on their own, to seize a DNS domain early last
-year, without following
-<a href="https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12">the
-official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority</a> which require a
-court decision. The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
-Time. And Popcorn Time is the name of a technology with both legal
-and illegal applications. Popcorn Time is a client combining
-searching a Bittorrent directory available on the Internet with
-downloading/distribute content via Bittorrent and playing the
-downloaded content on screen. It can be used illegally if it is used
-to distribute content against the will of the right holder, but it can
-also be used legally to play a lot of content, for example the
-millions of movies
-<a href="https://archive.org/details/movies">available from the
-Internet Archive</a> or the collection
-<a href="http://vodo.net/films/">available from Vodo</a>. We created
-<a href="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86c1802af5a667ca56d3918aecb7d3c0f7173084&dn=PresentasjonFolloTingrett.mov&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce">a
-video demonstrating legally use of Popcorn Time</a> and played it in
-Court. It can of course be downloaded using Bittorrent.</p>
-
-<p>I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court. The
-government held on to their version of the story and we held on to
-ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all. We will
-know in two weeks time. Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as
-the Government have the upper hand here with more knowledge about the
-case, better training in handling criminal law and in general higher
-standing in the courts than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member
-associations. It is expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the
-case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-. To help fund the case, NUUG
-and EFN have asked for donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25
-000,- so far. Given the presentation from the Government, I expect
-the government to appeal if the case go our way. And if the case do
-not go our way, I hope we have enough funding to appeal.</p>
-
-<p>From the other side came two people from Økokrim. On the benches,
-appearing to be part of the group from the government were two people
-from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer office, and three others I am not
-quite sure who was. Økokrim had proposed to present two witnesses
-from The Motion Picture Association, but this was rejected because
-they did not speak Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a
-translator, but perhaps the two from MPA were present anyway. All
-seven appeared to know each other. Good to see the case is take
-seriously.</p>
-
-<p>If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
-domain is hijacked by the government, or you believe the Popcorn Time
-technology have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
-too <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">donate to
-the NUUG defense fund</a>. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
-available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very
-unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open
-standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what
-happens the money will be put to good use.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the blog
-posts from NUUG covering the case</a>. They cover the legal arguments
-on both sides.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html">Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</a></div>
+ <div class="date">18th October 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>This morning, the new release of the
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
+Noark 5 core project</a> was
+<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2018-October/000406.html">announced
+on the project mailing list</a>. The free software solution is an
+implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
+government offices in Norway. These were the changes in version 0.2
+since version 0.1.1 (from NEWS.md):
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix typos in REL names</li>
+ <li>Tidy up error message reporting</li>
+ <li>Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger()</li>
+ <li>Change some String handling to StringBuffer</li>
+ <li>Fix error reporting</li>
+ <li>Code tidy-up</li>
+ <li>Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid
+ race conditions</li>
+ <li>Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings</li>
+ <li>Update methods to make them null-safe</li>
+ <li>Fix many issues reported by coverity</li>
+ <li>Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model</li>
+ <li>Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes</li>
+ <li>Fix CORS issues when downloading document</li>
+ <li>Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload</li>
+ <li>Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS</li>
+ <li>Adding concept description of mail integration</li>
+ <li>Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost</li>
+ <li>Better handling of required values during deserialisation </li>
+ <li>Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime</li>
+ <li>Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors.</li>
+ <li>Improve parse error reporting.</li>
+ <li>Started on OData search and filtering.</li>
+ <li>Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project.</li>
+ <li>Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab.</li>
+ <li>Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/.</li>
+ <li>Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2.</li>
+ <li>Added support for OAuth2 authentication.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity.</li>
+ <li>Corrected handling of date/datetime fields.</li>
+ <li>Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin.</li>
+ <li>Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe,
+ ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse.</li>
+ <li>Several fixes for korrespondansepart*.</li>
+ <li>Updated web GUI:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Now handle both file upload and download.</li>
+ <li>Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login.</li>
+ <li>Forms now fetches default values from API using GET.</li>
+ <li>Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The changes and improvements are extensive. Running diffstat on
+the changes between git tab 0.1.1 and 0.2 show 1098 files changed,
+108666 insertions(+), 54066 deletions(-).</p>
+
+<p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
+you, please contact us on IRC
+(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
+irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
+(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
+mailing list</a>).</p>
+
+<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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
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<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nasjonalbiblioteket_avslutter_sin_ulovlige_bruk_av_Google_Skjemaer.html">Nasjonalbiblioteket avslutter sin ulovlige bruk av Google Skjemaer</a></div>
- <div class="date">12th January 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I dag fikk jeg en skikkelig gladmelding. Bakgrunnen er at før jul
-arrangerte Nasjonalbiblioteket
-<a href="http://www.nb.no/Bibliotekutvikling/Kunnskapsorganisering/Nasjonalt-verksregister/Seminar-om-verksregister">et
-seminar om sitt knakende gode tiltak «verksregister»</a>. Eneste
-måten å melde seg på dette seminaret var å sende personopplysninger
-til Google via Google Skjemaer. Dette syntes jeg var tvilsom praksis,
-da det bør være mulig å delta på seminarer arrangert av det offentlige
-uten å måtte dele sine interesser, posisjon og andre
-personopplysninger med Google. Jeg ba derfor om innsyn via
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/">Mimes brønn</a> i
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/personopplysninger_til_google_sk">avtaler
-og vurderinger Nasjonalbiblioteket hadde rundt dette</a>.
-Personopplysningsloven legger klare rammer for hva som må være på
-plass før en kan be tredjeparter, spesielt i utlandet, behandle
-personopplysninger på sine vegne, så det burde eksistere grundig
-dokumentasjon før noe slikt kan bli lovlig. To jurister hos
-Nasjonalbiblioteket mente først dette var helt i orden, og at Googles
-standardavtale kunne brukes som databehandlingsavtale. Det syntes jeg
-var merkelig, men har ikke hatt kapasitet til å følge opp saken før
-for to dager siden.</p>
-
-<p>Gladnyheten i dag, som kom etter at jeg tipset Nasjonalbiblioteket
-om at Datatilsynet underkjente Googles standardavtaler som
-databehandleravtaler i 2011, er at Nasjonalbiblioteket har bestemt seg
-for å avslutte bruken av Googles Skjemaer/Apps og gå i dialog med DIFI
-for å finne bedre måter å håndtere påmeldinger i tråd med
-personopplysningsloven. Det er fantastisk å se at av og til hjelper
-det å spørre hva i alle dager det offentlige holder på med.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fetching_trusted_timestamps_using_the_rfc3161ng_python_module.html">Fetching trusted timestamps using the rfc3161ng python module</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 8th October 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I have earlier covered the basics of trusted timestamping using the
+'openssl ts' client. See blog post for
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html">2014</a>,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/syslog_trusted_timestamp___chain_of_trusted_timestamps_for_your_syslog.html">2016</a>
+and
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_trusted_timestamps_in_a_Noark_5_archive.html">2017</a>
+for those stories. But some times I want to integrate the timestamping
+in other code, and recently I needed to integrate it into Python.
+After searching a bit, I found
+<a href="https://dev.entrouvert.org/projects/python-rfc3161">the
+rfc3161 library</a> which seemed like a good fit, but I soon
+discovered it only worked for python version 2, and I needed something
+that work with python version 3. Luckily I next came across
+<a href="https://github.com/trbs/rfc3161ng/">the rfc3161ng library</a>,
+a fork of the original rfc3161 library. Not only is it working with
+python 3, it have fixed a few of the bugs in the original library, and
+it has an active maintainer. I decided to wrap it up and make it
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-rfc3161ng">available in
+Debian</a>, and a few days ago it entered Debian unstable and testing.</p>
+
+<p>Using the library is fairly straight forward. The only slightly
+problematic step is to fetch the required certificates to verify the
+timestamp. For some services it is straight forward, while for others
+I have not yet figured out how to do it. Here is a small standalone
+code example based on of the integration tests in the library code:</p>
+
+<pre>
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+"""
+
+Python 3 script demonstrating how to use the rfc3161ng module to
+get trusted timestamps.
+
+The license of this code is the same as the license of the rfc3161ng
+library, ie MIT/BSD.
+
+"""
+
+import os
+import pyasn1.codec.der
+import rfc3161ng
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import urllib.request
+
+def store(f, data):
+ f.write(data)
+ f.flush()
+ f.seek(0)
+
+def fetch(url, f=None):
+ response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
+ data = response.read()
+ if f:
+ store(f, data)
+ return data
+
+def main():
+ with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as cert_f,\
+ tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as ca_f,\
+ tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as msg_f,\
+ tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tsr_f:
+
+ # First fetch certificates used by service
+ certificate_data = fetch('https://freetsa.org/files/tsa.crt', cert_f)
+ ca_data_data = fetch('https://freetsa.org/files/cacert.pem', ca_f)
+
+ # Then timestamp the message
+ timestamper = \
+ rfc3161ng.RemoteTimestamper('http://freetsa.org/tsr',
+ certificate=certificate_data)
+ data = b"Python forever!\n"
+ tsr = timestamper(data=data, return_tsr=True)
+
+ # Finally, convert message and response to something 'openssl ts' can verify
+ store(msg_f, data)
+ store(tsr_f, pyasn1.codec.der.encoder.encode(tsr))
+ args = ["openssl", "ts", "-verify",
+ "-data", msg_f.name,
+ "-in", tsr_f.name,
+ "-CAfile", ca_f.name,
+ "-untrusted", cert_f.name]
+ subprocess.check_call(args)
+
+if '__main__' == __name__:
+ main()
+</pre>
+
+<p>The code fetches the required certificates, store them as temporary
+files, timestamp a simple message, store the message and timestamp to
+disk and ask 'openssl ts' to verify the timestamp. A timestamp is
+around 1.5 kiB in size, and should be fairly easy to store for future
+use.</p>
+
+<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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bryter_NAV_sin_egen_personvernerkl_ring_.html">Bryter NAV sin egen personvernerklæring?</a></div>
- <div class="date">11th January 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg leste med interesse en nyhetssak hos
-<a href="http://www.digi.no/artikler/nav-avslorer-trygdemisbruk-ved-a-spore-ip-adresser/367394">digi.no</a>
-og
-<a href="https://www.nrk.no/buskerud/trygdesvindlere-avslores-av-utenlandske-ip-adresser-1.13313461">NRK</a>
-om at det ikke bare er meg, men at også NAV bedriver geolokalisering
-av IP-adresser, og at det gjøres analyse av IP-adressene til de som
-sendes inn meldekort for å se om meldekortet sendes inn fra
-utenlandske IP-adresser. Politiadvokat i Drammen, Hans Lyder Haare,
-er sitert i NRK på at «De to er jo blant annet avslørt av
-IP-adresser. At man ser at meldekortet kommer fra utlandet.»</p>
-
-<p>Jeg synes det er fint at det blir bedre kjent at IP-adresser
-knyttes til enkeltpersoner og at innsamlet informasjon brukes til å
-stedsbestemme personer også av aktører her i Norge. Jeg ser det som
-nok et argument for å bruke
-<a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a> så mye som mulig for å
-gjøre gjøre IP-lokalisering vanskeligere, slik at en kan beskytte sin
-privatsfære og unngå å dele sin fysiske plassering med
-uvedkommede.</p>
-
-<P>Men det er en ting som bekymrer meg rundt denne nyheten. Jeg ble
-tipset (takk #nuug) om
-<a href="https://www.nav.no/no/NAV+og+samfunn/Kontakt+NAV/Teknisk+brukerstotte/Snarveier/personvernerkl%C3%A6ring-for-arbeids-og-velferdsetaten">NAVs
-personvernerklæring</a>, som under punktet «Personvern og statistikk»
-lyder:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>«Når du besøker nav.no, etterlater du deg elektroniske spor. Sporene
-dannes fordi din nettleser automatisk sender en rekke opplysninger til
-NAVs tjener (server-maskin) hver gang du ber om å få vist en side. Det
-er eksempelvis opplysninger om hvilken nettleser og -versjon du
-bruker, og din internettadresse (ip-adresse). For hver side som vises,
-lagres følgende opplysninger:</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Google_Drive_sync_using_grive_in_Debian.html">Automatic Google Drive sync using grive in Debian</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 4th October 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>A few days, I rescued a Windows victim over to Debian. To try to
+rescue the remains, I helped set up automatic sync with Google Drive.
+I did not find any sensible Debian package handling this
+automatically, so I rebuild the grive2 source from
+<a href="http://www.webupd8.org/">the Ubuntu UPD8 PPA</a> to do the
+task and added a autostart desktop entry and a small shell script to
+run in the background while the user is logged in to do the sync.
+Here is a sketch of the setup for future reference.</p>
+
+<p>I first created <tt>~/googledrive</tt>, entered the directory and
+ran '<tt>grive -a</tt>' to authenticate the machine/user. Next, I
+created a autostart hook in <tt>~/.config/autostart/grive.desktop</tt>
+to start the sync when the user log in:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+[Desktop Entry]
+Name=Google drive autosync
+Type=Application
+Exec=/home/user/bin/grive-sync
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Finally, I wrote the <tt>~/bin/grive-sync</tt> script to sync
+~/googledrive/ with the files in Google Drive.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+cd ~/
+cleanup() {
+ if [ "$syncpid" ] ; then
+ kill $syncpid
+ fi
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT QUIT
+/usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh listen googledrive 2>&1 | sed "s%^%$0:%" &
+syncpdi=$!
+while true; do
+ if ! xhost >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+ echo "no DISPLAY, exiting as the user probably logged out"
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ if [ ! -e /run/user/1000/grive-sync.sh_googledrive ] ; then
+ /usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh sync googledrive
+ fi
+ sleep 300
+done 2>&1 | sed "s%^%$0:%"
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Feel free to use the setup if you want. It can be assumed to be
+GNU GPL v2 licensed (or any later version, at your leisure), but I
+doubt this code is possible to claim copyright on.</p>
-<ul>
-<li>hvilken side du ser på</li>
-<li>dato og tid</li>
-<li>hvilken nettleser du bruker</li>
-<li>din ip-adresse</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Ingen av opplysningene vil bli brukt til å identifisere
-enkeltpersoner. NAV bruker disse opplysningene til å generere en
-samlet statistikk som blant annet viser hvilke sider som er mest
-populære. Statistikken er et redskap til å forbedre våre
-tjenester.»</p>
-
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Jeg klarer ikke helt å se hvordan analyse av de besøkendes
-IP-adresser for å se hvem som sender inn meldekort via web fra en
-IP-adresse i utlandet kan gjøres uten å komme i strid med påstanden om
-at «ingen av opplysningene vil bli brukt til å identifisere
-enkeltpersoner». Det virker dermed for meg som at NAV bryter sine
-egen personvernerklæring, hvilket
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_lover_brutt_n_r_personvernpolicy_ikke_stemmer_med_praksis_.html">Datatilsynet
-fortalte meg i starten av desember antagelig er brudd på
-personopplysningsloven</a>.
-
-<p>I tillegg er personvernerklæringen ganske misvisende i og med at
-NAVs nettsider ikke bare forsyner NAV med personopplysninger, men i
-tillegg ber brukernes nettleser kontakte fem andre nettjenere
-(script.hotjar.com, static.hotjar.com, vars.hotjar.com,
-www.google-analytics.com og www.googletagmanager.com), slik at
-personopplysninger blir gjort tilgjengelig for selskapene Hotjar og
-Google , og alle som kan lytte på trafikken på veien (som FRA, GCHQ og
-NSA). Jeg klarer heller ikke se hvordan slikt spredning av
-personopplysninger kan være i tråd med kravene i
-personopplysningloven, eller i tråd med NAVs personvernerklæring.</p>
-
-<p>Kanskje NAV bør ta en nøye titt på sin personvernerklæring? Eller
-kanskje Datatilsynet bør gjøre det?</p>
+<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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Where_did_that_package_go___mdash__geolocated_IP_traceroute.html">Where did that package go? — geolocated IP traceroute</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 9th January 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Did you ever wonder where the web trafic really flow to reach the
-web servers, and who own the network equipment it is flowing through?
-It is possible to get a glimpse of this from using traceroute, but it
-is hard to find all the details. Many years ago, I wrote a system to
-map the Norwegian Internet (trying to figure out if our plans for a
-network game service would get low enough latency, and who we needed
-to talk to about setting up game servers close to the users. Back
-then I used traceroute output from many locations (I asked my friends
-to run a script and send me their traceroute output) to create the
-graph and the map. The output from traceroute typically look like
-this:
-
-<p><pre>
-traceroute to www.stortinget.no (85.88.67.10), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
- 1 uio-gw10.uio.no (129.240.202.1) 0.447 ms 0.486 ms 0.621 ms
- 2 uio-gw8.uio.no (129.240.24.229) 0.467 ms 0.578 ms 0.675 ms
- 3 oslo-gw1.uninett.no (128.39.65.17) 0.385 ms 0.373 ms 0.358 ms
- 4 te3-1-2.br1.fn3.as2116.net (193.156.90.3) 1.174 ms 1.172 ms 1.153 ms
- 5 he16-1-1.cr1.san110.as2116.net (195.0.244.234) 2.627 ms he16-1-1.cr2.oslosda310.as2116.net (195.0.244.48) 3.172 ms he16-1-1.cr1.san110.as2116.net (195.0.244.234) 2.857 ms
- 6 ae1.ar8.oslosda310.as2116.net (195.0.242.39) 0.662 ms 0.637 ms ae0.ar8.oslosda310.as2116.net (195.0.242.23) 0.622 ms
- 7 89.191.10.146 (89.191.10.146) 0.931 ms 0.917 ms 0.955 ms
- 8 * * *
- 9 * * *
-[...]
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>This show the DNS names and IP addresses of (at least some of the)
-network equipment involved in getting the data traffic from me to the
-www.stortinget.no server, and how long it took in milliseconds for a
-package to reach the equipment and return to me. Three packages are
-sent, and some times the packages do not follow the same path. This
-is shown for hop 5, where three different IP addresses replied to the
-traceroute request.</p>
-
-<p>There are many ways to measure trace routes. Other good traceroute
-implementations I use are traceroute (using ICMP packages) mtr (can do
-both ICMP, UDP and TCP) and scapy (python library with ICMP, UDP, TCP
-traceroute and a lot of other capabilities). All of them are easily
-available in <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>.</p>
-
-<p>This time around, I wanted to know the geographic location of
-different route points, to visualize how visiting a web page spread
-information about the visit to a lot of servers around the globe. The
-background is that a web site today often will ask the browser to get
-from many servers the parts (for example HTML, JSON, fonts,
-JavaScript, CSS, video) required to display the content. This will
-leak information about the visit to those controlling these servers
-and anyone able to peek at the data traffic passing by (like your ISP,
-the ISPs backbone provider, FRA, GCHQ, NSA and others).</p>
-
-<p>Lets pick an example, the Norwegian parliament web site
-www.stortinget.no. It is read daily by all members of parliament and
-their staff, as well as political journalists, activits and many other
-citizens of Norway. A visit to the www.stortinget.no web site will
-ask your browser to contact 8 other servers: ajax.googleapis.com,
-insights.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, static.hotjar.com,
-stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google-analytics.com,
-www.googletagmanager.com and www.netigate.se. I extracted this by
-asking <a href="http://phantomjs.org/">PhantomJS</a> to visit the
-Stortinget web page and tell me all the URLs PhantomJS downloaded to
-render the page (in HAR format using
-<a href="https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/examples/netsniff.js">their
-netsniff example</a>. I am very grateful to Gorm for showing me how
-to do this). My goal is to visualize network traces to all IP
-addresses behind these DNS names, do show where visitors personal
-information is spread when visiting the page.</p>
-
-<p align="center"><a href="www.stortinget.no-geoip.kml"><img
-src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geoip-small.png" alt="map of combined traces for URLs used by www.stortinget.no using GeoIP"/></a></p>
-
-<p>When I had a look around for options, I could not find any good
-free software tools to do this, and decided I needed my own traceroute
-wrapper outputting KML based on locations looked up using GeoIP. KML
-is easy to work with and easy to generate, and understood by several
-of the GIS tools I have available. I got good help from by NUUG
-colleague Anders Einar with this, and the result can be seen in
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/kmltraceroute">my
-kmltraceroute git repository</a>. Unfortunately, the quality of the
-free GeoIP databases I could find (and the for-pay databases my
-friends had access to) is not up to the task. The IP addresses of
-central Internet infrastructure would typically be placed near the
-controlling companies main office, and not where the router is really
-located, as you can see from <a href="www.stortinget.no-geoip.kml">the
-KML file I created</a> using the GeoLite City dataset from MaxMind.
-
-<p align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-scapy.svg"><img
-src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-scapy-small.png" alt="scapy traceroute graph for URLs used by www.stortinget.no"/></a></p>
-
-<p>I also had a look at the visual traceroute graph created by
-<a href="http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/">the scrapy project</a>,
-showing IP network ownership (aka AS owner) for the IP address in
-question.
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-scapy.svg">The
-graph display a lot of useful information about the traceroute in SVG
-format</a>, and give a good indication on who control the network
-equipment involved, but it do not include geolocation. This graph
-make it possible to see the information is made available at least for
-UNINETT, Catchcom, Stortinget, Nordunet, Google, Amazon, Telia, Level
-3 Communications and NetDNA.</p>
-
-<p align="center"><a href="https://geotraceroute.com/index.php?node=4&host=www.stortinget.no"><img
-src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geotraceroute-small.png" alt="example geotraceroute view for www.stortinget.no"/></a></p>
-
-<p>In the process, I came across the
-<a href="https://geotraceroute.com/">web service GeoTraceroute</a> by
-Salim Gasmi. Its methology of combining guesses based on DNS names,
-various location databases and finally use latecy times to rule out
-candidate locations seemed to do a very good job of guessing correct
-geolocation. But it could only do one trace at the time, did not have
-a sensor in Norway and did not make the geolocations easily available
-for postprocessing. So I contacted the developer and asked if he
-would be willing to share the code (he refused until he had time to
-clean it up), but he was interested in providing the geolocations in a
-machine readable format, and willing to set up a sensor in Norway. So
-since yesterday, it is possible to run traces from Norway in this
-service thanks to a sensor node set up by
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/">the NUUG assosiation</a>, and get the
-trace in KML format for further processing.</p>
-
-<p align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geotraceroute-kml-join.kml"><img
-src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geotraceroute-kml-join.png" alt="map of combined traces for URLs used by www.stortinget.no using geotraceroute"/></a></p>
-
-<p>Here we can see a lot of trafic passes Sweden on its way to
-Denmark, Germany, Holland and Ireland. Plenty of places where the
-Snowden confirmations verified the traffic is read by various actors
-without your best interest as their top priority.</p>
-
-<p>Combining KML files is trivial using a text editor, so I could loop
-over all the hosts behind the urls imported by www.stortinget.no and
-ask for the KML file from GeoTraceroute, and create a combined KML
-file with all the traces (unfortunately only one of the IP addresses
-behind the DNS name is traced this time. To get them all, one would
-have to request traces using IP number instead of DNS names from
-GeoTraceroute). That might be the next step in this project.</p>
-
-<p>Armed with these tools, I find it a lot easier to figure out where
-the IP traffic moves and who control the boxes involved in moving it.
-And every time the link crosses for example the Swedish border, we can
-be sure Swedish Signal Intelligence (FRA) is listening, as GCHQ do in
-Britain and NSA in USA and cables around the globe. (Hm, what should
-we tell them? :) Keep that in mind if you ever send anything
-unencrypted over the Internet.</p>
-
-<p>PS: KML files are drawn using
-<a href="http://ivanrublev.me/kml/">the KML viewer from Ivan
-Rublev<a/>, as it was less cluttered than the local Linux application
-Marble. There are heaps of other options too.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Valutakrambod___A_python_and_bitcoin_love_story.html">Valutakrambod - A python and bitcoin love story</a></div>
+ <div class="date">29th September 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>It would come as no surprise to anyone that I am interested in
+bitcoins and virtual currencies. I've been keeping an eye on virtual
+currencies for many years, and it is part of the reason a few months
+ago, I started writing a python library for collecting currency
+exchange rates and trade on virtual currency exchanges. I decided to
+name the end result valutakrambod, which perhaps can be translated to
+small currency shop.</p>
+
+<p>The library uses the tornado python library to handle HTTP and
+websocket connections, and provide a asynchronous system for
+connecting to and tracking several services. The code is available
+from
+<a href="http://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/valutakrambod">github</a>.</p>
+
+</p>There are two example clients of the library. One is very simple and
+list every updated buy/sell price received from the various services.
+This code is started by running bin/btc-rates and call the client code
+in valutakrambod/client.py. The simple client look like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+import functools
+import tornado.ioloop
+import valutakrambod
+class SimpleClient(object):
+ def __init__(self):
+ self.services = []
+ self.streams = []
+ pass
+ def newdata(self, service, pair, changed):
+ print("%-15s %s-%s: %8.3f %8.3f" % (
+ service.servicename(),
+ pair[0],
+ pair[1],
+ service.rates[pair]['ask'],
+ service.rates[pair]['bid'])
+ )
+ async def refresh(self, service):
+ await service.fetchRates(service.wantedpairs)
+ def run(self):
+ self.ioloop = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.current()
+ self.services = valutakrambod.service.knownServices()
+ for e in self.services:
+ service = e()
+ service.subscribe(self.newdata)
+ stream = service.websocket()
+ if stream:
+ self.streams.append(stream)
+ else:
+ # Fetch information from non-streaming services immediately
+ self.ioloop.call_later(len(self.services),
+ functools.partial(self.refresh, service))
+ # as well as regularly
+ service.periodicUpdate(60)
+ for stream in self.streams:
+ stream.connect()
+ try:
+ self.ioloop.start()
+ except KeyboardInterrupt:
+ print("Interrupted by keyboard, closing all connections.")
+ pass
+ for stream in self.streams:
+ stream.close()
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>The library client loops over all known "public" services,
+initialises it, subscribes to any updates from the service, checks and
+activates websocket streaming if the service provide it, and if no
+streaming is supported, fetches information from the service and sets
+up a periodic update every 60 seconds. The output from this client
+can look like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+Bl3p BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Bl3p BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Bl3p BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Hitbtc BTC-USD: 6594.560 6593.690
+Hitbtc BTC-USD: 6594.560 6593.690
+Bl3p BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Hitbtc BTC-USD: 6594.570 6593.690
+Bitstamp EUR-USD: 1.159 1.154
+Hitbtc BTC-USD: 6594.570 6593.690
+Hitbtc BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Hitbtc BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Hitbtc BTC-USD: 6594.580 6593.690
+Bl3p BTC-EUR: 5687.110 5653.690
+Paymium BTC-EUR: 5680.000 5620.240
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>The exchange order book is tracked in addition to the best buy/sell
+price, for those that need to know the details.</p>
+
+<p>The other example client is focusing on providing a curses view
+with updated buy/sell prices as soon as they are received from the
+services. This code is located in bin/btc-rates-curses and activated
+by using the '-c' argument. Without the argument the "curses" output
+is printed without using curses, which is useful for debugging. The
+curses view look like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+ Name Pair Bid Ask Spr Ftcd Age
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCEUR 5591.8400 5711.0800 2.1% 16 nan 60
+ Bitfinex BTCEUR 5671.0000 5671.2000 0.0% 16 22 59
+ Bitmynt BTCEUR 5580.8000 5807.5200 3.9% 16 41 60
+ Bitpay BTCEUR 5663.2700 nan nan% 15 nan 60
+ Bitstamp BTCEUR 5664.8400 5676.5300 0.2% 0 1 1
+ Bl3p BTCEUR 5653.6900 5684.9400 0.5% 0 nan 19
+ Coinbase BTCEUR 5600.8200 5714.9000 2.0% 15 nan nan
+ Kraken BTCEUR 5670.1000 5670.2000 0.0% 14 17 60
+ Paymium BTCEUR 5620.0600 5680.0000 1.1% 1 7515 nan
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCNOK 52898.9700 54034.6100 2.1% 16 nan 60
+ Bitmynt BTCNOK 52960.3200 54031.1900 2.0% 16 41 60
+ Bitpay BTCNOK 53477.7833 nan nan% 16 nan 60
+ Coinbase BTCNOK 52990.3500 54063.0600 2.0% 15 nan nan
+ MiraiEx BTCNOK 52856.5300 54100.6000 2.3% 16 nan nan
+ BitcoinsNorway BTCUSD 6495.5300 6631.5400 2.1% 16 nan 60
+ Bitfinex BTCUSD 6590.6000 6590.7000 0.0% 16 23 57
+ Bitpay BTCUSD 6564.1300 nan nan% 15 nan 60
+ Bitstamp BTCUSD 6561.1400 6565.6200 0.1% 0 2 1
+ Coinbase BTCUSD 6504.0600 6635.9700 2.0% 14 nan 117
+ Gemini BTCUSD 6567.1300 6573.0700 0.1% 16 89 nan
+ Hitbtc+BTCUSD 6592.6200 6594.2100 0.0% 0 0 0
+ Kraken BTCUSD 6565.2000 6570.9000 0.1% 15 17 58
+ Exchangerates EURNOK 9.4665 9.4665 0.0% 16 107789 nan
+ Norgesbank EURNOK 9.4665 9.4665 0.0% 16 107789 nan
+ Bitstamp EURUSD 1.1537 1.1593 0.5% 4 5 1
+ Exchangerates EURUSD 1.1576 1.1576 0.0% 16 107789 nan
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCEUR 1.0000 49.0000 98.0% 16 nan nan
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCNOK 492.4800 503.7500 2.2% 16 nan 60
+ BitcoinsNorway LTCUSD 1.0221 49.0000 97.9% 15 nan nan
+ Norgesbank USDNOK 8.1777 8.1777 0.0% 16 107789 nan
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>The code for this client is too complex for a simple blog post, so
+you will have to check out the git repository to figure out how it
+work. What I can tell is how the three last numbers on each line
+should be interpreted. The first is how many seconds ago information
+was received from the service. The second is how long ago, according
+to the service, the provided information was updated. The last is an
+estimate on how often the buy/sell values change.</p>
+
+<p>If you find this library useful, or would like to improve it, I
+would love to hear from you. Note that for some of the services I've
+implemented a trading API. It might be the topic of a future blog
+post.</p>
<p>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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Introducing_ical_archiver_to_split_out_old_iCalendar_entries.html">Introducing ical-archiver to split out old iCalendar entries</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 4th January 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Do you have a large <a href="https://icalendar.org/">iCalendar</a>
-file with lots of old entries, and would like to archive them to save
-space and resources? At least those of us using KOrganizer know that
-turning on and off an event set become slower and slower the more
-entries are in the set. While working on migrating our calendars to a
-<a href="http://radicale.org/">Radicale CalDAV server</a> on our
-<a href="https://freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox server</a/>, my
-loved one wondered if I could find a way to split up the calendar file
-she had in KOrganizer, and I set out to write a tool. I spent a few
-days writing and polishing the system, and it is now ready for general
-consumption. The
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/ical-archiver">code for
-ical-archiver</a> is publicly available from a git repository on
-github. The system is written in Python and depend on
-<a href="http://eventable.github.io/vobject/">the vobject Python
-module</a>.</p>
-
-<p>To use it, locate the iCalendar file you want to operate on and
-give it as an argument to the ical-archiver script. This will
-generate a set of new files, one file per component type per year for
-all components expiring more than two years in the past. The vevent,
-vtodo and vjournal entries are handled by the script. The remaining
-entries are stored in a 'remaining' file.</p>
-
-<p>This is what a test run can look like:
-
-<p><pre>
-% ical-archiver t/2004-2016.ics
-Found 3612 vevents
-Found 6 vtodos
-Found 2 vjournals
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2004.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2005.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2006.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2007.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2008.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2009.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2010.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2011.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2012.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2013.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vevent-2014.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vjournal-2007.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vjournal-2011.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-subset-vtodo-2012.ics
-Writing t/2004-2016.ics-remaining.ics
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>As you can see, the original file is untouched and new files are
-written with names derived from the original file. If you are happy
-with their content, the *-remaining.ics file can replace the original
-the the others can be archived or imported as historical calendar
-collections.</p>
-
-<p>The script should probably be improved a bit. The error handling
-when discovering broken entries is not good, and I am not sure yet if
-it make sense to split different entry types into separate files or
-not. The program is thus likely to change. If you find it
-interesting, please get in touch. :)</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_in_Debian_now_can_do_bittorrent_streaming.html">VLC in Debian now can do bittorrent streaming</a></div>
+ <div class="date">24th September 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Back in February, I got curious to see
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html">if
+VLC now supported Bittorrent streaming</a>. It did not, despite the
+fact that the idea and code to handle such streaming had been floating
+around for years. I did however find
+<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent">a standalone plugin
+for VLC</a> to do it, and half a year later I decided to wrap up the
+plugin and get it into Debian. I uploaded it to NEW a few days ago,
+and am very happy to report that it
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">entered
+Debian</a> a few hours ago, and should be available in Debian/Unstable
+tomorrow, and Debian/Testing in a few days.</p>
+
+<p>With the vlc-plugin-bittorrent package installed you should be able
+to stream videos using a simple call to</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+vlc https://archive.org/download/TheGoat/TheGoat_archive.torrent
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+</p>It can handle magnet links too. Now if only native vlc had
+bittorrent support. Then a lot more would be helping each other to
+share public domain and creative commons movies. The plugin need some
+stability work with seeking and picking the right file in a torrent
+with many files, but is already usable. Please note that the plugin
+is not removing downloaded files when vlc is stopped, so it can fill
+up your disk if you are not careful. Have fun. :)</p>
+
+<p>I would love to get help maintaining this package. Get in touch if
+you are interested.</p>
<p>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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Appstream_just_learned_how_to_map_hardware_to_packages_too_.html">Appstream just learned how to map hardware to packages too!</a></div>
- <div class="date">23rd December 2016</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I received a very nice Christmas present today. As my regular
-readers probably know, I have been working on the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">the Isenkram
-system</a> for many years. The goal of the Isenkram system is to make
-it easier for users to figure out what to install to get a given piece
-of hardware to work in Debian, and a key part of this system is a way
-to map hardware to packages. Isenkram have its own mapping database,
-and also uses data provided by each package using the AppStream
-metadata format. And today,
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/appstream">AppStream</a> in
-Debian learned to look up hardware the same way Isenkram is doing it,
-ie using fnmatch():</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-% appstreamcli what-provides modalias \
- usb:v1130p0202d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00
-Identifier: pymissile [generic]
-Name: pymissile
-Summary: Control original Striker USB Missile Launcher
-Package: pymissile
-% appstreamcli what-provides modalias usb:v0694p0002d0000
-Identifier: libnxt [generic]
-Name: libnxt
-Summary: utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick
-Package: libnxt
----
-Identifier: t2n [generic]
-Name: t2n
-Summary: Simple command-line tool for Lego NXT
-Package: t2n
----
-Identifier: python-nxt [generic]
-Name: python-nxt
-Summary: Python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot
-Package: python-nxt
----
-Identifier: nbc [generic]
-Name: nbc
-Summary: C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks
-Package: nbc
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>A similar query can be done using the combined AppStream and
-Isenkram databases using the isenkram-lookup tool:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-% isenkram-lookup usb:v1130p0202d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00
-pymissile
-% isenkram-lookup usb:v0694p0002d0000
-libnxt
-nbc
-python-nxt
-t2n
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>You can find modalias values relevant for your machine using
-<tt>cat $(find /sys/devices/ -name modalias)</tt>.
-
-<p>If you want to make this system a success and help Debian users
-make the most of the hardware they have, please
-help<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">add
-AppStream metadata for your package following the guidelines</a>
-documented in the wiki. So far only 11 packages provide such
-information, among the several hundred hardware specific packages in
-Debian. The Isenkram database on the other hand contain 101 packages,
-mostly related to USB dongles. Most of the packages with hardware
-mapping in AppStream are LEGO Mindstorms related, because I have, as
-part of my involvement in
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">the Debian LEGO
-team</a> given priority to making sure LEGO users get proposed the
-complete set of packages in Debian for that particular hardware. The
-team also got a nice Christmas present today. The
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nxt-firmware">nxt-firmware
-package</a> made it into Debian. With this package in place, it is
-now possible to use the LEGO Mindstorms NXT unit with only free
-software, as the nxt-firmware package contain the source and firmware
-binaries for the NXT brick.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_the_Kodi_API_to_play_Youtube_videos.html">Using the Kodi API to play Youtube videos</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 2nd September 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I continue to explore my Kodi installation, and today I wanted to
+tell it to play a youtube URL I received in a chat, without having to
+insert search terms using the on-screen keyboard. After searching the
+web for API access to the Youtube plugin and testing a bit, I managed
+to find a recipe that worked. If you got a kodi instance with its API
+available from http://kodihost/jsonrpc, you can try the following to
+have check out a nice cover band.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>curl --silent --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+ --data-binary '{ "id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open",
+ "params": {"item": { "file":
+ "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=LuRGVM9O0qg" } } }' \
+ http://projector.local/jsonrpc</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>I've extended kodi-stream program to take a video source as its
+first argument. It can now handle direct video links, youtube links
+and 'desktop' to stream my desktop to Kodi. It is almost like a
+Chromecast. :)</p>
<p>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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<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kodi">kodi</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_updated_with_a_lot_more_hardware_package_mappings.html">Isenkram updated with a lot more hardware-package mappings</a></div>
- <div class="date">20th December 2016</div>
- <div class="body"><p><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">The Isenkram
-system</a> I wrote two years ago to make it easier in Debian to find
-and install packages to get your hardware dongles to work, is still
-going strong. It is a system to look up the hardware present on or
-connected to the current system, and map the hardware to Debian
-packages. It can either be done using the tools in isenkram-cli or
-using the user space daemon in the isenkram package. The latter will
-notify you, when inserting new hardware, about what packages to
-install to get the dongle working. It will even provide a button to
-click on to ask packagekit to install the packages.</p>
-
-<p>Here is an command line example from my Thinkpad laptop:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-% isenkram-lookup
-bluez
-cheese
-ethtool
-fprintd
-fprintd-demo
-gkrellm-thinkbat
-hdapsd
-libpam-fprintd
-pidgin-blinklight
-thinkfan
-tlp
-tp-smapi-dkms
-tp-smapi-source
-tpb
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>It can also list the firware package providing firmware requested
-by the load kernel modules, which in my case is an empty list because
-I have all the firmware my machine need:
-
-<p><pre>
-% /usr/sbin/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
-info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules. exiting
-%
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>The last few days I had a look at several of the around 250
-packages in Debian with udev rules. These seem like good candidates
-to install when a given hardware dongle is inserted, and I found
-several that should be proposed by isenkram. I have not had time to
-check all of them, but am happy to report that now there are 97
-packages packages mapped to hardware by Isenkram. 11 of these
-packages provide hardware mapping using AppStream, while the rest are
-listed in the modaliases file provided in isenkram.</p>
-
-<p>These are the packages with hardware mappings at the moment. The
-<strong>marked packages</strong> are also announcing their hardware
-support using AppStream, for everyone to use:</p>
-
-<p>air-quality-sensor, alsa-firmware-loaders, argyll,
-<strong>array-info</strong>, avarice, avrdude, b43-fwcutter,
-bit-babbler, bluez, bluez-firmware, <strong>brltty</strong>,
-<strong>broadcom-sta-dkms</strong>, calibre, cgminer, cheese, colord,
-<strong>colorhug-client</strong>, dahdi-firmware-nonfree, dahdi-linux,
-dfu-util, dolphin-emu, ekeyd, ethtool, firmware-ipw2x00, fprintd,
-fprintd-demo, <strong>galileo</strong>, gkrellm-thinkbat, gphoto2,
-gpsbabel, gpsbabel-gui, gpsman, gpstrans, gqrx-sdr, gr-fcdproplus,
-gr-osmosdr, gtkpod, hackrf, hdapsd, hdmi2usb-udev, hpijs-ppds, hplip,
-ipw3945-source, ipw3945d, kde-config-tablet, kinect-audio-setup,
-<strong>libnxt</strong>, libpam-fprintd, <strong>lomoco</strong>,
-madwimax, minidisc-utils, mkgmap, msi-keyboard, mtkbabel,
-<strong>nbc</strong>, <strong>nqc</strong>, nut-hal-drivers, ola,
-open-vm-toolbox, open-vm-tools, openambit, pcgminer, pcmciautils,
-pcscd, pidgin-blinklight, printer-driver-splix,
-<strong>pymissile</strong>, python-nxt, qlandkartegt,
-qlandkartegt-garmin, rosegarden, rt2x00-source, sispmctl,
-soapysdr-module-hackrf, solaar, squeak-plugins-scratch, sunxi-tools,
-<strong>t2n</strong>, thinkfan, thinkfinger-tools, tlp, tp-smapi-dkms,
-tp-smapi-source, tpb, tucnak, uhd-host, usbmuxd, viking,
-virtualbox-ose-guest-x11, w1retap, xawtv, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse,
-xserver-xorg-input-wacom, xserver-xorg-video-qxl,
-xserver-xorg-video-vmware, yubikey-personalization and
-zd1211-firmware</p>
-
-<p>If you know of other packages, please let me know with a wishlist
-bug report against the isenkram-cli package, and ask the package
-maintainer to
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">add AppStream
-metadata according to the guidelines</a> to provide the information
-for everyone. In time, I hope to get rid of the isenkram specific
-hardware mapping and depend exclusively on AppStream.</p>
-
-<p>Note, the AppStream metadata for broadcom-sta-dkms is matching too
-much hardware, and suggest that the package with with any ethernet
-card. See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/838735">bug #838735</a> for
-the details. I hope the maintainer find time to address it soon. In
-the mean time I provide an override in isenkram.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_created_using_taxpayers__money_should_be_Free_Software.html">Software created using taxpayers’ money should be Free Software</a></div>
+ <div class="date">30th August 2018</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>It might seem obvious that software created using tax money should
+be available for everyone to use and improve. Free Software
+Foundation Europe recentlystarted a campaign to help get more people
+to understand this, and I just signed the petition on
+<a href="https://publiccode.eu/">Public Money, Public Code</a> to help
+them. I hope you too will do the same.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
</div>
<h2>Archive</h2>
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+<li>2018
+<ul>
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+
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+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2018/11/">November (1)</a></li>
+
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+
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<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/02/">February (3)</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/03/">March (1)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/03/">March (5)</a></li>
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+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/07/">July (1)</a></li>
+
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+
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+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/10/">October (5)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/11/">November (3)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/12/">December (4)</a></li>
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+
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