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+               <title>Debian now got everything you need to program Micro:bit</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_got_everything_you_need_to_program_Micro_bit.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_got_everything_you_need_to_program_Micro_bit.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am amazed and very pleased to discover that since a few days ago,
+everything you need to program the &lt;a href=&quot;https://microbit.org/&quot;&gt;BBC
+micro:bit&lt;/a&gt; is available from the Debian archive.  All this is
+thanks to the hard work of Nick Morrott and the Debian python
+packaging team.  The micro:bit project recommend the mu-editor to
+program the microcomputer, as this editor will take care of all the
+machinery required to injekt/flash micropython alongside the program
+into the micro:bit, as long as the pieces are available.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There are three main pieces involved.  The first to enter Debian
+was
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-uflash&quot;&gt;python-uflash&lt;/a&gt;,
+which was accepted into the archive 2019-01-12.  The next one was
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mu-editor&quot;&gt;mu-editor&lt;/a&gt;, which
+showed up 2019-01-13.  The final and hardest part to to into the
+archive was
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firmware-microbit-micropython&quot;&gt;firmware-microbit-micropython&lt;/a&gt;,
+which needed to get its build system and dependencies into Debian
+before it was accepted 2019-01-20.  The last one is already in Debian
+Unstable and should enter Debian Testing / Buster in three days.  This
+all allow any user of the micro:bit to get going by simply running
+&#39;apt install mu-editor&#39; when using Testing or Unstable, and once
+Buster is released as stable, all the users of Debian stable will be
+catered for.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As a minor final touch, I added rules to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram&quot;&gt;the isenkram
+package&lt;/a&gt; for recognizing micro:bit and recommend the mu-editor
+package.  This make sure any user of the isenkram desktop daemon will
+get a popup suggesting to install mu-editor then the USB cable from
+the micro:bit is inserted for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This should make it easier to have fun.&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
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
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                <title>Oppdaterte kommentarer til «Evaluation of (il)legality» for Popcorn Time</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oppdaterte_kommentarer_til__Evaluation_of__il_legality__for_Popcorn_Time.html</link>
@@ -800,68 +845,6 @@ performance, please let me know.  I am aware of the freeware option
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.roomeqwizard.com/&quot;&gt;REW&lt;/a&gt;, but I want something
 that can be developed also when the vendor looses interest.&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
-&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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-       <item>
-               <title>Web browser integration of VLC with Bittorrent support</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;, Linux distributors like
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and of course the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;Internet archive&lt;/A&gt;.
-
-&lt;p&gt;Almost a month ago
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a new
-package adding Bittorrent support to VLC&lt;/a&gt; became available in
-Debian testing and unstable.  To test it, simply install it like
-this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p&quot;&gt;Internet
-Archive page with movies&lt;/a&gt; using a web browser and click on the
-torrent link to start streaming the movie.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin.  One is the
-fact that it will hang and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/13&quot;&gt;block VLC
-from exiting until the torrent streaming starts&lt;/a&gt;.  Another is the
-fact that it
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/9&quot;&gt;will pick
-and play a random file in a multi file torrent&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&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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