Thomas Nybergh

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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)]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I hope manbabies.com proves to be too unhealthy for the human mind to become a longstanding mainstream webtard meme. Image borrowed from post #43. [via:kung fu grippe]

Google has a fugly new favicon.ico. I liked the old one because of its relative colorfulness, and I find it somewhat puzzling that they chose to use a gray gradient in the new version. (Image borrowed from Google Blogoscoped)

The Pirate Bay blog has a recent post where the author claims to have received insider knowledge on why a recent verdict from a Swedish district court (tingsrätt) wasn’t appealed against by the defendant, a file sharer. I quote a part of a translation of the text made by the third commenter on the original [...]