June 25th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in internet, notes, politics, technology
Good grief, what are these MEP asshats thinking? I’m against ownership concentration as much as the next guy, but I wonder what pluralism in media policy has to do with blogs putting “journalists and other media professionals under pressure”. I don’t see how regulation of before unseen ways in which potentially independent, anonymous citizens can [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, technology
Hewlett-Packard has released the source code of AdvFS under the GNU General Public License. AdvFS is an advanced file system (with features such as snapshots and storage pools) used by the company’s high end Tru64 UNIX operating system. This probably means that HP does a lot of business with Linux, and that there really is [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, link tips, notes, politics
Carlin, who died at the age of 71, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech. A recording of his Seven Dirty Words monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the F.C.C. can regulate [...]
June 22nd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, link tips, linux/unix, notes, politics
For some time, I’ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, original [...]
June 6th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, link tips
The IRC gods delivered me this shall we say, updated version of one of those silly (60′s?) easy reading books published by Ladybird. I was drinking some water when I began reading this and immediately almost drowned myself laughing. [via:1,2 (dunno where this originates)]
June 4th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, link tips, notes, politics, technology
Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party discusses a wiretapping bill called “better adapted military intelligence gathering” that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden. A few quotes from the post: “At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic [...]
June 4th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Swedish, link tips, movies, music
Nedanstående reportage (flashvideo från youtube.com) som visades i svensk tv (Rapport i TV2) den 17 maj 1979 hittade jag bland Copyriot-inlägg jag lämnat olästa en tid. (länk till Youtube) “Många verkar skratta sig blåa över att Musikerförbundet år 1979 krävde en “särskild diskoavgift” för att rädda dansbanden. Med risk för att skratt hamnar i vrångstrupar, [...]
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