Thomas Nybergh’s pages

Kuvalautaa ajettiin alas eilen. Kuvalauta kuuluu Suomen 200 suosituimman sivuston joukkoon, ja on täydessä sekavuudessaan hyvin mielenkiintoinen 4chania ja muita japskityylisiä, anonyymejä kuvafoorumeja muistuttava anonyyminen alakulttuuri. Kysyin, kuten ilmeisesti moni muukin, lisätietoja alasajosta sivuston ylläpidolta ja sain alleolevan tarjouspyynnön sähköpostitse. Toivottavasti Kuvalaudalle löytyy uusi koti. Otsikko: Tarjouspyyntö www.kuvalauta.fi sivuston hostaamisesta Lähettäjä: Kari Karvonen <kari.karvonen [at] toimii.net> [...]

I oktober förra året under AltParty gav jag i Pirattinuorets namn en intervju åt en grupp journalistikstuderande vid Åbo Akademi i Vasa/MediaCity. Resultatet är att jag dyker upp några gånger i deras slutprodukt , “Fildelning – Rätt och Brott”, som visades på FST5 igår och förblir synlig på Yle Arenan i några dagar. Dokumentären är till [...]

When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include converting often used text files, such as chat logs from the older, more compatible but limited ISO 8859-15 charset. [...]

This entry was originally posted as a comment on Xuenay’s blog. Also: doesn’t LiveJournal support real hyperlinks in comments? Ultra-suckage. I’ve always found Twitter to be a very interesting concept, but I don’t use the service myself. I find its minimalism compelling, but its terrible at representing conversations or replies. Jaiku on the other hand [...]

Enligt Hbl skall Konstsamfundet satsa på sina tidningar och få dem att gå på vinst även om situationen för närvarande inte utlovar solsken och jordgubbar med vispgrädde och konjak serverade i syrénbersån. Utan att kommentera dagstidningsbusiness som jag inte vet något om gnäller jag gärna om utbudet av svenskspråkiga Helsingforsnyheter på webben. Därav lyfter jag [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]