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 		<title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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-		<title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS&quot;&gt;VHS-kassettenes&lt;/a&gt;
-tid var det rett frem å ta vare på et TV-program en ønsket å kunne se
-senere, uten å være avhengig av at programmet ble sendt på nytt.
-Kanskje ønsket en å se programmet på hytten der det ikke var
-TV-signal, eller av andre grunner ha det tilgjengelig for fremtidig
-fornøyelse.  Dette er blitt vanskeligere med introduksjon av
-digital-TV og webstreaming, der opptak til harddisk er utenfor de
-flestes kontroll.  Men for NRK her i Norge, finnes det heldigvis flere
-fri programvare-alternativer, som jeg har
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html&quot;&gt;skrevet&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html&quot;&gt;om&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html&quot;&gt;før&lt;/a&gt;.
-Så lenge kilden for nedlastingen er lovlig lagt ut på nett (hvilket
-jeg antar NRK gjør), så er slik lagring til privat bruk også lovlig i
-Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Sist jeg så på saken, i 2016, nevnte jeg at
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/&quot;&gt;youtube-dl&lt;/a&gt; ikke kunne
-bake undertekster fra NRK inn i videofilene, og at jeg derfor
-foretrakk andre alternativer.  Nylig oppdaget jeg at dette har endret
-seg.  Fordelen med youtube-dl er at den er tilgjengelig direkte fra
-Linux-distribusjoner som &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;
-og &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, slik at en slipper å
-finne ut selv hvordan en skal få dem til å virke.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For å laste ned et NRK-innslag med undertekster, og få den norske
-underteksten pakket inn i videofilen, så kan følgende kommando
-brukes:&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>Test framework for DocBook processors / formatters</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Test_framework_for_DocBook_processors___formatters.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Test_framework_for_DocBook_processors___formatters.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 5 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;All the books I have published so far has been using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; somewhere in the process.
+For the first book, the source format was DocBook, while for every
+later book it was an intermediate format used as the stepping stone to
+be able to present the same manuscript in several formats, on paper,
+as ebook in ePub format, as a HTML page and as a PDF file either for
+paper production or for Internet consumption.  This is made possible
+with a wide variety of free software tools with DocBook support in
+Debian.  The source format of later books have been docx via rst,
+Markdown, Filemaker and Asciidoc, and for all of these I was able to
+generate a suitable DocBook file for further processing using pandoc,
+a2x and asciidoctor, as well as rendering using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xmlto&quot;&gt;xmlto&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dbtoepub&quot;&gt;dbtoepub&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dblatex&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dblatex&quot;&gt;docbook-xsl&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fop&quot;&gt;fop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Most of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;books I
+have published&lt;/a&gt; are translated books, with English as the source
+language.  The use of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/po4a&quot;&gt;po4a&lt;/a&gt; to
+handle translations using the gettext PO format has been a blessing,
+but publishing translated books had triggered the need to ensure the
+DocBook tools handle relevant languages correctly.  For every new
+language I have published, I had to submit patches dblatex, dbtoepub
+and docbook-xsl fixing incorrect language and country specific issues
+in the framework themselves.  Typically this has been missing keywords
+like &#39;figure&#39; or sort ordering of index entries.  After a while it
+became tiresome to only discover issues like this by accident, and I
+decided to write a DocBook &quot;test framework&quot; exercising various
+features of DocBook and allowing me to see all features exercised for
+a given language.  It consist of a set of DocBook files, a version 4
+book, a version 5 book, a v4 book set, a v4 selection of problematic
+tables, one v4 testing sidefloat and finally one v4 testing a book of
+articles.  The DocBook files are accompanied with a set of build rules
+for building PDF using dblatex and docbook-xsl/fop, HTML using xmlto
+or docbook-xsl and epub using dbtoepub.  The result is a set of files
+visualizing footnotes, indexes, table of content list, figures,
+formulas and other DocBook features, allowing for a quick review on
+the completeness of the given locale settings.  To build with a
+different language setting, all one need to do is edit the lang= value
+in the .xml file to pick a different ISO 639 code value and run
+&#39;make&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/pere/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;test framework
+source code&lt;/a&gt; is available from Codeberg, and a generated set of
+presentations of the various examples is available as Codeberg static
+web pages at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&lt;/a&gt;.
+Using this test framework I have been able to discover and report
+several bugs and missing features in various tools, and got a lot of
+them fixed.  For example I got Northern Sami keywords added to both
+docbook-xsl and dblatex, fixed several typos in Norwegian bokmål and
+Norwegian Nynorsk, support for non-ascii title IDs added to pandoc,
+Norwegian index sorting support fixed in xindy and initial Norwegian
+Bokmål support added to dblatex.  Some issues still remains, though.
+Default index sorting rules are still broken in several tools, so the
+Norwegian letters æ, ø and å are more often than not sorted properly
+in the book index.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The test framework recently received some more polish, as part of
+publishing my latest book.  This book contained a lot of fairly
+complex tables, which exposed bugs in some of the tools.  This made me
+add a new test file with various tables, as well as spend some time to
+brush up the build rules.  My goal is for the test framework to
+exercise all DocBook features to make it easier to see which features
+work with different processors, and hopefully get them all to support
+the full set of DocBook features.  Feel free to send patches to extend
+the test set, and test it with your favorite DocBook processor.
+Please visit these two URLs to learn more:&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-format ttml \
-  --convert-subtitles srt --embed-subs \
-  https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ramm-ferdig-gaa/MUHU11000316/27-04-2018
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/pere/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;https://codeberg.org/pere/docbook-example/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&quot;&gt;https://pere.codeberg.page/docbook-example/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more on Docbook and translations, I recommend
+having a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://docbook.org/&quot;&gt;the DocBook
+web site&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://doccookbook.sourceforge.net/html/en/&quot;&gt;the DoCookBook
+site&lt;a/&gt; and my earlier blog post on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html&quot;&gt;how
+the Skolelinux project process and translate documentation&lt;/a&gt;,  a talk I gave earlier this year on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20230314-oversetting-og-publisering-av-b%c3%b8ker-med-fri-programvare/&quot;&gt;how
+to translate and publish books using free software&lt;/a&gt; (Norwegian
+only).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;!--
+
+https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/issues/205 (docbook-xsl: sme support)
+https://bugs.debian.org/968437 (xindy: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
+https://bugs.debian.org/856123 (pandoc: markdown to docbook with non-english titles)
+https://bugs.debian.org/864813 (dblatex: missing nb words)
+https://bugs.debian.org/756386 (dblatex: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
+https://bugs.debian.org/796871 (dbtoepub: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
+https://bugs.debian.org/792616 (dblatex: PDF metadata)
+https://bugs.debian.org/686908 (docbook-xsl: index sorting rules for nb/nn)
+https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&amp;atid=373747&amp;aid=3556630&amp;group_id=21935 (docbook-xsl: nb/nn support)
+https://bugs.debian.org/684391 (dblatex: initial nb support)
+
+--&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no.  Resultatet er en
-MP4-fil med filmen og undertekster som kan spilles av med VLC.  Merk
-at VLC ikke viser frem undertekster før du aktiverer dem.  For å gjøre
-det, høyreklikk med musa i fremviservinduet, velg menyvalget for
-undertekst og så norsk språk.  Jeg testet også &#39;--write-auto-sub&#39;,
-men det kommandolinjeargumentet ser ikke ut til å fungere, så jeg
-endte opp med settet med argumentlisten over, som jeg fant i en
-feilrapport i youtube-dl-prosjektets samling over feilrapporter.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Denne støtten i youtube-dl gjør det svært enkelt å lagre
-NRK-innslag, det være seg nyheter, filmer, serier eller dokumentater,
-for å ha dem tilgjengelig for fremtidig referanse og bruk, uavhengig
-av hvor lenge innslagene ligger tilgjengelig hos NRK.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Programmet youtube-dl støtter også en rekke andre nettsteder, se
-prosjektoversikten for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html&quot;&gt;en
-komplett liste&lt;/a&gt;.&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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-		<title>Stortingsflertallet går inn for ny IP-basert sensurinfrastruktur i Norge</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stortingsflertallet_g_r_inn_for_ny_IP_basert_sensurinfrastruktur_i_Norge.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vg.no/sport/i/J1g8zj/stortingsvedtak-snart-ip-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper&quot;&gt;VG&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/stortinget-blokkerer-utenlandske-spillselskaper/69740219&quot;&gt;Dagbladet&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/tar-opp-kampen-mot-utenlandske-spillselskap-1.14021381&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;
-melder i dag at flertallet i Familie- og kulturkomiteen på Stortinget
-har bestemt seg for å introdusere en ny sensurinfrastruktur i Norge.
-Fra før har Norge en «frivillig» sensurinfrastruktur basert på
-DNS-navn, der de største ISP-ene basert på en liste med DNS-navn
-forgifter DNS-svar og omdirigerer til et annet IP-nummer enn det som
-ligger i DNS.  Nå kommer altså IP-basert omdirigering i tillegg.  Når
-infrastrukturen er på plass, er sensur av IP-adresser redusert et
-spørsmål om hvilke IP-nummer som skal blokkeres.  Listen over
-IP-adresser vil naturligvis endre seg etter hvert som myndighetene
-endrer seg.  Det er ingen betryggende tanke.&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>«Virkninger av angrefristloven», hovedfagsoppgaven som fikk endret en lov</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Virkninger_av_angrefristloven___hovedfagsoppgaven_som_fikk_endret_en_lov.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Virkninger_av_angrefristloven___hovedfagsoppgaven_som_fikk_endret_en_lov.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2023-10-29-bok-angrefrist.svg&quot; width=&quot;20%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I 1979 leverte Ole-Erik Yrvin en hovedfagsoppgave for Cand. Scient.
+  ved Institutt for sosiologi på Universitetet i Oslo på oppdrag fra
+  Forbruker- og administrasjonsdepartementet. Oppgaven evaluerte
+  Angrefristloven fra 1972, og det han oppdaget førte til at loven ble
+  endret fire år senere.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg har kjent Ole-Erik en stund, og synes det var trist at hans
+  oppgave ikke lenger er tilgjengelig, hverken fra oppdragsgiver
+  eller fra universitetet.  Hans forsøk på å få den avbildet og lagt
+  ut på Internett har vist seg fånyttes, så derfor tilbød jeg meg for
+  en stund tilbake å publisere den og gjøre den tilgjengelig med
+  fribruksvilkår på Internett.  Det er nå klart, og hovedfagsoppgaven
+  er tilgjengelig blant annet via &lt;a
+  href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;min liste over
+  publiserte bøker&lt;/a&gt;, både som nettside,
+  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Ole-Erik+Yrvin&quot;&gt;digital
+  bok i ePub-format og på papir fra lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg regner med at
+  den også vil dukke opp på nettbokhandlere i løpet av en måned eller
+  to.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Alle tabeller og figurer er gjenskapt for bedre lesbarhet, noen
+  skrivefeil rettet opp og mange referanser har fått flere detaljer
+  som ISBN-nummer og DOI-referanse.  Selv om jeg ikke regner med at
+  dette blir en kioskvelter, så håper jeg denne nye utgaven kan komme
+  fremtiden til glede.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Merk,
+betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>En grunn til å takke nei til usikker digital post</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_grunn_til___takke_nei_til_usikker_digital_post.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;Brevpost er beskyttet av straffelovens bestemmelse som gjør det
-kriminelt å åpne andres brev.  Dette følger av (ny) straffelovs
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/§205&quot;&gt;§ 205
-(Krenkelse av retten til privat kommunikasjon)&lt;/a&gt;, som sier at «Med
-bot eller fengsel inntil 2 år straffes den som uberettiget ...  c)
-Ã¥pner brev eller annen lukket skriftlig meddelelse som er adressert
-til en annen, eller på annen måte skaffer seg uberettiget tilgang til
-innholdet.» Dette gjelder såvel postbud som alle andre som har
-befatning med brevet etter at avsender har befatning med et lukket
-brev. Tilsvarende står også tidligere utgaver av den norske
-straffeloven.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Når en registrerer seg på usikre digitale postkasseløsningene, som
-f.eks. Digipost og e-Boks, og slik tar disse i bruk, så gir en de som
-står bak løsningene tillatelse til å åpne sine brev.  Dette er
-nødvendig for at innholdet i digital post skal kunne vises frem til
-mottaker via tjenestens websider.  Dermed gjelder ikke straffelovens
-paragraf om forbud mot å åpne brev, da tilgangen ikke lenger er
-uberettiget.  En gir altså fremmede tilgang til å lese sin
-korrespondanse.  I tillegg vil bruk av slike usikre digitale
-postbokser føre til at det blir registrert når du leser brevene, hvor
-du befinner deg (vha. tilkoblingens IP-adresse), hvilket utstyr du
-bruker og en rekke annen personlig informasjon som ikke er
-tilgjengelig når papirpost brukes.  Jeg foretrekker at det er
-lovmessig beskyttelse av min korrespondanse, som jo inneholder privat
-og personlig informasjon.  Det bidrar til litt bedre vern av personlig
-integritet i dagens norske samfunn.&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>«underordnet tjenestemann blir inhabil fordi en overordnet er inhabil».</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_underordnet_tjenestemann_blir_inhabil_fordi_en_overordnet_er_inhabil__.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_underordnet_tjenestemann_blir_inhabil_fordi_en_overordnet_er_inhabil__.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 7 Sep 2023 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Medlemmene av Norges regjering har demonstert de siste månedene at
+habilitetsvureringer ikke er deres sterke side og det gjelder både
+Arbeiderpartiets og Senterpartiers representater. Det er heldigvis
+enklere i det private, da inhabilitetsreglene kun gjelder de som
+jobber for folket, ikke seg selv.  Sist ut er utenriksminister
+Huitfeldt.  I går kom nyheten om at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/riksadvokaten_-okokrim-nestsjef-kan-behandle-huitfeldt-saken-1.16545162&quot;&gt;Riksadvokaten
+har konkludert med at nestsjefen i Økokrim kan behandle sak om
+habilitet og innsidekunnskap&lt;/a&gt; for Huitfeldt, på tross av at hans
+overordnede, sjefen for Økokrim, har meldt seg inhabil i saken.  Dette
+er litt rart.  I veilednigen
+«&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/krd/vedlegg/komm/veiledere/habilitet_i_kommuner_og_fylkeskommuner.pdf&quot;&gt;Habilitet
+i kommuner og fylkeskommuner&lt;/a&gt;» av Kommunal- og regionaldepartementet
+forteller de hva som gjelder, riktig nok gjelder veiledningen ikke for
+Økokrim som jo ikke er kommune eller fylkeskommune, men jeg får ikke
+inntrykk av at dette er regler som kun gjelder for kommune og
+fylkeskommune:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;«&lt;strong&gt;2.1 Oversikt over inhabilitetsgrunnlagene&lt;/strong&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;De alminnelige reglene om inhabilitet for den offentlige
+forvaltningen er gitt i
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1967-02-10/KAPITTEL_2#KAPITTEL_2&quot;&gt;forvaltningsloven
+§§ 6 til 10&lt;/a&gt;. Forvaltningslovens hovedregel om inhabilitet framgår
+av § 6. Her er det gitt tre ulike grunnlag som kan føre til at en
+tjenestemann eller folkevalgt blir inhabil. I § 6 første ledd
+bokstavene a til e er det oppstilt konkrete tilknytningsforhold mellom
+tjenestemannen og saken eller sakens parter som automatisk fører til
+inhabilitet. Annet ledd oppstiller en skjønnsmessig regel om at
+tjenestemannen også kan bli inhabil etter en konkret vurdering av
+inhabilitetsspørsmålet, der en lang rekke momenter kan være
+relevante. I tredje ledd er det regler om såkalt avledet
+inhabilitet. Det vil si at en underordnet tjenestemann blir inhabil
+fordi en overordnet er inhabil.»&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Loven sier ganske enkelt «Er den overordnede tjenestemann ugild,
+kan avgjørelse i saken heller ikke treffes av en direkte underordnet
+tjenestemann i samme forvaltningsorgan.»  Jeg antar tanken er at en
+underordnet vil stå i fare for å tilpasse sine konklusjoner til det
+overordnet vil ha fordel av, for å fortsatt ha et godt forhold til sin
+overordnede.  Men jeg er ikke jurist og forstår nok ikke kompliserte
+juridiske vurderinger.  For å sitere «Kamerat Napoleon» av George
+Orwell: «Alle dyr er like, men noen dyr er likere enn andre».
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-		<title>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Self_appointed_leaders_of_the_Free_World.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
-re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.  I
-am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people&quot;&gt;sited
-by The Hill and others&lt;/a&gt;:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&quot;An American president does not lead the Free World by
-congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
-phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
-have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar&quot;&gt;kidnapped a
-completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
-Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
-sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
-one taken by any Free World.&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>Invidious add-on for Kodi 20</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Invidious_add_on_for_Kodi_20.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Invidious_add_on_for_Kodi_20.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I still enjoy &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt; as my multimedia center
+at home.  Sadly two of the services I really would like to use from
+within Kodi are not easily available.  The most wanted add-on would be
+one making &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;
+available, and it has
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Internet_Archive&quot;&gt;not been
+working&lt;/a&gt; for many years.  The second most wanted add-on is one
+using &lt;a href=&quot;https://invidious.io/&quot;&gt;the Invidious privacy enhanced
+Youtube frontent&lt;/a&gt;.  A plugin for this has been partly working, but
+not been kept up to date in the Kodi add-on repository, and its
+upstream seem to have given it up in April this year, when the git
+repository was closed.  A few days ago I got tired of this sad state
+of affairs and decided to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/kodi-invidious-plugin&quot;&gt;have
+a go at improving the Invidious add-on&lt;/a&gt;.  As
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872&quot;&gt;Google has
+already attacked&lt;/a&gt; the Invidious concept, so it need all the support
+if can get.  My small contribution here is to improve the service
+status on Kodi.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I added support to the Invidious add-on for automatically picking a
+working Invidious instance, instead of requiring the user to specify
+the URL to a specific instance after installation.  I also had a look
+at the set of patches floating around in the various forks on github,
+and decided to clean up at least some of the features I liked and
+integrate them into my new release branch.  Now the plugin can handle
+channel and short video items in search results.  Earlier it could
+only handle single video instances in the search response.  I also
+brushed up the set of metadata displayed a bit, but hope I can figure
+out how to get more relevant metadata displayed.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because I only use Kodi 20 myself, I only test on version 20 and am
+only motivated to ensure version 20 is working.  Because of API changes
+between version 19 and 20, I suspect it will fail with earlier Kodi
+versions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I already
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/xbmc/repo-plugins/pull/4363&quot;&gt;asked to have
+the add-on added&lt;/a&gt; to the official Kodi 20 repository, and is
+waiting to heard back from the repo maintainers.&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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-		<title>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
-(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
-mostly in the USA.  What I find a bit surprising, is how little
-criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
-Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place.  And what about the
-people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
-And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
-handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
-No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
-that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
-lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
-selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
-in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed.  It is well known that
-Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
-nevertheless.  Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
-would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
-information about the millions of Facebook users.  Collected
-information will be misused sooner or later.  The only way to avoid
-such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place.  If
-you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
-the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
-information.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
-account, and take back some control of your personal information.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely&quot;&gt;According
-to The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
-account removal (and not just &#39;disabling&#39;).  You need to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content&quot;&gt;visit
-a specific Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; and click on &#39;let us know&#39; on that page
-to get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account&quot;&gt;the
-real account deletion screen&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps something to consider?  I
-would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
-perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
-exposure a bit.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
-Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
-Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; last april about
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/&quot;&gt;
-Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
-politics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
-use some end-to-end encrypted method like
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.signal.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; or
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx/&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;, and stop sharing your private
-messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>What did I learn from OpenSnitch this summer?</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_did_I_learn_from_OpenSnitch_this_summer_.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_did_I_learn_from_OpenSnitch_this_summer_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;With yesterdays
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610&quot;&gt;release of Debian
+12 Bookworm&lt;/a&gt;, I am happy to know the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
+application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; is available for a wider audience.
+I have been running it for a few weeks now, and have been surprised
+about some of the programs connecting to the Internet.  Some programs
+are obviously calling out from my machine, like the NTP network based
+clock adjusting system and Tor to reach other Tor clients, but others
+were more dubious.  For example, the KDE Window manager try to look up
+the host name in DNS, for no apparent reason, but if this lookup is
+blocked the KDE desktop get periodically stuck when I use it.  Another
+surprise was how much Firefox call home directly to mozilla.com,
+mozilla.net and googleapis.com, to mention a few, when I visit other
+web pages.  This direct connection happen even if I told Firefox to
+always use a proxy, and the proxy setting is ignored for this traffic.
+Other surprising connections come from audacity and dirmngr (I do not
+use Gnome).  It took some trial and error to get a good default set of
+permissions.  Without it, I would get popups asking for permissions at
+any time, also the most inconvenient ones where I am in the middle of
+a time sensitive gaming session.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I suspect some application developers should rethink when then need
+to use network connections or DNS lookups, and recommend testing
+OpenSnitch (only &lt;tt&gt;apt install opensnitch&lt;/tt&gt; away in Debian
+Bookworm) to locate and report any surprising Internet connections on
+your desktop machine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the moment the upstream developer and Debian package maintainer
+is working on making the system more reliable in Debian, by enabling
+the eBPF kernel module to track processes and connections instead of
+depending in content in /proc/.  This should enter unstable fairly
+soon.&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;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2023-06-12&lt;/strong&gt;: I got a tip about
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues&quot;&gt;a list of privacy
+issues in Free Software&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-privacy&quot;&gt;#debian-privacy IRC
+channel&lt;/a&gt; discussing these topics.&lt;/p&gt;
+
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-		<title>H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
-helsevesenet.  Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
-Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
-samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
-tid.  Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
-Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
-dit vi havner gitt nok tid.  I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
-oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
-bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
-medfødte sykdommer.  Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true&quot;&gt;Stortingets
-flertallsinnstilling&lt;/a&gt; er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
-at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
-undersøkelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-  &lt;p&gt;«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
-  synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
-  diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
-  hele befolkningen.»&lt;/p&gt;
-  
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
-blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
-lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
-og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven&lt;/a&gt; viser at en ikke kan være
-trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
-misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
-blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
-gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
-det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
-samtykke.  Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
-websider&lt;/a&gt;, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
-sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
-greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
-er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
-konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
-brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
-dette i dag.&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>wmbusmeters, parse data from your utility meter - nice free software</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;There is a European standard for reading utility meters like water,
+gas, electricity or heat distribution meters.  The
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter-Bus&quot;&gt;Meter-Bus standard
+(EN 13757-2, EN 13757-3 and EN 13757–4)&lt;/a&gt; provide a cross vendor way
+to talk to and collect meter data.  I ran into this standard when I
+wanted to monitor some heat distribution meters, and managed to find
+free software that could do the job.  The meters in question broadcast
+encrypted messages with meter information via radio, and the hardest
+part was to track down the encryption keys from the vendor.  With this
+in place I could set up a MQTT gateway to submit the meter data for
+graphing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The free software systems in question,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rtl-wmbus&quot;&gt;rtl-wmbus&lt;/a&gt; to
+read the messages from a software defined radio, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wmbusmeters&quot;&gt;wmbusmeters&lt;/a&gt; to
+decrypt and decode the content of the messages, is working very well
+and allowe me to get frequent updates from my meters.  I got in touch
+with upstream last year to see if there was any interest in publishing
+the packages via Debian.  I was very happy to learn that Fredrik
+Öhrström volunteered to maintain the packages, and I have since
+assisted him in getting Debian package build rules in place as well as
+sponsoring the packages into the Debian archive.  Sadly we completed
+it too late for them to become part of the next stable Debian release
+(Bookworm).  The wmbusmeters package just cleared the NEW queue.  It
+will need some work to fix a built problem, but I expect Fredrik will
+find a solution soon.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you got a infrastructure meter supporting the Meter Bus
+standard, I strongly recommend having a look at these nice
+packages.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;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
+&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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-		<title>First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
-Commons.  This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
-from those around the globe making a living using Creative
-Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
-translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc&quot;&gt;Made with Creative Commons from 2017&lt;/a&gt;
-was complete.  The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
-Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work.  Get in
-touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
-translate into your mother tongue.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The whole book project started when
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://gwolf.org/node/4102&quot;&gt;Gunnar Wolf announced&lt;/a&gt; that he
-was going to make a Spanish edition of the book.  I noticed, and
-offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
-translating the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian&quot;&gt;The Debian
-Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt; books to Norwegian Bokmål.  To make a
-long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
-first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
-Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself.  The first
-proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
-reading remains.  We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
-create a book cover.  Once it is done we will publish the book on
-paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
-downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
-The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
-using pandoc.  The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
-is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators.  The translated
-PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
-create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
-create the final PDF.  The end result is a set of editions of the
-manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The translation is conducted using
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/&quot;&gt;the
-Weblate web based translation system&lt;/a&gt;.  Please have a look there
-and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
-reading. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
+		<title>The 2023 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_2023_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_2023_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;The LinuxCNC project is making headway these days.  A lot of
+patches and issues have seen activity on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/&quot;&gt;the project github
+pages&lt;/a&gt; recently.  A few weeks ago there was a developer gathering
+over at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tormach.com/&quot;&gt;Tormach&lt;/a&gt; headquarter in
+Wisconsin, and now we are planning a new gathering in Norway.  If you
+wonder what LinuxCNC is, lets quote Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&quot;LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
+machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers,
+cutting machines, robots and hexapods. It can control up to 9 axes or
+joints of a CNC machine using G-code (RS-274NGC) as input. It has
+several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen,
+interactive development).&quot;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian developer gathering take place the weekend June 16th
+to 18th this year, and is open for everyone interested in contributing
+to LinuxCNC.  Up to date information about the gathering can be found
+in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/emc-developers/thread/sa64jp06nob.fsf%40hjemme.reinholdtsen.name/#msg37837251&quot;&gt;the
+developer mailing list thread&lt;/a&gt; where the gathering was announced.
+Thanks to the good people at
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.redpill-linpro.com/&quot;&gt;Redpill-Linpro&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuugfoundation.no/no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, we
+have enough sponsor funds to pay for food, and shelter for the people
+traveling from afar to join us.  If you would like to join the
+gathering, get in touch.&lt;/p&gt;
+ 
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 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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-		<title>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
-choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
-While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
-info screen booting with some text scrolling.  I was not quick enough
-with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
-screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
-corrupt file system:
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[photo of subway info screen]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
-content on the screen worries me.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The image show the version booting is &#39;Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid&#39;,
-indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
-after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
-Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14.  Since Lenny Debian
-has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
-(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history&quot;&gt;a Debian
-version history on Wikpedia&lt;/a&gt;.  This mean the system is running
-around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
-many years.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
-Ruter, running outdated software.  In 2012,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html&quot;&gt;I
-discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000&lt;/a&gt;,
-and this was
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html&quot;&gt;still
-the case in 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  Given the response from the responsible people
-in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
-Windows 2000.  Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The photo is made available under the license terms
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
-4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_in_Debian_ready_for_prime_time.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_in_Debian_ready_for_prime_time.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;A bit delayed,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opensnitch&quot;&gt;the interactive
+application firewall OpenSnitch&lt;/a&gt; package in Debian now got the
+latest fixes ready for Debian Bookworm.  Because it depend on a
+package missing on some architectures, the autopkgtest check of the
+testing migration script did not understand that the tests were
+actually working, so the migration was delayed.  A bug in the package
+dependencies is also fixed, so those installing the firewall package
+(opensnitch) now also get the GUI admin tool (python3-opensnitch-ui)
+installed by default.  I am very grateful to Gustavo Iñiguez Goya for
+his work on getting the package ready for Debian Bookworm.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Armed with this package I have discovered some surprising
+connections from programs I believed were able to work completly
+offline, and it has already proven its worth, at least to me.  If you
+too want to get more familiar with the kind of programs using
+Internett connections on your machine, I recommend testing &lt;tt&gt;apt
+install opensnitch&lt;/tt&gt; in Bookworm and see what you think.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The package is still not able to build its eBPF module within
+Debian.  Not sure how much work it would be to get it working, but
+suspect some kernel related packages need to be extended with more
+header files to get it working.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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-		<title>The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the
-traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until
-systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit&quot;&gt;The upstream
-project still exist&lt;/a&gt;, though, and up until today, the upstream
-source was available from Savannah via subversion.  I am happy to
-report that this just changed.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three
-repositories:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
+		<title>Speech to text, she APTly whispered, how hard can it be?</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speech_to_text__she_APTly_whispered__how_hard_can_it_be_.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speech_to_text__she_APTly_whispered__how_hard_can_it_be_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;While visiting a convention during Easter, it occurred to me that
+it would be great if I could have a digital Dictaphone with
+transcribing capabilities, providing me with texts to cut-n-paste into
+stuff I need to write.  The background is that long drives often bring
+up the urge to write on texts I am working on, which of course is out
+of the question while driving.  With the release of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openai/whisper/&quot;&gt;OpenAI Whisper&lt;/a&gt;, this
+seem to be within reach with Free Software, so I decided to give it a
+go.  OpenAI Whisper is a Linux based neural network system to read in
+audio files and provide text representation of the speech in that
+audio recording.  It handle multiple languages and according to its
+creators even can translate into a different language than the spoken
+one.  I have not tested the latter feature.  It can either use the CPU
+or a GPU with CUDA support.  As far as I can tell, CUDA in practice
+limit that feature to NVidia graphics cards.  I have few of those, as
+they do not work great with free software drivers, and have not tested
+the GPU option.  While looking into the matter, I did discover some
+work to provide CUDA support on non-NVidia GPUs, and some work with
+the library used by Whisper to port it to other GPUs, but have not
+spent much time looking into GPU support yet.  I&#39;ve so far used an old
+X220 laptop as my test machine, and only transcribed using its
+CPU.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As it from a privacy standpoint is unthinkable to use computers
+under control of someone else (aka a &quot;cloud&quot; service) to transcribe
+ones thoughts and personal notes, I want to run the transcribing
+system locally on my own computers.  The only sensible approach to me
+is to make the effort I put into this available for any Linux user and
+to upload the needed packages into Debian.  Looking at Debian Bookworm, I
+discovered that only three packages were missing,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034307&quot;&gt;tiktoken&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034144&quot;&gt;triton&lt;/a&gt;, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034091&quot;&gt;openai-whisper&lt;/a&gt;.  For a while
+I also believed
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/1034286&quot;&gt;ffmpeg-python&lt;/a&gt; was
+needed, but as its
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/issues/760&quot;&gt;upstream
+seem to have vanished&lt;/a&gt; I found it safer
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openai/whisper/pull/1242&quot;&gt;to rewrite
+whisper&lt;/a&gt; to stop depending on in than to introduce ffmpeg-python
+into Debian.  I decided to place these packages under the umbrella of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team&quot;&gt;the Debian Deep
+Learning Team&lt;/a&gt;, which seem like the best team to look after such
+packages.  Discussing the topic within the group also made me aware
+that the triton package was already a future dependency of newer
+versions of the torch package being planned, and would be needed after
+Bookworm is released.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;All required code packages have been now waiting in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html&quot;&gt;the Debian NEW
+queue&lt;/a&gt; since Wednesday, heading for Debian Experimental until
+Bookworm is released.  An unsolved issue is how to handle the neural
+network models used by Whisper.  The default behaviour of Whisper is
+to require Internet connectivity and download the model requested to
+&lt;tt&gt;~/.cache/whisper/&lt;/tt&gt; on first invocation.  This obviously would
+fail &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html&quot;&gt;the
+deserted island test of free software&lt;/a&gt; as the Debian packages would
+be unusable for someone stranded with only the Debian archive and solar
+powered computer on a deserted island.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because of this, I would love to include the models in the Debian
+mirror system.  This is problematic, as the models are very large
+files, which would put a heavy strain on the Debian mirror
+infrastructure around the globe.  The strain would be even higher if
+the models change often, which luckily as far as I can tell they do
+not.  The small model, which according to its creator is most useful
+for English and in my experience is not doing a great job there
+either, is 462 MiB (deb is 414 MiB).  The medium model, which to me
+seem to handle English speech fairly well is 1.5 GiB (deb is 1.3 GiB)
+and the large model is 2.9 GiB (deb is 2.6 GiB).  I would assume
+everyone with enough resources would prefer to use the large model for
+highest quality.  I believe the models themselves would have to go
+into the non-free part of the Debian archive, as they are not really
+including any useful source code for updating the models.  The
+&quot;source&quot;, aka the model training set, according to the creators
+consist of &quot;680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised
+data collected from the web&quot;, which to me reads material with both
+unknown copyright terms, unavailable to the general public.  In other
+words, the source is not available according to the Debian Free
+Software Guidelines and the model should be considered non-free.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I asked the Debian FTP masters for advice regarding uploading a
+model package on their IRC channel, and based on the feedback there it
+is still unclear to me if such package would be accepted into the
+archive.  In any case I wrote build rules for a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/openai-whisper-model&quot;&gt;OpenAI
+Whisper model package&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openai/whisper/pull/1257&quot;&gt;modified the
+Whisper code base&lt;/a&gt; to prefer shared files under &lt;tt&gt;/usr/&lt;/tt&gt; and
+&lt;tt&gt;/var/&lt;/tt&gt; over user specific files in &lt;tt&gt;~/.cache/whisper/&lt;/tt&gt;
+to be able to use these model packages, to prepare for such
+possibility.  One solution might be to include only one of the models
+(small or medium, I guess) in the Debian archive, and ask people to
+download the others from the Internet.  Not quite sure what to do
+here, and advice is most welcome (use the debian-ai mailing list).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To make it easier to test the new packages while I wait for them to
+clear the NEW queue, I created an APT source targeting bookworm.  I
+selected Bookworm instead of Bullseye, even though I know the latter
+would reach more users, is that some of the required dependencies are
+missing from Bullseye and I during this phase of testing did not want
+to backport a lot of packages just to get up and running.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a recipe to run as user root if you want to test OpenAI
+Whisper using Debian packages on your Debian Bookworm installation,
+first adding the APT repository GPG key to the list of trusted keys,
+then setting up the APT repository and finally installing the packages
+and one of the models:&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git&quot;&gt;sysvinit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/insserv.git&quot;&gt;insserv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/startpar.git&quot;&gt;startpar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I do not really spend much time on the project these days, and I
-has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good
-version control system to help those willing to move it forward.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+curl https://geekbay.nuug.no/~pere/openai-whisper/D78F5C4796F353D211B119E28200D9B589641240.asc \
+  -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pere-whisper.asc
+mkdir -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d
+cat &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pere-whisper.list &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
+deb https://geekbay.nuug.no/~pere/openai-whisper/ bookworm main
+deb-src https://geekbay.nuug.no/~pere/openai-whisper/ bookworm main
+EOF
+apt update
+apt install openai-whisper
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
+&lt;p&gt;The package work for me, but have not yet been tested on any other
+computer than my own.  With it, I have been able to (badly) transcribe
+a 2 minute 40 second Norwegian audio clip to test using the small
+model.  This took 11 minutes and around 2.2 GiB of RAM.  Transcribing
+the same file with the medium model gave a accurate text in 77 minutes
+using around 5.2 GiB of RAM.  My test machine had too little memory to
+test the large model, which I believe require 11 GiB of RAM.  In
+short, this now work for me using Debian packages, and I hope it will
+for you and everyone else once the packages enter Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Now I can start on the audio recording part of this project.&lt;/p&gt;
+ 
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-		<title>Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-		<description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, a new major version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.videolan.org/&quot;&gt;VLC&lt;/a&gt; was announced, and I
-decided to check out if it now supported streaming over
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bittorrent.org/&quot;&gt;bittorrent&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://webtorrent.io&quot;&gt;webtorrent&lt;/a&gt;.  Bittorrent is one of
-the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and
-Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://webrtc.org&quot;&gt;WebRTC&lt;/a&gt; as its transport channel,
-allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique.
-The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client
-supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other.
-I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look.
-Looking at
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html&quot;&gt;the release
-notes&lt;/a&gt; did not help answering this question, so I started searching
-the web.  I found several news articles from 2013, most of them
-tracing the news from Torrentfreak
-(&quot;&lt;a href=https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-giant-vlc-mulls-bittorrent-support-130211/&quot;&gt;Open
-Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support&lt;/a&gt;&quot;), about a
-initiative to pay someone to create a VLC patch for bittorrent
-support.  To figure out what happend with this initiative, I headed
-over to the #videolan IRC channel and asked if there were some bug or
-feature request tickets tracking such feature.  I got an answer from
-lead developer Jean-Babtiste Kempf, telling me that there was a patch
-but neither he nor anyone else knew where it was.  So I searched a bit
-more, and came across an independent
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent&quot;&gt;VLC plugin to add
-bittorrent support&lt;/a&gt;, created by Johan Gunnarsson in 2016/2017.
-Again according to Jean-Babtiste, this is not the patch he was talking
-about.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Anyway, to test the plugin, I made a working Debian package from
-the git repository, with some modifications.  After installing this
-package, I could stream videos from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; using VLC
-commands like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-vlc https://archive.org/download/LoveNest/LoveNest_archive.torrent
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The plugin is supposed to handle magnet links too, but since The
-Internet Archive do not have magnet links and I did not want to spend
-time tracking down another source, I have not tested it.  It can take
-quite a while before the video start playing without any indication of
-what is going on from VLC.  It took 10-20 seconds when I measured it.
-Some times the plugin seem unable to find the correct video file to
-play, and show the metadata XML file name in the VLC status line.  I
-have no idea why.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/890360&quot;&gt;request for
-a new package in Debian (RFP)&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/1&quot;&gt;asked if
-the upstream author is willing to help make this happen&lt;/a&gt;.  Now we
-wait to see what come out of this.  I do not want to maintain a
-package that is not maintained upstream, nor do I really have time to
-maintain more packages myself, so I might leave it at this.  But I
-really hope someone step up to do the packaging, and hope upstream is
-still maintaining the source.  If you want to help, please update the
-RFP request or the upstream issue.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have not found any traces of webtorrent support for VLC.&lt;/p&gt;
-
+		<title>rtlsdr-scanner, software defined radio frequency scanner for Linux  - nice free software</title>
+		<link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/rtlsdr_scanner__software_defined_radio_frequency_scanner_for_Linux____nice_free_software.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/rtlsdr_scanner__software_defined_radio_frequency_scanner_for_Linux____nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 7 Apr 2023 23:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Today I finally found time to track down a useful radio frequency
+scanner for my software defined radio.  Just for fun I tried to locate
+the radios used in the areas, and a good start would be to scan all
+the frequencies to see what is in use.  I&#39;ve tried to find a useful
+program earlier, but ran out of time before I managed to find a useful
+tool.  This time I was more successful, and after a few false leads I
+found a description of
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kali.org/tools/rtlsdr-scanner/&quot;&gt;rtlsdr-scanner
+over at the Kali site&lt;/a&gt;, and was able to track down
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/rtlsdr-scanner.git&quot;&gt;the
+Kali package git repository&lt;/a&gt; to build a deb package for the
+scanner.  Sadly the package is missing from the Debian project itself,
+at least in Debian Bullseye.  Two runtime dependencies,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/python-visvis.git&quot;&gt;python-visvis&lt;/a&gt;
+and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/python-rtlsdr.git&quot;&gt;python-rtlsdr&lt;/a&gt;
+had to be built and installed separately.  Luckily &#39;&lt;tt&gt;gbp
+buildpackage&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; handled them just fine and no further packages had
+to be manually built.  The end result worked out of the box after
+installation.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My initial scans for FM channels worked just fine, so I knew the
+scanner was functioning.  But when I tried to scan every frequency
+from 100 to 1000 MHz, the program stopped unexpectedly near the
+completion.  After some debugging I discovered USB software radio I
+used rejected frequencies above 948 MHz, triggering a unreported
+exception breaking the scan.  Changing the scan to end at 957 worked
+better.  I similarly found the lower limit to be around 15, and ended
+up with the following full scan:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2023-04-07-radio-freq-scanning.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2023-04-07-radio-freq-scanning.png&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Saving the scan did not work, but exporting it as a CSV file worked
+just fine.  I ended up with around 477k CVS lines with dB level for
+the given frequency.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The save failure seem to be a missing UTF-8 encoding issue in the
+python code.  Will see if I can find time to send a patch
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/CdeMills/RTLSDR-Scanner/&quot;&gt;upstream&lt;/a&gt;
+later to fix this exception:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/main_window.py&quot;, line 485, in __on_save
+    save_plot(fullName, self.scanInfo, self.spectrum, self.locations)
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/file.py&quot;, line 408, in save_plot
+    handle.write(json.dumps(data, indent=4))
+TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not &#39;str&#39;
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/main_window.py&quot;, line 485, in __on_save
+    save_plot(fullName, self.scanInfo, self.spectrum, self.locations)
+  File &quot;/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rtlsdr_scanner/file.py&quot;, line 408, in save_plot
+    handle.write(json.dumps(data, indent=4))
+TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not &#39;str&#39;
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+ 
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